Protestant martyrs, condensed from Foxe's Acts and monuments of the Christian Church, with an intr. preface by R. Maguire

Front Cover
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 92 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father ; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother ; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Page 307 - Good people! I believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, three persons and one God. This do I not, nor will I recant : but I recant utterly from the bottom of my heart the doings of the pope of Rome, and all his popish priests and shavelings. I utterly refuse and never will have to do with them again, by God's grace.
Page 263 - Shipside, who all his time of imprisonment, although he might not be suffered to come to him, lay there at his own charges to provide him necessaries, which from time to time he sent him by the serjeant that kept him.
Page 163 - ... greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world.
Page 307 - My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit rejoiceth in God my Saviour.
Page 277 - ... and immovable (saving that once with the same hand he wiped his face), that all men might see his hand burned before his body was touched.
Page 144 - I commend my soul unto the hands of God, but my body I wholly yield and submit unto your clemency." Then said the king, " If you do commit yourself unto my judgment, you must die, for I will not be a patron unto heretics.
Page 260 - Ridley had a fair black gown furred, and faced with foins, such as he was wont to wear being bishop, and a tippet of velvet furred...
Page 64 - Huss;) I never preached any doctrine of an evil tendency; and what I taught with my lips I now seal with my blood.
Page 277 - ... that all men might see his hand burned before his body was touched. His body did so abide the burning of the flame with such constancy and...

Bibliographic information