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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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LETTER X. To his WIFE, a little before his Martyrdom.
GRACE and comfort in Christ, Amen. Dear wife, be merry in the mercies of our Christ, and also you my dear friends. Pray, pray for us every body. We are shortly to be dispatched hence unto our good Christ, Amen, Amen. Wife, I would have you send me my shirt, which you know whereunto it is consecrated. Let it be sewed down on both sides, and not open. O my heavenly Father, look upon me in the face of thy Christ, or else I shall not be able to abide thy countenance; such is my filthiness. He will do so, and therefore I shall not be afraid what sin, death, hell, and damnation can do against me, O wife, always remember the Lord. God bless you, yea, he will bless thee, good wife, and thy poor boy also: only cleave unto him, and he will give thee all things. Pray, pray, pray. LAURENCE SAUNDERS.
TO the foregoing letters of the Rev. Mr. Saunders, which were dispersed among the faithful congregation of Christ, we shall add two other letters, written by Mr. Edward Saunders, the justice, his brother, and sent to our martyr while in prison; to the intent that our readers may see, how in these two brethren, joined in consanguinity, but divided in religious sentiments, the word of the Lord was verified in them, which saith, "Brother shall […] up and be against brother," &c.