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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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ONE of his old friends and acquaintance came unto him whilst he was a prisoner, and asked him, if he sued to get him out, what then he would do, or whither he would go? Unto whom he made answer, at not caring whether he went out or no: but if he did, he said he would marry, and abide still in England secretly, teaching the people as the time would suffer him, and occupy himself that way. He was had in so great reverence and admiration with all good men, that a multitude, which never knew him but by fame, greatly lamented his death: yea, and a number also of the papists themselves wished heartily his life. There were few days in which he was thought not to spend some tears before he went to bed, neither was there ever any prisoner with him, but greatly profited by his company.
ONE circumstance, which ought not to be omitted, is the following. Bishop Farrar being prisoner in the King's-bench, as before you have heard, was persuaded by the papists in the end of Lent, to receive the sacrament at Easter in one kind, who after much persuasion yielded to them, and promised so to do. Then, (so it happened by God's providence) the Easter-eve, the day before he should have done it, Mr. Bradford was brought prisoner to the King's-Bench, where the Lord making him his instrument, Mr. Bradford only was the means that the said bishop Farrar revoked his promise and word, and would never after yield to be spotted with that papistical pitch; so effectually the Lord wrought by this worthy servant of his.
ONE circumstance, which ought not to be omitted, is the following. Bishop Farrar being prisoner in the King's-bench, as before you have heard, was persuaded by the papists in the end of Lent, to receive the sacrament at Easter in one kind, who after much persuasion yielded to them, and promised so to do. Then, (so it happened by God's providence) the Easter-eve, the day before he should have done it, Mr. Bradford was brought prisoner to the King's-Bench, where the Lord making him his instrument, Mr. Bradford only was the means that the said bishop Farrar revoked his promise and word, and would never after yield to be spotted with that p•pistical pitch; so effectually the Lord wrought by this worthy servant of his.