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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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Volume 1 › Book 2 › Chapter 10 › Letter 17: LETTER XVII. From Mr. BRADFORD to Lady VANE.
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LETTER XVII. From Mr. BRADFORD to Lady VANE.
THE true sense and sweet •••ling of God's eternal mercies in Christ Jesus be ever more and more lively wrought in your heart by the Holy Ghost. Amen.
I most heartily thank you, good madam, for your comfortable letter; and whereas you would be advertised what were best to be done on your three questions: the truth is, that the questions are never well seen, no• answered, […] the thing whereof they arise be well considered: I mean until it be seen how great an evil the thing is. If it be once indeed perceived in your heart, upon probable and pithy places gathered out of the word of God, that there was never any thing upon earth so great and so much […] adversary to God's true service, to Christ's death, passion, sacrifice, and kingdom, to the ministry of God's word and sacraments, to repentance, faith, and all true godliness of life, as that is whereof the questions arise, (as most assuredly it is indeed) then cannot a christian heart but so much the ⟨p. 685⟩more abhor it, and all things that in any point might seem to allow it, or any thing pertaining to the same, by how much it hath the name of God's service.