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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 6 › The ORATION of CARDINAL POOLE, in the PARLIAMENT HOUSE.
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AND as it was a singular favour of God to conjoin them in marriage, so it is not to be doubted but that he shall send them issue, for the comfort and surety of this commonwealth.
OF all princes in Europe, the emperor hath travelled most in the cause of religion, as it appeareth by his acts in Germany; yet happily, by some secret judgment of God, he hath not achieved the end. With whom in my journey hitherwards I had conference touching my embassy; whereof, when we had understanding, he showed a great appearance of most earnest joy and gladness, saying, "That it rejoiced him no less of the reconcilement of this realm unto christian unity, than that his son was placed by marriage in the kingdom; and most glad he was of all, that the occasion thereof should come by me being an Englishman born, which is (as it were) to call home ourselves. I can well compare him to David, who, though he were a man elect of God, yet, for that he was contaminate with blood and war, could not build the temple of Jerusalem, but left the finishing thereof to Solomon, who was a peace-making king. So may it be thought, that the appeasing of controversies of religion in christianity, is not appointed to this emperor, but rather to his son, who shall perform the building that his father had begun. Which church cannot be perfectly built, unless universally in all realms we adhere to one head, and do acknowledge him to be the vicar of God, and to have power from above: for all power is of God, according to the saying, "There is no power, but comes from God." And therefore I consider that all power being in God, yet for the conservation of quiet and godly life in the world, he hath derived that power from above into the parts here in earth; which is, into the imperial and ecclesiastical. And these two powers, as they be several and distinct, so have they two several effects and operations. For secular princes, to whom the temporal sword is committed, are ministers of God to execute vengeance upon transgressors and evil livers, and to preserve the well-doers and innocent from injury and violence. Which power is represented in these two most excellent persons, the king and queen's majesties here present, who have this power committed unto them immediately from God, without any superior in that behalf.