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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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OTHERS will be perhaps grieved, thinking with themselves, or else reasoning with me, that although the matter were as is reported, yet, forasmuch […] the common error of believing tho•e rash miracle• ▪ fancies visions, dreams, and apparitions, thereby may be confirmed, it is thought more expedient […] the same to be omitted.
OTHERS will be perhaps grieved, thinking with themselves, or else reasoning with me, that although the matter were as is reported, yet, forasmuch 〈…〉 the common error of believing tho•e rash miracle• ▪ fancies visions, dreams, and apparitions, thereby may be confirmed, it is thought more expedient 〈…〉 the same to be omitted.
THESE, and such like, will be, I know, the sayings of many. Whereunto briefly I answer, granting first, and admitting with the words of Basil, Not every dream is straightway a prophesy. Again, neither am I ignorant that the papists in their books and legends of saints, have their prodigious visions and apparitions of angels, of our lady, of other saints, and of Christ: which as I will not admit to be believed as true; so will they ask me, why should I require more to be credited by them, than their's by us.
FIRST, I write not this to oblige any man precisely to believe the same, as they do their's, but only ⟨p. 511⟩