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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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BUT Rawlins, nothing abashed for his own part, nor moved with these their persuasions, thanked them most heartily for their good will, and told them plainly that he had learned one good lesson touching the confession and denial of Christ; advertising them, that if he upon their persuasions should presume to deny Christ, Christ in the last day would deny and utterly condemn him: and therefore (said he) I will, by his grace, confess and bear witness of him before men, that I may find in him everlasting life.
NOTWITHSTANDING which answer, his friends were very importunate with him. Howbeit he continued still in his good purpose so long, till at last he was taken by the officers of the town, as a man suspected of heresy, upon which apprehension he was convened before the bishop of Landaff that then was, the said bishop being then at his house near Chepstow: by whom, after divers combats and conflicts with him and his chaplains, this good father Rawlins White was committed to prison in Chepstow. But this his keeping, whether it were by the bishop's means, because he would rid his hands of him, or through the favour of his keeper▪ was not so severe and extreme, but that (if he had pleased) he might have escaped oftentimes.
AT last he was removed from Chepstow to the castle of Cardiff, where he continued for the space of one whole yea• ▪ during which time, this reporter resorted to him very often, with money and other relief from this reporter's mother, (who was a great favourer of those that were in affliction in those days) and other of his friends: which he received not without great thanks and praises given to the name of God. And notwithstanding he was thus troubled and imprisoned to his own undoing in this world, and the utter decay of his poor wife and children; yet was his heart so set on the furtherance and instruction of others in the way of salvation, that he was never in quiet, but when he was persuading or exhorting such of his familiar friends as commonly came unto him. Insomuch that on Sundays and other times of leisure, when his friends came to visit him, he would pass away the time in prayer and exhortations, admonishing them always to beware of false prophets who come in sheep's clothing.