A cloud of witnesses, or, The sufferers mirrour made up of the swanlike-songs, and other choice passages of several martyrs and confessors to the sixteenth century, in their treatises, speeches, letters, prayers, &c. in their prisons, or exiles, at the bar, or stake, &c. / collected out of the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Fox, Fuller, Petrie, Scotland, and Mr. Samuel Ward's Life of faith in death, &c. and alphabetically disposed by T.M. ...
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A cloud of witnesses, or, The sufferers mirrour made up of the swanlike-songs, and other choice passages of several martyrs and confessors to the sixteenth century, in their treatises, speeches, letters, prayers, &c. in their prisons, or exiles, at the bar, or stake, &c. / collected out of the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Fox, Fuller, Petrie, Scotland, and Mr. Samuel Ward's Life of faith in death, &c. and alphabetically disposed by T.M. ...
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Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.
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London :: Printed for Robert Boulter ...,
1665-1677.
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Christian martyrs -- Early works to 1800.
Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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"A cloud of witnesses, or, The sufferers mirrour made up of the swanlike-songs, and other choice passages of several martyrs and confessors to the sixteenth century, in their treatises, speeches, letters, prayers, &c. in their prisons, or exiles, at the bar, or stake, &c. / collected out of the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Fox, Fuller, Petrie, Scotland, and Mr. Samuel Ward's Life of faith in death, &c. and alphabetically disposed by T.M. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70635.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.
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Hudson.
When Thomas Hudson of Ailesham in Norfolk saw the Constable come to his house to apprenend him,
* 1.1 he said; Now mine hour is welcome, friends, welcome, you be they that shall lead me to life in Christ. I thank God therefore, and the Lord ena∣ble me thereto for his mercies sake; for his de∣sire was, and he ever prayed (if it were the Lords will) that he might suffer for the Gospel of Christ.
When Berry threatned him, saying, I will write to the Bishop my good Lord, &c. O Sir, (said he) there is no Lord but God, though there be many lords and many gods.
Wilt thou recant (said Berry the Priest) or no? The Lord forbid (said Hudson) I had rather die many deaths then to do so.
When he came first to the Stake,
* 1.2 he was very sad, not for his death, but for lack of feeling his
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Christ; and therefore came from his Fellow-suf∣ferers under the Chain, and fell down upon his knees, and prayed; and at last he rose with great joy, as a man new changed, even from death to life, and said, Now I thank God I am strong, and pass not what man can do unto me.