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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 JOHN GLOVER, and WILLIAM GLOVER, who were excommunicated after their Death, a•d buried in the Fields.
JOHN and William Glover, the two brothers of Robert Glover, the martyr, ought not to be omitted in this history, although they were not called ⟨p. 781⟩to finish their course in fire, as their brother, and other martyrs were; yet they were cast out of the church, and excommunicated even after they were dead, and denied christian burial.
AND first concerning Mr. John Glover, the elder brother, what inward storms and agonies he sustained by the ghostly enemy, you have partly heard before described: now what his bodily enemies wrought against him, remaineth to be declared. Whose rage and malice, although God restrained, that they could little prevail against him so long as his life endured, yet after his decease, having power upon him, what they did you shall now understand.
WHEREUPON the sheriffs, with their under officers and servants, being sent to seek him, came into his house, where he and his wife were. It chanced a• he was in the chamber by himself, the officers bursting into the house, and searching other rooms, came to the chamber where John Glover was, who being within, and holding the latch softly in his hand, perceived and heard the officers bustling about the door, amongst whom one of the said officers having the string in his hand, was ready to draw and pluck at the same.