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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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THIS our inheritor Christ Jesus, God with God, Light of Light, co-eternal and co-substantial with the Father, and with the Holy Ghost, to the end that he might become our husband, (because the husband and the wife must be […] body and flesh) hath taken our nature upon him, communicating with it and by it in his own person, to us all his children, his divine majesty, (as St. Peter saith) and so is become flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bones substantially; as we are become flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bones spiritually, all that ever we have pertaining to him, yea even our sins; as all that ever he hath pertaineth unto us, even his whole glory. So that if Satan should summ•• us to answer for our debts or sins, in that the wife is no suable person, but the husband, we may well bid him […] his action against our husband Christ, and he will make him a sufficient answer.
THIS our inheritor Christ Jesus, God with God, Light of Light, co-eternal and co-substantial with the Father, and with the Holy Ghost, to the end that he might become our husband, (because the husband and the wife must be 〈…〉 body and flesh) hath taken our nature upon him, communicating with it and by it in his own person, to us all his children, his divine majesty, (as St. Peter saith) and so is become flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bones substantially; as we are become flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bones spiritually, all that ever we have pertaining to him, yea even our sins; as all that ever he hath pertaineth unto us, even his whole glory. So that if Satan should summ•• us to answer for our debts or sins, in that the wife is no suable person, but the husband, we may well bid him 〈…〉 his action against our husband Christ, and he will make him a sufficient answer.
FOR this end, (I mean that we might be coupled and married thus to Christ, and so be certain of salvation, and ⟨p. 691⟩