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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 aforesaid Tooly being led to the gallows, (which stood near Charring-Cross• a little before he died, standing upon the cart, read a certain prayer in a printed book, and two other prayers written in two several papers: who then having the halter about his meek, desired the people there present to pray for him, and to b•ar him […] that he died a true christian man, […] that he trusted to be saved only by the merits of […] passion, and shedding of his precious •lood, and not by any masses, or •rent•ls, […], which were, as he said, m•re idolatry and […] by the bishop of Rome; and as the same Tooly, and two others his fellows which were there hanged with him, did steal and rob for covetousness, so the bishop of Rome did sell his masses and trentals, with such paltry, for covetousness, and there being in a •reat anger (as appeared) against the bishop of Rome, spake with a loud voice the following words: "From the tyranny of the bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities; from false doctrine and heresy, and from the contempt of thy word and commandment, good Lord deliver us."
THE aforesaid Tooly being led to the gallows, (which stood near Charing-Cross• a little before he died, standing upon the cart, read a certain prayer in a printed book, and two other prayers written in two several papers: who then having the halter about his meek, desired the pe•ple there present to pray for him, and to b•ar him 〈…〉 that he died a true christian man, 〈…〉 that he trusted to be saved only by the merits of 〈…〉 passion, and shedding of his precious •lood, and not by any masses, or •rent•ls, 〈…〉, which were, as he said, mre idolatry and by the bishop of Rome; and as the same Tooly, and two others his fellows which were there hanged with him, did steal and rob for covetousness, so the bishop of Rome did sell his masses and trentals, with such paltry, for covetousness, and there being in a reat anger (as appeared) against the bishop of Rome, spake with a loud voice the following words: "From the tyranny of the bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities; from false doctrine and heresy, and from the contempt of thy word and commandment, good Lord deliver us."