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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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WELL, said the bishop, you will be burned before you be twenty years old, if you will not yield yourself better than you have done yet. William answered, God strengthen me in his truth: and then he parted, the bishop allowing him a half-penny a day to live on in bread or drink.
THUS he continued in prison three quarters of a year. In which time he had been before the bishop five times, besides the time when he was condemned in the consistory in St. Paul's, the 9th day of February; at which time his brother, Robert Hunter, was present.
THEN the bishop calling William, asked him if he would recant, and so read to him his examination and confession, as is above related: and then rehearsed how that William confessed he did believe, that he received Christ's body spiritually, when he did receive the communion. Dost thou mean, said the bishop, that the bread is Christ's body spiritually?
WILLIAM answered I mean not so, but rather when I receive the holy communion rightly and worthily, I do feed upon Christ spiritually through faith in my soul and am made partaker of all the benefits which Christ hath brought unto all faithful believers thro' his precious death, passion and resurrection, and not that the bread is his body, either spiritually or corporally.