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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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FIRST, I exhort you to fear God, to serve and honour his holy name, to love him with all your heart, soul, and mind, to believe faithfully all his promises to lay sure hold upon them, that in all your troubles, whatsoever they are, you may run strait to the great mercy of God, and he will bring you out of them. Keep you within his wings; then shall you be sure that neither the devil, flesh, nor hell shall be able to hurt you.
BUT take heed; if you will not keep his holy precepts and laws, and to the uttermost of your power call for the help of God to walk in the same, but will leave them, and ran to all abominations with the wicked world, and do as they do; then be sure to have your part with the wicked world in the burning lake that shall never be quenched. Therefore beware of idolatry, which doth most of all stink before the face of Almighty God, and was by all good men most detested from the beginning of the world. For which, what kingdoms, nations, and realms God hath punished with most terrible plagues, with fire, brimstone, hunger, sword and pestilence, &c. to the utter subversion of them, is manifestly to be seen through the whole Bible. Y••, his own peculiar people, whom he had done so much for, when ⟨p. 598⟩they fell from him, and went and served other gods, contrary to his commandment, he utterly destroyed and rooted them out from off the earth: and as many as died in that damnable state, not repenting their abominable evil, he threw them into the pit of hell. Again, how he hath preserved those that abhor superstition and idolatry, and that have only taken hold upon them with their whole heart, to serve him, to love him, and to fear him, &c. is most manifestly to be seen even ••om the beginning, out of what great dangers he hath always delivered them: yea when all hope of deliverance was past, as touching their expectation, even then in the sight of all his enemies would he work his godly will and purpose, to the utter destruction of all those that were his manifest enemies.