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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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AT this the prolocutor startled, that one of the chief pillars in this point should be overthrown; and therefore he recited the said authority, first in Latin, and afterwards he turned it into English, and desired all that were present to remark the saying of Chrysostom, which he thought invincible on their own side. But I will make it appear (said Philpot) by and by, that it doth make little for your purpose. And as he was decl•••ng his mind in this particular, the prolocutor inte•••pted him, as he frequently did. With which Philpot being displeased, said, Mr. Prolocutor thinketh he is in a sophistry school, where he well knoweth the manner is, that when the respondent perceiveth, that he is like to be enforced with an argument, which he is not able to answer, he doth what he can, by cavilling, and interruption, to drive him from the same. This saying of Philpot was ill taken by the prolocutor and his adherents; and the prolocutor said, •hat Philpot could bring nothing to avoid that authority, but his own vain imagination. Hear, said Philpot, and afterwards judge; for I will do in this, as in all other authorities, wherewith you shall take upon you to refute any of my arguments that I have to prosecute, answering the same either by sufficient authorities of scripture or else by some other testimony of like authority with your's, and not of my own imagination; which▪ I do, I desire it to be of no credit.
AT this the prolocutor startled, that one of the chief pillars in this point should be overthrown; and therefore he recited the said authority, first in Latin, and afterwards he turned it into English, and desired all that were present to remark the saying of Chrysostom, which he thought invincible on their own side. But I will make it appear (said Philpot) by and by, that it doth make little for your purpose. And as he was decl•••ng his mind in this particular, the prolocutor inte•••pted him, as he frequently did. With which Philpot being displeased, said, Mr. Prolocutor thinketh he is in a sophistry school, where he well knoweth the manner is, that when the respondent perceiveth, that he is like to be inforced with an argument, which he is not able to answer, he doth what he can, by cavilling, and interruption, to drive him from the same. This saying of Philpot was ill taken by the prolocutor and his adherents; and the prolocutor said, hat Philpot could bring nothing to avoid that authority, but his own vain imagination. Hear, said Philpot, and afterwards judge; for I will do in this, as in all other authorities, wherewith you shall take upon you to refute any of my arguments that I have to prosecute, answering the same either by sufficient authorities of scripture or else by some other testimony of like authority with your's, and not of my own imagination; which I do, I desire it to be of no credit.