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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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MY good brother, I beseech our good and gracious Father always to continue his gracious favour and love towards us, and by us, as by instruments of his grace, to ⟨p. 675⟩work his glory and the confusion of his adversaries. "Out of the mouth of infants and babes he will show forth his praise to destroy the enemy," &c.
MY good brother, I beseech our good and gracious Father always to continue his gracious favour and love towards us, and by us, as by instruments of his grace, to ⟨p. 675⟩work his glory and the confusion of his adversaries. "Out of the mouth of infants and babes he will shew forth his praise to destroy the enemy," &c.
I have perused your letters to myself, and have read them to others. For answer whereof, if I should write what Dr. Taylor and Mr. Philpot do think, then must I say, that they think the salt sent unto us by your friend, is unseasonable. And I think they will both declare it heartily, if they should come before men. As for me, if you would know what I think, (my good and most dear brother) because I am so sinful and so defiled (the Lord knoweth that I lie not) with many grievous sins, which I hope are washed away with the blood of Christ, I neither can nor would be consulted withal, but stood as a cypher. Howbeit, to tell you how and what I mind▪ take this for a sum: I pray God in no case I may seek myself, and indeed I thank God for it, I purpose it not.
THAT which remaineth I commit to my Lord God, and I trust in him, that he will do according to this: Cast thy care on the Lord, &c. Cast all your care upon him, &c. Reveal unto the Lord thy way, and trust, &c. Whosoever trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. Fo the Lord is faithful: he will in temptation make a way that you may be able to bear it. The Lord knoweth how to rid out of temptation the godly, &c. O would to God, I were godly, &c. The Lord knoweth how to deliver out of temptation such as trust in him, &c. I cannot think that they will offer any kind of indifferent or mean conditions: for if we will not adore the beast, we never shall be delivered, but against their will, think I. God our Father and gracious Lord make perfect the good he hath begun in us.