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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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Volume 1 › Book 2 › Chapter 12 › Letter 9: LETTER IX. From Dr. RIDLEY, in Answer to Mr GRINDAL.
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LETTER IX. From Dr. RIDLEY, in Answer to Mr GRINDAL.
BLESSED be God our heavenly Father, which inclined your heart to have such a desire to write unto me, and blessed be he again which hath heard your request, and brought your letters safe unto my hands; and over all this I bless him through' our Lord Jesus Christ, for the great comfort I have received by the same, of the knowledge of your state, and of other our dearly beloved brethren and countrymen in those parts beyond the sea.
BLESSED be God our heavenly Father, which inclined your heart to have such a desire to write unto me, and blessed be he again which hath heard your request, and brought your letters safe unto my hands; and over all this I bless him thro' our Lord Jesus Christ, for the great comfort I have received by the same, of the knowledge of your state, and of other our dearly beloved brethren and countrymen in those parts beyond the sea.
DEARLY beloved brother Grindal, I say to you and all the rest of our brethren in Christ with you, rejoice in the Lord, and as you love me, and the others my reverend fathers and fellow-prisoners, (which undoubtedly are Gloria Christi) lament not our state, but I beseech you and them all to give to our heavenly Father, for his boundless mercies and unspeakable benefits, even in the midst of all our troubles given unto us, most hearty thanks. For know you, that as the weight of his cross hath increased upon us, so he hath not, nor doth he cease to multiply his mercies to strengthen ⟨p. 812⟩