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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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WATTS, you be brought hither, as I understand, because of disobedience to the king and queen's laws. You will not come to the church, you will not hear mass, &c. but have your conventicles a sort of you in corners, contrary to the king's and queen's proceedings. To which Mr. Watts answered and said:
WATS, you be brought hither, as I understand, because of disobedience to the king and queen's laws. You will not come to the church, you will not hear mass, &c. but have your conventicles a sort of you in corners, contrary to the king's and queen's proceedings. To which Mr. Wats answered and said:
MY lord, if I have offended a law, I am subject here to the law. Then Anthony Brown, justice, said unto him; Watts, I pray thee, tell me who hath been thy schoolmaster to teach thee this religion, or where didst thou first learn it? Forsooth, said Watts, even of you, sir, you taught it me, and none more than you. For in king Edward's days in open sessions you spake against this religion now used, no preacher more. You then said the mass was abominable, and all their trumpery besides, wishing and earnestly exhorting that none should believe therein, and that our belief should be only in Christ: and you said then, whosoever should bring in any strange nation to rule here, it were treason, and not to be suffered. Then Mr. Brown said to my lord Rich, He belies me, my lord— What a knave is this? He will soon belly me behind my back, when he doth it before my face. And my lord Rich said again, I dare say he doth so.
MY lord, if I have offended a law, I am subject here to the law. Then Anthony Brown, justice, said unto him; Wats, I pray thee, tell me who hath been thy schoolmaster to teach thee this religion, or where didst thou first learn it? Forsooth, said Wats, even of you, sir, you taught it me, and none more than you. For in king Edward's days in open sessions you spake against this religion now used, no preacher more. You then said the mass was abominable, and all their trumpery besides, wishing and earnestly exhorting that none should believe therein, and that our belief should be only in Christ: and you said then, whosoever should bring in any strange nation to rule here, it were treason, and not to be suffered. Then Mr. Brown said to my lord Rich, He belies me, my lord— What a knave is this? He will soon bely me behind my back, when he doth it before my face. And my lord Rich said again, I dare say he doth so.