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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.
Paul the Apostle, which before was called Saul, after his great travail and unspeakable labours in promoting the Gospel of Christ, suffered also in this first persecution under Nero, and was beheaded. Of whom thus writeth Hierome in his Book De viris illustr. Paul, otherwise called Saul, one of the Apostles, yet out of the number of xij. was of the tribe of Benjamin, and of a town of Jewry called Gisealis:1 which town being taken of the Romans, he with his parents fled to Tarsus a town of Cilicia. Afterward was sent up by his parents to Jerusalem, ⟨p. 35⟩and there brought up in the knowledge of the law, at the feet of Gamaliel,2 and was at the death of Stephen a doer. And when he had received letters from the high Priest to persecute the Christians, by the way going to Damascus, was stricken down of the Lords glory, and of a persecutor, was made a professor, an Apostle, a Martyr, a witness of the Gospel, and a vessel of election.
Paule the Apostle, which before was called Saule, after his great trauail and vnspeakable labours in promooting the Gospell of Christ, suffred also in this first persecution vnder Nero, and was beheaded. Of whom thus writeth Hierome in his Booke De viris illustr. Paule, otherwise called Saule, one of the Apostles, yet out of the number of xij. was of the tribe of Beniamin, and of a towne of Iewrie called Gisealis:1 which towne beyng taken of the Romains, he with his parents fled to Tharsus a town of Cilicia. Afterward was sent vp by his parents to Hierusalē, ⟨p. 35⟩and there brought vp in the knowledge of the law, at the feete of Gamaliel,2 and was at the death of Stephen a doer. And when he had receiued letters from the high Priest to persecute the Christians, by the way going to Damascus, was stroken downe of the Lordes glory, and of a persecutor, was made a professor, an Apostle, a Martyr, a witnesse of the Gospell, and a vessell of election.