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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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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.
AND yet idolatry may be committed in doing of them, as it appeareth by St. Paul, in the first epistle to the Corinthians, chap. x. where he biddeth the Corinthians this; to beware of idolatry, and that after they had received the true faith in Christ; which had been vain, if they could not have done idolatry: and expositors add, to beware not only of the act of idolatry, but also of all occasion of that act: which is plain against Mr. Hubberdin, and parson of Christ's church, who went about to prove, that now there could be no idolatry.
AND yet idolatry may be committed in doing of them, as it appeareth by St. Paul, in the first epistle to the Corinthians, chap. x. where he biddeth the Corinthians this; to beware of idolatry, and that after they had received the true faith in Christ; which had been vain, if they could not have done ilatry: and expositors add, to beware not only of the act of idolatry, but also of all occasion of that act: which is plain against Mr. Hubberdin, and parson of Christ's church, who went about to prove, that now there could be no idolatry.