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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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SEVEN aged women of Ancyra, being apprehended for their faith, were examined before the governor, who on finding them steadfast in their religious principles, reviled their belief, ridiculed their age, and ordered them to be delivered over to some young libertines, that their virtue might be insulted.
SEVEN aged women of Ancyra, being apprehended for their faith, were examined before the governor, who on finding them stedfast in their religious principles, reviled their belief, ridiculed their age, and ordered them to be delivered over to some young libertines, that their virtue m•ght be insulted.
ONE of the debauchees, more bold and forward than the rest, seized upon the eldest of the women whose name was Tecusa, who thus addressed him: "What designs, child, can you have on us, who are worn out with age and infirmities? I am now more than three score and ten years old, my companions are not much younger; you may look on us as so many rotten carcasses, as we shall soon be, for the governor after death refuses •s burial;" then lifting up her veil, she showed him her grey hairs, and then went on: "You may, perhaps, have a mother of nearly the same age as myself, this should give you some respect to us." The young men, though entire libertines, were so •ffected with this speech, that they desisted and went their ways.
ONE of the debauchees, more bold and forward than the rest, seized upon the eldest of the women whose name was Tecusa, who thus addressed him: "What designs, child, can you have on us, who are worn out with age and infirmities? I am now more than three score and ten years old, my companions are not much younger; you may look on us as so many rotten carcases, as we shall soon be, for the governor after death refuses •s burial;" then lifting up her veil, she shewed him her grey hairs, and then went on: "You may, perhaps, have a mother of nearly the same age as myself, this should give you some respect to us." The young men, though entire libertines, were so ffected with this speech, that they desisted and went their ways.