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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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FIRST, That thou Thomas Causton (or Thomas Higbed) hast been and art of the diocese of London, and also of the jurisdiction now of me E•m•nd, bishop of London.
ITEM, That thou wast in time past, according to the order of the church of England, baptized and christened.
Item, That thou hast godfathers and godmother, according to the said estate.
ITEM, That the said godfathers and godmother did then promise for thee, and in thy name, the faith and religion that then was used in the realm of England.
ITEM, That that faith and religion which they did profess and make for thee, was accounted and taken to be the faith and religion of the church, and of the christian people: and so it was in very deed.
ITEM, Thou coming to the age of discretion, that is to say, to the age of 14 years, didst not dislike nor disallow that faith, that religion, or promise then used and approved, and promised by the said godfathers and godmother, but for a time didst continue in it, as others (taking themselves for christian people) did likewise.
ITEM, That at that time, and also before, it was taken for a doctrine of the church, catholic and true, and every-where in Christendom then allowed for catholic and true, and to be the profession of christian men, to believe, that in the sacrament of the altar, under the forms of bread and wine, after the consecration, there was and is by the omnipotent power and will of Almighty God, and his word, without any substance of bread and wine there remaining, the true and natural body and blood of of our Saviour Jesus Christ in substance, which was born of the virgin Mary, and suffered upon the cross, really, truly, and in very deed.
ITEM, That at that time thy father and mother, all thine ancestors, all thy kindred, acquaintance and friends, and thy said godfathers and godmother did then so believe, and think in all the same as the said church did therein believe.
ITEM, That thyself hast had no just cause or lawful ground to depart or swerve from the said religion or faith, nor any occasion at all, except thou wilt follow and believe the erroneous opinion or notion, that hath been against the common order of the church, brought in by certain disordered persons of late, at the uttermost within these thirty or forty years last past.
ITEM, That thou dost know, or credibly hast heard, and dost believe, that John Hooper, late bishop of Gloucester, Laurence Saunders, priest, John Rogers, priest, Rowland Taylor, priest, John Lawrence, priest, William Pygot, Stephen Knight, William Hunter, and Thomas Tomkins, have been heretofore reputed, taken, and accounted as heretics, and also condemned as heretics, and so pronounced openly and manifestly; especially in holding and believing certain damnable opinions, against the verity of Christ's body and blood in the sacrament of the altar; and all the same persons have suffered pains of death by fire, for the maintenance and defence of their said opinions and misbelief.
ITEM, That thou dost know, or credibly hast heard, and dost believe, that Thomas Cranmer, late archbishop of Canterbury, and Nicholas Ridley, naming himself bishop of London, Robert Ferrar, late bishop of St. David's, and Hugh Latimer, sometime bishop of Worcester, have been, and are at this present reputed, accounted, and taken as heretics and misbelievers, in maintaining and holding certain damnable opinions against the verity of Christ's body and blood in the sacrament of the altar.
ITEM, That thou hast commanded and praised all the said persons so erring and believing (or at leastwise some of them) secretly, and also openly, taking and believing them to be faithful and catholic people, and their said opinions to be good and true, and the same to the best and uttermost of thy power thou hast allowed, maintained, and defended at sundry times.
ITEM, That thou having heard, known, and understood all the premises thus to be as is aforesaid, hast not regarded all or any part thereof, but contrary to the same and every part thereof, hast attempted and done, condemning, transgressing, and breaking the promise, faith, religion, order, and custom aforesaid, and hast become, and art an heretic and misbeliever in the premises, denying the verity of Christ's body and blood in the sacrament of the altar, and obstinately affirming, that the substance of the material bread and wine are there remaining, and that the substance of Christ's body and blood, taken of the virgin Mary, are not there in the said sacrament really and truly.
ITEM, That all the premises be true, notorious, famous, and manifest, and that upon all the same, there have and be amongst the said good people of the city of London, and diocese of the same, in great multitude, commonly and publicly, a common and public fame and opinion, and also in all places where thou hast been, within the said diocese of London.
