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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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and before Jerusalem, where not only James taught and died bishop, but also Christ Jesus our Lord and high priest for ever, by whom, being master, I hope honour should be given to his chair, more than to the chair of his chaplains. I need to speak nothing how that Paul declareth Peter's ⟨p. 687⟩apostleship to concern rather the circumcision of the Jews, and therefore properly pertaineth not to us. Neither need I bring in Gregory the first bishop of Rome, which was about the year of our Lord 600, who in his works doth plainly write, that this title of Primacy, and to be head over all churches under Christ, •s a title meet and agreeing only to Antichrist, and therefore he calleth it a profane, mischievous, and a horrible title. Whom should we believe now, if we will neither believe apostle nor pope? IF I should go about to tell how this name was first gotten by Phocas, I should be too long. I purpose, God willing, to set it forth at large in a work which I have begun of Antichrist, if God for his mercy's sake give me life to finish it. For this present therefore I shall desire your ladyship to take this in good part. If they will needs have the bishop of Rome to be acknowledged for head of the church, then will I urge them to give us a bishop. But they obtrude unto us a butcher, or a bite-sheep, rather than a bishop. They brag of Peter's succession, of Christ's vicar; this is always in their mou•h. But alas, how can we call him Christ's vicar, that resisteth Christ, rejecteth his truth, persecuteth his people, and preferreth himself above God and man? How or wherein doth the pope and Christ agree? How supplieth he Peter's ministry, that boasteth of his succession? Therefore, if the papists will have the bishop of Rome supreme head of the church of Christ on earth, they must, before they attain this, give us a bishop in deed, and not in name. For whosoever he be that will make this the bond of unity, whatsoever the bishop of Rome be, surely this must needs follow, that they do nothing else but teach a most wicked defection, and departing from Christ. BUT of this, if God lend me life, I purpose to speak more at large hereafter.