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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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Also he was deposed of his office, and there declared unworthy to exercise any royal office hereafter for ever, with infamy and shame perpetuall. Ex Crisp. Lib. 6. pag. 907. A priest of Valenciennes. | Thomas Moutarde. At Valenciennes. Ann. 1559. | In the town of Valenciennes, not far from France,1 the same year which was 1559. in the month of October suffered Tho. Moutard. Who first being converted from a disordered life, to the knowledge of the Gospel, is to us a spectacle of Gods great gracious mercy toward his elected Christians. This Moutarde was attached for certain words spoken to a priest, saying thus, that his god of the host was nothing but abomination, which abuseth the people of God. These words were taken first as spoken in his drunkenness.2 But the next day after, when the same words were repeated to him again, to know whether he would abide by the words there uttered, or no, he said, yea. For it is an abuse (said he) to seek Jesus Christ any other where, then in heaven, sitting at the glory & right hand of God his father: and in this, he was ready to live & dye. His process being made, he was condemned to be burned quick. But as he was carried from the town house, to the place of punishment,3 it was never seen a man with such constancy to be so assured in hart, & so to rejoice at that great honour, which God had called him unto. The hangman hasted as much, as was possible, to bind him, & dispatch him. The martyr in the midst of the flaming fire, lifting up his eyes unto heaven, cried to the Lord, that he would have mercy on his soul: and so in great integrity of faith and perseverance, he gave up his life to God. Ex Joan. Crisp. Lib. 6. | ☞This Dutch story should have gone before, with the Dutch Martyrs. But seeing Valenciennes is not far distant from France it is not much out of order, to adjoin the same with the French martyrs: who altogether at length, shall be joined in the kingdom of Christ: which day the Lord send shortly. Amen. ¶Thus have we (through the assistance of the Lord) deduced the Table of the French and also of the Dutch martyrs, unto the time and reign of Queen Elizabeth, that is, to the year .1560. Since the which time, divers also have suffered, both in France, & in the lower country of Germany, whose story shall be declared (the Lord willing) more at large, when we come to the time of Queen Elizabeth.