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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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BUT to return to you again, (dearly beloved) be not ashamed of God's gospel: it is the power of God unto salvation to all those that do believe it. Be therefore partakers of the afflictions, as God shall make you able, knowing for certain that he will never tempt you farther than he will make you able to bear: and think it no small favour from God to suffer for his truth: for the Spirit of God resteth upon you, and ye are happy; as one day ye shall see. Read 2 Thessal. i. Heb. xii. As the fire hurteth not gold, but maketh it finer, so shall ye be more pure by suffering with Christ, 1 Pet. i. The flail and the wind hurteth not wheat, but cleanseth it from the chaff. And ye (my beloved) are God's wheat; fear not therefore the flail: fear not the fanning wind; fear not the mill-stone; fear not the oven: for all these make you more meet for the Lord's own tooth. Soap, tho' it blacken, yet it soileth not the cloth, but rather at length maketh it more clean: so doth the black cross help us to more whiteness, if God strike with his battledore. Because ye are God's sheep, prepare yourselves to the slaughter, always knowing that in the sight of the Lord our death shall be precious. The souls under the altar look for us to fill up their number: happy are we, if God hath so appointed us. Howsoever it be, dearly beloved, cast your eyes wholly upon the Lord, with whom all the hairs of your heads are numbered, so that not one of them shall perish. Will we, nill we, we must drink God's cup, if he hath appointed it for us. Drink it willingly, and at the first when it is full, lest peradventure, if we linger, we shall, with the wicked, drink the dregs thereof, if at the beginning we refuse to drink with his children: for with them his judgment beginneth, and when he hath wrought his will on mount Zion, then will he visit the nations round about.
BUT to return to you again, (dearly beloved) be not ashamed of God's gospel: it is the power of God unto salvation to all those that do believe it. Be therefore partakers of the afflictions, as God shall make you able, knowing for certain that he will never tempt you farther than he will make you able to bear: and think it no small favour from God to suffer for his truth: for the Spirit of God resteth upon you, and ye are happy; as one day ye shall see. Read