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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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22. ITEM, Whereas superstitious praying upon ⟨p. 514⟩beads is not only ungodly, but reproved in the king's majesty's injunctions; the said bishop meeting many with beads in their hands never rebuked any of them.
23. ITEM, The said bishop being in the pulpit, and seeing divers corpses within the church, with a great number of lights upon them, never spoke against any of them.
24. ITEM, Whereas the ordinance willeth, that no children be baptized but upon the Sunday, or holy-day, (only cases of necessity excepted) he, having two children himself born without danger, caused one of them to be baptized on the week day. And by his example, without any contradiction o• motion of reformation, it is used, as it hath been accustomed, in all the diocese commonly, contrary to the book of ordinance in that behalf.