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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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AFTER this discord, and not a little vexation about vestures, at length, Mr. Hooper entering into his diocese, did there employ his time which the Lord lent him under king Edward's reign, with such diligence, as may be a spectacle to all bishops who shall ever hereafter succeed him, not only in that place, but in whatsoever diocese through the whole realm of England: so careful was he in his cure, that he left neither pains untaken, nor ways unsought, how to train up the flock of Christ in the true word of salvation, continually labouring in the same. Other men commonly are wont, for lucre or promotion's sake, to aspire to bishoprics, some hunting for them, and some purchasing or buying them, as men use to purchase lordships; and when they have them, are loth to leave them, and thereupon also loth to commit that thing by worldly laws, whereby to lose them.
TO this so•• of men, Dr. Hooper w•• quite contrary, who abhorred nothing more […], labouring always to sa•e and ••eserve the […] of his flock; who, being bishop […] two dioceses, […] and guided either of then and […] though he had in charge but one family […] his household, no gardener in his garden, nor husbandman in his vineyard, was more or better occupied, than he in his diocese amongst his flock, going about his towns and villages in teaching and preaching to the people there. The time that he had to spare from preaching, he bestowed either in hearing public causes, or else in private study, prayer, and visiting of schools: with his continual doctrine he adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any, as to those who for abundance of riches and wealthy state, thought they might do what they pleased. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of many in th•se days; whereof we see so many addicted to the ⟨p. 454⟩pleasing of the great and rich, that in the mean time they have no regard to the meaner sort, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other. But to return to Dr. Hooper, whose life was such, that o the church and all churchmen, it might be a light and example, to the rest a perpetual lesson and sermon. Finally, how virtuous and good a bishop he was, you may conceive and know evidently by this, that even as he was hated by none but of them who were evil, yet the worst of them all could not reprove his life in any one particular. Nor was this good bishop less exemplary in his private, than in his public character. At home, in his domestic concerns, he exhibited an example of a worthy prelate's life; for he bestowed the most part of his care upon the flock and congregation of Christ, for which also he spent his blood: yet nevertheless there was nothing wanting in him, o bring up his own children in learning and good manners; insomuch that it is difficult to say, wheth […] deserved me praise for his fatherly usage at ome, or for his public conduct abroad. For every-where he kept one religion in one uniform doctrine and integrity. So that if you entered into the bishop's pace, you would suppose yourself to have entered into some church or temple.