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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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THE lieutenant hearing this, and not knowing what to make of so odd a speech, and fearing that he would make in earnest his escape, began to look more strictly to his prisoner, and so coming to him, beginneth to charge him with his words, reciting the same unto him which his man had told him before; that if he were not better looked unto, perchance he might deceive him. Yea, Mr. Lieutenant, so I said, (says he) for I suppose you expect that I should burn; but except you let me have some fire, I am like to deceive your expectation, for I am like to starve here with cold.
MANY such-like answers and reasons, merry, but savoury, coming not from a vain mind, but from a constant and quiet reason, proceeded from that man, declaring a firm and stable heart, little minding all this blustering of their terrible threats, but rather deriding the same.
THUS Mr. Latimer passing a long time in the Tower, with as much patience as a man in his case could do, from thence was transported to Oxford, with Dr. Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, and Dr. Ridley, bishop of London, there to dispute upon articles sent down from Gardiner bishop of Winchester, as is before mentioned; the manner and order of which disputations between them and the university doctors, is also before sufficiently expressed. Where also is declared, how, and by whom the said Latimer, with his other fellow-prisoners, were condemned after disputations, and so committed again to the prison, and there they continued from the month of April till the month of October, where they were most godly occupied, either with brotherly conference, or with fervent prayer, or with fruitful writing.