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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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York. Lo, how you make your church invisible; for you would have the communion of it consist in faith.
Brad. For to have communion with the church needeth no visibleness of it; for communion consisteth, as I said, in faith, and not in exterior ceremonies, as appeareth both by St. Paul, who would have one faith, and by Irenaeus to Victor, for the observation of Easter, saying, that disagreeing about fasting should not break the agreement of faith.
Chich. The same place hath often even wounded my conscience, because we separated ourselves from the see of Rome.
Brad. Well, God forgive you, for you have done evil in bringing England thither again.
HERE my lord of York took a paper-book of common places, and read a piece of St. Augustine, how that there were many things that held St. Augustine in the bosom of the church; consent of people and nations, authority confirmed with miracles, nourished with hope, increased with charity, established with antiquity: besides this, there holdeth me in the church, said St. Augustine, the succession of priests from Peter's seat until this present bishop. Last of all, the very name of catholic did hold me, &c. Lo! (said he) how say you to this of St. Augustine? Paint me out your church thus.