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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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The Faith of JOHN NEWMAN, dwelling at Maidstone in Kent, who was by Occupation a Pewterer.
"THE Lord is the protector of my life. The just shall live by faith, and if he withdraw himself, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
MY faith is, that there is one God, which is without beginning, and without ending. This God created all things visible and invisible. And after that he had made both heaven and earth, with all other creatures, he made man, and set him in the place which he had prepared for him▪ which place he called Eden: he gave to Adam his commandments and precepts, and said, Whensoever thou dost the thing which I forbid, thou shalt surely die the death; yet did man for all this disobey God his creator, and after his sin he fled from God, and himself, and was in a miserable desper••• case. But God, seeing man in his miserable estate▪ because he and all his posterity should not conti••• in death, promised Adam that the woman's […] should break the serpent's head; whereby is meant, that the Son of God should become man, and destroy the devil, who by his subtle persuasions […] deceived Adam. Then did Adam, by faith, take hold of God's promise, and became the servant of righteousness, through the faith which he had i the promise of the woman's seed. So did Abel, Seth, Enoch, and Noah, with faithful Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the rest of the faithful until Christ's time: as St. Paul saith, "They did all eat one spiritual meat, and did all drink of one spiritual drink; they did drink of that spiritual rock that followed them, which rock was Christ that saveth us." And when the time was fully come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, that is, he took flesh of the virgin Mary, and became ma; not the shadow of a man, nor a fantastical man, but a very natural man in all points, sin only excepted; which God and man is Christ the promised woman's seed. This Christ was here conversant among men for the space of thirty years and more, and when the time was come that he should go to his Father, he gave unto us the mystery of our redemption, that we through faith should t his body, and drink his blood, that we might feed on him through faith to the end of the world. After this Christ offered up his body on the cross to pacify his Father, and to de ver us from the thraldom of the devil, in which we were through sin original and actual. And with that one sacrifice of his body once offered on the cross, he hath made perfect for ever all them that are sanctified.