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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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IF the Old Testament will not serve, I pray you come to the New, and begin with Mary and Joseph, and come from them to Zechariah and Elizabeth, John Baptist, and every one of the apostles and evangelists, and search whether they all found any other way into the city we travel towards, than by many tribulations.
IF the Old Testament will not serve, I pray you come to the New, and begin with Mary and Joseph, and come from them to Zachary and Elizabeth, John Baptist, and every one of the apostles and evangelists, and search whether they all found any other way into the city we travel towards, than by many tribulations.
BESIDES these, if ye should call to remembrance the primitive church, Lord God, ye should see so many to have given cheerfully their bodies to most grievous torments, rather than they would be stopped in their journey, that there is no day in the year, but (I dare say) a thousand was the fewest that with great joy lost their homes here, but in the city they went unto, have found other manner of home than man's mind is able to conceive. But if none of these were, if ye had no company now to go with you, as you have me your poor brother and bondman of the Lord, with many others, I trust in God, if you had none of the fathers, patriarchs, kings, prophets, apostles, evangelists, martyrs, and other holy saints and children of God, that in their journey to heaven-ward found as ye now find, and are like to find if ye go forward, as I trust ye will, yet ye have your master and captain Jesus Christ, the only begotten and beloved Son of God, in whom was all the Father's pleasure, joy, and delight; ye have him to go before you, no fairer way, but much fouler, into this our city of Jerusalem. I need not (I trust) rehearse what manner of way he found. Begin at his birth, and till ye come to his burial, ye will find that every foot of his journey was no better, but much worse than your's is now.
BESIDES these, if ye should call to remembrance the primitive church, Lord God, ye should see so many to have given chearfully their bodies to most grievous torments, rather than they would be stopped in their journey, that there is no day in the year, but (I dare say) a thousand was the fewest that with great joy lost their homes here, but in the city they went unto, have found other manner of home than man's mind is able to conceive. But if none of these were, if ye had no company now to go with you, as you have me your poor brother and bondman of the Lord, with many others, I trust in God, if you had none of the fathers, patriarchs, kings, prophets, apostles, evangelists, martyrs, and other holy saints and children of God, that in their journey to heaven-ward found as ye now find, and are like to find if ye go forward, as I trust ye will, yet ye have your master and captain Jesus Christ, the only begotten and beloved Son of God, in whom was all the Father's pleasure, joy, and delight; ye have him to go before you, no fairer way, but much fouler, into this our city of Jerusalem. I need not (I trust) rehearse what manner of way he found. Begin at his birth, and till ye come to his burial, ye will find that every foot of his journey was no better, but much worse than your's is now.