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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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AGATHA, a Sicilian lady, was not more remarkable for her personal and acquired endowments, than her piety: her beauty was such that Quintian, governor of Sicily, became enamoured of her, and made many attempts upon her chastity.
AGTHA, a Sicilian lady, was not more remarkable for her personal and acquired endowments, than her piety: her beauty was such that Quintian, governor of Sicily, became enamoured of her, and made many attempts upon her chastity.
AS the governor was reputed to be a great libertine, and a bigoted pagan, the lady very discreetly thought proper to withdraw from two such dangerous enemies, as lust and superstition. She accordingly retired from the town, but being discovered in her retreat, she was seized, and brought to Catana.
AS the governor was reputed to be a great libertine, and a bigotted pagan, the lady very discreetly thought proper to withdraw from two such dangerous enemies, as lust and superstition. She accordingly retired from the town, but being discovered in her retreat, she was seized, and brought to Catana.
FINDING herself thus in the power of an enemy, both to her soul and body, she recommended herself to the protection of the Almighty, and prayed for death, as a relief from her miseries.