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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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LETTER III. From Mr. SHETERDEN to his WIFE.
I Wrote unto you as one that longed more to hear of your health, than of all worldly treasure, willing you to entreat Esau the elder brother by nature gently, gi••ng to him his own, yea, and offer him one of the droves, and say they be Jacob's, and are a present for my lord Esau, but he will not take it, &c. Now my beloved, you know the blessing of our Father is, that the elder shall serve the younger, and wisdom, our mother, hath taught us the same, and I know you do complain of your servant the flesh, that he is rebellious, disobedient, and untoward; unruly and crookedly you think he doth his service: but yet behold, how shall you plead your cause before an indifferent judge? For if it be true that his service be not according to his duty, as it is many times found in servants; yet, I say, can you show your cause to no indifferent judge, but he shall object against you that he is not kept like a servant, but he lacketh both meat and and drink, and other necessaries meet and due for a servant: so shall you take more shame of your own complaint than remedy or advantage against your servant, and it shall be a cloak for him to hide all his rebellion and u•••oward service because you have misused him. AND therefore my sentence is, that you patiently bear with him in small faults, and amend your own great faults, as oppression, cruelty, and covetousness, requiring more than a servant can do, especially being tired with labour, starved with •unger, and l••ed with stripes. And these things amended, if he do his service negligently, (as no doubt sometimes he will) yet then you may boldly correct him with discretion, and sometimes if he do not his task, you make him go to bed supperless: but yet beat him not with durable strokes, neither with-hold his meat in due time, and pinch him not by the belly continually, but let him have something to joy in: only watch him, and keep him from doing of harm. Though he be but a stranger in the life that is in God; yet be good to strangers, for we are all strangers in darkness, and captives in sin, as well soul and spirit, being in Egypt, as now the esh is yet unbaptized with the terrible red sea of death, and remember that one law abideth for the stranger, I mean one reward abideth for body and soul in the land of everlasting rest. And therefore entreat him gently, and deal with him justly now;