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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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LETTER IV. From the Rev. Mr. GEORGE MARSH, to JENETH CRAMPTON, JAMES LEIVER, ELICE FOG, RALPH BRADSHAW, and others.
LETTER IV. From the Rev. Mr. GEORGE MARSH, to JENETH CRAMPTON, JAMES LEIVER, ELICE FOGGE, RALPH BRADSHAW, and others.
THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with you all, Amen.
AFTER salutations in Christ, and hearty thanks for your friendly tokens and other remembrances towards me, beseeching God that ye may increase in faith, fear, and love, and all good gifts, and grow up into a perfect man in Christ: These are earnestly to exhort you, yea and to beseech you in the tender mercy of Christ, that with purpose of heart ye continually cleave unto the Lord, and that ye worship and serve him in spirit, in the gospel of his Son. For God will not be worshipped after the commandments and traditions of men, neither yet by any other means appointed, prescribed, and taught us, but by his holy word. And though all men for the most part defile themselves with the wicked traditions of men, and ordinances after the world, and not after Christ; yet do ye after the example of Tobit, Daniel and his three companions, Mattathias and his three sons, be at a point with yourselves, that ye will not be defiled with the unclean meats of the heathen; I do mean the filthiness of idolatry, and the very heathenish ceremonies of the papists: but as the true worshippers, serve ye God in spirit and truth, according to the sacred scriptures, which I would wish and desire you above all things continually and reverently (as Christ and St. Paul command you) to search and read, with the wholesome monitions of the same: to teach, exhort, comfort, and edify one another, and your brethren and neighbours, now in the time of this our miserable captivity, and great famishing of souls, for want of the food of God's word. And doubt not but the merciful Lord, who hath promised to be with us even unto the world's end, and that whensoever two or three be gathered together in his name, he will be in the midst of them, will assist you, and teach you the right meaning of the sacred scriptures, will keep you from all errors, and lead you into all truth, as he hath faithfully promised.