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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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WHETHER these being that good salt of the earth, that is, true ministers of God's word, by whose doctrine, being received through faith, men are made savoury unto God, and which themselves lose not their saltness, now when they be proved by the boisterous storms of adversity and persecution; or others being that unsavoury salt, which hath lost its saltness, that is to wit, those ungodly ministers, which do fall from the word of God, into the dreams •nd traditions of Antichrist: whether of these, I say, be more to be credited and believed, let all men judge.
WHEREFORE, my dearly beloved, receive the word of God with meekness, that is grafted in you▪ which is able to save your souls: and see that ye be not forgetful hearers, deceiving yourself with sophistry, but doers of the word, whom Christ doth liken to a wise man, which built his house on a rock, that when the great rain descended, and the floods came and beat upon the house, it fell not, because it was grounded upon a […]: this is to wit, that when Satan, with all his legion of devils, with all their subtle suggestions, and the world with all the mighty princes thereof, with their crafty counsels, do furiously rage against us, we faint not, but abide constant in the truth, being grounded upon a most sure rock, which is Christ, and the doctrine of the gospel, against which th• gates of hell, (that is, the power of Satan) cannot prevail.
WHEREFORE, my dearly beloved, receive the word of God with meekness, that is grafted in you▪ which is able to save your souls: and see that ye be not forgetful hearers, deceiving yourself with s•phistry, but doers of the word, whom Christ doth liken to a wise man, which built his house on a rock, that when the great rain descended, and the floods came and beat upon the house, it fell not, because it was grounded upon a 〈…〉: this is to wit, that when Satan, with all his legion of devils, with all their subtle suggestions, and the world with all the mighty princes thereof, with their crafty counsels, do furiously rage against us, we faint not, but abide constant in the truth, being grounded upon a most sure rock, which is Christ, and the doctrine of the gospel, against which th gates of hell, (that is, the power of Satan) cannot preval.