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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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WHILE he was under the hand of the executioner, the governor was urgent with with him to sacrifice, and offered to make him a priest of Jupiter. To which Quirinus replied, That he was already engaged in the priestly office, while he thus offered a sacrifice to the true God. "I (says he) scarce feel my torments, and am ready to suffer still greater, that my example may show those whom God has committed to my care, the way to the glory we wish for."
WHILE he was under the hand of the executioner, the governor was urgent with with him to sacrifice, and offered to make him a priest of Jupiter. To which Quirinus replied, That he was already engaged in the priestly office, while he thus offered a sacrifice to the true God. "I (says he) scarce feel my torments, and am ready to suffer still greater, that my example may shew those whom God has committed to my care, the way to the glory we wish for."
THE governor perceiving his constancy, sent him to goal, and ordered him to be heavily ironed; flattering himself, that the hardships of a goal, and the weight of his chains, might overcome his resolutions.
BEING deceived in his expectations, he was sent to Amantius, the principal governor of Permonia, ⟨p. 58⟩now Hungary, who loaded him with chains, and carried him through the principal towns of the Danube exposing him to ridicule wherever he went.