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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 › ANSWERS to the foregoing ARTICLES.
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Again, "I leave the world, and go to the Father," &c. John xvii. "Now I am not in the world, and they are in the world, and I come to thee." All these places of scripture, with many more, plainly prove to them that have ears to hear, that Christ's body which was born of the virgin Mary is in heaven, and not in the sacramental bread and wine; and therefore it is idolatry to worship them, &c. TO the fifth article I answer, That I do believe (as I said before) that auricular confession is not good as it is now used. Touching my sins wherein I have offended God, I must seek to him for remission thereof, for our Saviour saith, in the xi. of St. Matt. "Come unto me all ye that labour and are laden, I will ease you," &c. The prodigal son, Luke xv. saith, "I will arise and go to my Father, and I will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son," &c. Psal. xxxi. "I said I will acknowledge mine offences, and accuse myself unto the Lord, and so thou forgivest the iniquity of my sin," &c. Job xiii. "But I will reprove mine own ways in his sight: he shall make me whole, and there may no hypocrite come before him." Sirach xxxiv. "Who can be cleansed of the▪ unclean?" And there were but one of the ten lepers that were cleansed, that came to Christ to give him thanks. He asked for the other nine. But if I have offended my neighbour, I must reconcile myself to him; and if I be a notorious sinner, after the first and second admonition, it ought to be declared to the congregation, and the minister of the congregation hath power by the word to excommunicate me, and I am to be taken as an heathen person, not for a day, or for forty days, but until such time as I do openly in the congregation acknowledge my fault, and then the minister hath power by the word to preach to me, or them, the remission of our sins in the blood of Jesus Christ, as it is written in the xiiith of the Acts of the Apostles, and Matthew xviii. I know no more of any other confession. TO the sixth article, I the said John Denley have answered in the fifth. TO the seventh article I answer, that as touching the sacrament of baptism, which is the christening of