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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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Volume 2 › Book 3 › Chapter 1 › The Martyrdom of CICELY ORMES, at Norwich.
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THIS do I not, nor will I recant; but I recant utterly from the bottom of my heart […] doings of the pope of Rome, and all his pop••• priests I utterly refuse, and never will have to […] with them again by God's grace. And, good people, I would you should not think of me, that I believe to be saved in that I offer myself […] unto the death of the Lord's cause, but I believe to be saved by the death and passion of Christ; […] this my death is and shall be a witness of my faith unto all here present. Good people, as many of you that believe as I believe, pray for me.
THIS do I not, nor will I recant; but I recant utterly from the bottom of my heart 〈…〉 doings of the pope of Rome, and all his pop••• priests I utterly refuse, and never will have to 〈…〉 with them again by God's grace. And, good people, I would you should not think of me, that I believe to be saved in that I offer myself 〈…〉 unto the death of the Lord's cause, but I believe to be saved by the death and passion of Christ; 〈…〉 this my death is and shall be a witness of my faith unto all here present. Good people, as many of you that believe as I believe, pray for me.
THEN she came to the stake, and laid her hand on it, and said, "Welcome the cross of Christ." Which being done, she looked on her hand, and seeing it blacked with the stake, she wiped it upon ⟨p. 497⟩her smock, for she was burnt at the same stake that Simon Miller and Elizabeth Cooper was. Then after she had touched it with her hand, she came and kissed it, and said, "Welcome the sweet cross of Christ," and so gave herself to be bound thereto. After the tormentors had kindled the fire to her, she said, "My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit rejoiceth in God my Saviour:" and in saying so she set her hands together right against her breast, casting her eyes and head upward, and so stood, heaving up her hands by little and little, till the very sinews of her arm did break asunder, and then they fell; but she yielded her life unto God, as quietly as if she had been in a slumber, or as one feeling no pain: so wonderfully did the Lord work with her: his name therefore be praised evermore, Amen.