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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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AS this pious martyr was going to the stake, a certain maid came to him, and took him about the neck and kissed him, which being marked by them that were present, was sought for the next day after to be had to prison and burned, as the very party herself informed me: however, as God of his goodness would have it, she escaped their fiery hands, keeping herself secret in the town a good while after But as this maid, called Rose Nottingham, was marvellously preserved by the providence of God; so there were two other honest women that fell into the rage and fury of that time. The one was a brewer's wife, the other was a shoemaker's wife, but both together now espoused to a new husband, Christ.
WITH these two this maid aforesaid was very familiar and well acquainted, who on a time giving counsel to one of them, that she should convey herself away while she had time and space, seeing she could not away with the queen's proceedings; had this answer at her hands again: I know well, saith she, that it is well enough to fly away, which remedy you may use if you please. But my case standeth otherwise. I am tied to an husband, and have besides young children at home▪ and then I know not how my husband, being a carnal man, will take my departure from him; therefore I am minded, for the love of Christ and his truth, to stand to the extremity of the matter.
AND so the next day after Mr. Samuel suffered, these two pious wives, the one named A••e Potten, the other Joan Trunchfield, wife of Michael Trunchfield, shoemaker of Ipswich, wer• apprehended, and both had to prison together. Who, as they were both by sex and nature somewhat ••nder, so were they at first less able to endure the stra•ness of the prison, and especially the brewer's wife as cast into marvellous great agonies and troubles f mind thereby. But Christ beholding the weak in firmiy of his servant, did not sail to help her when she was in this necessity. So at length they both suffered after Samuel, Feb. 19, 1550, as shall be by God's grace declared hereafter. And these, no doubt, were those two ladders, which being joined with the third, Samuel saw stretched up into ven. This blessed Samuel, the servant of Christ, suffered the 3 of August, 1555.