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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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THE day before this blessed deacon and martyr of God, Cuthbert Symson, after his painful racking, should go to his condemnation before Bonner to be burned, being in the stocks in the bishop's •odhouse, he had a very strange vision or apparition which he himself with his own mouth declared to that learned man Mr. Austen, to his own wife, and Thomas Symson, and to others besides, in the p•• son of Newgate a little before his death. The relation whereof I stand in no little doubt whether […] report abroad or not, considering with myself […] great diversity of men's judgments, by the reading of histories, and variety of affections. Some I […] will not believe it, some will deride the same, […] also will be offended with the setting forth […] uncertain things of that sort, esteeming all things […] be uncertain and incredible which appears any way strange from the common order of nature.
THE day before this blessed deacon and martyr of God, Cutbert Symson, after his painful racking, should go to his condemnation before Bonner to be burned, being in the stocks in the bishop's •odhouse, he had a very strange vision or apparitio• which he himself with his own mouth declared to that learned man Mr. Austen, to his own wife, and Thomas Symson, and to others besides, in the p•• son of Newgate a little before his death. The relation whereof I stand in no little doubt whether 〈…〉 report abroad or not, considering with myself 〈…〉 great diversity of men's judgments, by the reading of histories, and variety of affections. Some I 〈…〉 will not believe it, some will deride the same, 〈…〉 also will be offended with the setting forth 〈…〉 uncertain things of that sort, esteeming all things 〈…〉 be uncertain and incredible which appears any way strange from the common order of nature.