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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 18: LETTER XVIII. From the Same to the Same.
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AS to mine own soul, I wish to your ladyship grace and mercy from God our dear Father in Christ our Lord and Saviour.
I thank God that he hath something eased you, and mitigated his fatherly correction in us both; I would to God he had done so much in behalf of the grief of the body to you, as he hath done to me. For as for the soul, I trust you feel that which I pray God increase in you, I mean his fatherly love, and grant that I may with you feel the same in such degree as may please him; I will not say as you feel, lest I should seem to ask too much at one time. God doth often much more plentifully visit with the sense of his mercy them that humble themselves under his mighty hand, than others which to the face of the world have a greater show and appearance.
I thank God that he hath something eased you, and mitigated his fatherly correction in us both; I would to God he had done so much in behalf of the grief of the body to you, as he hath done to me. For as for the soul, I trust you feel that which I pray God increase in you, I mean his fatherly love, and grant that I may with you feel the same in such degree as may please him; I will not say as you feel, lest I should seem to ask too much at one time. God doth often much more plentifully visit with the sense of his mercy them that humble themselves under his mighty hand, than others which to the face of the world have a greater shew and appearance.
THEREFORE I wish as I do, and that not only for mine own convenience, but also that I might occasion you […] consider the goodness of God, which I by your letters do well perceive: which is indeed the highway, whereby God increaseth his gifts, and showeth his salvation more lively, Psal. l. cvii. I have received God's blessing from you which I have partly distributed to my three fellow-prisoners, Mr. Farrar, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Philpot, and the residue I will bestow upon four poor souls who are imprisoned in the common gaol for religion also. As for mine own part, if I had need, I would have served mine own turn also. But because I had not, nor (I thank God) have not, I have been, and will be, your almoner, in such a manner as I have already advertised you. God reward you in this world, and in the world to come. Because otherwise I cannot talk with you, therefore on this sort, as occasion and opportunity will serve, I am ready to show my good will and desire of your help and furtherance in the Lord to everlasting life, whereunto God bring us shortly for his mercy's sake. Amen.