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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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AND this I purposed to speak of, because the lord chancellor boasted of himself, that he was delivered forth of prison, as it were by miracle, and preserved of God to restore true religion, and to punish me and such others, whom he termed heretics. Concerning these two points, in this manner I purposed to have proceeded. It is not unknown to you, that king Henry VIII. in his time made his daughter, the queen that now is, a bastard: he abolished the authority of the bishop of Rome: he pulled down abbeys: and all this he did by the consent of parliament.
KING Edward VI. in his time made lawful the marriage of priests, turned the service into English, abolished the idolatrous mass, with all like superstitious trumpery, set up the holy communion, and all by consent of parliament.
THE queen that now is, hath repealed the act that made her a bastard; hath brought in the bishop of Rome, and set him in his old authority; beginneth to set up abbeys again; hath made the […] of priests unlawful; hath turned the English service ⟨p. 427⟩into Latin again; hath set up mass again, and pulled down the holy communion: and all this is done by consent of parliament.
THE queen that now is, hath repealed the act that made her a bastard; hath brought in the bishop of Rome, and set him in his old authority; beginneth to set up abbeys again; hath made the 〈…〉 of priests unlawful; hath turned the English service ⟨p. 427⟩into Latin again; hath set up mass again, and pulled down the holy communion: and all this is done by consent of parliament.