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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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LUDICROUS FORMS and CEREMONIES.] At the feast of Christmas, in commemoration of th• nativity of our blessed Lord, Roman Catholics have exhibited in their Churches a cradle, with an image of an infant in it, which is rocked with great seeming devotion; and on Good-Friday they have the figure of our Saviour on the cross, and then they perform the service which they call the Tenebress; having abundance of lighted candles, all of which they extinguish one by one, hereby celebrating the darkness at the time of our Saviour's crucifixion: after which the body is taken down from the cross and put into a sepulchre, and men stand to watch it; ⟨p. 260⟩with more of the same childish mummery that might be related, as if the Son of God came down from heaven to furnish men with a subject for dramatic representation.
LUDICROUS FORMS and CEREMONIES.] At the feast of Christmas, in commemoration of th• n••ivity of our blessed Lord, Roman Catholics have exhibited in their Churches a cradle, with an image of an infant in it, which is rocked with great seeming devotion; and on Good-Friday they have the figure of our Saviour on the cross, and then they perform the service which they call the Tenebress; having abundance of lighted candles, all of which they extinguish one by one, hereby celebrating the darkness at the time of our Saviour's crucifixion: after which the body is taken down from the cross and put into a sepulchre, and men stand to watch it; ⟨p. 260⟩with more of the same childish mummery that might be related, as if the Son of God came down from heaven to furnish men with a subject for dramatic representation.
STRANGE and CRUEL MAXIMS.] Papists hold, that heretics (for so they call the protestants) may not be termed children, or kindred.