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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.
There was one Eustachius a Captain, whom Traianus in time past had sent out to war against the Barbarians. After he had by Gods grace valiantly subdued his enemies, and now was returning home with victory: Hadrian for joymeting him in his journey, to bring him home with triumph, by the way first would do sacrifice to Apollo, for the victory gotten, willing also Eustachius to do the same with him. But when Eustachius could by no means thereto be enforced, being brought to Rome, there with his wife and children suffered Martyrdom under the foresaid Hadrian. It were a long process here to recite all the miracles contained or rather suspected in this story of this Eustachius concerning his conversion and death. How the crucifix appeared to him between the horns of an Hart. Of the saving of his wife from the shipmen. Of one of his sons saved from the Lion, the other saved from the wolf. Of their miraculous preservation from the wild beasts, from the torments of fire mentioned in Bergomensis, and Vincentius and ⟨p. 41⟩other. All which as I find them in no ancient records, so I leave them to their authors and compilers of the Legends.1
There was one Eustachius a Captaine, whom Traianus in tyme past had sent out to warre against the Barbarians. After he had by Gods grace ualiantly subdued his enemies, and now was returning home with victory: Hadrian for ioymeting him in his iourney, to bring him home with triumph, by the way first would do sacrifice to Apollo, for the victory gotten, willing also Eustachius to doe the same with him. But when Eustachius could by no meanes therto be inforced, being brought to Rome, there with his wife and children suffred Martyrdome vnder the foresayd Hadrian. It were a long processe here to recite all the miracles conteined or rather suspected in this story of this Eustachius concerning his conuersion and death. How the crucifixe appeared to him betwene the hornes of an Hart. Of the sauing of his wife frō the shipmen. Of one of his sōnes saued from the Lion, the other saued from ye wolf. Of their miraculous preseruation from the wild beasts, frō the torments of fire mentioned in Bergomensis, and Vincētius and ⟨p. 41⟩other. All which as I find them in no ancient records, so I leaue them to their authors and compilers of the Legēds.