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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 last Examination of Mr. SMITH.
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Bonner. Well, Mr. Controller, you are faultless ▪
Bonner. Well, Mr. Controller, you are faultles• ▪
Smith. My lord mayor, I require you in God's name, that I may have justice. We be here today a great many innocents wrongfully accused of heresy. And I require you, if you will not seem to be partial, let me have no more favour at your hands, than the apostle had at the hand• of Festus and Agrip••, who being heathens and infidels, gave him leave not only to speak for himself, but also heard the probation of his cause. This require I at your hands, who being a christian judge, I hope will not deny me that right, which the heathen have suffered: if you do: then shall all this audience, yea, and the heathen, speak shame of your fact. For all that do well come to the light, and they that do evil hate the light. THEN the lord mayor hanging down his head, said nothing, but the bishop told me, I should preach at the stake, and so the sheriff cried with the bishop▪ away with me. THUS came I in before them four times, desiring justice, but could have none: and at length my friends required the same with one voice, and could not have it; so we had sentence; and then being carried out, were brought in again, and received it separately. But before the bishop gave me sentence, he told me in derision of my brother Tankerfield, a tale between a gentleman and his cook. To which I answered, My lord, you fill the people's ears with fantasies and foolish tales, and make a laughing matter at blood; but if you were a true bishop, you should leave these railing sentences, and speak the words of God.
Smith. My lord mayor, I require you in God's name, that I may have justice. We be here today a great many innocents wrongfully accused of heresy. And I require you, if you will not seem to be partil, let me have no more favour at your hands, than the apostle had at the hand of Festus and Agrip, who being heathens and infidels, gave him leave not only to speak for himself, but also heard the probation of his cause. This require I at your hands, who being a christian judge, I hope will not deny me that right, which the heathen have suffered: if you do: then shall all this audience, yea, and the heathen, speak shame of your fact. For all that do well come to the light, and they that do evil hate the light. THEN the lord mayor hanging down his head, said nothing, but the bishop told me, I should preach at the stake, and so the sheriff cried with the bishop away with me. THUS came I in before them four times, desiring justice, but could have none: and at length my friends required the same with one voice, and could not have it; so we had sentence; and then being carried out, were brought in again, and received it separately. But before the bishop gave me sentence, he told me in derision of my brother Tankerfield, a tale between a gentleman and his cook. To which I answered, My lord, you fill the people's ears with fantasies and foolish tales, and make a laughing matter at blood; but if you were a true bishop, you should leave these railing sentences, and speak the words of God.