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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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MR. GIBSON beholding his intolerable bragging, and being greatly moved therewith, could bear no longer; but said, Wilt thou? adding moreover, That if he did not immediately pluck away his hand, he would wring his head from his body. Whereupon he let go his hold, and so they proceeded unto the bishop to be examined again before him.
AFTER this, another day being assigned him to appear again, much talk passed between him and Derbyshire, then chancellor. But in fine, being required to swear that he should answer unto all they would demand, he denied to answer unto all things the bishop should command him as ordinary: For he is not, saith he, mine ordinary, and so bade him go tell the bishop. Before which bishop, he being then commanded to appear the Friday following, was brought into the Justice-hall, without Newgate, where he had the like conflicts with the aforesaid bishop and divers other Justices. At length he was assigned the Saturday following, to be present at the bishop's consistory court, to hear his final sentence. At which day and place, the said examinate appearing as he was commanded, the bishop, after other matter of communication, asked him if he knew any cause why the sentence should not be read against him. To whom Mr. Gibson answered, that the bishop had nothing whereof justly to condemn him. The bishop's reason was again objected to him, that men said he was an evil man. To whom Gibson replying again; Yea, saith he, and so may I say of you also. To be short, after this and such other talk, the bishop hasted unto the sentence. Which being read, Gibson yet again admonished him to remember himself, and to save his soul: […] said, that he would not hear the bishop's babbling▪ and said moreover, boldly protesting and affirming that he was contrary, and an enemy to them all in his mind and opinion, although he had before […] it secret in mind, for fear of the law. And sp••• ing to the bishop, Blessed, said he, am I, that […] cursed at your hands. We have nothing now, […] thus will I: for as the bishop saith, so must it […] And no heresy it is to turn the truth of God's word into lies, and that do you, meaning the •• shop and his fellows.