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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 › ARTICLES devised by the Bishops for Mr. LATIMER to subscribe unto.
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THAT consecrations, sanctifyings and blessings, by use and custom received in the church, are laudable and profitable.
THAT it is laudable and profitable, that the venerable images of the crucifix and other saints, should be had in the churches as a remembrance, and to the honour and worship of Jesus Christ and his saints.
THAT it is laudable and profitable to deck and to clothe those images, and set up burning lights before them to the honour of the said saints.
TO these articles whether he did subscribe or no, it is uncertain. It appeareth by this epistle above-written to the bishop, that he durst not consent unto them, where he writeth in these words; I dare not subscribe to these propositions, because I would no ways be accessary to the longer continuance of these popular superstitions, lest I be the author, &c. But yet, whether he was compelled afterwards to agree, through the cruel dealing of the bishops, is in doubt. By the words and the title in Tonstal's register prefixed before the articles it may seem that he did subscribe. The words of the register are these ugh Latimer, bachelor of divinity, of the university of Cambridge in a convocation held at Westminster before the lord archbishop of Canterbury, John, lord bishop of London, and the rest of the clergy, has acknowledged and made the following confession of his faith, as in these articles, March 21, 1531. If these words be true, it may be thought that he subscribed. And whether he so did, no great mter nor marvel, the iniquity of the time being such; that either he must needs so do, o else abide the bishop's blessing; that is, cruel sentence of death, which he at that time (as he himself confessed, preaching at Stamford) was loth to sustain for such matters as these were, unless it were for articles necessary of his belief; for by his words I conjecture rather that he did subscribe at length, although it was long before he could be brought so to do. Yet this by the way is to be noted, concerning the crafty and deceitful handling of these bishops in his examinations, what subtle devices they used […] same time to entrap him in their snares. The truth of the story has showed forth himself in a certain sermon preached at Stamford, October 9, 550; his words be these: