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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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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.
THESE articles being given to them in writing by the bishop, the next day was assigned to them to give up and exhibit their answers unto the same.
ON the 1st of March, the said Thomas Causton and Thomas Higbed, gentlemen, being brought before the bishop in the consistory, they there exhibited their answers to the articles aforesaid; the tenor of which answers here followeth.
TO the 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th articles they answer, and confess the same to be true.
TO the fifth, until this clause [and so was it in very deed] they answer and believe the same to be true. And unto that clause [and so was it in very deed], they answer negatively, and believe that it was not in very deed.
TO the sixth, seventh, and eighth, they answer and believe the same to be true.
TO the ninth, they answer and say, that they think they have a just and lawful cause and ground to swerve and go from the said faith and religion, because they have now read more scripture, than either themselves, or their parents and kinsfolk, godfathers or godmothers have read or seen heretofore in that behalf.
TO the tenth, they answer, say, and believe, that the said persons articulate, have been named, taken, and counted for heretics, and so condemned for heretics; yet about three years past they were taken for good christian persons. And forasmuch as these respondents did never hear them preach concerning the sacrament of the altar, they say that they preached well, in that they said and preached that Christ is not present really and truly in the sacrament, but that there is remaining the substance of bread and wine.
TO the eleventh, they answer and say, that however others do repute and take the said persons, yet these respondents themselves did never, nor yet do so account and take them. And further they say, that in case the said persons named in this article have preached, that in the sacrament of the altar is very material wine, and not the substance of Christ's body and blood under the forms of bread and wine, then they preached well and truly, and these respondents themselves do so believe.
TO the twelfth, they answer and say, that where other people have dispraised the said persons, and disallowed their opinions, these respondents (for ought that they at any time have heard) did like and allow the said persons, and their sayings.
