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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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THE third is when we make our body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, that is, when we mortify and kill our fleshly concupiscences and carnal lusts, and so bring our flesh, through the help of the spirit, under the obedience of God's holy law. This is • sacrifice to God most acceptable, which the apostle calleth, "Our reasonable serving of God." And let us be sure, that unless we do now at this present take better heed to ourselves, and use thankfully the grace of God offered to us by the gospel prea••ed these years past, whereby we are induced and brought […] the knowledge of the truth; unless, I say, we keep Christ and his holy word dwelling by faith in the house and temple of our hearts, the same thing that Christ threateneth unto the Jews, shall happen unto us; that […] to wit, the unclean spirit of ignorance, superstition, idolatry, infidelity, and unbelief, the mother and head of •• vices, which by the grace of God was cast out of us, bringing with him seven other spirits worse than himself, shall to our utter destruction return again unto us: and so ⟨p. 548⟩shall we be in worse case than ever we were before. For if we, after we have escaped from the filthiness of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, be yet entangled therein and overcome, then is the latter end worse than the beginning: and it had been better for us not to have known the way of righteousness, than after we have known it, to turn from the holy commandment given unto us.
THE third is when we make our body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, that is, when we mortify and kill our fleshly concupiscences and carnal lusts, and so bring our flesh, through the help of the •pirit, under the obedience of God's holy law. This is • sacrifice to God most acceptable, which the apostle calleth, "Our reasonable serving of God." And let us be sure, that unless we do now at this present take better heed to ourselves, and use thankfully the grace of God offered to us by the gospel prea••ed these years past, whereby we are induced and brough• 〈…〉 the knowledge of the truth; unless, I say, we keep Chrst and his holy word dwelling by faith in the house and temple of our hearts, the same thing that Christ threateneth unto the Jews, shall happen unto us; that to wit, the unclean spirit of ignorance, superstition, idolatry, infidelity, and unbelief, the mother and head of vices, which by the grace of God was cast out of us, bringing with him seven other spirits worse than himself, shall to our utter destruction return again unto us: and so