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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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THE priest then upbraided him as an heretic; he denied the charge, and being asked his opinion concerning the corporal presence in the sacrament of the altar; he replied, that he esteemed the bread and wine but as figures, and looked upon the sacrament as an institution in remembrance of the death and sufferings of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
WILLIAM HUNTER was then openly declared an heretic, for not believing the sacrament of the altar, and the vicar threatened to complain of him to the bishop.
A neighbouring justice, named Brown, having heard that he maintained heretical principles, sent for his father and inquired of him concerning his son; the old man assured him that he had left him, that he knew not whither he was gone: and on the justice's threatening to imprison him, unless he caused him to be apprehended and brought before him; he said with tears in his eyes, Would you have me seek out my son to be burned?
A neighbouring justice, named Brown, having heard that he maintaind heretical principles, sent for his father and inquired of him concerning his son; the old man assured him that he had left him, that he knew not whither he was gone: and on the justice's threatening to imprison him, unless he caused him to be apprehended and brought before him; he said with tears in his eyes, Would you have me seek out my son to be burned?