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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 XIII. To Mr. WARCUP and his WIFE, Mrs. WILKINSON, and other FRIENDS.
THE same peace our Saviour Christ left with his people, which is not without war with the world, Almighty God work plentifully in your hearts now and for ever. Amen.
I perceive the time is come wherein the Lord's ground will be known; I mean, it will now shortly appear who have received God's gospel into their hearts indeed, to the •aking of good root therein: for such will not wither for a little heat or sun burning, but stiffly will stand and grow on, in spite of the malice of all burning showers and tempests. And forasmuch as (my beloved in the Lord) I am persuaded of you, that ye be indeed the children of God, God's good ground, which groweth and will grow on, by God's grace, bringing forth fruit to God's glory after your vocations, as occasions shall be offered, therefore I cannot but so signify unto you, and heartily pray you and every one of you, accordingly to go forwards after your master Christ, not sticking at the foul way and stormy weather which you are to come into, and are like so to do: being most certain of this, that the end of your journey shall be pleasant and joyful in such a perpetual rest and blissfulness, as cannot but swallow up the showers that ye now feel and are immerged in, if ye often set it before your eyes, after St. Paul's counsel in the latter end of the fourth, and beginning of the fifth chapter of the second epistle to the Corinthians. Read it, I pray you, and remember it often as a restorative to refresh you, lest you faint in the way.