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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. 2, part 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. 2, part 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
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From thence he was reversed to Vile Franche, where he was condemned, degraded, and burned. The Articles whereupon he was condemned, were for the Mass, the Sacrament, auricular confession, Purgatory, the Virgin Mary, and the Popes supremacy. He suffered in the year of our Lord. 1553. Septemb. 11. In his martyrdom such patience and fortitude God gave, that when he was half burned yet he never ceased holding up his hands to heaven, and calling upon the Lord, to the great admiration of them that looked on. Ex Joan Crisp. ⟨p. 908⟩The kings Lieutenant at Lyons. The Official. The Fryers. | Lodovicus Marsacus. Michael Gerard his cousin. Steven Granot, Carpenter. At Lyons. An. 1553. | At Lyons the same year these 3. also were apprehended, and sacrificed.1 Ludovicus had been of the order of the Dimilances▪ which served the king in his wars. Afterward coming to Geneva, he was trained up in the knowledge and doctrine of the Lord. Upon divers Articles he was examined as invocation to Saints, and of the Virgin Mary, free will, merits, and good works, auricular confession, fasting, the Lords supper. In his second examination they inquired of him, and also of the other 2. touching vows, the Sacraments, the Mass, and the Vicar of Christ. In all which articles, because his and their judgement dissented from the doctrine of the Popes Church, they were condemned. The answers of Marsac to the articles, are to be seen at large in the book of the French martyrs, set out by Joan. Crisp. 2The Lieutenant among other blasphemies, had these words: Of the iiij. Evangelists, but ij. were pure, Matthew and John. The other two, Mark & Luke were but gatherers out of the other. The Epistles of S. Paul, but that the Doctors of the church had authorised them, he would otherwise esteem them no better then the fables of Aesop. Item, the said Lieutenant said to M. Copes maid,3 speaking somewhat of the law: Cursed be the God of that law. When the sentence of condemnation was given against these three, they were so glad thereof, that they went out praising God, and singing Psalms. Which troubled the judges sore, to see them so little to esteem their death: in so much that the Lieutenant caused them to be made to hold their peace, saying: shall these vile abjects so vaunt themselves, against the whole state of the realm: