Book of martyrs, or, A history of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of the primitive as well as Protestant martyrs : from the commencement of Christianity, to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution : to which is added, an account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew massacre, in France, the general persecution under Louis XIV, the massacre in the Irish rebellion .. 1641, and the recent persecutions of the Protestants in the south of France ... . Mrs. Askew on the Rack. Page Persecutions in Piedmont. Page 170. REV. ROBERT SAMUEL. 325 When the day appointed for her ex
Book of martyrs, or, A history of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of the primitive as well as Protestant martyrs : from the commencement of Christianity, to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution : to which is added, an account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew massacre, in France, the general persecution under Louis XIV, the massacre in the Irish rebellion .. 1641, and the recent persecutions of the Protestants in the south of France ... . Mrs. Askew on the Rack. Page Persecutions in Piedmont. Page 170. REV. ROBERT SAMUEL. 325 When the day appointed for her execution arrived, which was inJuly, 1555, she was conducted from the prison at Rochester to Tun-bridge, where she was burned, sealing the truth of what she had tesrtified with her blood, and showing that the God of all grace, out ofthe weakest vessel, can give strength, and cause the meanest instru-ments to magnify the glories of his redeeming love. SECTION V. MARTYRDOM OF THE REV. ROBERT SAMUEL, AND OTHERS. Mr. Robert Samuel was a very pious man, and an eminent preach-er of the gospel, according to the principles of the reformation, du-ring the reign of Edward VI. He attended to his charge with indefa-tigable industry, and by his preaching and living, recommended andenforced the truth of the gospel. Soon after the accession of Queen Mary, he was turned out of hisliving, and retired to Ipswich; but he could not refrain from usinghis utmost efforts to propagate the reformed religion, and, theref
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