Frases de John Foxe

John Foxe foi um puritano protestante, martirologista inglês, o autor do que é popularmente conhecido como O Livro dos Mártires, que narra a história de sofrimento e perseguição dos principais mártires cristãos, começando por Jesus Cristo e até o final do reinado de Maria I . Narra as histórias de reformadores famosos, como John Wycliffe, John Huss, Lutero, Hugh Latimer, Thomas Cranmer e muitos outros que sofreram perseguição pela Inquisição. O livro foi também ilustrado com gravuras. Amplamente propriedade e lido por puritanos ingleses, o livro ajudou a moldar a opinião pública britânica sobre a Igreja católica para vários séculos. Wikipedia

✵ 1516 – 18. Abril 1587

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John Foxe: Frases em inglês

“At last, after muche reasoning, when no reason woulde serue, although he deserued no death, he was…brought forth to the place of execution, was there tied to þe stake, and then strangled first by the hangman, and afterward with fire consumed in the morning at the towne of Filford, an. 1536. crieng thus at the stake with a feruente zeale, and a loud voyce: Lord open the King of Englands eyes.”

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Bk. 8, p. 1079
Acts and Monuments (1563)

“Afterward she opened the matter more plainly to M. Rise and Mistres Clarentius (if it be true that they tolde me, whiche hearde it of M. Rise himselfe) who then being most familiar with her, & most bold about her, tolde her that they feared she took thought for king Philips departing from her. Not that onely (sayde she) but when I am dead & opened, you shall find Calice lying in my hart.”

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Bk. 12, p. 2098
Acts and Monuments (1563)

“M. Tyndall hearing thys, ful of godly zeale, and not bearing that blasphemous saying, replied againe & sayde: I defie the Pope and all his lawes: and further added, that if God spared hym life, ere many yeares he would cause a boy that driueth the plough to know more of the Scripture, then he did.”

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Bk. 8, p. 1076
Acts and Monuments (1563)

“There is no keeping down of veritie, but it wil spring and come out of dust and ashes, as appeared right well in this man. For though they digged vp his body, burnt his bones, & drowned his ashes, yet þe word of God and truth of his doctrine with the fruit & successe therof they could not burne.”

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Bk. 5, p. 464
Acts and Monuments (1563)

“Then brought they a fagot kindled with fire, and layd the same downe at D. Ridleys feete. To whome Maister Latymer spake in this maner: Be of good comfort maister Ridley, and play the man: wee shall this day light such a candle by Gods grace in England, as (I trust) shall neuer be put out.”

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Bk. 11, p. 1770
Acts and Monuments (1563)