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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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AS they were thus talking, the chamber door was unlocked, and Dr. Seton came in, whom when Mr. Bradford saw, he spake thus in his own mind: What, sir, goeth the matter thus? This man told me, no man knew of his coming: Lord, give me grace to remember thy lesson, "Beware of those men, &c. Cast not your pearls before dogs:" for I see these men he come to hunt for matter, that the one may bear witness to the other.
DR. SETON, after some by-talk of Mr. Bradford's age, of his country, and such like, began a gay and long discourse of my lord of Canterbury, Mr. Latimer, and Mr. Ridley, and how they at Oxford were not able to answer any thing at all: and that therefore my lord of Canterbury desired to confer with the bishop of Durham and others; all which talk tended to this end, that Mr. Bradford should make the like suit, being nothing to be compared in learning to my lord of Canterbury.
TO this Mr. Bradford briefly answered as he did before to Mr. Hussey.
WITH this answer neither the doctor nor the gentleman being contented, after many persuasions, Mr. Doctor said, I have heard much good talk of you, and even last night a gentleman made report of you at the lord chancellor's table, that you were able to persuade as much as any that he knew. And I (though I never hed you preach, and to my knowledge did never see you before yesterday) yet methought your modesty […] such, your behaviour and talk so without malice and impatience, that