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The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of marytrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
New-York: printed by William Durell, 1794
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Bonner. Ah, I feel well thou canst not understand these words: I wil• show thee a parable. If I would set a piece of beef before thee, and say, Eat, it is beef: and then take part of it away, and send it to my cook, and he shall change the fashion thereof, and make it look like bread: what, wouldst thou say that it were no beef, because it hath not the fashion of beef?
Bonner. Ah, I feel well thou canst not understand these words: I wil• shew thee a parable. If I would set a piece of beef before thee, and say, Eat, it is beef: and then take part of it away, and send it to my cook, and he shall change the fashion thereof, and make it look like bread: what, wouldst thou say that it were no beef, because it hath not the fashion of beef?
Ralph. Let me understand a little further, my lord, shall the cook add nothing thereunto, nor take any thing therefrom?
Bonner. What is that to the matter, whether he do or not, so long as the shape is changed into another likeness?
Ralph. Ah, will you so, my lord? your sophistry will not serve; the truth will have the victory nevertheless, as Isaiah saith, He that restraineth himself from evil, must be spoiled. And Amos hath such like words also: For the wise must be fain to hold their peace; so wicked a time it is, saith he; nevertheless, he that can speak the truth, and will not, shall give a strait account for the same.
A Doctor. By my lord's leave, here methinks thou speakest like a fool. Wilt thou be a judge of the scripture? Nay, thou must stand to learn, and not to teach: for the whole congregation hath determined the matter long ago.
A Priest. No, by your leave, we have a church, and not a congregation. You mistake that word, Mr. Doctor.
Ralph. Then said I to my fellow-prisoners standing by, My brethren, do ye not hear how these men help one another? Let us do so also. But we never came all in together. Then I was carried away for that time. The 9th day of May I was brought before the bishops of Rochester and ••• chester, with […].
Ralph. Then said I to my fellow-prisoners standing by, My brethren, do ye not hear how these men help one another? Let us do so also. But we never came all in together. Then I was carried away for that time. The 9th day of May I was brought before the bishops of Rochester and ••• chester, with 〈…〉.
Roch. Were you a companion of George •• gles otherwise called Trudge-over? My lord of London telleth me that you were his fellow companion.
Roch. Were you a companion of George •• gles otherwise called Trudge-over? My lord of London telleth me that you were his fellow ••mpanion.
Ralph. I know him very well my lord.
Roch. By my faith, I had him once, and th•• he was as drunk as an ape, for he stunk so of […], that I could not abide him; and so sent him away.
Roch. By my faith, I had him once, and th•• he was as drunk as an ape, for he stunk so of 〈…〉, that I could not abide him; and so sent him away.
Ralph. My lord, I dare say you took your mark amiss. It was either yourself or some of […] own company, for he did neither drink wine, […] nor beer, for a quarter of a year before that […] and therefore it was not he forsooth.
Ralph. My lord, I dare say you took your mark amiss. It was either yourself or some of 〈…〉 own company, for he did neither drink wine, 〈…〉 nor beer, for a quarter of a year before that 〈…〉 and therefore it was not he forsooth.
THE rest of mine examinations you shall have •• ter I am condemned, if I can have any time […] my coming into Newgate, when I trust I […] touch the matter a great deal more plainly […] the pithy matters are yet unwritten. Th•• […] you well, good friends all. Yea, I say, […] for ever in this present world. Greet ye one ••• there, and be joyful in the Lord. Salute the […] widows among you, with all the rest of the cong•• gation in Barfold, and Dedham, and Colchester.
THE rest of mine examinations you shall have •• ter I am condemned, if I can have any time 〈…〉 my coming into Newgate, when I trust I 〈…〉 touch the matter a great deal more plainly 〈…〉 the pithy matters are yet unwritten. Th•• 〈…〉 you well, good friends all. Yea, I say, 〈…〉 for ever in this present world. Greet ye one ••• ther, and be joyful in the Lord. Salute the 〈…〉 widows among you, with all the rest of the cong•• gation in Barfold, and Dedham, and Colchester.
THIS promise of his, being either not performed for that he might not thereto be permitted, or […] if he did write, the same not coming to my […] I am fain in the rest of his examinations to follow the only report of the register, who witnesseth, that the 15th day of May, 1557, in the Bishop's palace at London, he was examined upon certain inte••• gatories, the contents whereof be these.
THIS promise of his, being either not performed• for that he might not thereto be permitted, or 〈…〉 if he did write, the same not coming to my 〈…〉 I am fain in the rest of his examinations to follow the only report of the register, who witnesseth, that the 15th day of May, 1557, in the Bishop's palace at London, he was examined upon certain inte••• gatories, the contents whereof be these.
FIRST, That he was of the parish of Muchbe•tly, and so of the diocese of London.
SECONDLY, That the 10th day of January, then last past, Mr. John Morant preaching at St. Paul's, the said, Ralph Allerton did there openly subscribe himself unto the church of Rome, with the rites and ceremonies thereof.
THIRDLY, That he did consent and subscribe as well unto the same submission, as also to one other bill, in which he granted, that if he should at any time turn again unto his former opinions, it should be then lawful for the bishop immediately to denounce and adjudge him as an heretic.
