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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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A remarkable and affecting Account of JUDGE HALES, whom the Cruelty of GARDINER drove to an Act of Desperation.
IN the life of bishop Hooper, mention was made of judge Hales, of whom we shall more particularly speak in this place; beginning with the conference between the bishop of Winchester and him, declaring withal how false the excuse is of the papists, who so precisely by the law, defend themselves, and say that in all their doings they did nothing but by the law, to bear them out. Which if it be so, how did they to Anne Askew? What law had they, when they had condemned her, afterwards to rack her? By what law did they call up Mr. Hooper, and imprison him for the queen's debt, when the queen owed him fourscore pounds, and kept him a year and a half in prison, and gave him never a penny? By what law did Bishop Bonner condemn and burn Richard Mekins, a lad of 15 years, when the first jury had acquitted him, and he at the stake revoked all heresies, and praised the said Bonner to be a good man; and also having him in prison, would not suffer his father and mother to come to him, to comfort their own child? What law had they to put Mr. Rogers in prison, when he did neither preach nor read lectures after the time of the queen's prohibition, and when they had kept him in his own house half a year, being not deprived of his living, yet would not let him have a shilling of his own livings to relieve him, his wife, and eleven children? By what law was Thomas Tomkins's hand burnt, and afterwards his body consumed to ashes? What good law or honesty was there to burn three poor women at Guernsey, with the infant child falling out of the mother's womb, when they all before their death had recanted their words and opinions, and were never abjured before? So here likewise in this case, what order or right of laws did Stephen Gardiner follow in troubling and imprisoning judge Hales, when he had done nothing either against God's law or man's, in proceeding by order of law against certain presumptuous persons, who both before the law, and against the law then in force, took upon them to say their mass? The truth of all which fully appears in the following facts and records.