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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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THE mother sometimes beateth the child, but y•• […] heart melteth upon it, even in the very beating: and therefore she casteth the rod into the fire, and calleth the chi•• ▪ giveth it an apple, and dandleth it most motherly. And to say the truth, the love of mothers to their children, is […] a trace to train us to behold the love of God towards […]: and therefore, saith he, Can a mother forget the child of her womb? As much as to say, No: but if she should […] do, yet will I not forget thee, saith the Lord of […] Ah comfortable saying! I will not forget thee, saith the Lord. Indeed the children of God think oftentimes that God hath forgotten them, and therefore they cry, […] not thy face from me, &c. Forsake me not, O Lord. Whereas in very truth it is not so, but only in their p•• sent sense: and therefore, saith David, I said in […] agony, I was clean cast away from thy face. But was it so? No verily. Read his psalms, and you shall see. […] he writeth also in other places very often, especially in the person of Christ: as when he saith, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He saith not, why dost th•• forsake me? or why wilt thou forsake me? but, why […] thou forsaken me? whereas, indeed, God had not left him, but that it was so to his sense, and that this psalm telleth as full well, which I pray you sometimes to read; it is the twenty second psalm, and thereto join the thirtieth, and the hundred and s•••c•nth, with divers others. Much the same we read in the fortieth chapter of the prophet I […], where he reproveth Israel for saying, God hath forgot••• them, in these words, "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? &c. They that trust in the Lord shall renew their strength." In his fifty fourth chapter read the following comfortable words; "Fear not, for a little while I have forsaken thee, but with great compassion will I gather […] For a moment in mine anger I hid my face from thee, for a little season but in everlasting mercy have I had compassion on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer. For this is unto me as the waters of Noah: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be angry with thee nor rebuke the•.