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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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The First Day. The subject for debate stated by the Prolocutor, in his address to the Convocation.
ON Wednesday, October 18, in the afternoon, the prolocutor, Dr. Weston, certified the house, it was the queen's pleasure, that the learned men there assembled should debate matters of religion, and for that end constitute laws, which her grace and the parliament would ratify. And because (said he) there was a book lately published, called the Catechism (which he produced) bearing the name of this honourable synod, and yet put forth without your consents, as I have learned, being a book very pestiferous, and full of heresies; and likewise an abominable book of Common Prayer; I thought it best, therefore, first to begin with the articles of the Catechism, concerning the sacrament of the altar, for confirming the natural presence of Christ in the same, and also transubstantiation: wherefore, it shall be lawful, on Friday next ensuing, for all men freely to speak their consciences in these m••ters, that all doubts may be removed, and they fully justified therein.
The Second Day's Act.
ON the 20th of October, being Friday, when it was expected they should have entered into disputation of the questions proposed, the prolocutor exhibiting two bills to the house, the one for the natural presence of Christ in the sacrament of the altar, and the other concerning the catechism, that it was not published by the consent of that house, and that they did not agree thereunto, requiring all them to subscribe to the same as he himself had done. Whereunto the whole house accordingly assented, except six, viz. the dean of Rochester, the dean of Exeter, the archdeacon of Winchester, archdeacon of Hereford, archdeacon of Stow, and one more. And whilst the rest were about subscribing to these two articles, John Philpot stood up and spoke first concerning the articles of the catechism, that he thought they were deceived in the title of the catechism, for that it bore the title of the synod before this, although as to publishing thereof several of them then present were not made privy thereunto; and that because this house had granted authority to certain persons appointed by the king's majesty to make ecclesiastical laws; and whatsoever ecclesiastical laws were thereupon published by the authority of them, or the major part of them, according to a statute in that behalf made and provided, it might well be said to be done by the consent of the synod of London, notwithstanding such as were members of this house now had no notice thereof before its promulgation. And therefore in this point he thought the publisher thereof had not in the least slandered the house, as they by their subscriptions were endeavouring to persuade the world, since they had one synodal authority for empowering them to make such spiritual laws, as they thought convenient and necessary.