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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 Examination of Mr. JOHN NEWMAN.
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The Examination of Mr. JOHN NEWMAN.
JOHN NEWMAN, when apprehended, was first examined by Dr. Thornton, suffragan of Dover, at Tenterden. From thence he was carried to Bonner, and there condemned with Denley and Packingham. But because his examinations and answers came not then to my hands, I thought here in this place to bestow them, rather than they should be utterly suppressed. And first, what his answer was by writing to the said suffragan, after his apprehension, you shall hear by the tenor of his own words as follow:
IT may please you to understand, that for the space of all the time of the late king Edward's reign, we were diligently instructed with continual sermons, made by such men whose faith, wisdom, learning, and virtuous living, was commended unto all men under the king's hand and seal, and under the hands of all the council. These men taught diligently a long time, persuading us by the allegations of God's word, that there was no transubstantiation, or corporal presence in the sacrament. Their doctrine was not believed by us suddenly, but by their continual preaching, and also by our continual prayer unto God that we might never be deceived; but if it were true, that God would incline our hearts unto it; and if it were not true, that we might never believe. We weighed that they laboured with God's word, and we asked the advice of our friends, neither could we find that they preached false doctrine. We considered also, as we did learn, that the king's grace and his council, and the most part of the whole realm, believed as they taught, because no man preached the contrary. Also we know that the preachers were commanded by the king and laws of the realm, to preach unto us such doctrine s was agreeable to the authority of God's word, and no other; and by their diligent setting of it forth by the king's commandment, and the consent of the whole council, and by the authority of the whole parliament, we embraced it, and received it as a very infallible truth, taught unto us for the space of seven years. Wherefore, until such time as our consciences are otherwise taught and instructed by God's word, we cannot with safeguard of our consciences take it, as many suppose at this time. And we trust in God that the queen's merciful highness, neither yet her most honourable council, will in a matter of faith use compulsion, or violence, because faith is the gift of God, and cometh not of man, neither of man's laws, nor at such time as men require it, but at such time as God giveth it.