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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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Ave Maria.
AS for Ave Maria, who can think that I would deny it? I said it was an heavenly greeting or ••••ting of our blessed lady, wherein the angel Gabriel, sent from the Father of heaven, did annunciate and show unto her the good will of God towards her, and to what he had chosen her. But I said it was not properly a prayer, as the Pater Noster, which our Saviour Christ himself made for a p••per prayer, and bid us to say it for a prayer, n•• adding that we should say ten or twenty Aves or Marias also, but not so that we shall think that the Pater Noster is not good, a whole and perfect prayer, nor cannot be well said without Ave Maria; so that I did not speak against the well saying of it, but against superstitious saying of it, and of the Pater Noster too; and yet I put a difference betwixt that, and that which Christ made to be said for a prayer.
AS for Ave Maria, who can think that I would deny it? I said it was an heavenly greeting or ••••ting of our blessed lady, wherein the angel Gabriel, sent from the Father of heaven, did annunciate and shew unto her the good will of God towards her, and to what he had chosen her. But I said it was not properly a prayer, as the Pater Noster, which our Saviour Christ himself made for a p••per prayer, and bid us to say it for a prayer, n•• adding that we should say ten or twenty Aves or Marias also, but not so that we shall think that the Pater Noster is not good, a whole and perfect prayer, nor cannot be well said without Ave Maria; so that I did not speak against the well saying of it, but against superstitious saying of it, and of the Pater Noster too; and yet I put a difference betwixt that, and that which Christ made to be said for a prayer.