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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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AND besides this, set before you also, that though the ⟨p. 678⟩weather be foul, and storms grow apace, yet ye go not alone, but others your brothers and sisters tread the same path, as St. Peter telleth us: and therefore company should cause you to be the more courageous and cheerful. But if you had no company at all to go presently with you, I pray you tell me, if even from the beginning, the best of God's friends have found any fairer weather and way to the place whither ye are going, (I mean heaven) than ye now find, and are like to; except ye will with the worldlings, which have their portion in this life, tarry still by the way till the storms are overpast, and then either night will so approach that ye cannot travel, or the doors will be locked before you come, and so you lodge without in evil lodgings. Read Revelations xxii. Begin at Abel, and come from him to Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, the Patriarchs, Moses, David, Daniel, and all the saints of the Old Testament, and tell me whether any of them ever found any fairer way than ye now find.
AND besides this, set before you also, that though the ⟨p. 678⟩weather be foul, and storms grow apace, yet ye go not alone, but others your brothers and sisters tread the same path, as St. Peter telleth us: and therefore company should cause you to be the more courageous and chearful. But if you had no company at all to go presently with you, I pray you tell me, if even from the beginning, the best of God's friends have found any fairer weather and way to the place whither ye are going, (I mean heaven) than ye now find, and are like to; except ye will with the worldlings, which have their portion in this life, tarry still by the way till the storms are overpast, and then either night will so approach that ye cannot travel, or the doors will be locked before you come, and so you lodge without in evil lodgings. Read Revelations xxii. Begin at Abel, and come from him to Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, the Patriarchs, Moses, David, Daniel, and all the saints of the Old Testament, and tell me whether any of them ever found any fairer way than ye now find.