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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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COSMUS and Damian, Arabians, and brothers, were martyred in Cilicia; Adrian, an imperial officer, was beheaded for being a christian; Barbara, a young lady, was martyred at Nicomedi•; Lucy, a christian virgin, was put to death at Syracuse; and even Serena, the empress of Diocletian, was beheaded for being a christian.
COSMUS and Damian, Arabians, and brothers, were martyred in Cilicia; Adrian, an imperial officer, was beheaded for being a christian; Barbara, a young lady, was martyred at Nicomedi•; Lucy, a christian virgin, was put to death at Syracuse; and even Serena, the empress of Dioclesian, was beheaded for being a christian.
GORDIUS, a native of Sa•sarea, and a centurion in the Roman army, was first tormented and then burnt; Menas, an Egyptian soldier, was beheaded▪ and Barlaam, a noble martyr, as we are informed by Basillius, having endured the torments of the executioners, even to the very point of […]; the tormentors at last brought him, and laid him upon the altar, where they used to offer sacrifices to their idols, and put frankincense into his hand, which they lighted, imagining that the heat and force of the fire would oblige him to scatter the burning incense on the altar, that they might thereby say that he had sacrificed. But in this they were disappointed, for the flame went round his hand, which appeared as if it had been covered with red hot embers, while he uttered this exclamation of the psalmist: "Blessed is the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight." After which he surrendered his soul into the hands of Christ his Saviour.
GORDIUS, a native of Sa•sarea, and a centurian in the Roman army, was first tormented and then burnt; Menas, an Egyptian soldier, was beheaded▪ and Barlaam, a noble martyr, as we are informed by Basillius, having endured the torments of the executioners, even to the very point of ; the tormentors at last brought him, and laid him upon the altar, where they used to offer sacrifices to their idols, and put frankincense into his hand, which they lighted, imagining that the heat and force of the fire would oblige him to scatter the burning incense on the altar, that they might thereby say that he had sacrificed. But in this they were disappointed, for the flame went round his hand, which appeared as if it had been covered with red hot embers, while he uttered this exclamation of the psalmist: "Blessed is the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight." After which he surrendered his soul into the hands of Christ his Saviour.