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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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IN this situation his conduct was steady, his constancy immovable, and his patience great. He suffered martyrdom, by a variety of tortures, in the year 304, comforting his soul till he expired with […] prospect of those glorious rewards it would receive by the tortures suffered in the body.
IN this situation his conduct was steady, his constancy immoveable, and his patience great. He suffered martyrdom, by a variety of tortures, in the year 304, comforting his soul till he expired with 〈…〉 ••ospect of those glorious rewards it would receive by the tortures suffered in the body.
T•••DOTUS, a Dalmatian, kept an inn at Ancyra. Being a christian, and of a very humane disposition, he devoted a great part of his time to visit the afflicted, and a great part of hi• property to relieve the poor; he assisted the sick in body, and converted the sick in soul, so that he was in every capacity a true servant of Christ.
THEOTE•NUS, the governor of these parts, whose cruelty could be equalled by nothing but his bigotry, received the mandate for persecuting the christians with great satisfaction, and wrote the emperor word that he would do his utmost endeavours to root out christianity from every place where he had the least power.