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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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DEARLY beloved, if we are contented to obey God's will, and for his commandment's sake to surrender our goods and our lives to be at his pleasure, it maketh no matter whether we keep goods and life, or lose them. Nothing can hurt us that is taken from us for God's cause, nor can any thing at length do us good, that is preserved contrary to God's commandment. Let us wholly suffer God to use us and our's after his holy wisdom, and beware we neither use nor govern ourselves to his will by our own wisdom: for if we do, our wisdom will at length prove foolishness. It is kept to no good purpose, that we keep contrary unto his commandments. It can by no means be taken from us, that he should tarry with us. He is no good christian that ruleth himself and his, as worldly means serve: for he that so doth shall have as many changes as chanceth in the world. To-day with the world he shall like and praise the truth of God, to-morrow as the world will, so will he like and praise the falsehood of man; to-day with Christ, and to-morrow with Antichrist. Wherefore, d•ar brethren, as touching your behaviour towards God, use both your inward spirits and your outward bodies, your inward and your outward man (I say) not after the manners of men, but after the infallible word of God.
DEARLY beloved, if we are contented to obey God's will, and for his commandment's sake to surrender our goods and our lives to be at his pleasure, it maketh no matter whether we keep goods and life, or lose them. Nothing can hurt us that is taken from us for God's cause, nor can any thing at length do us good, that is preserved contrary to God's commandment. Let us wholly suffer God to use us and our's after his holy wisdom, and beware we neither use nor govern ourselves to his will by our own wisdom: for if we do, our wisdom will at length prove foolishness. It is kept to no good purpose, that we keep contrary unto his commandments. It can by no means be taken from us, that he should tarry with us. He is no good christian that ruleth himself and his, as worldly means serve: for he that so doth shall have as many changes as chanceth in the world. To-day with the world he shall like and praise the truth of God, to-morrow as the world will, so will he like and praise the falshood of man; to-day with Christ, and to-morrow with Antichrist. Wherefore, d•ar breth••n, as touching your behaviour towards God, use both your inward spirits and your outward bodies, your inward and your outward man (I say) not after the manners of men, but after the infallible word of God.