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The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being…
The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of marytrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
New-York: printed by William Durell, 1794
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Volume 2 › Book 3 › Chapter 1 › The Martyrdom of CICELY ORMES, at Norwich.
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THEN she came to the stake, and laid her hand on it, and said, "Welcome the cross of Christ." Which being done, she looked on her hand, and seeing it blacked with the stake, she wiped it upon ⟨p. 497⟩her smock, for she was burnt at the same stake that Simon Miller and Elizabeth Cooper was. Then after she had touched it with her hand, she came and kissed it, and said, "Welcome the sweet cross of Christ," and so gave herself to be bound thereto. After the tormentors had kindled the fire to her, she said, "My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit rejoiceth in God my Saviour:" and in saying so she set her hands together right against her breast, casting her eyes and head upward, and so stood, heaving up her hands by little and little, till the very sinews of her arm did break asunder, and then they fell; but she yielded her life unto God, as quietly as if she had been in a slumber, or as one feeling no pain: so wonderfully did the Lord work with her: his name therefore be praised evermore, Amen.
AFTER the death and martyrdom of Mrs. Joyce Lewes, a little above specified, diverse good men and women in the same town of Litchfield were had up before the bishop and his chancellor, for kissing the said Joyce Lewes, and drinking with her about the time of her death; the names of which persons were these; John Love, Elizabeth Smith, Margaret Biddle, Helen Bouring, Margaret Cootesfore, Nicholas Bird, John Haristone and his wife, Agnes Glyn, Agnes Glover, Agnes Penifather, &c. These with others were produced to their examination before the bishop and his chancellor for the cause above-named, and therefore adjudged for heretics, because they did pray and drink with the said Mrs. Lewes, but especially Agnes Penifather sustained the most trouble, for that she accompanied the said Joyce Lewes going to her death. Which Agnes being examined further of the said bishop, what words she had spoken to two priests of the church of Litchfield, called John Ady and James Fox, concerning the said Joyce Lewes after her burning, said as followeth, That she being asked by the said two priests being at her father's house in the city of Litchfield, at such time as she came from the burning of the said Joyce Lewes, why she the said Agnes did weep for such an heretic, meaning Joyce Lewes, whose soul they said was in hell; the said Agnes Penifather to their demand made this answer, That she thought the said blessed martyr to be in better case than the said two priests were.