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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 I. From Justice SAUNDERS to his Brother, the Rev. Mr. LAURENCE SAUNDERS, prisoner in the Compter.
AFTER my most hearty commendations, these are to ascertain you, that I have spoken with Mr. Basset, who hath showed me, that four pounds (all deductions being allowed) is the whole that hath come to his hands of the profit of the prebendary at York, the which you shall have, altho' as he thinketh, it was not due unto you by reason of your deprivation before it was due. As concerning your conscience in religion, I beseech God it may be lightened by the Holy Ghost, and that you also may have the grace of the Holy Ghost to follow the counsel of St. Paul to Timothy, ch. ii. "To handle rightly the word of truth." Wherein you dissenting from many holy and catholic men, especially in the sacrament, it maketh me in my conscience to condemn your's. For although I have not hitherto fancied to read Peter Martyr, and other such, &c. yet have I had great desire to see Theophylact and divers others of this sort and opinion▪ both notable and holy fathers, (if any credit be to be given to the writings of our ancient fathers before us) and surely the sentences and judgments of two or three of them have more confirmed my conscience, than three hundred of the Zwinglians, or as many Lutherans can or should do. Th•• in haste, willing to relieve you, to the end you might convert, if you shall need towards your finding, if you shall require it of me, you shall unfeignedly find my money ready, as knoweth our Lord, who sends us all things good for us. Scribbled this Thursday by your brother and petitioner to God.
AFTER my most hearty commendations, these are to ascertain you, that I have spoken with Mr. Basset, who hath shewed me, that four pounds (all deductions being allowed) is the whole that hath come to his hands of the profit of the prebendary at York, the which you shall have, altho' as he thinketh, it was not due unto you by reason of your deprivation before it was due. As concerning your conscience in religion, I beseech God it may be lightened by the Holy Ghost, and that you also may have the grace of the Holy Ghost to follow the counsel of St. Paul to Timothy, ch. ii. "To handle rightly the word of truth." Wherein you dissenting from many holy and catholic men, especially in the sacrament, it maketh me in my conscience to condemn your's. For although I have not hitherto fancied to read Peter Martyr, and other such, &c. yet have I had great desire to see Theophylact and divers others of this sort and opinion both notable and holy fathers, (if any credit be to be given to the writings of our ancient fathers before us) and surely the sentences and judgments of two or three of them have more confirmed my conscience, than three hundred of the Zuinglians, or as many Lutherans can or should do. Th in haste, willing to relieve you, to the end you might convert, if you shall need towards your finding, if you shall require it of me, you shall unfeignedly find my money ready, as knoweth our Lord, who sends us all things good for us. Scribbled this Thursday by your brother and petitioner to God.