A67927:5095
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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*Edward Sharpe.
*Edwarde Sharpe.
About the beginning of the next month following, which was September,1 a certain godly, aged, devout, & zealous person of the Lords glory, borne in Wiltshire, named Edward Sharpe,2 of the age of lx. years, or thereabout, was condemned at Bristow to the like Martyrdom where he constantly & manfully persisting in the just quarrel of Christs Gospel, for misliking and renouncing the ordinances of the Romish Church, was tried as pure gold, and made a lively sacrifice in the fire: in whose death as in the death of all his other saints, the Lord be glorified and thanked for his great grace of constancy: to whom be praise for ever, Amen.
ABout the beginning of the next month folowing, whiche was September,1 a certayn godly, aged, deuout, & zelous person of the Lords glory, borne in Wiltshyre, named Edward Sharpe,2 of the age of lx. yeares, or thereabout, was condemned at Bristow to the like Martyrdom where he constantly & manfully persisting in ye iust quarrel of Christes Gospell, for misliking and renouncing the ordinaunces of the Romishe Churche, was tryed as pure gold, and made a liuely sacrifice in the fire: in whose death as in ye death of all hys other saynts, the Lord be glorified and thanked for his great grace of constancy: to whom be praise for euer, Amen.