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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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LETTER From Dr. WILLIAM SHERWOOD to Mr. LATIMER. William Sherwood, Priest, to Mr. Latimer, Rector of West-Kingston, Grace and Peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
WORTHY SIR,
Presuming you will not take it amiss to be christianly admonished by a christian, I have sent these lines, to reason with you about some things delivered by you in a sermon, or rather a satire, lately preached at Greatfield, not much like a christian: and first, concerning the parable of the thief and the shepherd, where you truly said, that our Saviour reproved the scribes and pharisees for the hardness of their hearts, but not openly, but secretly, and in general he did not say to every one of the scribes and pharisees, Ye are thieves and robbers; but what did he say? Why, verily I say unto you, he who enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth in some other way, the same is a thief and a robber: on the contrary, you openly declare all popes, bishops, and priests, to be thieves and robbers (yourself, and a few of the refuse of the people excepted); thus you have preached or deceived the people: but perhaps you meant it for an hyperbole, if so, it was a very cruel and unjust one. My brother, we are not so rashly to judge before the time (if we may believe St. Paul) when the Lord shall come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and manifest the counsels of the heart: also Christ himself, whom the Father has appointed Judge both of the living and the dead, in Matthew, seems to forbid the rash judging of our neighbour, where he says, Judge not that ye be not judged, for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged, and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again, and such like.
PResuming you will not take it amiss to be christianly admonished by a christian, I have sent these lines, to reason with you about some things delivered by you in a sermon, or rather a satyre, lately preached at Greatfield, not much like a christian: and first, concerning the parable of the thief and the shepherd, where you truly said, that our Saviour reproved the scribes and pharisees for the hardness of their hearts, but not openly, but secretly, and in general he did not say to every one of the scribes and pharisees, Ye are thieves and robbers; but what did he say? Why, verily I say unto you, he who enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth in some other way, the same is a thief and a robber: on the contrary, you openly declare all popes, bishops, and priests, to be thieves and robbers (yourself, and a few of the refuse of the people excepted); thus you have preached or deceived the people: but perhaps you meant it for an hyperbole, if so, it was a very cruel and unjust one. My brother, we are not so rashly to judge before the time (if we may believe St. Paul) when the Lord shall come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and manifest the counsels of the heart: also Christ himself, whom the Father has appointed Judge both of the living and the dead, in Matthew, seems to forbid the rash judging of our neighbour, where he says, Judge not that ye be not judged, for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged, and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again, and such like.