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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40369	Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the tryals and dying expressions of many martyrs of note since Christ : extracted out of Foxe's Acts and monuments of the church : with an alphabetical list of God's judgements remarkably shown on many noted and cruel persecutors : together with an appendix of things pertinent to martyrology by N.T., M.A.T.C.C. [i.e. Master of Arts Trinity College Cambridge]; Actes and monuments. Selections	Foxe, John, 1516-1587.; N. T., M.A.T.C.C.	1677 (1677)	Wing F2042; ESTC R10453	85,156	250

home and the world but our place of banishment Let us aspire after our Country Consider the honour God doth you in that you have a Husband who is not only called to be a Minister of Christ but highly advanced to partake of the Crown of Martyrdom which honour the Angels in Heaven are not capable of I rejoice in my sufferings I am filled with the abundant riches of my God I now taste and see Gods goodness I feel by experience he never forsakes them that trust in him I have profited more in the School-house of my Prison than in all my life time before I would not change my condition with them which are my Persecutors I eat and drink and rest with more hearts-ease than they Additions to Vol. 3. concerning Massacre in France and Flanders p. 37 38. Francis le Bossu with his two Sons martyred at Lyons in France in the Massacre there 1572. he encouraged his two Sons to suffer with him for the Gospel exhorting them thus Children we know the enmity of the wicked and the world against Gods people is no strange thing Let not their drawn Swords affright us they will be but as a Bridge whereby we shall pass over out of a miserable life into immortal blessedness we have breathed and lived long enough among the wicked let us now go and live with one God And so all three embracing each other were found slain Additions to Vol. 3. concerning Massacre in France p. 68. C C CAlocerius seeing the great patience of the Christians in so great Torments and Persecutions cryed out Vere magnus Deus Christianorum that is truly the God of the Christians is a great God Which words being heard he was apprehended and brought to the place of execution and made partaker of their martyrdom Vol. 1. p. 53. Cecilia the Virgin brought Valerian her espoused Husband and Tiburtius his Brother to the Faith of Christ and with her exhortations made them constant to Martyrdom after whose sufferings she was apprehended and brought to offer Sacrifice to Idols but refusing she was had to the Judge to be condemned in the mean time the Serjeants and others began to perswade her to favour her self and not cast her self away to whom she so reply'd with Reasons and godly Exhortations that by the grace of God they were converted also and divers others were with them baptized to the number of 400 persons which being done she was condemned and was inclosed in a hot Bath a day and a night without hurt and was afterwards ordered to be beheaded in the Bath Vol. 1. Cyprian being also named Statius he was an African and born in Carthage an Idolater and a Gentile altogether given to the study of Magical Arts who was converted to the Christian Faith through the grace of God by the means of Cecilius a Priest and by the occasion of hearing the History of the Prophet Ionah and was after his conversion ordained Priest and Bishop of Carthage Soon after in which Office and Dignity he so shined in Gifts and Vertues that he had the Covernment of all the East Church and Church of Spain and was called the Bishop of the Christian men And was beheaded in the 259. year of Christ under the Eighth Persecution He is said to observe 12 abuses in mans life 1. A wise man without good works 2. An old man without Religion 3. Youth without obedience 4. Rich men without Alms. 5. A Woman shameless 6. A Guide without vertue 7. A Christian contentious 8. A poor man proud 9. A King unrighteous 10. A Bishop negligent 11. People without discipline 12. Subjects without love Vol. 1. p. 89 90 c. Christians to the number of 2000 being assembled in their Temple at Nicomedia to celebrate the Nativity of Christ and fire being caused to be set to the Temple by the order of Maximianus under the Tenth Persecution with a Cryer That all that would have life should come out of the Temple and do sacrifice upon the next Altar of Iupiter One in the behalf of all the rest answered They were all Christians and that they would do Sacrifice only to Christ his Father and the Holy Ghost and that they were all now ready to offer Whereupon they all and the Temple were burned Vol. 1. p. 102. Iohn Clardon a Currier of London was burned only for having English Books in his house which as his Enemies said contained heretical Opinions which he owned against the Popish Party 1415. year of Christ. Vol. 1. p. 842. Iohn Clerke of Meldon in France a Wool-carder for saying the Pope was Antichrist in a Bill he set upon the Church doors against the Pope's Pardons was to be whipt three several times and each time marked on the forehead with a note of infamy whose Mother being a Christian woman and seeing those things done to her Son courageously emboldened him crying Blessed be Christ and welcome be these marks He afterwards removing to Metz in Lotharing the night before the people idolatrously according to their Custom was to go out of Town to worship some Images he brake them down and the next day the Monks and people coming to worship found their Images broken whereof they suspected this Clerke who being examined confessed the fact and shewed his reason for it whereat the people were enraged and cut off his right arm and with Pinsers pulled off his nose arms and breast and then burnt him An. 1514. who patiently endured it singing Their Images be of Silver and Gold the work of mens hands Vol. 2. p. 107. Dr. Iohn Castellane a French Divine was degraded and burnt only for Religion in which he continued constant to death and so patiently underwent it 1525. that many ignorant people were thereby drawn to the knowledge of the Truth and many weak were greatly confirmed Vol. 2. p. 107 108 109. George Carpenter burned in Munchen in Bavaria Feb. 8. 1527. whose Crimes were because he held a Priest could not forgive sins nor call God out of Heaven that God was not in the Bread in the Sacrament nor that the Element of Water in Baptism did confer Grace which four Articles he refused to recant and being asked if he was let go if he would not go to his Wife and Children he answered If I was let go whither should I go rather than to my Wife and well-beloved Children And being told if he would recant he should be set at liberty he said My Wife and Children are so dearly beloved of me that they cannot be bought from me for all the Riches of the Duke of Bavaria but for the love of my Lord God I will willingly forsake them And being led to the place of Execution he promised a sign of his Faith that while he could open his mouth he would not cease to call upon the Name of Iesus and being in the fire he cryed aloud Iesus Iesus and so gave up his spirit joyfully Vol. 2. p. 114. One Cowbridge burnt at Oxford