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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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HE was loaded with reproaches for this […], but being a man of rank, he was se•t to the emperor to receive his final sentence.
HE was loaded with reproac••s for this 〈…〉, but being a man of rank, he was se•t to the emperor to receive his final sentence.
THE emperor, under the severest penalties, commanded him to sacrifice to the Roman idols. On his absolute refusal to comply, Maximian ordered him to be bound, and dragged through the streets. During the execution of this order▪ he was treated with all manner of cruelties and indignities, by the enraged populace.
THE emperor, under the severest penal•ies, commanded him to sacrifice to the Roman idols. On his absolute refusal to comply, Maximian ordered him to be bound, and dragg•d through the streets. During the execution of this order▪ he was treated with all manner of cruelties and indignities, by the enraged populace.
REMAINING still inflexible, his courage was deemed obstinacy, and christian confidence called ill-grounded and irrational: to which he replied, "That the ready disposition of the disciples of Christ to undergo any sufferings on that score, and the joy with which they met the most ignominious and painful deaths, were a sufficient proof of their ⟨p. 43⟩