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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 LIFE of Bishop LATIMER, a famous Preacher, and worthy Martyr of Christ.
NOW consequently after the life of bishop Ridley, followeth the life of that valiant champion, and old disciplined soldier of Christ, bishop Hugh Latimer, who was the son of one Hugh Latimer, of Thirkesson, in the county of Leicester, a husbandman in good repute, with whom he was brought up till he was about four years old: at which time his parents, (having him as then lest for their only son, with six daughters) seeing him to be of a ready, prompt, and sharp wit, purposed to train him up in erudition and knowledge of good literature; wherein he so profited in the common schools of his own country, that at fourteen years of age he was sent to the university of Cambridge: where, after some continuance in the exercise of other things, he gave himself ⟨p. 815⟩up to the study of such school divinity as the ignorance of that age would suffer.
NOW consequently after the life of bishop Ridley, followeth the life of that valiant champion, and old disciplined soldier of Christ, bishop Hugh Latimer, who was the son of one Hugh Latimer, of Thirkesson, in the county of Leicester, a husbandman in good repute, with whom he was brought up till he was about four years old: at which time his parents, (having him as then lest for their only son, with six daughters) seeing him to be of a ready, prompt, and sharp wit, purposed to train him up in erudition and knowledge of good literature; wherein he so profited in the common schools of his own country, that at fourteen years of age he was sent to the university of C•mbridge: where, after some continuance in the exercise of other things, he gave himself ⟨p. 815⟩