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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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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.
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 recompence, imprisonment for a year and a half and more, and death now, which you are plotting. Let all men be judges where conscience is.
THEY endeavoured to interrupt him while he was speaking these words, but Mr. Bradford still speak on, and gave no place till he had made an end. And then the lord chancellor said, that for all that fair tale, his fact at the cross was culpable.
Brad. No, my fact was good, as you yourself did bear me witness. For when I was at first before you in the Tower, you yourself did say, that my fact was good, but my mind evil. Well, said I, then my lord, in that case you allow the fact, and condemn my mind; but how can I otherwise declare my mind to man but by saying and doing? God one day, I trust, will open it to my comfort, what my mind was, and your's is.