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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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NOW to return to Norfolk and Suffo•• ▪ the diocese of Canterbury, where w• […] treat of five worthy martyrs, whose blood i• […] same year and month of September, was […] for the true testimony of Christ and his gospel▪ […] names of whom are as follow.
NOW to return to Norfolk and Suffo•• ▪ the diocese of Canterbury, where w• 〈…〉 treat of five worthy martyrs, whose blood i• 〈…〉 same year and month of September, was 〈…〉 for the true testimony of Christ and his gospel▪ 〈…〉 names of whom are as follow.
GEORGE CATMER, of Hith; Robert […] of High; Anthony Burward, of Calete; […] Brodbridge, of Bromfield; James Tutty, of […].
GEORGE CATMER, of Hith; Robert 〈…〉 of Hi•h; Anthony Burward, of Calete; 〈…〉 Brodbridge, of Bromfield; James Tutty, of 〈…〉.
THESE upon the third day of August […] brought before Dr. Thornton the aforesaid […] of Dover, and his accomplices, and there […] both jointly and severally examined upon […] articles, touching the sacrament of the altar, ••••cular confession, and other such like.
THESE upon the third day of August 〈…〉 brought before Dr. Thornton the aforesaid 〈…〉 of Dover, and his accomplices, and there 〈…〉 both jointly and severally examined upon 〈…〉 articles, touching the sacrament of the altar, ••••cular confession, and other such like.
To which the said Catmer (being first examined made answer in this wise; Christ, said he, […] in heaven on the right hand of God the […], and therefore I do not believe him to be in the sacrament of the altar; but he is in the worthy receiver spiritually; and the sacrament, as you […], is an abominable idol.
To which the said Catmer (being first examined made answer in this wise; Christ, said he, 〈…〉 in heaven on the right hand of God the 〈…〉, and therefore I do not believe him to be in the sacrament of the altar; but he is in the worthy receiver spiritually; and the sacrament, as you 〈…〉, is an abominable idol.
NEXT unto him Robert Streater was called forth, who being asked, Whether he did […] the real presence of Christ in the sacrament of the altar, said, that he did not so believe; for you do maintain he••sy and idolatry (says he) in that ye• teach to worship a false god in the sacrament, enclosed in a box. It is you that are the malignant of the church▪ for in your church there are twenty things used against the law of God.
NEXT unto him Robert Streater was called forth, who being asked, Whether he did 〈…〉 the real presence of Christ in the sacrament of the altar, said, that he did not so believe; for you do maintain he••sy and idolatry (says he) in that ye• teach to worship a false god in the sacrament, enclosed in a box. It is you that are the malignant of the church▪ for in your church there are twenty things used against the law of God.
THE like objection was likewise made against Anthony Burward, who also said that their sacrament was made an idol.
AFTER him it was demanded of George Brodbridge what he said to those articles. Who answered, that he would not be confessed of a priest, because he could not forgive his own sins. And further said, that in the sacrament of the altar there is no real body of our Saviour Christ, but bread given in remembrance of him. Moreover, as for your holy bread, your holy water, and your mass, I do (says he) utterly deny them.
AND last of all, James Tutty made and confirmed the foregoing answers.
AND therefore they were all five condemned as heretics, and were all five burned at Canterbury in one fire, about the 6th day of September then next following.
ALTHOUGH the rage and vehemency of this terrible persecution in queen Mary's days did chiefly light in London, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent, as hath already been partly declared; yet notwithstanding, few parts of the realm were free from this fatal storm, but in almost all places some were put to death for the same righteous cause. And now to begin with the diocese of Litchfield and Coventry, where we shall just mention two persons, namely, Thomas Hayward, and John Goreway, who were both condemned as heretics, and were burnt at Litchfield about the middle of September.
ROBERT GLOVER, gentleman, was likewise apprehended, and put to death in the month of September, in the diocese of Litchfield and Coventry. Of whose apprehension and troubles I cannot well treat, without mentioning some things relating to John Glover, his brother, because the commission was chiefly sent down for John, and not for Robert, (although it pleased God that John escaped, and Robert was apprehended) therefore I thought it necessary to comprehend them both in one story. In describing some part of their virtuous institution and order of life, I shall first begin with John the eldest brother▪ who being a gentleman, and heir to his father in the town of Mancetor, was endowed with fair possessions and worldly goods, but much more plentifully enriched with God's heavenly grace, and inward virtues: which grace so wrought in him, that he with his other brethren, Robert and William, not only received and embraced the happy light of Christ's holy gospel, but also most zealously professed, and no less diligently in their lives and conversation followed the same.
JOHN GLOVER was a man of a very tender conscience, and seemed to have a deeper taste and contemplation of heavenly things, and more mortified from worldly cares than the others were. His spiritual conflicts were very extraordinary, and because the consideration of them both is worthy of memory, and the example may work experience to the comfort of the godly, it may not be amiss to rehearse some part of them. It pleased God so to lay his heavy hand of inward afflictions and grievous passions upon him, that though he suffered not the pains of the outward fire, as his brother and other martyrs did; yet if we consider what he suffered inwardly, and that for a long time, he may well be counted a martyr with his brother Robert, being no less desirous with him of the same martyrdom; yea, and in comparison may seem to be chronicled for a double martyr.
FOR as the said Robert was speedily dispatched with the sharp and extreme torments of the fire in a short time; so this no less blessed saint of God, what, and how much more grievous pangs, what sorrowful torments, what boiling heats of the fire of hell he inwardly felt, no tongue is able to express. Being young, I remember I was once or twice with him, who partly by his talk I perceived, and partly by mine own eyes saw to be so worn and consumed in the space of five years, that he could hardly digest any meat, enjoy the quietness of sleep, or pleasure of life; yea, and almost no kind of senses were left in him. And truly I have often greatly wondered at the miraculous operation of ⟨p. 770⟩Christ showed upon him, who unless he had relieved in time his poor wretched servant so far worn, with some seasonable consolation now and then, it could not be possible for him to subsist under such intolerable agonies. And yet the occasion thereof was of no great moment neither. But nothing is more common amongst the holiest and best of men, by how much the more devout and watchful they are, (having the fear of God before their eyes) so much the more they mistrust and suspect themselves; whereby it cometh to pass, that they are often terrified and perplexed with small matters (in comparison) as though they were huge mountains; whereas, on the contrary, others there be whom the blackest and most heinous crimes will nothing touch or move.
FOR as the said Robert was speedily dispatched with the sharp and extreme torments of the fire in a short time; so this no less blessed saint of God, what, and how much more grievous pangs, what sorrowful torments, what boiling heats of the fire of hell he inwardly felt, no tongue is able to express. Being young, I remember I was once or twice with him, who partly by his talk I perceived, and partly by mine own eyes saw to be so worn and consumed in the space of five years, that he could hardly digest any meat, enjoy the quietness of sleep, or pleasure of life; yea, and almost no kind of senses were left in him. And truly I have often greatly wondered at the miraculous operation of ⟨p. 770⟩Christ shewed upon him, who unless he had relieved in time his poor wretched servant so far worn, with some seasonable consolation now and then, it could not be possible for him to subsist under such intolerable agonies. And yet the occasion thereof was of no great moment neither. But nothing is more common amongst the holiest and best of men, by how much the more devout and watchful they are, (having the fear of God before their eyes) so much the more they mistrust and suspect themselves; whereby it cometh to pass, that they are often terrified and perplexed with small matters (in comparison) as though they were huge mountains; whereas, on the contrary, others there be whom the blackest and most heinous crimes will nothing touch or move.
THE occasion of this was, that he being first called by the light of the Holy Spirit to the knowledge of the gospel, and having received a wonderful, sweet, and feeling sense of Christ's heavenly kingdom, his mind, after that, falling to some cogitation of his former affairs belonging to his vocation, began by and by to misdoubt himself upon the occasion of these words written in the 6th chapter to the Hebrews; "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance. seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." Upon the consideration of which words, he fully persuaded himself that he had sinned against the Holy Ghost; even so much, that had he been in hell, he could hardly despair much more of his salvation. Every good man may readily judge, by himself, what terrors, boilings, and convulsions, turmoiled in the mean time in his woeful breast; although it be hard for any man to judge of the misery thereof, but he who hath by experience felt the like,
THE occasion of this was, that he being first called by the light of the Holy Spirit to the knowledge of the gospel, and having received a wonderful, sweet, and feeling sense of Christ's heavenly kingdom, his mind, after that, falling to some cogitation of his former affairs belonging to his vocation, began by and by to misdoubt himself upon the occasion of these words written in the 6th chapter to the Hebrews; "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance. seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." Upon the consideration of which words, he fully persuaded himself that he had sinned against the Holy Ghost; even so much, that had he been in hell, he could hardly despair much more of his salvation. Every good man may readily judge, by himself, what terrors, boilings, and convulsions, turmoiled in the mean time in his woful breast; although it be hard for any man to judge of the misery thereof, but he who hath by experience felt the like,
