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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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I acknowledge the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Roman church to be the mother and mistress of all churches; and I promise and swear true obedience to the pope of Rome who is Christ's vicar, and successor to St. Peter, the prince of the apostles.
I also without doubt, receive and profess all other things delivered, defined, and declared by the holy synod of Trent; and all things contrary to them, with all heretics, condemned, rejected, and cursed by the church, I likewise reject, condemn, and curse.
LASTLY. This true Catholic Faith, without which no man can be saved, which at present I freely hold and profess, I will (by God's help) constantly retain and confess, entire and inviolable, to my latest breath, and take care, to the utmost of my power, that the same shall be taught, held, and professed by all under me, and whose care shall belong to me in my office; so help me God, and the holy Evangelists.
HAVING thus given an account of the notorious corruptions and abuses which the Romish church has introduced into her complex system of absurdities and idolatries, we proceed to give a full and faithful display of the intolerant, cruel, and dreadful bloody spirit of popery, as exemplified in the persecutions, sufferings, and martyrdoms of the persevering, holy, constant, and now blessed martyrs. Our general design is, to open the eyes of the lukewarm, to confirm weak and unlearned christians in their most holy faith, and to guard all who profess the faith of Christ, from the stratagems of those, who seek to draw them from the simplicity and truth of the everlasting gospel; and we submit the whole to the judgment of the candid reader, imploring that divine blessing, which is necessary to crown our labours, and every spiritual attempt, with such success, a may redound to the glory of God, and the eternal welfare of all our fellow christians.