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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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HERE much ado there was to prove that he had no wrong, and again, that it was not they that did it. But said he, the commissary was one of them. He answered No, and said it was the archdeacon. He said, you sat with him, and he asked your counsel in it, and yet if it were he, it was your church, except the archdeacon and you be divided one from another. Well, said they, Will you now deny what you said then, and promise here to submit yourself, and you shall be delivered?
Shut. I am not so much beholden to you as to grant you any such promise: and you shall plainly see that I will not promise to go across the street for you: but if at any time I have offended your law, let me have the punishment: I ask no favour. THEN they said, it was obstinacy in him that he would not answer, and a token that his faith was naught, seeing he was ashamed to utter it. NAY, said Sheterden, you well know I am not ashamed of my faith: but because you so greedily seek blood, I will answer only to that you have against me.
Shet. I am not so much beholden to you as to grant you any such promise: and you shall plainly see that I will not promise to go across the street for you: but if at any time I have offended your law, let me have the punishment: I ask no favour. THEN they said, it was obstinacy in him that he would not answer, and a token that his faith was naught, seeing he was ashamed to utter it. NAY, said Sheterden, you well know I am not ashamed of my faith: but because you so greedily seek blood, I will answer only to that you have against me.
Suff. Nay, you shall answer to the articles, or else be condemned upon suspicion.