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 14, 2024.
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Fox.
The day after Queen Mary's death Mr.
* 1.1John Fox preaching at Basil to the English Exiles, did with confidence tell them, That now was the time come for their return into England, and that he brought that News by command from God.
The Lady Anne Hennage being given up for dead, He told her, she had done well in fitting her self for death, but that she should not die of that Sick∣ness; and being blamed by her Son in Law for disquieting her mind with hopes of life, He an∣swered, that he had said no more than was com∣manded him; for it seemed good to God that she should recover, and so she did.
Mrs. Honywood having been sick of a Consump∣tion almost twenty years, was scarce able to speak when Mr. Fox came to her, only faintly she breath∣ed forth a desire to end her dayes. Mr. Fox, after he had prayed with her, told her, That she should not onely grow well of that Consumption, but al∣so
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so live to an exceeding great age. As well might you have said (quoth Mrs. Honywood) that if I should throw this Glass against the Wall, I might believe it would not break to pieces; and holding a Glass in her hand, out of which she had newly drunk, she threw it forth, but the Glass falling first on a Chest, and then on the ground, neither brake nor crackt. Accordingly this eminent Christian Gen∣tlewoman being then Sixty years of age, recovered and lived till she was above Ninety, and could reckon above three hundred and sixty of her Chil∣dren and Childrens Children.
He also foresaw his own death, and therefore sent away his sons that they might not be present.
Notes
* 1.1
See his Life before his second Vol. of Acts and Mo∣num.