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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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FLORA being informed of these proceedings, considered herself as the cause of what the christians had suffered at Corduba, and having an interior conviction that God called her to fight for her faith, she returned to that city, and made her way directly to the persecutors, among whom she found her brother. "If, said our glorious martyr, I am the object of your enquiry, if the servants of God are tormented on my account, I now freely offer myself to your disposal. I declare, I believe Jesus Christ, glory in his cross, and profess the doctrine which he taught. This now is my confession; and I hope, through the divine mercy, that nothing you can do to me will be able to make me retract or alter it." None of the company seemed so much enraged at this declaration as her brother, who, after some threats, struck her; this violent proceeding was followed by attempts of a softer nature; for he endeavoured to gain her by expressions of concern, and pretended kindness. Finding her equally insensible to all he could say, he then informed against her, and undertook to prove her a christian before the judge. He insinuated, that Flora had been educated in the religion of Mahomet, but had renounced it at the suggestion of some christians, who inspired her with the utmost contempt for the great prophet. When she was called to answer to the charge, she declared she never owned Mahomet, but sucked the christian religion in with her milk, and was entirely devoted to the Redeemer of mankind. The magistrate, finding her resolution, delivered her to her brother, and gave him orders to use his utmost endeavours to make her a Mahometan. She, however, soon found an opportunity of escaping over a wall in the night, and of secreting herself in the house of a christian. At length, she withdrew to Tucci, a village of Andalusia, where she met with her sister, and they never separated again till her martyrdom.
MARY, who was martyred at the same time, was the daughter of a christian tradesman at Estremadura, who afterwards removed to a town near Corduba.