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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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which (as the prophet saith of the mother of Christ) brought forth before she laboured, before ⟨p. 405⟩she was delivered, brought forth a man-child: who ever heard of such a thing? and who hath seen the like of this? shall the earth bring forth in one day, or shall a whole nation be brought forth together? But she hath now brought forth a whole nation before the time of •at delivery, whereof we are in most great hope. HOW great cause is given us to rejoice? how great cause have we to give thanks to God's mercy, your holiness, and the emperor's majesty, which have been causers of so happy and so godly a marriage; by which we being reconciled, are joined to God the Father, to Christ, and to the church? Of the which although I cannot comprehend in words the joy that I have taken, yet I cannot keep silence of it. And to this my rejoicing this also was joined, (which when I had perceived by the letters of the reverend archbishop of Confine, your holiness's nuncio with the emperor's majesty, brought me marvellous great gladness) that your said holiness began to restore to the ancient beauty those things, which in the church of Rome, through the corruption of times were deformed, which truly, when it shall be finished▪ then indeed may we well cry out with the prophet, and speak unto your holiness with these words: "Put off the stole of sorrow and vexation and put on comeliness, which thou hast of God in everlasting glory. For thy name shall be named of God everlasting, peace of righteousness, and honour of godliness; and then it shall be said, Look about and see thy sons gathered together from the sun-rising, to […] down of the same, rejoicing in the holy word." Those is nothing truly (to speak of the children gathered together in the west, which prepare themselves to meet their mother) which they had rather see, than her apparelled (that I may use the words of the prophet) in the garment of righteousness, wherewith God adorned her in times ••st. This one thing remaineth, that your holiness's joy, and the joy of all the universal church may be perfected, which together with us her […] children, cease not to pray to God for it. The Almighty God preserve your holiness long to continue […] for the profit of his church. From London, the last of November, 1554. Your most humble servant. REGINALD POOLE, Cardinal.