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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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LETTER XII. To the Right Honourable the Lord RUSSEL, Earl of BEDFORD, being then in Trouble for the Cause of RELIGION.
THE everlasting and most gracious God and Father of our Saviour Jesus Christ, bless your good lordship with all manner of heavenly blessings in the same Christ our only comfort and hope, Amen.
PRAISED be God our Father, who hath thought you worthy of faith in his Christ, and of his cross for the […] Magnified be his holy name, who, as he hath delivered you from one cross, so hath made you willing (I hope) and ready to bear another when he shall see his time to […] it upon you: for these are the most singular gifts of God, given as to few, so to none else but to those few who are most dear in his sight. Faith is reckoned, and worthily, among the greatest gifts of God, yea, it is the greatest that we can enjoy. For by it, as we be justified and […] God's children, so are we temples and possessors of the Holy Spirit, yea, of Christ also, Ephes. iv. and of the Father himself, John xiv. By faith we drive the devil away▪ 1 Pet. v. We overcome the world, 1 John v. and are already citizens of heaven, and fellows with God's […] saints. But who is able to reckon the riches that the faith bringeth with her unto the soul she sitteth upon No man nor angel. And therefore (as I said) of all God's gifts, she may be placed at the head, and have the highest seat. Which if men would rightly consider, (in that it cometh only from God's mercy-seat, not of hearing masses, matins, dirges, or such dross, but by hearing the word […] God in such a tongue as we may understand it) as they would be diligent and take great heed for doing or […] any thing which might cast her down, (for then they […] also) so would they with no less care read and hear Go holy word, joining thereto most earnest and hearty […], as well for the better understanding, as for the […] living, and confessing the same, in spite of the devil, the world, the flesh, reason, goods, possessions, carnal friends, wife, children, and very life here, if they pull us back […] hearken to their voice and counsel, for more quiet, […] and longer use of them.