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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.
This Domitianus feared the coming of Christ as Herod did, & therefore commanded them to be killed which were of the stock of David in Jewry. There were remaining alive at that time certain of the Lords kindred, which were the nephews of Jude, that was called the Lords brother after the flesh. These when the Lieutenant of Jewry had brought up to Domitian to be slain:1 the Emperor demanded of them, whether they were of the stock of David: which when they had granted, he asked again, what possessions, and what substance they had. They aū swered, that they both had no more between them in all, but xxxix. acres of ground, & how they gat their living & sustained their families with the hard labours of their hands showing forth their hands unto the Emperor,2 being hard and roughworne with labours, to witness that to be true which they had spoken. Then the Emperor inquiring of them concerning the kingdom of Christ, what manner of kingdom it was, how and when it should appear: they answered that his kingdom was no worldly nor terren thing, but an heavenly and Angelical kingdom, & that it should appear in the consummation & end of the world what time he coming in glory, should judge the quick and the dead, and render to every one according to his deservings. Domitian, the Emperor hearing this (as the saying is) did not condemn them, but despising them as vile persons, let them go, & also staid the persecution then moved against the Christians. They being thus discharged and dismissed, afterward had the government of Churches, being taken for Martyrs, and as of the Lords stock, and so consumed in good peace till the time of Traianus. 3Haec Egesip. & Euseb Lib. 3. cap. 20.
This Domitianus feared the comming of Christ as Herode did, & therefore commaunded them to be killed which were of the stocke of Dauid in Iewry. There were remaining aliue at that tyme certayne of the Lordes kindred, which were the nephewes of Iude, that was called the Lordes brother after the flesh. These when the Lieuetenāt of Iewry had brought vp to Domitian to be slayn:1 the Emperour demaunded of thē, whether they were of the stocke of Dauid: which when they had graūted, he asked againe, what possessions, and what substaunce they had. They aū swered, yt they both had no more betweene them in all, but xxxix. acres of grounde, & how they gat their liuing & sustained their families with the hard labours of their hādes shewing forth their hands vnto the Emperor,