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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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GOOD mother, mark what I have written, and learn this prayer by heart, use it sincerely every day, and then I shall be merry, and you shall rejoice if you continue, as I trust you do, in God's true religion, even the same I have taught you, and my father Traves I hope will put you in remembrance of: my brother Roger, I doubt not, daily doth so. Go on therefore, and learn apace. Although the devil casteth divers snares in the way, God, in whom you trust, will cast them away for his Christ's sake, if you will call upon him; and never will he suffer you to be tempted farther than he will enable you to bear. But how you should do herein, the other •etter which I have written herewith, shall teach you, which I would have nobody read until my father Traves hath read it, and he will give you, by God's grace, some instructions.
NOW therefore will I make an end, desiring you to expect no more letters: for if it were known that I had pen and ink, then should I want all other conveniences I have mentioned concerning my body, and be cast into some dungeon in fetters of iron: which thing I know would grieve you, and therefore for God's sake, see that these be burned, when this little prayer in it is copied by my brother Roger: it may be your house may be searched for such things, when you little think of it: and look for no more, sweet mother, till either God shall deliver me, and send me out, or till you and I meet together in heaven, where we shall never part asunder, Amen.
I require you Elizabeth and Margaret my sisters, that you will fear God, use prayer, love your husbands, be obedient unto them, as God requireth you: bring up your children in God's fear: and be good housewives. God bless you both, with both your husbands, my good brethren, to whom to do good, because I cannot, I will pray for them and you. Commend me to my sister Anne, mother Pike, Thomas Sorocold, and his wife, R. Shalcross and his wife, R. Bolton, J. Wild, Mr. Vicar, the parson Mottrom, Sir Laurence Hall, with all that love, and I hope live in the gospel; and God turn Sir Thomas's heart, Amen. I will daily pray for him. I need not set my name, you know it well enough.