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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 brief Digression concerning the railing of Mr. HUBBERDIN against Mr. LATIMER.
FORASMUCH as mention hath been made in this letter of Mr. Hubberdin, an old divine of Oxford, a right painted pharisee, and a great strayer abroad in all quarters of the realm, to deface and impeach the purity of God's gospel, something will be added more concerning that man, whose doings and pageants, if they might be described at large, it were as good as an interlude for the reader to behold. Who in all his life, and in all his actions, (in one word to describe him) seemeth nothing else but a right image or a counterfeit, setting out unto us in lively colours the pattern of perfect hypocrisy. But because the man is now gone, to spare therefore the dead. (although he little deserved to be spared, who never spared to work what villainly he could against the true servants of the Lord) this shall be enough for example's sake, for all christian m•n necessarily to observe, how the said Hubberdin, after his long railing in all places against Luther, Melanchthon, Zuinglius, John Frith, Tyndale, Latimer, and all other like professors, after his hypocritical open alms given out of othe• men's purses, his long prayers, devout fastings, his mean habit, and other his prodigious demeanour, riding in his long gown down to the horse-heels like a pharisee, or rather like a sloven dirted up to the horse's belly, after […] forged tales and fables, dialogues, dreams, dancings, hoppings and leaping, with other player-like toys and gestures used in the pulpit, and all against heretics; at last riding by a church side, where the youth of the parish were dancing in the churchyard, he suddenly alighting from his horse, by the occasion of their dancing, came into the church, and there causing the bell to toll in the people, thought instead of a fit of mirth, to give them a sermon of dancing. In which sermon, after he had patched up certain common texts out of the scriptures, and then coming to the doctors, first to Augustine, then to Ambrose, so to Jerome and Gregory, Chrysostom, and other doctors, had made them every one (after his dialogue manner) by name to answer to his call, and to sing after his tune for the probation of the sacrament of the altar against John Frith, Zuinglius, Oecolampadius, Luther, Tyndale, Latimer, and other heretics (as he called them):