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The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being…
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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An Account RICHARD ROTH.
IN the godly fellowship of the forenamed three martyrs, was also this Richard Roth, as is already specified; who being apprehended and brought up unto the bishop of London, was by him examined the fourth day of July, at which time the bishop earnestly persuaded him to believe that in the sacraments of the altar (after the words of consecration duly spoken) there remained the very substance of Christ's body and blood, and none other. Whereunto (at that present) he made only this answer; that if the scripture did so teach him, and that he might be by the same so persuaded, he would so believe, otherwise not. But at another examination (which was the 9th of September) he declared plainly, that in the said sacrament of the altar, as it was then used, there was not the very body and blood of Christ, but that it was a dead god, and that the mass was detestable, and contrary to God's holy word and will, from which faith and opinion he would not go or decline.
THE next day, being the tenth of the said month, the bishop, at his house at Fulham (by way of an article), laid and objected against him, That he was a comforter and supporter of heretics: and therefore had written a letter to that effect unto several that were burned at Colchester; the copy whereof followeth.