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1. Henry VIII's reign2. Dissension among mendicant orders3. Persecution of Lollards4. Richard Hun5. Lollard martyrs6. Persecution in diocese of Lincoln7. Colet, Chaucer and Gower8. Prophecies preceeding Luther9. Martin Luther10. Adrian VI11. Final years of Luther12. Swiss Reformation13. German martyrs14. French martyrs15. Spanish martyrs16. Italian martyrs17. Merindol and Cabriers18. Angrogne
K. Henry. 8. A Table of the Frenche Martyrs.
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beyng priestes, came in against him, with M. Riueracke also, & his seruant. Which Riueracke had said oftentimes before, that it should cost him a thousand crownes, but he would burne him. Many exceptions he made agaynst his false wit- nesses, but that would not be taken. All their accusation was onely for denying Purgatory. About ix. monethes he remained in prison with great mi serie, bewayling excedingly his former lyfe: albeit there was no mā that could charge him outwardly with any crime. Thē came downe letters, wherupon the Iudges began to procede to his condemnation, and he had greater fetters put vpon him, whiche he tooke for a token of his death shortly to fo- low. After that, he was examined with tormentes. One of the MarginaliaTormētes.head presidentes came to him, and shaking him by the beard, bad him tell what felowes he had of his religion. To whom he aunswered, saying, that he had no other felowes, but such as knew, and did the will of God his father, whether they were nobles, marchauntes, husband men, or of what degre so euer they were. In these torments he endured ij. or iij. houres, beyng but of a weake bodye, with these wordes comfortyng him self: This body (sayd he) once must dye, but the spirite shall liue: the kingdome of God abydeth for euer. In the tyme of his tormentyng he swonded. Afterward cōmyng to hym selfe agayne, he sayd. O Lord Lord, why hast thou forsaken me? To whom the president: Nay wicked Lutherane (sayd he) Thou hast forsaken God. Then sayd Aymundus: Alas good maisters, why do you thus miserably tormēt me? O Lord I besech thee, forgeue them, they know not what they do. See (sayd the president) this caytife, how he prayeth for vs. Ne- uertheles so cōstant was he in his paynes, that they could not force him to vtter one mans name: saying vnto them, that he thought to haue found more mercie with men: Wherfore he prayed God that he might finde mercy with him. On the next Saterday folowing, sentence of condemnation was geuen agaynst him. Then certaine Friers were appoyn- ted to heare his confeßion. Whom he refused, chusing to hym one of his own order, the parishe priest of S. Christophers, bid ding the Friers depart frō him, for he would cōfesse his sinnes to the Lord. Do not you see (sayd he) how I am troubled en- ough with mē? will ye yet trouble me more? Other haue had my body, will you also take frō me my soule? Away frō me I pray you. At last whē he could not be suffered to haue the pa rishe priest, he thē toke a certain Carmelite, byddyng the rest to depart, with whō he hauing long talke, at last did conuert hym, vnto the truth. Shortly after came vnto him the Iudges, Cassagnes, & Longa, with other coūsailours moe, vn to whom the sayd Aymondus began to preach & declare his mynde, touchyng the Lordes Supper: But Longa interrup- tyng hym, demaunded of him thus. | ||
MarginaliaPurgatorye.The Iudge. First declare vnto vs your mynde what you thinke of Purgatory. The Martyr. In Scripture all these are one, to purge, to clense, and to washe. Wherof we read in Esay, in the E- pistles of S. Paul, and of S. Peter. He hath washed you in his bloud. Ye are redemed not with golde, but with the MarginaliaHeb. 9.bloud of Christ. &c. And how often do we read in the E- pistles of S. Paul, That we are clensed by the bloud of Christ from our sinnes? &c.Marginalia1. Pet. 1. The Iudge. Those Epistles are knowen to euery child. The Martyr. To euery child? Nay, I feare you haue scarce read thē your selfe. A Frier. M. Aymond, with one worde you may satisfie them, if you will saye, that there is place where the soules bee purged after this life. The Martyr. That I leaue for you to say, if you please. What? would you haue me damne myne owne soule, and to say that whiche I know not? The Iudge. Doest not thou thinke, that when thou art dead, thou |
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shalt go to Purgatorie? And hee that dyeth in veniall sinne, that he shall passe streight into Paradise? The Martyr. Such trust I haue in my God, that the same day, whē I shall dye, I shall enter into Paradise. An other Iudge. Where is Paradise? The Martyr. There where the maiestie and glory of God is. The Iudge. The Canons do make mention of Purgatory, and you in your Sermons haue vsed alwayes much to pray for the poore.MarginaliaThys Frier taketh praying for the poore which be aliue, and those that be dead, to be all one. The Martyr. I haue preached the word of God, & not the Canons. The Iudge. Doest thou beleue in the Churche? The Martyr. MarginaliaThe Church.I beleue as the Churche regenerated by the bloud of Christ, and founded in his worde, hath appoynted. The Iudge. What Churche is that? The Martyr. The Churche is a Greke worde signifying as much, as a Congregation or assemble: and so I say, that when so euer the faithfull do congregate together, to the honor of God, and the amplifying of Christian religion, the ho ly ghost is verily with them. The Iudge. By this it should folow, that there be many churches, And where as any rusticall clownes do assemble toge- ther, there must be a Churche. The Martyr. It is no absurde thyng to say that there bee many Churches or congregations among the Christians: And so speaketh S. Paul: To all the Churches whiche are in Ga MarginaliaGalat. 1.latia. &c. and yet all these congregations make but one Churche. The Iudge. The Churche wherin thou beleuest, is it not the same Churche, whiche our Crede doth call the holy Churche? The Martyr. I beleue the same. The Iudge. And who should be the head of that Churche? The Martyr. MarginaliaThe head of the Church.Iesus Christ. The Iudge. And not the Pope? The Martyr. No. The Iudge. And what is he then? The Martyr. A Minister, if he be a good man, as other Bishops be: of whom S. Paul thus writeth: 1. Cor. 4. Let a man so e- steme of vs, as Ministers, and dispensers of the secretes of God. &c. The Iudge. What then, doest not thou beleue the Pope? MarginaliaThe Pope what he is.The Martyr. I know not what he is. The Iudge. Doest thou not beleue that he is the successor of Peter? The Martyr. If he bee lyke to Peter, and be grounded with Peter, vpō þe true rocke Christ Iesus, so I beleue his workes, and ordinaunces to be good. Then the Judges leauyng him with the Friers, departed from him, countyng him as a damned creature. Notwith- standyng, Aymundus puttyng his trust in God, was full of comfort, saying with S. Paul: Who shall separate me from the loue of God? Shall the sworde, hunger, or nakednes? No, nothyng shall plucke me from him. But rather I haue pitie of you (sayd he) and so they departed. Not long after, he was brought to the place of execution, singing by the waye, the Psalme. In exitu Israel de Ægypto. &c. And as he pas- MarginaliaPsal. 114.sed by the place, where he before had bene emprisoned, he cal |
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