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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 long brutish talk, Tonstall, bishop of Durham, asked bishop Hooper, whether he believed the corporal presence of the sacrament? Who said plainly, that there was none such, neither of the council did he believe any such thing.
THEN the bishop of Durham would have read out of a book, (what book it was I cannot tell) but there was such a noise and confused talk on every side, that he did not read. Then the bishop of Winchester asked Dr. Hooper, What authority moved him not to believe the corporal presence? He said, the authority of God's word, and alleged this text, "Whom heaven must hold until the latter day." But the bishop of Winchester would have made that text to serve nothing for his purpose, and said, he might be in heaven, and in the sacrament also.
THEN the bishop of Durham would have read out of a book, (what book it was I cannot tell) but there was such a noise and confused talk on ev•ry side, that he did not read. Then the bishop of Winchester asked Dr. Hooper, What authority moved him not to believe the corporal presence? He said, the authority of God's word, and alledged this text, "Whom heaven must hold until the latter day." But the bishop of Winchester would have made that text to serve nothing for his purpose, and said, he might be in heaven, and in the sacrament also.
DR. HOOPER would have opened the text, but all those that stood next about the bishop prevented his speaking with clamours and cries, so that Dr. Hooper was not permitted to say any thing against the bishop. Whereupon they bade the notaries write, That he was married, and said, that he would not go from his wife; and that he believed not in the corporal presence in the sacrament; wherefore he was worthy to be deprived of his bishopric.