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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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Put from the shore:
And be thou sure thou shalt attain,
Unto the port that shall remain
For evermore.
The Martyrdom of STEPHEN HARWOOD and THOMAS FUST.
ABOUT this time also died these two martyrs of God, Stephen Harwood at Stratford, and Thomas Fust at Ware. Who, as they were burn much about the same time (though not at the same place) with the aforesaid Robert Smith and George Tankerfield, so were they likewise examined and openly condemned together with them; and as the proceedings against them all were alike. I thought it needless to repeat the same; only there is one thing more to be added concerning Thomas Fust, who at his last appearance on the 12th of July, being moved by the bishop to revoke his opinion, answered thus: No, my lord, for no truth cometh out of our mouth, but all lies: you condemn men, and will not hear the truth. Where can you find any anointing or greasing in God's book? I speak nothing but the truth, and I am certain that it is the truth that I speak. This answer of Thomas Fust only, I find noted by the register: and how unfaithful these registers have been, (I mean in omitting those things that were most worthy of note, in order to render the martyrs ridiculous to the people) is very evident in many places of thi history. But to be short, when they had made their answers, both he and Stephen Harwood were, for their faithful perseverance, condemned together by the bishop in his accustomed pity, to be burnt as heretics, and so (as you have heard before) they finished their martyrdom, the one at Stratford, and the other at Ware, in the month of August, and year abovesaid.