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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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Item, to our Lady.
"The fruit of thy womb everlasting,
We may behold through thy deserving," &c.
Item.
"Grant, we beseech thee, that by her merits and prayers we may attain to that unspeakable joy; where she being ascended doth now rejoice with thee in heaven for ever."
AND thus much hitherto of this catholic Primmer, called our Lady's Matins. Whereunto, if it were not tedious for the reader, we would also adjoin our Lady's Psalter, to the intent that all indifferent readers, as they have seen what books these catholic fathers have condemned and do condemn for heretical; so they may also see and judge, what books on the other side they approve as lawful and catholic. And forasmuch as it is known to all men what our Lady's Psalter is, or what it meaneth; yea, and some peradventure will deny any such book as our Lady's Psalter to be written or approved, here first we will produce the name of the author, who was Bonaventure, a seraphical doctor, bishop also and cardinal, canonized moreover by pope Sixtus IV. in the year 1482, for a saint in the calendar. In the second part of his whole works, (which were printed at Argentine, anno 1495) to show himself a devout servant of his lady, he hath taken every psalm of David's Psalter, (which are peculiarly made and referred to Almighty God) and hath in several of the said psalms, put out the name of the Lord, and hath substituted the name of our Lady. This being done through the whole Psalms and every one of them, it is now called our Lady's Psalter, used to be sung and said in the praise and service of our Lady. A brief specimen whereof, for example's sake, we thought proper here to exhibit unto the reader, as followeth.