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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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Brad. I have now been a year and almost three quarters in prison, and in all this time you have never questioned me hereabout, when I might have spoke my conscience frankly without peril; but now you have a law to hang up and put to death, if a man answer freely and not to your liking, and so now you come to demand this question. A•, my lord, Christ used not this way to bring men to faith. No more did the prophets or apostles. Remember what Barnard writes to Eugenius the pope▪ "I read, that the apostles stood to be judged, but I read not, that they sat to judge. This shall be, that was," &c.
HERE the lord chancellor was app•lled, as it seemed, and said most gently that he used not this means. It was not my doing, said he, although some there be that think this to be the best way: for I, for my part, have been challenged for being too gentle oftentimes; which thing the bishop of London confirmed, and so did almost all the audience▪ that he had been too mild and too gentle.
AT which words Mr. Bradford spake thus; ⟨p. 627⟩My lord, I pray you stretch out your gentleness that I may feel it, for hitherto I have never felt it.