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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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where great labour was employed to reclaim them home unto their Church, that is, from light to darkness again. The ij. younger, to wit, the daughter with the younger brother, being yet not settled, neither in years nor doctrine, something inclined to them, and were delivered. The mother which would not consent, was condemned to perpetual prison. The other 2. Frances and Nicholas,1 standing firmly to their confession, defended that the Catholic Church was not the Church of Rome: that the Sacrament was to be ministered in both kinds: that auricular confession was to no purpose: that Invocation of Saints was to be left: that there was no Purgatory. The Fryers they called hypocrites, and contemned their threatenings. The Magistrates after disputations, fell to torments, to know of them who was their master and what fellows they had. Their master (they said) was Christ, which bare his cross before. Fellows (they said) they had innumerable, dispersed in all places. At last they were brought to the Judges: their Articles were read, and they condemned to be burned. Coming to the place of execution, as they began to exhort the people, gags or balls of wood were thrust in their mouths, which they through vehemency of speaking thrust out again, desiring for the Lord sake, that they might have leave to speak. And so singing with a loud voice, Credo in unum Deum. &c. they went, and were fastened to the stake, praying for their persecutors, and exhorting the one the other, they did abide the fire patiently. The one feeling the flame to come to his beard: Ah (said he) what a small pain is this, to be compared to the glory to come? Thus the patient martyrs committing their spirit to the hands of God, to the great admiration of the lookers on, through constancy, achieved the crown of martyrdome. Ex. Phil Melanct. The names of their accusers appear not in the Authors. | Marion wife of Adrian Taylor. At Dornic. An. 1545. | In the same persecution against Brulius and his company in Dornic,2 was apprehended also one Adrian and Marion his wife. The cause of their trouble, as also of the others, was the Emperors decree made in the Council of Worms against the ⟨p. 891⟩Lutherians, mentioned before, pag. 841. Adrian not so strong as a man, for fear gave back from the truth and was but only beheaded.