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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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THEREFORE, my dearly beloved in the Lord, I your poorest brother now departing to the Lord, for my eternal farewell in this life, pray you, beseech you, and even from the very bottom of my heart, by all the mercies of God showed to you in Christ, most earnestly beg and entreat you out of prison, (as I have often done out of your pulpits) that you will repent, and henceforth leave your wicked lives, be sorry for your offences, and turn to the Lord, whose arms are wide open to receive and embrace you. For he is the Lord of mercy, and God of all comfort, he desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should repent, and amend. He hath no pleasure in the destruction of men; his long suffering should draw you to repentance, before the time of vengeance, and the day of wrath, which is at hand, doth come.
THEREFORE, my dearly beloved in the Lord, I your poorest brother now departing to the Lord, for my eternal farewel in this life, pray you, beseech you, and even from the very bottom of my heart, by all the mercies of God shewed to you in Christ, most earnestly beg and intreat you out of prison, (as I have often done out of your pulpits) that you will repent, and henceforth leave your wicked lives, be sorry for your offences, and turn to the Lord, whose arms are wide open to receive and embrace you. For he is the Lord of mercy, and God of all comfort, he desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should repent, and amend. He hath no pleasure in the destruction of men; his long suffering should draw you to repentance, before the time of vengeance, and the day of wrath, which is at hand, doth come.
NOW is the axe laid to the root of the tree utterly to destroy the impenitent. Now is the fire gone out before the face of the Lord, and who is able to quench it? O therefore repent, repent. It is enough to have played the wanton gospellers, the proud protestants, hypocritical and false christians, as alas! we have done. Now the Lord speaketh to us in mercy and grace; O turn before he speak in wrath. Yet is there mercy with the Lord, and plenteous redemption: yet he hath not forgotten to show mercy to those that call upon him. O then call upon him while he may be found. For he is rich in mercy, and plentiful to all them that call upon him. So that he that calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. If your sins be as red as scarlet, the Lord saith, he will make them as white as snow. He hath sworn, and never will repent him thereof, that he will never remember our iniquities: but as he is good, faithful, and true, so will he be our God, and we shall be his people: he will write his law in our hearts, and graft it in our minds, and never will he regard our unrighteousness.