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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.
In this persecution John the Apostle and Evangelist was exiled by the said Domitianus into Patmos.1 Of whom divers and sundry memorable acts, be reported in sundry Chronicles. As first how he was put in a vessel of boiling Oil,2 by the Proconsul of Ephesus. The Legend and Perionius say, it was done at Rome. Isidorus also writing of him and comprehending many things in few words, declareth that he turned certain pieces of wood into gold, and stones by the seaside into Margarites, to satisfy the desire of two, whom he had before persuaded to renounce their riches: And afterward they repenting that for worldly treasure, they had lost heaven, for their sakes again he changed the same into their former substance. Also, how he raised up a widow and a certain young man from death to life. How he drunk poison, and it hurt him not, raising also to life two which had drunk the same before. These and such other miracles, although they may be true, & are found in Isidorus & other writers mo,3 yet because they are no articles of our Christian belief, I let them pass, and only content my self with that which I read in Eusebius, declaring of him in this wise: That in the 14. year after Nero, in the second persecution, in the days of Domitian, John was banished into Patmos for the testimony of the word,4 an. 97. And after the death of the foresaid Domitian being slain, & his acts repealed by the Senate,5 John was again released under Pertinax the Emperor, & came to Ephesus, an. 100. Where he continued until the time of Traianus, & there governed the Churches in Asia, where also he wrote his Gospel, and so lived till the year after the Passion of our Lord, 68. which was the year of his age. 99.
In this persecution Iohn the Apostle and Euangelist was exiled by the sayd Domitianus into Pathmos.1 Of whō diuers and sundry memorable actes, be reported in sundry Chronicles. As first how he was put in a vessell of boiling Oile,