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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. Well, my lord, let all the standers-by see who hath conscience: I have been a year and a half in prison: now before all these people, declare wherefore I was imprisoned, or what cause you had to punish me. You said the other day in your own house, my lord of London witnessing with you, that I took upon me to speak to the people undesired. There he sitteth by you, I mean my lord of Bath, who desired me himself, for the passion of Christ, I would speak to the people. Upon whose words I coming into the pulpit, had like to have been slain▪ with a dagger (which was hurled at him, I think) for it touched my sleeve. He then prayed me I would not leave him, and I promised him, as long as I lived, I would take hurt before him that day, and so went out of the pulpit and entreated with the people, and at length brought him myself into an house.
Brad. Well, my lord, let all the standers-by see who hath conscience: I have been a year and a half in prison: now before all these people, declare wherefore I was imprisoned, or what cause you had to punish me. You said the other day in your own house, my lord of London witnessing with you, that I took upon me to speak to the people undesired. There he sitteth by you, I mean my lord of Bath, who desired me himself, for the passion of Christ, I would speak to the people. Upon whose words I coming into the pulpit, had like to have been slair▪ with a dagger (which was hurled at him, I think) for it touched my sleeve. He then prayed me I would not leave him, and I promised him, as long as I lived, I would take hurt before him that day, and so went out of the pulpit and intreated with the people, and at length brought him myself into an house.
BESIDES this, in the afternoon I preached at Bow church, and there going up into the pulpit, one desired me not to reprove the people; for, said he, you will never come down alive, if you do it. And yet notwithstanding I did in that sermon reprove their fact, and called it sedition at least twenty times. For all which my doing, I have received this recompense, imprisonment for a year and a half and more, and death now, which you are plotting. Let all men be judges where conscience is.