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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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Volume 1 › Book 2 › Chapter 10 › The Life and Acts of the Rev. Mr. JOHN BRADFORD.
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WITHIN three days after, he was sent for to the Tower of London, where the queen then was, to appear before the council. There was he charged with this act of saving of Bourne, which act they there called seditious, and also objected against him for preaching, and so by them he was committed first to the Tower, then unto other prisons, out of which neither his innocency, piety, nor charitable dealing could purchase to him liberty of body, till by death (which he suffered for Christ's cause) he obtained the heavenly liberty, of which neither pope nor papist shall ever deprive him. From the Tower he came to the King's-Bench in Southwark; and after his condemnation, he was sent to the Compter in the Poultry in London: in which two places, for the time he did remain prisoner, he preached twice a-day continually, unless sickness hindered him; where also the sacrament was often administered; and through his means (the keepers so well did bear with him) such resort of good folks were daily at his lecture, and the administration of the sacrament, that commonly his chamber was well nigh filled therewith. Preaching, reading, and praying, was all his whole life. He did not eat above one meal a day, which was but very little when he took it; and his continual study was upon ⟨p. 617⟩his knees. In the midst of dinner he used […] to muse with himself, having his h•t over his eyes, from whence came commonly plenty of […] ▪ Very gentle he was to man and child, and in so good credit with his keeper, that at his desire in an evening (being prisoner in the King's-Bench, Southwark) he had licen••, upon his promise to return again that night, to go into London without any keeper, to visit one that was sick, lying by the Steelyard. Neither did he fail his promise, but returned to his prison again, […] preventing his hour, than breaking his fidelity: so constant was he in word and in deed.
WITHIN three days after, he was sent for to the Tower of London, where the queen then was, to appear before the council. There was he charged with this act of saving of Bourne, which act they there called seditious, and also objected against him for preaching, and so by them he was committed first to the Tower, then unto other prisons, out of which neither his innocency, piety, nor charitable dealing could purchase to him liberty of body, till by death (which he suffered for Christ's cause) he obtained the heavenly liberty, of which neither pope nor papist shall ever deprive him. From the Tower he came to the King's-Bench in Southwark; and after his condemnation, he was sent to the Compter in the Poultry in London: in which two places, for the time he did remain prisoner, he preached twice a-day continually, unless sickness hindred him; where also the sacrament was often administered; and through his means (the keepers so well did bear with him) such resort of good folks were daily at his lecture, and the administration of the sacrament, that commonly his chamber was well nigh filled therewith. Preaching, reading, and praying, was all his whole life. He did not eat above one meal a day, which was but very little when he took it; and his continual study was upon