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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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THEY asked me, whether the bread and wine, by virtue of the words pronounced by the priest, were changed into the flesh and blood of Christ, and that the sacrament, whether it were received or reserved, was the very body of Christ.
WHEREUNTO I made answer, I knew no further than I had showed already. For I said my knowledge was imperfect; desiring them not to ask me such hard and unprofitable questions, whereby to bring my body into danger of ••ath, and to suck my blood. Whereat they were not a little offended, saying, they were no blood-suckers, and intended nothing to me but to make me a good christian.
WHEREUNTO I made answer, I knew no further than I had shewed already. For I said my knowledge was imperfect; desiring them not to ask me such hard and unprofitable questions, whereby to bring my body into danger of ••ath, and to suck my blood. Whereat they were not a little offended, saying, they were no blood-suckers, and intended nothing to me but to make me a good christian.
AFTER many other questions, which I avoided as well as I could, remembering the saying of St. Paul, "Foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing they do but engender strife;" my lord commanded me to come to the board, and gave me pen and ink in my hand, and commanded me to write my answers to the questions of the sacrament above-named; and I wrote as I had answered before. Whereat he being much offended, commanded me to write a more direct answer, saying, I should not choose but do it.
AFTER many other questions, which I avoided as well as I could, remembering the saying of St. Paul, "Foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing they do but ingender strife;" my lord commanded me to come to the board, and gave me pen and ink in my hand, and commanded me to write my answers to the questions of the sacrament above-named; and I wrote as I had answered before. Whereat he being much offended, commanded me to write a more direct answer, saying, I should not chuse but do it.