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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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HE was somewhat tall and slender of body, of a faint sanguine colour, with a dark brown beard. He slept not commonly above four hours in the night; and in his bed, till sleep came, his book went not out of his hand. His chief recreation was in no gaming or other pastime, but only in honest company, and comely talk, wherein he would spend a little time after dinner, at the table, and so to prayer and his book again. He counted that hour not well spent, wherein he did not some good, either with his pen, study, or in exhorting of others, &c. He was not sparing of his purse, but would liberally give of what he had to his fellow-prisoners. And commonly once a week he visited the thieves, pick-pockets, and such others that were with him in prison where he lay on the other side, unto whom he would give pious exhortation, to learn the amendment of their lives by their trouble, and after that so done, distribute among them some portion of money to their comfort.
WHILE he was in the King's-bench, and Mr. Sander's in the Marshalsea, both prisoners, on the backside of these two prisons they met many times, and conferred together when they would: so mercifully did the Lord work for them, even in the midst of their trouble; and the said Bradford was so trusted by his keeper, and had such liberty in the backside, that there was no day, but that he might have easily have escaped away, if he would; but the Lord had another work to do for him. In the summer time, while he was in the King's-bench, he had liberty of his keeper to ride into Oxfordshire, to a merchant's house of his acquaintance, and horse and all things prepared for him for that journey, and the party in readiness that should ride with him: but God prevented him by sickness that he went not at all.
WHILE he was in the King's-bench, and Mr. Saunder's in the Marshalsea, both prisoners, on the backside of these two prisons they met many times, and conferred together when they would: so mercifully did the Lord work for them, even in the midst of their trouble; and the said Bradford was so trusted by his keeper, and had such liberty in the backside, that there was no day, but that he might have easily have escaped away, if he would; but the Lord had another work to do for him. In the summer time, while he was in the King's-bench, he had liberty of his keeper to ride into Oxfordshire, to a merchant's house of his acquaintance, and horse and all things prepared for him for that journey, and the party in readiness that should ride with him: but God prevented him by sickness that he went not at all.