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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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NOT long after this, as malice is always working mischief, intelligence was given to Mr. Hooper to provide for himself, for danger was working against him: whereupon Mr. Hooper left Mr. Arundel's house, and borrowing a horse of a certain friend (whose life he had saved a little before from the gallows), took his journey to the sea-side to go to France, sending back the horse again by one, who indeed did not deliver him to the owner. Mr. Hooper being at Paris, tarried there not long, but in a short time returned to England again, and was retained by Mr. Sentlow, till the time •hat he was again molested and fought for; whereby he was compelled (under the pretence of being captain of a ship going to Ireland) to take to the seas, and so escaped (although not without extreme peril of drowning) thro' France, to the higher parts of Germany. Where, commencing acquaintance with learned men, he was by them friendly and ⟨p. 450⟩lovingly entertained, both at Basil, and especially at Zurich, by Mr. Bullinger, being his singular friend. Where also he married his wife, who was a Burgundian, and applied very studiously to the Hebrew tongue.
NOT long after this, as malice is always working mischief, intelligence was given to Mr. Hooper to provide for himself, for danger was working against him: whereupon Mr. Hooper left Mr. Arundel's house, and borrowing a horse of a certain friend (whose life he had saved a little before from the gallows), took his journey to the sea-side to go to France, sending back the horse again by one, who indeed did not deliver him to the owner. Mr. Hooper being at Paris, tarried there not long, but in a short time returned to England again, and was retained by Mr. Sentlow, till the time •hat he was again molested and fought for; whereby he was compelled (under the pretence of being captain of a ship going to Ireland) to take to the seas, and so escaped (although not without extreme peril of drowning) thro' France, to the higher parts of Germany. Where, commencing acquaintance with learned men, he was by them friendly and ⟨p. 450⟩lovingly entertained, both at Basil, and especially at Zurich, by Mr. Bullinger, being his singular friend. Where also he married his wife, who was a Burgonian, and applied very studiously to the Hebrew tongue.