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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 › Another Examination of SPURDANCE, before the Bishop in his House.
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Spurred. So I am. There is no man alive, I thank God, that can accuse me justly that ever I was disobedient to any civil laws, but you must consider my lord, that I have a soul and body, and my soul is none of the queen's, but my body and my goods are the queen's. And I must give God my soul, and all that belong unto it, that is, I must do the laws and commandments of God; and whosoever commandeth laws contrary to God's laws. I may not do them for losing of my soul, but must rather obey God than man.
Spurd. So I am. There is no man alive, I thank God, that can accuse me justly that ever I was disobedient to any civil laws, but you must consider my lord, that I have a soul and body, and my soul is none of the queen's, but my body and my goods are the queen's. And I must give God my soul, and all that belong unto it, that is, I must do the laws and commandments of God; and whosoever commandeth laws contrary to God's laws. I may not do them for losing of my soul, but must rather obey God than man.
Bishop. Why dost thou not these laws then? Are they not agreeable to God's laws?
Spurred. No, you cannot prove them to be God's laws.
Spurd. No, you cannot prove them to be God's laws.