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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 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.
THE night before he was had to Newgate, which was the Saturday night, he was sore troubled divers times in his sleep by dreams, how the chain for his burning was brought to the Compter-gate, and how the next day being Sunday he should be had to Newgate, and on the Monday after burned in Smithfield, as indeed came to pass accordingly, as shall hereafter be showed. Now he being vexed oftentimes in this sort with these dreams, about three o'clock in the morning he awaked him that lay with him, and told him his unquiet ••eep, and ⟨p. 618⟩what he was troubled withal. Then after a little talk, Mr. Bradford rose out of the bed, and gave himself to his old exercise of reading and praying, as always he had used before: and at dinner according to his accustomed manner he did eat his meat, and was very merry, no body being with him from morning till night but he that lay with him, with whom he had many times on that day godly discourse of death, of the kingdom of heaven, and of the ripeness of sin in that time.