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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 › A CONVERSATION between bishop BONNER and Mr. BRADFORD.
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Brad. You must and will, I am assured, give me leave to follow the scriptures and examples or good men.
Harps. Yes.
Brad. Well then, Stephen was accused and condemned as I am, that he had taught new and false doctrine, before the fathers of the church then as they were taken. Stephen for his defence disproveth their accusation. But how? doth he it by going upwards? no, but by coming downwards, beginning at Abraham, and continuing still till Esaiahs's time, and the people's captivity. From whence he maketh a great leap until the time he was in, which was about 400 years, and called them by their right names, hell-hounds, rather than heaven-hounds. In this manner will I prove my faith, and that you can never do your's.
Harps. Yes sir, if we knew that you had the Holy Ghost, then could we believe you. Here Bradford would have answered, that Stephen's enemies would not believe he had the Holy Ghost, and therefore they did as they did; but as he was speaking Mr. Harpsfield rose up, and the keeper and others that stood by, began to talk gently, praing Mr. Bradford to take heed to what Mr. […] deacon spake, who still said that Mr. Bradford was out of the church.