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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17048	Saint Peters path to the ioyes of heauen wherein is described the frailtie of flesh, the power of the spirit, the labyrinth of this life, Sathans subtilitie, and the soules saluation. As also the election, liues and martyrdomes, of the twelue Apostles. By W.B.; Saint Peters path to the joyes of heaven.	Broxup, William.	1598 (1598)	STC 3921; ESTC S116865	25,793	61

The blood of the Martyrs is the seede of the Church Christ himselfe foretold that whosoeuer would be his Disciple must take vp his crosse and folow him these Apostles these Disciples haue done no lesse 1. PEter otherwise called Simon the sonne of Iona of the Prouince of Galile of the towne of Bethsaida the brother of Andrew from a fisherman Christ called him to be an Apostle commaunding him earnestly three times to feede his sheepe three times Peter denied Christ three times Christ asked Peter if hee loued him and three times Peter answered thou knowest Lorde I loue thee For denying of Christ his submission was so great that by continual kneeling in prayer to God his knees elbowes were growne thicke numme and hard like the hoofe of an Oxe his armes with leaning on them were growne crooked his eyes were bleard with dayly weeping and the streames of teares which flowed from his eyes made gutters in his cheekes Peter the Apostle was y e first Bishop of Antioch he continued there seuen yeeres seuen yeeres about Ierusalē the Easterne regious he was imprisoned by Herod Agrippa and deliuered by an Angell Christ came to his house healed his wiues mother of a feuer he preached the Gospel of Christ in Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Bythinia and Asia Peter was of that courage boldnesse that he walked vpon the water to go to Iesus Peter seeing Christ transfigured talking with Moses and Elias he was so rauished with that ioyfull sight that he said vnto him Lord here is good being for vs if thou wilt Let vs make here 3. tabernacles one for thee one for Moses and one for Elias Christ did foretel Peter of his death saying When thou wast young thou girdedst thy selfe and walkedst whither thou wouldest but when thou shalt be olde thou shalt stretch forth thy handes and another shall gird thee and leade thee whither thou wouldest not Peter was crucified at Rome the third Calends of Iuly in the last yeere of Nero with his head downewards which kind of death he himselfe desired Moritur ad terram verso capite in cruce Petrus 2. IAmes the sonne of Zebedeus brother to Iohn was a poore fisherman and being in the shippe mending of his net Iesus came by and called him to be an Apostle He preached the Gospel of Christ vnto the twelue dispersed Tribes he was the next Martyr after Stephen he was slaine by the sword in India by Herod Agrippa his corps was afterward transported into Compostella in Spaine 3. IOhn the Euangelist was the sonne of Zebed and brother to Iames he was called from the fisher-boate to bee an Apostle of Christ he was of all other beloued of Iesus he leaned on the breast of our Sauiour he was banished by the Emperor Domitian into the Isle of Patmos where hee wrote the Reuelation Ierome and Abdias saith that at Rome he was throwne into a tunne of hotte burning oyle yet he came forth and tooke no harme Hee conuerted a Thiefe that was Captaine of a bande of theeues all wholy bent to slaughter murder and extreame crueltie saying Yet there remaineth some hope of saluation I will vndertake for thee with Christ I will die for thee if neede be as Christ dyed for vs I will hazard my soule for thine Trust me Christ sent me The Thiefe hearing this stoode still shooke off his armour trembled for feare repented and wept bitterly After the death of Domitian Iohn the Euangelist returned from the Isle of Patmos when Nerua had raigned a little aboue a yeere Iohn gouerned the Churches in Asia and remained at Ephesus Augustine calleth him a martyr by will Policrates Bishop of Ephesus as Eusebius alleadgeth sticketh not to call him a Priest a martyr and a doctor but that which Augustine and Dorotheus writeth of his end is strangest of all and let the credite thereof rest in the choise of the Reader how Iohn at Ephesus in the presence of diuers people went aliue into his graue there dyed being an hundreth and twentie yeeres old 4. ANdrew being a poore fisherman was called with his brother Peter to bee an Apostle hee preached the Gospell of Christ vnto the Scythians Sogdians and Sucians and in the middle of Sebastopilis inhabited of the wilde Ethiopians being crucified by Aegeas King of Edessa the last of Nouember and buried at Pataris a citie in Achaia 5. PHilip was chosen to be an Apostle of Christ hee was borne in the citie of Bethsaida a citie in Galile when Christ demaunded of Philip where they might buy bread to satisfie the people that followed him Philip answered him Two hundreth pennie worth of bread is not sufficient for them that euery one may take a little This was said to proue him Christ at that instant fedde fiue thousand men with fiue barly loaues and two fishes and when the people were satisfied the disciples filled twelue baskets with that which remained Philip preached the Gospell of Christ in Phrygia he went to a citie in Samaria and there conuerted Simon Magus the sorcerer who had a long time seduced the same citie with his sorcerie witchcraft The Painims crucified Philip at Hierapotalis 6. THomas otherwise called Didymus was one of the twelue Apostles of Christ hee doubting of the resurrection of Christ saide vnto his fellowes which tolde him that they had seene the Lord Thomas said Except I see in his hands the print of the nayles and put my handes into his side I will not beleeue After eight dayes Thomas being with the disciples Iesus came againe and stood in the middest of them saying Peace be vnto to you said to Thomas Put thy finger here see my hands and thrust forth thy hand put it into my side and be not faithlesse but faithfull Then Thomas did conceiue a full faith that it was the Lorde and saide Thou art my Lord my God which confession Iesus did well accept Thomas sent Thaddaeus vnto Agbarus king of Edessa to preach the Gospell of Christ and to cure Agbarus of his maladie Thomas the Apostle preached the Gospell of Christ vnto the Persians Medes Caramaines Hircaines Bastraines and Magitians he was slaine at the heathen Kings commaundement with a dart in India and was buried at Calimina 7. BArtholomew was chosen to bee an Apostle of Christ hee preached to the Indians and deliuered vnto them the Gospell of Matthew in their owne language he suffered martyrdome at the commaundement of Polemius king of India the first day of his martyrdome he was beaten with cudgels the second day crucified and flayne aliue his skin puld ouer his eares as he was fastened to the crosse Last of all while