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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Divers and sundry torments were the christians in Mesopotamia molested with, where they were hanged up by the feet, & their heads downwards, & with the smoke of a small fire strangled. And also in Cappadocia, where the Martyrs had their legs broken. Euseb. lib. 8. cap. 12.
Diuers and sondry torments were the christians in Mesopotamia molested with, where they were hāged vp by the feete, & their heads downewards, & with the smok of a small fire strangled. And also in Capadocia, where the Martirs had their legs broken. Euseb. lib. 8. cap. 12.
Henricus de Erfordia maketh mention of the Martyrs of Tarsus in Cilicia as Tharatus, Probus, and Andronicus: But yet the Martyrs in the region of Pontus suffered far more passing and sharper torments, whereof I will hereafter make mention. Eusebius ibidem. So outrageous was the beginning of the persecution which the Emperor made in Nicomedia in Bithynia. as afore is said, that he refrained not from the slaughter of the children of Emperors, neither yet from slaughter of the most chiefest princes of his court, who a little before he made as much of, as if they had ben his own children: Such an other was Peter, which among divers and sundry torments: (among whom he being naked was lifted up, his whole body being beaten with whips and torn, that a man might see the bare bones, and after they had mingled vinegar & salt together they poured it upon the most tender parts of his body, & lastly roasted at a soft fire, as a man would roast flesh to eat as a victorious Martyr ended his life. Dorotheus and Gorgonius being in great authority and office under the Emperor, after divers torments were strangled with a halter,1 which both being of the privy chamber, to him, when they saw & beheld the grievous punishment of Peter their household companion: wherefore (said they O Emperor) do you punish in Peter that opinion which is in all us? Why is that accounted in him an offence, that all we confess? we are of that faith religion & judgement that he is of. Therefore he commanded them to be brought forth, & almost with like pains to be tormented as Peter was,