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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 2] 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 2] 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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The B. therefore, or else his Chancellor, thinking that he might as easily prevail with Samuel, as he had done with other before, kept him in a very strait prison at his first coming, where he was chained bolt upright to a great ⟨p. 1704⟩post, in such sort, that standing only on tiptoe, he was fain to stay up the whole poise or weight of his body thereby. And to make amends for the cruelty or pain that he suffered, they added a far more grievous torment, keeping him without meat and drink,1 whereby he was unmercifully vexed through hunger and thirst: saving that he had every day allowed 2. or 3. mouthfuls of bread, and 3. spoonfuls of water, to the end rather that he might be reserved to farther torment, then that they would preserve his life. O worthy constancy of the Martyr. O pitiless hearts of papists, worthy to be complained of, and to be accused before God and nature.2 O the wonderful strength of Christ in his members? Whose stomach, though it had ben made of Adamant stone, would not have relented at these intolerable vexations, and extreme pains above nature? How oftentimes would he have drunken his own water, but his body was so dried up with this long emptiness, that he was not able to make one drop of water?
The B. therefore, or els his Chancellor, thinking that he mighte as easily preuaile with Samuel, as he had done wt other before, kept him in a very straite prison at his first comming, where he was chained bolte vpright to a greate ⟨p. 1704⟩post, in such sort, that standing only on tiptoe, he was faine to stay vp the whole paise or waight of his bodye thereby. And to make amends for the cruelty or paine that he suffered, they added a farre more greuous torment, keping him without meate and drinke,1 whereby he was vnmercifully vexed through hunger and thirst: sauing that he had euery day allowed 2. or 3. mouthfuls of bread, and 3. sponefuls of water, to the ende rather that he might be reserued to farther torment, then that they woulde preserue hys lyfe. O worthy constancie of the Martyr. O pitilesse hearts of papists, worthy to be complained of, and to be accused before God and nature.