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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. Mr. Dean, I would not have you conceive that I mind the shame of men in this matter; I would rather have you think as the very truth is, that hitherto I have not heard or seen any thing to weaken my faith against transubstantiation, so I am no less settled in it than I was at my first coming hither. I love to be plain with you, and to tell you at first as you shall find at the last.
West. Indeed, Mr. Bradford, I love you better for your plainness: and do not think otherwise of me, but that you shall find me plain in all my talk with you. HERE Weston began to ask Mr. Bradford of his imprisonment and condemnation; and Mr. Bradford told him altogether how he had been handled. Whereat Weston seemed to wonder: yea, in plain words he said, that Mr. Bradford had been handled otherwise than he had given cause; and so showed him, that my lord of Bath reported that he had deserved a benefit at the queen's hand, and at all the council's. IN this kind of talk they spent almost an hour, and Mr. Bradford, being weary, rose up, and Weston called the keeper, and before him he bade Bradford be of good comfort, and told him he was in no danger of death. SIR, says the k••per, but it is in every man's mouth that he shall die to-morrow. WHEREAT Weston seemed half amazed and […], he would go say even-song before the queen, •nd speak to her in his behalf. But it is to be thought the queen had almost supped at that time; •or it was past six o'clock. BEFORE the keeper, Mr. Bradford told Weston, again, that still he was one man, and even as he was at the first; and till he should see matter to teach his conscience the contrary, he said he must needs so continue. THE keeper desired Mr. Bradford to hearken to Mr. Doctor's counsel, and prayed Mr. Doctor to be good unto him: and so after they had drank together, Dr. Weston with most gentle words to […] his leave for three days. NOW when he was gone, the keeper told Mr. Bradford, that Mr. Doctor spake openly, that he saw no cause why they should burn him. Which sentence, for the ambiguity of the meaning, made him somewhat sorry, lest he had gathered any conformity to them in their doctrine, which God knoweth, said Bradford, I never yet did. God our Father