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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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AND that you may be delivered from this plague, I shall for my farewell with you for ever in this present life, heartily desire you all, in the bowels and blood of our most merciful Saviour Jesus Christ, to attend unto these things which I am now going to write unto you out of the holy scriptures.
AND that you may be delivered from this plague, I shall for my farewel with you for ever in this present life, heartily desire you all, in the bowels and blood of our most merciful Saviour Jesus Christ, to attend unto these things which I am now going to write unto you out of the holy scriptures.
YOU know the heavy plague• of God are fallen upon us, in taking away our king, and true religion, God's true prophets and ministers &c. and setting over us such as seek not the Lord after knowledge: whose endeavours God prospereth wonderfully to the trial of many, that his people may both better know themselves, and be known. Now the cause hereof is our iniquities and grievous sins. We knew not the tim• of our visitation; we were unthankful to God, we contemned, and carnally abused the gospel, to serve our hypocrisy, vain-glory, viciousness, avarice, idleness, security, &c. Long did the Lord linger, and tarry to have showed mercy unto us, but we were ever the less deserving. Therefore God dealeth with us most justly, and even now he tempereth his justice with great mercy, by which we are preserved from utter destruction. If the Lord should deal with us according to our deserts, alas, who could bear it! Seeing in his anger he remembereth mercy, undeserved, (nay, even undesired by us) let us take occasion ⟨p. 668⟩the more readily to meet him, (not with force of arms, for we are not able to withstand him, much less to prevail against him) and beseech him to be merciful unto us, according to his wonted mercy to deal with us.
YOU know the heavy plague• of God are fallen upon us, in taking away our king, and true religion, God's true prophets and ministers &c. and setting over us such as seek not the Lord after knowledge: whose endeavours God prospereth wonderfully to the trial of many, that his people may both better know themselves, and be known. Now the cause hereof is our iniquities and grievous sins. We knew not the tim of our visitation; we were unthankful to God, we contemned, and carnally abused the gospel, to serve our hypocrisy, vain-glory, viciousness, avarice, idleness, security, &c. Long did the Lord linger, and tarry to have shewed mercy unto us, but we were ever the less deserving. Therefore God dealeth with us most justly, and even now he tempereth his justice with great mercy, by which we are preserved from utter destruction. If the Lord should deal with us according to our deserts, alas, who could bear it! Seeing in his anger he remembereth mercy, undeserved, (nay, even undesired by us) let us take occasion