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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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11. THEY know in their own secret conscience, and by experience, that neither they who enjoin this vow of chastity, nor they who take it, do observe the vow of chastity. Whereupon rise inconveniences more than can be expressed; but the Lord above knoweth all, besides the secret murders, peradventure, of many a poor infant, &c.
11. THEY know in their own secret con••ience, and by experience, that neither they who enjoin this vow of chastity, nor they who take it, do observe the vow of chastity. Whereupon rise inconveniences more than can be expressed; but the Lord above knoweth all, besides the secret murders, peradventure, of many a poor infant, &c.
12. THEY know by St. Cyprian, Epist. 11. and St. Augustine to Julian in his book on marriage, that a vow is no impediment sufficient to hinder matrimony, or to divorce the same.
13. THEY know that St. Chrysostom affirmeth it to be an heresy to say, that a bishop may not have a wife.