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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 2 › Day 4: The FOURTH DAY'S DEBATE.
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The FOURTH DAY'S DEBATE.
ON Wednesday, October 25th, Mr. John Philpot was prepared to enter upon the disputation, intending first, to have made an oration in Latin; which being known by the prolocutor, he commanded him to make no declaration or oration in Latin, but to deliver his arguments in English. This is contrary, said Philpot, to your order at the beginning of this disputation; for then you appointed that all the arguments should be made in Latin, and thereupon I have drawn and devised all mine arguments in Latin: and because you, Mr. Prolocutor, have said heretofore, openly in this house, that I have no learning, I intended to show such learning as I have, in a brief oration, and short declaration of the questions now in controversy, thinking it so most convenient also, that in case I should speak otherwise in my declaration than should stand with learning, or than I were able to warrant, and justify God's word, it might the better be reformed by such as were learned of the house, so that the unlearned being present, might take the less offence thereat. But this prevailed nothing with the prolocutor, who still insisted upon his forming an argument in English, or else to hold his peace.
ON Wednesday, October 25th, Mr. John Philpot was prepared to enter upon the disputation, intending first, to have made an oration in Latin; which being known by the prolocutor, he commanded him to make no declaration or oration in Latin, but to deliver his arguments in English. This is contrary, said Philpot, to your order at the beginning of this disputation; for then you appointed that all the arguments should be made in Latin, and thereupon I have drawn and devised all mine arguments in Latin: and because you, Mr. Prolocutor, have said heretofore, openly in this house, that I have no learning, I intended to shew such learning as I have, in a brief oration, and short declaration of the questions now in controversy, thinking it so most convenient also, that in case I should speak otherwise in my declaration than should stand with learning, or than I were able to warrant, and justify God's word, it might the better be reformed by such as were learned of the house, so that the unlearned being present, might take the less offence thereat. But this prevailed nothing with the prolocutor, who still insisted upon his forming an argument in English, or else to hold his peace.