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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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The History of ROBERT GLOVER, Gentleman, and Mr. JOHN GLOVER, in the diocese of LITCHFIELD.
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.