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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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CHAP. I. The LIFE, EXAMINATIONS, WRITINGS, and CONDEMNATION, of the REV. Mr. JOHN ROGERS; and also the LIFE and MARTYRDOM of the REV. Mr. LAURENCE SAUNDERS; who were burned, the former in SMITHFIELD, February 4th, the latter at COVENTRY, February 8th, 1555.
THE REV. Mr. John Rogers, vicar of St. Sepulchre's, and reader of St. Paul's, London, was educated in the university of Cambridge, and at length was chosen chaplain to the English factory at Antwerp, in Brabant; there he became acquainted with Mr. William Tyndale, whom he assisted in his translation of the New Testament, and with Mr. Miles Coverdale, who, with several other worthy protestants, had been driven out of England, on account of the persecutions for five articles, in the latter end of the reign of Henry VIII. By means of conversing with these worthy and pious servants of God. Mr. Rogers came to the knowledge of the scriptures, and finding, according to those sacred oracles, that matrimony was both honest and honourable, he entered into that state, and went with his wife to Wittenberg, in Saxony, where, through indefatigable study and application, in a short time he attained to such a knowledge of the Dutch language, as to be capable of taking charge of a christian congregation in that part of Europe.
THE REV. Mr. John Rogers, vicar of St. Sepulchre's, and reader of St. Paul's, London, was educated in the university of Cambridge, and at length was chosen chaplain to the English factory at Antwerp, in Brabant; there he became acquainted with Mr. William Tindal, whom he assisted in his translation of the New Testament, and with Mr. Miles Coverdale, who, with several other worthy protestants, had been driven out of England, on account of the persecutions for five articles, in the latter end of the reign of Henry VIII. By means of conversing with these worthy and pious servants of God. Mr. Rogers came to the knowledge of the scriptures, and finding, according to those sacred oracles, that matrimony was both honest and honourable, he entered into that state, and went with his wife to Wittenburg, in Saxony, where, through indefatigable study and application, in a short time he attained to such a knowledge of the Dutch language, as to be capable of taking charge of a christian congregation in that part of Europe.