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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 › CARDINAL POOLE's LETTER to the POPE.
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CARDINAL POOLE's LETTER to the POPE.
THOSE things which I wrote unto your holiness of late of that hope which I trusted would come to pass, that in a short space this realm would be reduced to the unity of the church, and obedience of the apostolic see, though I did write then not without great cause; yet nevertheless I could not be void of all fear, not only for that difficulty which the minds of our countrymen did show, being so long alienated from the see apostolic, and for the old hatred which they had borne so many years to that name: but much more I feared, lest the first entry into the cause itself should be put off by some other matter or convention coming betwixt. FOR the avoiding whereof, I made great means to the king and queen, which little needed▪ for their own godliness, forwardness▪ and earnest desire to bring the thing to pass, far surmounted my great and earnest expectation. This day in the evening, being St. Andrew's day, (who first brought his brother Peter to Christ) it is come to pass, by the providence of God, that this realm is reclaimed to give due obedience unto Peter's seat and your holiness, by whose means it may be conjoined to Christ the head, and his holy body, which is the church. The thing was done and concluded in parliament (the king and queen being present) with such full consent and great rejoicing, that incontinently, after I had made my oration, and given the benediction, with a great joy and shout there was divers times said, Amen, Amen. Which doth evidently declare that that holy seed, although it had been long oppressed, yet was not utterly quenched in th••; which […] was declared in the nobility. Returning home to my house, these things I wrote unto your holiness, upon the sudden rejoicing that I had so luckily brought to pass so weighty a matter by the divine providence, thinking to have sent my letters by the king's post, who (as it was said) should have departed shortly; but afterwards changing my purpose, when I had determined to send one of mine own men, I thought good to add thus much to my letters, for the more ample gratulation and rejoicing at that good chance;