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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 › The Confession of JOHN LAUNDER, before BONNER, Bishop of London.
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YOU say that you can make a god; you can make a pudding as well. Your ceremonies in the church be beggary and poison. And further I say, ⟨p. 727⟩that auricular confession is contrary to God's word, and very poison; with divers other such like words.
THE bishop seeing his constancy, and that neither his accustomed flatteries, nor yet his cruel threatenings could once move this good man to incline to their idolatry, pronounced his usual and general blessing▪ as well towards Dirick Carver, as also on the said John Launder, although severally; who remained as constant as the other: and therefore were both delivered to the sheriffs, who were there present, but afterwards were conveyed to the places above-named, and there most joyfully gave their bodies to be burned in the fire, and their souls into the hands of Almighty God, by Jesus Christ, who hath assured them to a better hope of life.
DIRICK CARVER was a man whom the Lord had blessed as well with temporal riches, as with his spiritual treasures; which were yet no clog or hindrance unto his professing of Christ, (God by his grace so working in him) of which there was such havoc made by the greedy raveners of that time, that his poor wife and children had little thereof. During his imprisonment, although he was well stricken in years, (and, as it were, past the time of learning) yet he so diligently spent his time, being at his first apprehension utterly ignorant of any letter of a book, he could before his death perfectly read any printed English. His zeal and industry i• worthy of no small commendation, and therefore I thought good not to pass over it in silence▪ but is recommended for the good example and encouragement of others.