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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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"FROM thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead."
HE shall appear again in great glory to receive his elect unto himself, and to put his enemies under his feet, changing all living men in a moment, and raising up all that be dead, that all may be brought to his judgment. In this shall he give to each man according to his deeds. They which have followed him in regeneration, which have their sins washed away in his blood, and are clothed with righteousness, shall receive the everlasting kingdom, and reign with him for ever; and they which after the race of the corrupt generation of Adam have followed flesh and blood, shall receive everlasting damnation with the devil and his angels.
"I believe in the Holy Ghost."
I do believe that the Holy Ghost is God the third person in the Trinity, in unity of the Godhead equal with the Father and the Son, given through Christ to inhabit our spirits, by which we are made to feel and understand the great power, virtue, and loving kindness of Christ our Lord. For he illuminateth, quickeneth, and certifieth our spirit, that by him we are sealed up unto the day of redemption, by whom we are regenerate and made new creatures, so that by him and through him we do receive all the abundant goodness promised us in Jesus Christ.
"THE holy catholic church."
THIS is an holy number of Adam's posterity, elected, gathered, washed, and purified by the blood of the Lamb from the beginning of the world, and is dispersed through the same by the tyranny of Gog and Magog; that is to say, the Turk and his tyranny, and Antichrist, otherwise named th• bishop of Rome, and his angels, as this day also doth teach.
"THE communion of saints."
WHICH most holy congregation, (being, as St. Paul teacheth, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ being the head corner stone) tho' it be by tyranny of Satan and his ministers persecuted, some by imprisonment, some by death, and some by other afflictions and painful torments; yet doth it remain in one perfect unity, both in faith and fellowship: which unity is knit in an unspeakable knot, as well of them which are departed from this mortal life, as of them which now be living, and hereafter shall be in the same, and so shall continue until they all do meet in the kingdom, where the head Jesus Christ, with all his holy members, (of which number thro' Christ I assuredly believe I am one) shall be fully complete, knit, and united together for evermore.
"THE forgiveness of sins."
I do believe that my sins, and all their sins which do rightly believe the holy scripture, are forgiven through Jesus Christ, of whom I do profess that I have my whole and full salvation and redemption, which St. Paul saith, cometh not thro' our works and deservings, but freely by grace, lest any should boast himself. Thro' the blood of the cross all things in heaven and earth are reconciled, and set at peace with the Father; without him no heavenly life given, nor sin forgiven.
"THE resurrection of the body."
I do believe, that by the same my Saviour Christ; I and all men shall rise again from death; for he, as St. Paul saith, is risen again from the dead, and is become the first fruits of them which sleep. For by a man came death, and by a man cometh the resurrection from death. This man is Christ, through the power of whose resurrection I believe that we shall all rise again in these our bodies; the godly clothed with immortality to live with Christ forever; the wicked also shall rise immortal to live with the devil and his angels in death everlasting.
"AND the life everlasting."
THRO' the same Jesus, and by none other, I am sure to have life everlasting. He only is the way and entrance into the kingdom of heaven. "For God so loved the world, that he did give his only Son Jesus Christ, to the end that so many as do believe in him might have everlasting life." Which I am sure to possess so soon as I am dissolved, and departed out of this tabernacle, and in the last day both body and soul shall possess the same for ever, to which God grant all men to come.
I believe, that the sacraments, that is to say, of baptism and of the lord's supper, are seals of God's most merciful promises towards mankind. In baptism, as by the outward creature of water I am washed from the filthiness which hangeth on my flesh, so do I assuredly believe, that I am by Christ's blood washed clean from my sins, thro' which I have sure confidence of my certain salvation. In the partaking of the Lord's supper, as I receive the substance of bread and wine (the nature of which is to strengthen the body) so do I by faith receive the redemption wrought in Christ's body broken on the cross, life by his death, resurrection by his resurrection, and in sum, all that ever Christ in his body suffered for my salvation, to the strengthening of my faith in the same. And I believe, that God hath appointed the eating and drinking of the creatures of bread and wine in his holy supper according to his word, to move and sti• up my mind to believe these articles above written.
THIS is my faith; this do I believe; and I am content by God's grace to confirm and seal the truth of the same with my blood.
