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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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AFTER that he began to speak to the people, showing the cause of his death, and would have exhorted them to stick unto Christ. Whereupon one of the sheriffs said, George Marsh, we must have no sermoning now. To whom he said, Master, I cry your mercy; and so kneeling down said his prayers, put off his clothes unto his shirt, and then was chained to the post, having a number of faggots under him, and a thing made like a firkin, with pitch and tar in it, over his head; and by reason the fire was unskilfully made, and that the wind did drive the same to and fro, he suffered great extremity in his death, which notwithstanding he bore very patiently.
AFTER that he began to speak to the people, shewing the cause of his death, and would have exhorted them to stick unto Christ. Whereupon one of the sheriffs said, George Marsh, we must have no sermoning now. To whom he said, Master, I cry your mercy; and so kneeling down said his prayers, put off his clothes unto his shirt, and then was chained to the post, having a number of faggots under him, and a thing made like a firkin, with pitch and tar in it, over his head; and by reason the fire was unskilfully made, and that the wind did drive the same to and fro, he suffered great extremity in his death, which notwithstanding he bore very patiently.
WE must here observe, that when he had been a long time tormented in the fire without moving, having his flesh so broiled and puffed up, that they who stood before him, could see the chain wherewith he was fastened, and therefore supposed no less but that he had been dead; notwithstanding, suddenly he spread abroad his arms, saying, Father of heaven have mercy upon me, and so yielded his spirit into the hands of the Lord.
UPON this, many of the people said he was a martyr, and died marvellous•• patient. Which caused the bishop shortly after to make a sermon in the cathedral church, and therein affirmed, that the said Marsh was an heretic, burnt as such, and was a fire-brand in hell.