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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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3. THAT several protestant ministers had been dispossessed of their churches, under pretence of their having been originally founded, and built by Roman catholics.
THE protestant deputies at length, became so serious, as to intimate to the elector, that force of arms should compel him to do the justice he denied to their representations. This […] brought him to reason, as he well kn•w the impossibility of carrying on a war against the powerful states who threatened him. He, therefore, agreed, that the use of the body of the church of the Holy Ghost should be restored to the protestan••. He restored the Heidelberg catechism, put the protestant ministers again in possession of the churches of which they had been dispossessed, all […] the protestants to work on popish holidays▪ and ordered, th•• no person should be molested for not […] when the host passed by.
THE protestant deputies at length, became so serious, as to intimate to the elector, that force of arms should compel him to do the justice he deni•d to their representations. This 〈…〉 brought him to reason, as he well kn•w the impossibility of carrying on a war a•ainst the powerf•l st•tes who threatened him. He, therefore, agreed, that the use of the body of the church of the Holy Ghost should be restored to the protestan••. He restored the Heidelburg catechism, put the protestant mi•isters again in possession of the churches of which they had been dispossessed, all 〈…〉 the protestants to work on popish holidays and ordered, th no person should be molsted for not when the host passed by.