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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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There is no Fire in Hell.
I Never knew a man that said so. I speak of divers opinions that have been written of the nature of that fire; some that it is a spiritual fire, or at least way, a spiritual pain in the corporal fire; for as it is called a fire, so it is called a worm, but a spiritual and metaphorical worm, so they think of the fire. Some that it is a corporal and natural fire; some have thought diversly before the resurrection without the body, and after with the body; some that the soul without the body suffereth in the fire, but not of the fire; some both in and of the fire. The scholastic authors think, that the souls before the resurrection, because they be of spiritual substance, do not receive the heat of the fire into them, which is a sensible and a corporal quality, so that Athanasius, a Greek author, calleth their pain Tristitiam, a heaviness or anguish: and this opinion is probable enough: some think though they be always in pain, yet they be not always in fire; but go from waters of snow to exceeding heat; but it i• when their bodies be there; but whether in cold or heat, in water or in fire, in air or in earth, they lack no pain, their torment goeth with them, for they think that the devils that tempt us, though they have pain with them, yet they have not fire with them, for then they should be known by the heat of the fire.
I am certain, saith St. Augustine, that there is a fire in hell, but what manner of fire, or in what pat of the world, no man can tell but he that is of Gods privy council: I would advise every man to be more careful to keep out of hell, than trust he shall find no fire in hell. Chrysostom saith, That to be deprived the fruition of the Godhead, is grea pain than being in hell: there is fire burning, there is heat, there is cold, there is pain without pleasure, torment without ease, anguish, heaviness, sorrow, and pensiveness, which tarrieth and abideth for all liars and hinderers of the truth.