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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 › Letter 8: LETTER VIII. From Mr. BRADFORD, to Mrs. A. WARCUP.
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LETTER VIII. From Mr. BRADFORD, to Mrs. A. WARCUP.
THE everlasting peace of Christ be more and more lively felt in our hearts, by the operation of the Holy Ghost, now and for ever, Amen.
ALTHOUGH I know it to be more than needless to write any thing unto you, good sister, being, as I doubt not but you be, diligently exercised •n reading of the scriptures, in meditating of the same, and in hearty prayer to God for the help of his Holy Spirit, to have the sense and feeling, especially of the comforts you read in God's word: yet having such opportunity, and not knowing whether hereafter I shall ever have the like, (as this messenger can declare) I thought good in few words to take my farewell in writing, because otherwise I cannot. And now methinks I have done it. For what else can I, or should I say unto you, my dearly beloved in the Lord, but farewell? Farewell, dear sister, farewell; howbeit in the Lord, our Lord, (I say) farewell. In him shall you fare well, and so much the better, by how much in yourself you fare evil, and shall fare evil.
ALTHOUGH I know it to be more than needless to write any thing unto you, good sister, being, as I doubt not but you be, diligently exercised •n reading of the scriptures, in meditating of the same, and in hearty prayer to God for the help of his Holy Spirit, to have the sense and feeling, especially of the comforts you read in God's word: yet having such opportunity, and not knowing whether hereafter I shall ever have the like, (as this messenger can declare) I thought good in few words to take my farewel in writing, because otherwise I cannot. And now methinks I have done it. For what else can I, or should I say unto you, my dearly beloved in the Lord, but farewel? Farewel, dear sister, farewel; howbeit in the Lord, our Lord, (I say) farewel. In him shall you fare well, and so much the better, by how much in yourself you fare evil, and shall fare evil.