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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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ALMIGHTY GOD by many and sundry ways hath admonished men of all nations in these latter years to embrace, and not violently to resist the light of his gospel; as first, by preaching of his word: secondly, by the blood of the martyrs: and thirdly, by terrible examples from time to time showed upon his adversaries. In the number of whom cometh here to be remembered, the notable working of God's hand upon a certain priest in Kent, named Nightingale, parson of Crondal, near Canterbury, who upon Shrove-Sunday, which was about the 3d day of the said month of March, rejoicing greatly at the alteration of religion, began to make a sermon to his parishioners, taking his theme out of the words of St. John: "He that saith he hath no sin, is a liar, and the truth is not in him," &c. and upon the same very impertinently declared to them all such articles as were set forth by the pope's authority, and by the commandment of the bishops of this realm; saying moreover unto the people in this wise, Now, masters and neighbours, rejoice and be merry, for the prodigal sort is come▪ I know that most part of you be as I am, for I know your hearts well enough. And I shall tell you what hath happened in this week past: I was before my lord cardinal Poole, and he made me as free from sin as I was at the font-stone: and on Thursday last being before him, he hath appointed me to notify (I thank him for it) the same unto you. And I will tell you what it is. Then reading the pope's bull of pardon that was sent into England, he said, he thanked God that he had lived to see that day; adding moreover, that he believed by the virtue of that bull he was as clean from sin as the night he was born: and immediately upon the same fell suddenly down out of the pulpit, and never stirred hand nor foot. Testified by Robert Austen of Chatham, who both heard and saw the same, and is witnessed also by the country round about.
ALMIGHTY GOD by many and sundry ways hath admonished men of all nations in these latter years to embrace, and not violently to resist the light of his gospel; as first, by preaching of his word: secondly, by the blood of the martyrs: and thirdly, by terrible examples from time to time shewed upon his adversaries. In the number of whom cometh here to be remembered, the notable working of God's hand upon a certain priest in Kent, named Nightingale, parson of Crondal, near Canterbury, who upon Shrove-Sunday, which was about the 3d day of the said month of March, rejoicing greatly at the alteration of religion, began to make a sermon to his parishioners, taking his theme out of the words of St. John: "He that saith he hath no sin, is a liar, and the truth is not in him," &c. and upon the same very impertinently declared to them all such articles as were set forth by the pope's authority, and by the commandment of the bishops of this realm; saying moreover unto the people in this wise, Now, masters and neighbours, rejoice and be merry, for the prodigal sort is come I know that most part of you be as I am, for I know your hearts well enough. And I shall tell you what hath happened in this week past: I was before my lord cardinal Poole, and he made me as free from sin as I was at the font-stone: and on Thursday last being before him, he hath appointed me to notify (I thank him for it) the same unto you. And I will tell you what it is. Then reading the pope's bull of pardon that was sent into England, he said, he thanked God that he had lived to see that day; adding moreover, that he believed by the virtue of that bull he was as clean from sin as the night he was born: and immediately upon the same fell suddenly down out of the pulpit, and never stirred hand nor foot. Testified by Robert Austen of Chatham, who both heard and saw the same, and is witnessed also by the country round about.