B11843:109
The tragedies of tyrants Exercised upon the church of God, from the birth of…The tragedies of tyrantes Exercised vpon the church of God, from the birth of…
The tragedies of tyrants Exercised upon the church of God, from the birth of Christ unto this present year. 1572. Containing the causes of them, and the just vengeance of God upon the authors. Also some notable comforts and exhortations to patience. Written by Henry Bullinger, and now Englished.The tragedies of tyrantes Exercised vpon the church of God, from the birth of Christ vnto this present yeere. 1572. Containing the causes of them, and the iust vengeance of God vpon the authours. Also some notable comfortes and exhortations to pacience. Written by Henrie Bullinger, and now Englished.
London: printed by William How for Abraham Veale, 1575
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The people of Tyre also, in the land 1of Palestine, whole flocks as it were of men and women, in places of common resort for shows, were thrown unto wild beasts, and when the wild beasts were more gentle towards the Christians then the men, neither forced upon them to tear them, yea, rather tear their keepers and masters that egged them to others: notwithstanding these faithless tyrants crueller then all beasts, ran upon the miserable christians, ⟨p. 43⟩wounding them, stabbing them and cruelly without all pity murdering them.
The people of Tyrus also, in the land 1of Palestine, whole flockes as it were of men and women, in places of common resorte for shewes, were thrown vnto wylde beastes, and when the wild beastes were more gentyl towards the Christians then the men, neither forced vpon them to teare them, yea, rather teare their kéepers and maisters that egged them to others: notwithstanding these faithlesse tyrants crueller then all beastes, ranne vpon the miserable christians, ⟨p. 43⟩woundyng them, stabbyng them and cruelly without all pittie murtheryng them.
- 1In Tyre.In Tyrus.
A strange kind of cruelty also the ungodly in Egypt, and Thebais, practiced against the faithful, wherewith they 1slew infinite numbers of them. They used in certain places to bend down two Trees, and to bind the faithful unto each tree by the leg, then to let them rise again, and so tearing the men in pieces. And Uspurgensis reporteth, how at the same time, in one months space were seventeen thousand men martyred, and slain.