Quotes from John Foxe

The pope. "I defy him, (quoth he), and all his detestable abomination: I will in no wise have to do with him.

I drink to all them that unfeignedly love the Gospel of Christ, and wish for the abolition of popery.

To mock at her form was an indirect accusation of her Creator, who framed her after the fashion He liked best, and gave her a mind that far excelled the transient endowments of perishable flesh.

For our lives are in the Lord's hands; and they can do nothing unto us before God suffer them. Therefore give all thanks to God.

Catharine Finlay, alias Knight, was first converted by her son's expounding the Scriptures to her,

I could not be admitted by my advocates to defend my cause, I appealed unto the high judge Christ.

Polycarp answered, Eighty and six years have I served him, and he never once wronged me; how then shall I blaspheme my King, Who hath saved me?

I loved exceedingly to converse on religious subjects, indeed I took no pleasure in any worldly concerns, and found all worldly possessions vain.

To which the father replied, a good Christian is bound to relinquish not only goods and children, but life itself, for the glory of his Redeemer: therefore I am resolved to sacrifice every thing in this transitory world, for the sake of salvation in a world that will last to eternity.

In particular, he had some sewed up in skins of wild beasts, and then worried by dogs until they expired; and others dressed in shirts made stiff with wax, fixed to axletrees, and set on fire in his gardens, in order to illuminate them.

At the place of execution he kissed the chains that were to bind him to the stake.

And all this to be done on pain of death, and confiscation of house and goods, unless within the limited time they turned Roman catholics.