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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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I have received from you two letters, my most dear brother, the former in the month of September of the year past, the latter in the month of May in this present year, both written out of prison. But I doubting lest I should make answer to you in vain, whilst I f•ared that my letters should never come into your hands, or else increase and double your sorrow, did refrain from the duty of wr•••ng. In which thing I doubt not but you will have me excused, especially seeing you did no• vouchsafe▪ no not once in a whole year, to answer to my whole wh•res▪ rather than letters, whereas I continued still notwithstanding in writing unto […] as also at this present, after I heard you were cast in prison, I did not refrain from continual prayer, beseeching our heavenly Father, through our […] Jesus Christ, to […] you and your […]-prisoners, faith and […] the […]. Now is that thing […] unto you, my broth••, the which we did oftentimes prophesy unto ourselves, at your being with us, should come to pass, especially when we […] talk of the power of Antichrist, and of his felicity and victories. For you know the saying of Daniel, his power shall be mighty, but not in his strength, and he shall wonderfully destroy and make havoc of all things, and shall prosper and practise, and he shall destroy the mighty and the holy people after his own will. You know what the Lord warned us of before-hand by Matthew, in the 10th chapter, by John in the 15th chapter, and the 16th, and also what that chosen vessel St. Paul hath written in the second of Timothy and the third chapter. Wherefore I do nothing doubt (by God's grace) of your faith and patience, whilst you know that those things which you suffer are not unlooked for, or come by chance; but that you suffer them in the best, truest, and most holy quarrel: for what can be more true and holy than our doctrine, which the papists, those worshippers of Antichrist, do persecute? All things touching salvation we attribute unto Christ alone, and to his holy institutions, as we have been taught of him and of his disciples: but they would have even the same things to be communicated, as well to their Antichrist, and to his institutions. Such we ought no less to withstand, than we read that Elijah withstood the Baalites. For if Jesus be Christ, then let them know, that he is the fullness of his church, and that perfectly: