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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.
Under the said Antoninus Verus, and in the same persecution, which raged not in Rome and Asia only,1 but in other countries also, suffered the glorious & most constant Martyrs of Lyons and Vienna, two Cities in France, giving to Christ a glorious testimony, & to all Christian men a spectacle, or example of singular constancy, and fortitude in Christ our saviour. The history of whom, because it is written and set forth by their own Churches, where they did suffer, mentioned in Euseb. Lib. 5. cap. 2. I thought here to express the same in the form and effect of their own words, as there is to be seen. The title of which their Epistle written to the brethren of Asia and Phrygia thus beginneth.
Under the sayd Antoninus Verus, and in the same persecution, which raged not in Rome and Asia onely,1 but in other countryes also, suffered the glorious & most cōstant Martirs of Lyons and Uienna, two Cities in Fraunce, gyuing to Christ a glorious testimony, & to all Christian men a spectacle, or example of singular constancie, and fortitude in Christ our sauiour. The history of whom, because it is written and set forth by their owne Churches, where they did suffer, mentioned in Euseb. Lib. 5. cap. 2. I thought here to expresse the same in the forme and effecte of their owne wordes, as there is to be seene. The title of which their Epistle written to the brethren of Asia and Phrigia thus beginneth.
- 1The persecution in Lyons and Vienna, two Cities in Fraunce. Ex Euseb. lib. 5. Cap. 2.
* The servants of Christ inhabiting the Cities of Vienna and Lyons, to the brethren in Asia and Phrygia, having the same faith and hope of redemption with us: peace, and grace, and glory, from God the father, and from Jesus Christ our Lord. 1