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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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REMARKS upon the aforesaid ARTICLES.
THESE articles, in the same form and manner of words, are commonly objected to all others that follow after, with the same answers thereunto annexed. In which articles thou mayest note, reader, the crafty and subtle handling of these lawyers and registers, who so deceitfully frame their articles and positions, that unless a man do advisedly consider them, it is hard for a simple man to answer to them, but he shall be ensnared and entangled. So they paint their church with such a visage of universal, holy, catholic, as it should seem, he that denieth Rome, denieth the holy church of Christ here on earth. Likewise in examining them, and especially the simple sort in the matter of the sacrament, to the material bread in the sacrament they put the word [only] very captiously and fraudulently, to take them at the worst advantage, making the people believe that they take the holy sacrament to be no better than only common bread: when they do not so, but make a difference between the same, both in the use, honour, and name thereof.
THESE articles, in the same form and manner of words, are commonly objected to all others that follow after, with the same answers thereunto annexed. In which articles thou mayest note, reader, the crafty and subtle handling of these lawyers and registers, who so deceitfully frame their articles and positions, that unless a man do advisedly consider them, it is hard for a simple man to answer to them, but he shall be ensnared and entangled. So they paint their church with such a vis•ge of universal, holy, catholic, as it should seem, he that denieth Rome, denieth the holy church of Christ here on earth. Likewise in examining them, and especially the simple sort in the matter of the sacrament, to the material bread in the sacrament they put the word [only] very captiously and fraudulently, to take them at the worst advantage, making the people believe that they take the holy sacrament to be no better than only common bread: when they do not so, but make a difference between the same, both in the use, honour, and name thereof.