John Foxe's Book of Martyrs

1563

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The history of mayster Iohn Rogers, most constantly suffering for the testimony of the truth.

¶ The. 4. daye of Februarye suffered the constant Martir of God, Maister Iohn Rogers, concerning whose lyfe, examinacions, and sufferyng, here foloweth in order set foorth. And fyrst touchyng his life and bryngyng vp.

Februari 4.

IOhn Rogers broughte vp in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, where he profitablye traueiled in good learning, at the length was chosen and called by the Marchauntes aduenturers to be their Chaplaine at Andwerpe in Brabant, wher he serued them to their good contentacion manye yeares. It chaunced him ther to fal in company with that worthy martir of God Wylliam Tindal, & with Miles Couerdale (whiche both for the hatred they bare to popish Idolatry, and for the loue they bare toward true religion, had forsaken their natiue country). In conferryng with them the scriptures, he came to great knowledge in the Gospel of God, in so much that he cast of the heauy yoke of popery, perceiuing it to be impure & filthy idolatry & ioyned him self with them two in that painful & most profitable labor of trāslating þ^e bible into the English tongue, which is intituled, The translatiō of Thomas Mathew.

he knowing by the scriptures, that vnlawfull vowes may lawfully be broken, & that Matrimonye is both honest & honorable amongst all men, ioyned him selfe in lawful Matrimonye, & so went to Wittemberge in Saxonye, where he with muche sobernes of liuing did not onelye greatly encrease in al good & godly learning: but also so much profited in that knowledge of the Dutch tong,

þ^t the charge of a Congregacion was orderlye cōmitted to his cure.

In which ministery he diligently & faithfully serued many yeares, vntyl snch time as it pleased God by the faithful trauel of his chosen & dear seruant king Edward the sixt, vtterly to banish al popery forth of Englād, & to receyue in

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