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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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LET us pray to our heavenly Father, that we may know and love his blessed will, and the glorious joy prepared for us in time to come, and that we may know and hate all things contrary to his blessed will, and also the pain prepared for the wicked in the world to come. There is no better way to be used in this troublesome time for your consolation, than many times to have assemblies together of such men and women as be of your religion in Christ, and there to take and renew amongst yourselves the truth of your religion, to see what you are by the word of God, and to remember what you were before you came to the knowledge thereof, to weigh and confer the dreams and false lies of the preachers that now preach, with the word of God that retaineth all truth; and by such talk and familiar resorting together, you shall the better find out all their lies that now go about to deceive you, and also both know and love the truth that God hath opened unto us. It is much requisite that the members of Christ comfort one another, make prayers together, confer one with another; so shall you be the stronger, and God's Spirit shall not be absent from you, but in the midst of you, to teach you, to comfort you, to make you wise in all godly things, patient in adversity, and strong in persecution.
YOU […] how the congregation of the wicked, by helping one another, make their wicked religion and themselves strong against God's truth and his people. If you may have some learned man, that can out of the scripture speak unto you of faith, and true honouring of God, also that can show you the descent of Christ's church from the beginning of it until this day, that you may perceive by the life of our fore-fathers these two things: the one that Christ's words, who said that all his must suffer persecution and trouble in the world, be true: the othe•, that none of all his, before our time, escaped trouble: then shall you perceive, that it is but a folly for one that professes Christ truly, to look for the love of the world.
YOU 〈…〉 how the congregation of the wicked, by helping one another, make their wicked religion and themselves strong against God's truth and his people. If you may have some learned man, that can out of the scripture speak unto you of faith, and true honouring of God, also that can shew you the descent of Christ's church from the beginning of it until this day, that you may perceive by the life of our fore-fathers these two things: the one that Christ's words, who said that all his must suffer persecution and trouble in the world, be true: the othe, that none of all his, before our time, escaped trouble: then shall you perceive, that it is but a folly for one that professes Christ truly, to look for the love of the world.