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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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A man may read upon his book, though it be not very curiously gilded; and in the day-time a man may behold it without many candles, if he be not blind.
NOW I say there be two kinds of mediators, one by way of redemption, another by way of intercession; and I said that these saints, that is to say, images called saints, be mediators neither way.
AS touching pilgrimages, I said, that all idolatry, superstition, error, false faith, and hope in the images, must be pared away, before they can be well done, household looked upon, poor christian people provided for, restitutions made, all ordinance of God discharged, or ever they can be well done. And when they be at best, before they be vowed, they need not to be done▪ they shall never be required of us, though they be never done, and yet we shall be blamed when they be all done; wives must advise with their husbands, and husbands with their wives, both with curates, ere ever they may be vowed to be done.
AS touching pilgrimages, I said, that all idolatry, supertition, error, false faith, and hope in the images, must be pared away, before they can be well done, houshold looked upon, poor christian people provided for, restitutions made, all ordinance of God discharged, or ever they can be well done. And when they be at best, before they be vowed, they need not to be done▪ they shall never be required of us, though they be never done, and yet we shall be blamed when they be all done; wives must advise with their husbands, and husbands with their wives, both with curates, ere ever they may be vowed to be done.