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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. S•r, I am most certain that I am in Christ's church, and I can show a demonstration of my religion from time to time continually. So saying, Mr. Bradford uttered this short prayer. "GOD our Father, for the name and blood of his Son Christ, be merciful unto us, and unto all his people, and deliver them from all false teachers, and blind guides, through whom, alas! I fear, much hurt will come to this realm of England. God our Father bless us, and keep us in his truth and poor church for ever." Amen. THEN the archdeacon departed, saying, that he would come again the next morning. UPON the 16th of February, in the morning, the archdeacon, and the other two with him, came again, and after a few introductory words they sat down. MR. ARCHDEACON began a very long oration, first repeating what they had said, and how far they had gone over night, and therewith began to prove upwards, a succession of bishops here in England for 800 years; in France, at Lyons, for 1200 years; in Spain, a• Hispalen, for 800 years; in Italy, at Mil••, for 1200 years, labouring by this to prove his church He used all his succession of bishops in the •ast church for the better confirmation of his words, and so concluded with an exhortation and an interrogation: the exhortation was, that Mr. Bradford would obey the church; the interrogation, whether Mr. Bradford could show any such succession, for the demonstration of his church (for so he called it)? UNTO this long oration Mr. Bradford made this short answer; My memory is bad, so that I cannot particularly answer your oration. THEREFORE I will do it generally, because your oration is rather to persuade than to prove, and therefore a small answer will serve. If Christ or his apostles, being here on earth, had been required by the prelates of the church then, to have made a demonstration of that church by succession of such high priests as had approved the doctrine which he taught, I think that Christ would have done as I do: that is, have alleged that which upholdeth the church, […] the word ⟨p. 639⟩of God, taught and believed, not by the high priests, which of long time had persecuted it, but by the prophets and other good simple men which perchance were counted heretics of the church: which church was not tied to succession, but to the word of God. And thus to think St.