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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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AND for the Ave Maria they lie falsely, I never denied it: I know it was a heavenly salutation or greeting of our lady, spoken by the angel Gabriel, and written in the holy scripture of St. Luke. But yet it is not properly a prayer, as the Pater Noster is. Saluting or greeting, lauding or praising, is not properly praying. The angel was sent to greet our lady, and to communicate and show the good will of God towards her, and therefore it is called, the Annunciation of our lady, and not to pray to her: shall the Father of heaven pray to our lady? When the angel spake it, it was not properly a prayer. And is it not the same thing now as it was the•? nor yet he that denieth the Ave Maria to be properly a prayer, denieth the Ave Maria; so that we may salute our lady with Hail Mary! as the angel did, though we be not sent of God so to do, as the angel was. Yet though we may so do, we have no plain command or so doing, as the angel had; so that the angel had been more to blame peradventure to have left it unsaid, than we be, forasmuch as he was appointed of God to say it, and not we: but as I deny not, but as we may say the Pater Noster, and the Ave Maria together, that to God, this to our lady, so we may say them separately, the Pater Noster by itself, and the Ave by itself; and the Pater Noster is a whole and a perfect prayer, without the Ave Maria; so that it is but a superstition to think that a Pater Noster cannot be well said without an Ave Maria at his heel. For Christ wa• no fool, and when he taught the people to say a Pater Noster to God, he taught them not to say, neither Pater Noster, neither Ave Maria to our lady, nor yet Pater Noster to St. Peter, as Mr. Hubberdin doth: therefore to teach to say twenty Ave Marias for one Pater Noster, is not to speak the word of God as the word of God. And one Ave Maria well said, and devoutly with affection, sense, and understanding, is better than twenty-five said superstitiously. And it is not like, but our lady said many times the Pater Noster, forasmuch as her son Christ, whom she loved and honoured over all, did make it, and taught it to be said; whether she made an Ave Maria with all, or ten or twenty Ave Marias for one Pater Noster. I will leave that to learned men, as Hubberdin and Powell, to discuss and determine:
AND for the Ave Maria they lie falsely, I never denied it: I know it was a heavenly salutation or greeting of our lady, spoken by the angel Gabriel, and written in the holy scripture of St. Luke. But yet it is not properly a prayer, as the Pater Noster is. Saluting or greeting, lauding or praising, is not properly praying. The angel was sent to greet our lady, and to communicate and shew the good will of God towards her, and therefore it is called, the Annunciation of our lady, and not to pray to her: shall the Father of heaven pray to our lady? When the angel spake it, it was not properly a prayer. And is it not the same thing now as it was the? nor yet he that denieth the Ave Maria to be properly a prayer, denieth the Ave Maria; so that we may salute our lady with Hail Mary! as the angel did, though we be not sent of God so to do, as the angel was. Yet though we may so do, we have no plain command or so doing, as the angel had; so that the angel had been more to blame peradventure to have left it unsaid, than we be, forasmuch as he was appointed of God to say it, and not we: but as I deny not, but as we may say the Pater Noster, and the Ave Maria together, that to God, this to our lady, so we may say them separately, the Pater Noster by itself, and the Ave by itself; and the Pater Noster is a whole and a perfect prayer, without the Ave Maria; so that it is but a superstition to think that a Pater Noster cannot be well said without an Ave Maria at his heel. For Christ wa no fool, and when he taught the people to say a Pater Noster to God, he taught them not to say, neither Pater Noster, neither Ave Maria to our lady, nor yet Pater Noster to St. Peter, as Mr. Hubberdin doth: therefore to teach to say twenty Ave Marias for one Pater Noster, is not to speak the word of God as the word of God. And one Ave Maria well said, and devoutly with affection, sense, and understanding, is better than twenty-five said superstitiously. And it is not like, but our lady said many times the Pater Noster, forasmuch as her son Christ, whom she loved and honoured over all, did make it, and taught it to be said; whether she made an Ave Maria with all, or ten or twenty Ave Marias for one Pater Noster. I will leave that to learned men, as Hubberdin and Powel, to discuss and determine: