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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 11 › My first Answering after their LAW was established.
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My first Answering after their LAW was established.
BECAUSE I know you will desire to hear from me some certainty of my estate, I was called before the suffragan, and seven or eight of the chief priests, and examined of certain articles, and then I required to see their commission.
THEY showed it to me, and said, there it is, and the king and queen's letters also. Then I desired to have it read: and so in reading I perceived, that on some notable suspicion he might examine upon two articles; Whether Christ's real presence were in the sacrament, and whether the church of England be Christ's catholic church.
THEY shewed it to me, and said, there it is, and the king and queen's letters also. Then I desired to have it read: and so in reading I perceived, that on some notable suspicion he might examine upon two articles; Whether Christ's real presence were in the sacrament, and whether the church of England be Christ's catholic church.
TO that I answered, that I had been a prisoner three quarters of a year, and as I thought, wrongfully: reason would therefore that I should answer to those things for which I was imprisoned.