A Table of the X. first Persecutions of the Primitiue time of Tiberius, vnto Constantinus Emperour
The Christians cruelly throwne downe the mountaine [...]. 58.
Christians driuen by the mountaines. 45. 102.
And so failing downe vpon sharpe stakes.
The Christians with swords thrust through. 44.
Their braines beaten out with Ma [...]les. 59.
The Christians stoned to death. 44. 94. 115.
The Christians stabbed in with forkes. 44. 116.
Matur [...]s and Sanctus fried in an iron chaire. 62.
Some burnt with their entrals torne out. 44.
Peter the Apostle hanged vpon the Crosse. 44.
Laurence laid vpon the Gr [...]yr [...] by Galienus, or Decius. 93.
The Christians most cruelly thrust through, 116.
This side is now rolled enough [...] turne vp, O tyrant great, &c. 93.
ad hoc.
ab hoc.
per hoc.
THese Persecutions in the Primitiue Church lasted two hundred ninety foure yeeres, counting from the the holy Citie xlii. moneths. And againe in the xiii. Chapter: And power was giuen to the Beast to
Wherein is to be noted the error of them, which taking these xlii. moneths simply (as the letter Scripture, and so they make ccxciiii. yeeres: During the time of which yeeres, Antichrist then The like vnderstanding also hath the iii. dayes and a halfe mentioned in the Reuelation, Chap. xi. And so whether ye count by months or by dayes, both waies it giueth a time, times, and halfe a in the Reuelation, chap. 12.
Furthermore, where in the said Reuelation of S. Iohn, chap. 12. mention is made of M.cclx. dayes, it commeth likewise Note moreouer, that after the time of these Persecutions expired, S. Iohn in the said booke of his Reuelation, chap. xx. dome of the Turkes first began vnder Ottomannus, wasting and destroying then the Churches of Asia, and afterward of