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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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"IT is no new thing, O all-powerful Jesus, for thee to stop the course of rivers, or to cause a man to walk upon the water, as thou didst thy servant Peter: the people have already seen the proof of thy power in me; grant me now to lay down my life for thy sake, O my God."
ON pronouncing the last words, he immediately sunk and died, June 4, A. D. 308; and his body was afterwards taken up, and buried by some pious christians.
FIVE Egyptian Christians, who were upon a visit to their afflicted brethren in Caesarea, were apprehended and carried before Firmilian, the governor of Palestine, who on questioning them concerning whence they came, and what they were? was answered by one, in the name of the rest, that they were christians, and belonged to the glorious city of Jerusalem, speaking allegorically of the heavenly Jerusalem. The governor was surprised a• the answer, as he knew Vespasian, and his son […], had destroyed the ancient Jerusalem; and that the inconsiderable town erected by Adrian upon the […], was called Elia Capitolina: he therefore […] more particularly concerning it. The christian, who had spoken before, again replied, and pursuing the allegory, described, with great force […] imagination, the great beauty, riches, and s•••ngth of the place. Firmilian still mistaking the christian's meaning, by understanding his words in a literal sense, was dreadfully alarmed; for not dreaming that a heavenly city was alluded to, •e fancied that the christians were strengthening and fortifying some place, in order to revolt from their […] to the emperor. Full of this mistake, and enraged at the supposed disloyalty, he condemned the five prisoners to be cruelly tormented, and then beheaded; which sentence was executed Feb. 16, A. D. 309.