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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 a year and three quarters, or thereabouts, the papists got certain old laws, which were annulled by Henry VIII. and Edward VI. to be again revived by parliament; so that now they might, by authority, cite whom they would, upon their own suspicion, and charge him with what articles they pleased, and, except they in all things agreed to their purpose, burn them. When these laws were once established, they sent for Dr. Taylor, with several other prisoners, who were convened before the chancellor and other commissioners in January.
AFTER having been several times before the chancellor, with whom he had warmly contended, the following articles were exhibited against him:
(1) MAINTAINING the validity and legality of the marriage of priests.
(2) DENYING the presence of Christ's natural body and blood in the sacrament of the altar, or that it was a propitiatory sacrifice both for the quick and dead, or that it ought to be worshipped with divine honour.