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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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Volume 1 › Book 1 › Chapter 1 › The Tumult at Paul's Cross, occasioned by Mr. Bourn's Sermon.
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BY reason of this tumult at Paul's Cross, there was an order forthwith dispatched from the lords of the council to the mayor and aldermen of London, that they should call a common-council the next day, and thereby charge every householder to cause their children, apprentices, and other servants, to keep to their own parish churches upon holy days, and not to suffer their attempting in the least to violate or disturb the common peace; willing them likewise to signify to the said assembly the queen's determination uttered unto them August 12th, by her highness in the Tower, which was this, that notwithstanding her majesty's conscience was satisfied as to matters of religion, yet she graciously meant not to compel or force the consciences of others, only hoping God, through opening his word to them by godly, virtuous, and learned preachers, would so guide and direct them, as to bring them to be of the like religion with herself. At the same time it was ordered, that every alderman should straightway send for the curates of every parish within their liberties, and warn them not only to forbear preaching themselves, but likewise not to suffer any others to preach, or to make an open or solemn reading of the scriptures in their churches, unless such preachers, and public readers, were severally licensed by the queen: and in order to prevent any future riot, the day after Mr. Bourn had been driven from his pulpit, the queen's guard came to the Cross to attend the preacher; but the people having withdrawn themselves from the sermon, it was ordered by the mayor, that the ancients of all companies should be present, lest the preacher should be discouraged by his small auditory.
BY reason of this tumult at Paul's Cross, there was an order forthwith dispatched from the lords of the council to the mayor and aldermen of London, that they should call a common-council the next day, and thereby charge every housholder to cause their children, apprentices, and other servants, to keep to their own parish churches upon holy days, and not to suffer their attempting in the least to violate or disturb the common peace; willing them likewise to signify to the said assembly the queen's determination uttered unto them August 12th, by her highness in the Tower, which was this, that notwithstanding her majesty's conscience was satisfied as to matters of religion, yet she graciously meant not to compel or force the consciences of others, only hoping God, through opening his word to them by godly, virtuous, and learned preachers, would so guide and direct them, as to bring them to be of the like religion with herself. At the same time it was ordered, that every alderman should straitway send for the curates of every parish within their liberties, and warn them not only to forbear preaching themselves, but likewise not to suffer any others to preach, or to make an open or solemn reading of the scriptures in their churches, unless such preachers, and public readers, were severally licensed by the queen: and in order to prevent any future riot, the day after Mr. Bourn had been driven from his pulpit, the queen's guard came to the Cross to attend the preacher; but the people having withdrawn themselves from the sermon, it was ordered by the mayor, that the ancients of all companies should be present, lest the preacher should be discouraged by his small auditory.