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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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To the Judges her answer was this, that she had learned the faith which she confessed, in the word of God, and in the same she would live and die. And being demanded, whether the body of Christ was in the Sacrament.1 How is that possible (said she) to be the body of Christ, to whom all power is given, & which is exalted above all heavens, when as we see the mice & rats, apes, and Monkeys play with it, and tear it in pieces? He• petition to them was, that seeing they had taken her sister from her, yet they would let her have a Bible o• Testament to comfort her self. Her wicked neighbours, although they could touch her conversation with no part of dishonesty, yet many things they laid to her charge, as that there was much singing of Psalms in her house, and that twice or thrice, an infinite number of persons were seen to come out of her house. Also when her husband was in dying, no Priest was called for, neither was it known where he was buried: Neither did they ever hear any word of their infant to be baptised, for it was baptised in the Church of the Lord. Among other her neighbours that came against her, two there were dwelling at S. German, in the suburbs,2 between whom incontinent rose a strife, wherein one of them sticked the other with a knife. The death of this gentlewoman was the more hastened of the Lord keeper of the Seal, Bertrand, Cardinal of Sens, and his son in law the Marquess of Tran, for to have the confiscation of her goods. These 3. holy martyrs above recited,3 were condemn ned the 27. of Sep. by the process of the commissioners and the Lieutenant civil: and then being put in a Chapel together, certain Doctors were sent to them, but their valiant constancy remained unmoveable. After that they were had out of Prison, and sent every one in a dung cart to the place of punishment, Clinet ever cried by the way, protesting that he said or maintained nothing, but the verity ⟨p. 920⟩of God. And being asked of a Doctor, whether he would believe S. Austen, touching certain matters, he said: yea, and that he had said nothing, but which he would prove by his authority. The Gentlewoman seeing a Priest come to confess her, said, that she had confessed unto God, and had received of him remission: other absolution she found none in Scripture.