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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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Wherefore the best is, that we follow the counsel of God and his word, and prefer the authority thereof before all other counsels and judgements of men, And thus doing,1 I for my part had rather dwell and settle my self in this little Christianity, be it never so small, then in that populous Papalitie, be it never so great in multitude. And thus was this godly Feurus commanded again by the Deputy, to the Bishops prison, and from thence shortly after removed to Lions, not by the open and beaten way, but by secret and privy journeys, least perhaps he should be taken from them again, as he was before. After he was come to Lyons, he was brought before Tignacius the Judge,2 and a Doctor of Sorbonne called Fumosus, who questioned with him touching sundry articles of Religion. But in conclusion, when they neither with arguments could convict him, nor with promises allure him, nor with threatening terrors stir him, either to betray the truth which he knew, or to bewray them whom he knew not, which took him away before his keepers they proceeded at last to the sentence, condemning him first to have his tongue cut out, and then to be [figure] 3burned. All which he received willingly and quietly for righteousness sake, thus finishing his martyrdom Jul. 7. ann, 1554. Ex Crisp. Pantal, & alijs. An Inquisitor monk. | Nicholas du Chesne. At Gry by Besançon. Ann. 1554, | The cause and occasion why this Nicolas came in trouble,4 was for that he going from Lausanna (where he abode for his conscience) to feet his sister & her husband, & certain other of his friends, as he went from Besançon, toward the town of Gry, ⟨p. 915⟩did not homage to a certain cross in the way where a certain monk which was an inquisitor,5 overtook him, and thereby suspected him. He was guided by the same monk craftily dissembling his religion, to a lodging in Gry: where the Justice of the place coming in, incontinent took him. Nicholas seeing how he was by the monk his conductor betrayed: O false traitor, (said he) hast thou thus betrayed me? Then after examination, he was condemn ned. Being carried to the place of martyrdom, by the way he was promised, that if he would kneel down and hear a mass, he should be let go as a passenger. But Nicolas armed with perseverance, said he would rather dye then commit such an act. Who calling upon the name of the Lord, took his death patiently.