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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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LETTER VII. From Bishop RIDLEY to the BRETHREN which constantly cleave unto Christ, in suffering Affliction with him and for his Sake.
GRACE and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, be multiplied unto you, Amen.
ALTHOUGH, brethren, we have of late heard nothing from you, neither have at this present any news to send to you: yet we thought good to write something unto you, whereby you might understand that we have good remembrance of you ⟨p. 808⟩continually, as we doubt not b•• you have of us also. When this messenger, coming unto us from you of late, had brought unto us good tidings of your great constancy, fortitude, and patience in the Lord, we were filled with much joy and gladness, giving thanks to God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ, which hath caused his •a•e so to shine upon you, and with the light of spiritual understanding hath so enlightened your hearts, that now being in captivity and bonds for Christ's cause, you have not ceased as much as in you lieth, by words, but much more by deeds and by your example, to establish and confirm that thing, which when you were at liberty in the world, you laboured to publish and set abroad by the word and doctrine: that is to say, holding fast the word of life, you shine as lights in the world, in the midst of a wicked and crooked nation, and that with so much the greater glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, and profit of your brethren, by how much Satan more cruelly now rageth, and busily laboureth to darken the light of the gospel.