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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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52. TO the 52d he saith, That he doth use with gravity all honest loving entertainment to his child, to encourage him hereafter willingly at his father's mouth, to receive wholesome doctrine of the true fear and love of God: and saith, that he hath whistled to his child, but said not that the child understood it, and that he answered to one that found fault with it, as is contained in the article.
53. TO the 53d he saith, That he was never surveyor, but went to see Milford-Haven for honest purpose, and not to survey it; and for that he at the sight of a seal whistled in his fist, such as meant folly might turn it to their purpose. But it is not true that he stood whistling an hour to the fish, nor that any fault was found with it, nor any such answer made by him to his knowledge.
54. TO the 54th he saith, That if he did say, the destroying of the fry hindereth plenty of fish, he thinketh the same not against reason: but he remembereth not to have said as is contained in the article.