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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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Bonner. What say you to holy bread and holy water, to the sacrament of anointing▪ and to all the rest of such ceremonies of the church?
Smith. I say they be baubles for fools to play withal, and not for the children of God to exercise themselves in, and therefore they may go among the refuse. Then Mr. Mordant went away, and my lord went to be shaved, leaving there certain doctors, as he called them, to try what they could do, by whom I was baited for half an hour: of whom I also asked this question, where were you all the days of king Edward, that you spake not that which you speak now?
Smith. I say they be baubles for fools to play withal, and not for the children of God to exercise themselves in, and therefore they may go among the refuse. Then Mr. Mordaunt went away, and my lord went to be shaved, leaving there certain doctors, as he called them, to try what they could do, by whom I was baited for half an hour: of whom I also asked this question, where were you all the days of king Edward, that you spake not that which you speak now?
Doct. We were in England.