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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 bishop, after many persuasions to cause him to recant, ordered him to depart, and to come again on Saturday at eight o'clock in the morning. Where the bishop being absent, Dr. Nicholas Harpsfield, as then being his deputy, did sit, and earnestly exhorted him to deny his opinions. To whom in the end he answered thus:
WELL, you have a law to condemn me, and I submit myself to the laws of the church (as you call it): and farther I do affirm, and still stand to the answers I have made.
WHEREUPON Dr. Harpsfield ordered him to appear there again upon Friday, being the 10th day of the same month of May. Upon which day the bishop privately sent for the said Thomas Watts into his chamber, and there with many fair promises tempted and tried him, whether he would revoke his errors, as he then termed them. But Watts answered him in this sort; I will not believe your church, neither the Romish church, and therefore you do but labour in vain thus to travail with me. He was hereupon again dismissed for that time until Friday the 17th of May, and then commanded to appear in the consistory; which command he obeyed, and having the accustomed former articles ministered unto him, made them such answers as before.
WHEREUPON Dr. Harpsfield ordered him to appear there again upon Friday, being the 10th day of the same month of May. Upon which day the bishop privately sent for the said Thomas Wats into his chamber, and there with many fair promises tempted and tried him, whether he would revoke his errors, as he then termed them. But Wats answered him in this sort; I will not believe your church, neither the Romish church, and therefore you do but labour in vain thus to travail with me. He was hereupon again dismissed for that time until Friday the 17th of May, and then commanded to appear in the consistory; which command he obeyed, and having the accustomed former articles ministered unto him, made them such answers as before.