The spirit of the martyrs revived in a brief compendious collection of the most remarkable passages and living testimonies of the true church, seed of God, and faithful martyrs in all ages: contained in several ecclesiastical histories & chronological accounts of the succession of the true church from the creation, the times of the fathers, patriarchs, prophets, Christ and the Apostles.

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Title: The spirit of the martyrs revived in a brief compendious collection of the most remarkable passages and living testimonies of the true church, seed of God, and faithful martyrs in all ages: contained in several ecclesiastical histories & chronological accounts of the succession of the true church from the creation, the times of the fathers, patriarchs, prophets, Christ and the Apostles.
Author: Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.
Publication: [London :: s.n.,; 1664]
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Subject terms: Church history -- Early works to 1800.; Martyrs -- Early works to 1800.; Freedom of religion -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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A brief Relation concerning the Horrible Massacree in France, Ann. 1571.

When the Admiral was wounded in both his Arms he Immediate∣ly thereupon said to Maure, O my Brother, I do now perceive that I am beloved of my God, seeing that for his Name sake I do Suffer these Wounds; at this time were many great persons cruelly mur∣thered; two thousand were murthered in one day.

At Meldis Two hundred were cast into Prison, and being brought out as sheep to the slaughter were cruelly murthered.

At Orleans a Thousand Men Women and Children were Mur∣thered.

The Citizens of Augustobona, when they heard of the Massacree at Paris, shut the Gates of their Town, that no Protestant might escape, and cast all that they suspected into Prison, which afterward were brought forth and Murthered.

At Avericome in like manner the suspected for religion were cast into Prison.

At Roan five hundred were put to death; Thuanus who writeth the History of these things, writeth thus; this Example, saith he, passed into other Cities, and from Cities to Towns and Villages, so that it is by many Published, that in all the Kingdom above thirty thousand were in these tumults divers wayes destroyed by the Papists.

There was wonderful joy in Rome for this Massacree, and the Pope with his Cardinals went a Procession, to give thanks unto God for this great benefit bestowed upon the See of Rome, and the Chri∣stian World; a Jubily also was published; and in the Evening the great Ordinance was shot off at the Castle: Thus did this unholy Father delight to hear of the destruction of so many Innocent People; well might Christ say, You are of your Father the Devil, and the Lusts of your Father you will do; he hath been a Murtherer from the beginning, and abode not in the Truth, because there is no Truth in him.