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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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AS you have often relieved my necessities, (for which I beseech God to make me thankful, and to recompense you both here and hereafter) I cannot but endeavour, as I a• in gratitude bound, to write something for your spiritual comfort.
MY dearly beloved, look not upon these days, and […] afflictions which they bring, as dismal days, and days […] of God's vengeance, but rather of good days, or days […] God's fatherly kindness towards you, and such as you […] that is, towards such as repent of their past sins, and earnestly purpose to amend their lives, walking not after the way of the world, and the greatest part of men, for the preservation of their pelf, which they shall leave sooner or […] ▪ and to whom, and how it shall be used, they know […] ▪ Indeed to such as walk in their wickedness, and wind […] with the world, this time is a time of wrath and vengea•••, and their beginning of sorrow is but now, because they contemn the physic of their Father, which by this purging time and cleansing days would work for their health, […] they did but consider it: and because they will not have God's blessing, which hath been offered to them both by prosperity and adversity, therefore it shall be kept for enough from them. As when the sick man will receive […] kind of physic from the hands of the physician, he is […] alone, and so the malady increaseth, and at length destroyeth him. To such men, indeed, these days are, and should be doleful days, and days of woe and weeping, because their damnation draweth nigh.
MY dearly beloved, look not upon these days, and 〈…〉 afflictions which they bring, as dismal days, and days 〈…〉 of God's vengeance, but rather of good days, or days 〈…〉 God's fatherly kindness towards you, and such as you 〈…〉 that is, towards such as repent of their past sins, and earnestly purpose to amend their lives, walking not after the way of the world, and the greatest part of men, for the preservation of their pelf, which they shall leave sooner or and to whom, and how it shall be used, they know Indeed to such as walk in their wickedness, and wind with the world, this time is a time of wrath and vengea, and their beginning of sorrow is but now, because they contemn the physic of their Father, which by this purging time and cleansing days would work for their health, they did but consider it: and because they will not have God's blessing, which hath been offered to them both by prosperity and adversity, therefore it shall be kept for enough from them. As when the sick man will receive kind of physic from the hands of the physician, he is alone, and so the malady increaseth, and at length destroyeth him. To such men, indeed, these days are, and should be doleful days, and days of woe and weeping, because their damnation draweth nigh.