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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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Glassier. I was glad when I heard you say, you believed the catholic church, and now go you from it.
Glasier. I was glad when I heard you say, you believed the catholic church, and now go you from it.
Bland. No, that I do not.
Glassier. You know that Christ saith, "If thy brother have offended thee, go and reconcile him between thee and him. If he hear thee not, take two or three with thee, that in the mouth of two o• three witnesses all things may be established. If he hear not them, tell it unto the church; if he hear not the church, take him as an heathen." I pray you where could you have found this church of your's fifty years ago?
Glasier. You know that Christ saith, "If thy brother have offended thee, go and reconcile him between thee and him. If he hear thee not, take two or three with thee, that in the mouth of two o• three witnesses all things may be established. If he hear not them, tell it unto the church; if he hear not the church, take him as an heathen." I pray you where could you have found this church of your's fifty years ago?
Bland. You know that the true church did not at all times flourish, but was wonderfully persecuted. THEN my lord of Dover cried, No more, I command you to hold your peace. Have him away, and bring in another.
Collins. You shall come again on Monday at nine o'clock, and in the mean time you shall have whom you will to confer withal; your friend Dr. Faucet, or Mr. Glassier, if you desire them.
Collins. You shall come again on Monday at nine o'clock, and in the mean time you shall have whom you will to confer withal; your friend Dr. Faucet, or Mr. Glasier, if you desire them.
Bland. I will refuse to talk with no man: as for any conference on your part, it is but weak laws, established as they are. But when there was no law, I did desire conference. And so for that time I departed. THE Monday after we were brought to the same place again; and then Mr. Collins began to speak to me, but after what manner, it is clean out of my mind; but the end was, that I would reform myself. But as I did before, I demanded what they had to lay to my charge, and to see the law, which they said before I should see.
Dover. What needs? We have enough against you: for you denied unto me transubstantiation in the sacrament.
Bland. I did refuse to answer till you promised I should see the law, whereby you might compel me to answer.
Dover. My lord took the scribe's book, and ⟨p. 708⟩[…] the answer that I made to Dr. Faucet's reason, which I knew not that they had written.
Dover. My lord took the scribe's book, and ⟨p. 708⟩〈…〉 the answer that I made to Dr. Faucet's reason, which I knew not that they had written.
Bland. My lord I made you no such answer when you asked me; I take Mr. Collins and Mr. Glassier to witness. Then they brought forth a decretal, a book of the bishop of Rome's law, to bind me to answer, which my heart abhorred to look upon. The effect was, that the ordinary had authority to examine, and that those whom they so examined must needs answer. But I said that it meant such as were justly suspected, as I was not. And here we had much communication; for I charged them with unjust imprisonment, which they could not avoid.
Bland. My lord I made you no such answer when you asked me; I take Mr. Collins and Mr. Glasier to witness. Then they brought forth a decretal, a book of the bishop of Rome's law, to bind me to answer, which my heart abhorred to look upon. The effect was, that the ordinary had authority to examine, and that those whom they so examined must needs answer. But I said that it meaned such as were justly suspected, as I was not. And here we had much communication; for I charged them with unjust imprisonment, which they could not avoid.
MR. Oxenden would have helped them, and said, the justices put me in prison for preaching a seditious sermon, and for troubling a priest at mass.
Bland. That is not true; for after I had been ten weeks in prison I was bailed out, till I was cast in again, (as the justice said) for the disobeying mine ordinary, which I never did.
Collins. Are you willing to confer with some? It will be better for you; now we offer it, because you would not desire it.
Bland. As I did not refuse before, no more will I now. But I did not perceive before, but that one thing might have come, without any leave-asking, to confer the scriptures: and therefore I expected Dr. Faucet would have come to me without desiring, if any profit to me had been in conference; for though I was never able to do him good, yet once I was his tutor.
Collins. Will you come to his chamber in the afternoon?
Bland. Sir, I am a prisoner, it is meet that I obey, and come whither you will, and so departed. At this time we were three. But they took another to appear before them the Tuesday seven-night after. And when he came, I knew not what was done, but I hear they excommunicated him, and let him go.
