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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 › Letter 2: LETTER II. To his Brother WALTER SHETERDEN.
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FOR some do affirm that Christ did not give to his apostles a mortal and a passable body, but an immortal and g•• •rified body, so that he should have a glorified body before his death, and so his glorification was before his resurrection; and that he was risen before he was crucified, and crucified before his baptism; and then they may as well say he was baptized before his birth, and born before he was conceived, and conceived before he was promised, and that were even right Antichrist to turn all things backward, and ⟨p. 721⟩then say, O you must believe, for God is mighty, he can do all things, &c. Truth it is, that God is almighty indeed, and yet I may not believe thing• contrary to his word, that Christ's body was glorified before he died: for God's omnipotency doth not stand in things contrary to his will, but in performing his will at his pleasure in time. Neither doth he require of us to judge or believe of his almighty power, that he hath made the end of the world to come before the beginning, or yet the fruit to come before the blossom, and yet he is nevertheless almighty.
FOR some do affirm that Christ did not give to his apostles a mortal and a passable body, but an immortal and g•• •rified body, so that he should have a glorified body before his death, and so his glorification was before his resurrection; and that he was risen before he was crucified, and crucified before his baptism; and then they may as well say he was baptized before his birth, and born before he was conceived, and conceived before he was promised, and that were even right Antichrist to turn all things backward, and ⟨p. 721⟩then say, O you must believe, for God is mighty, he can do all things, &c. Truth it is, that God is almighty indeed, and yet I may not believe thing• contrary to his word, that Christ's body was glorified before he died: for God's omnipotency doth not stand in things contrary to his will, but in performing his will at his pleasure in time. N•ither doth he require of us to judge or believe of his almighty power, that he hath made the end of the world to come before the beginning, or yet the fruit to come before the blossom, and yet he is nevertheless almighty.