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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 Answer of WILLIAM FLOWER to the aforesaid ARTICLES.
TO the first article he answereth and confesseth the same to be true in every part thereof, except that he saith and confesseth that he never consented and agreed in his heart to be a monk. TO the second article he answereth and confesseth the same to be true in every part thereof. Howbeit he saith, that he never did, nor yet doth esteem the said order of priesthood, according to the order of ⟨p. 560⟩the said catholic church, because he was offended therewith in his conscience. TO the third article he answereth and confesseth, That he intending to live in holy matrimony, and not forgetting God, did marry with the said Alice Pulton named in this article, wherein he believed that he did well, and according to God's laws. Further, confessing and believing, that all the time when he was a professed monk, and made priest, he did thereby utterly forget God: but when he did marry the said Alice Pulton, and in continuing with her did beget three children, he did remember God, as he saith, and believeth that he did then lawfully. TO the fourth article he answereth and believeth the same to be true in every part thereof. TO the fifth article he answereth and confesseth, Than his conscience being greatly offended with the said John Cheltam, priest, for administering the sacrament of the altar to the people at the place and time specified in this article, he did so smite and strike the same priest with his hanger or wood-knife, as well upon his head, as upon other parts and places of his body, which he remembereth not, whereby blood ran out, and was shed in the said church, as he believeth, having, as he saith, none other cause or matter so to do, but only that his conscience was offended and grieved, in that the same priest did so give and administer the said sacrament to the people: which people he believeth was greatly abashed and offended with the said fact and doing, and were compelled to go out of the church, and to repair to another to receive the said sacrament. And further, being then demanded and examined, whether he intended to have killed the said priest, or not; he said he would not answer thereunto. And being further examined, whether he did well or evil in striking the said priest, he would make no answer thereunto.