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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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Volume 1 › Book 2 › Chapter 12 › Letter: LETTER In answer to the foregoing, by Mr. Latimer.
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unless more seem to you to ascend some other way, than to enter by the door, though you are too wise to own it? And if it is so, there is no wonder there should be more thieves than shepherds. For whether you will own it or not, it is true that whoever enter not by the door are thieves and robbers, whether they be popes, bishops, or priests. You say our Saviour reproved the scribes and pharisees privately, but the scriptures says that to their face; and before a great multitude he said unto them, Woe unto you, scribe• and pharisees, hypocrites, &c.
YOU advise me not to judge lest I be judged, and this ought to teach you how necessary it is for liars to have good memories, lest your throat be cut with your own sword, and you fall into the pit you had dug for others, for I think you pass your judgment upon me when you say, I account all thieves and robbers but myself and a few of the refuse of the people; you cry out that I have invaded the power of St. Peter, and of the keys, when I said not one word of the power of the keys, or made mention of St. Peter's supremacy: I told them not to build on a sandy foundation, but on the rock of Christ, not to be content with a dead faith, lest they endangered their own salvation, but to show their faith by their works, that at the last they may attain everlasting life. You know well what Luther's sentiments were of the church, and I can readily subscribe to what Lyra, after many others, says on the 16th of St. Matthew, That the church doth not consist of men great either by ecclesiastical or civil power, for […] have found that many princes and pope• hav• apostatized from the faith, but of such who have a true knowledge both of the ⟨p. 850⟩faith and truth of the christian religion With him agree St. Jerome and St. Chrysostom, who say, there are some more ready to defend the supremacy of St. Peter, a thing of no necessity, than to make that blessed confession which would be of real use: you dare to say, that Christ, when he called some of the commandments least, did not allude to the impiety of the pharisees, and that because you had read Origen had otherwise interpreted it; but may not one and the same place of scripture be differently expounded by different persons? Because Origen took no notice of this allusion, doth it therefore follow that nobody else should; when Christ himself tells them that they made the commandments of God of no effect by their traditions? Again, except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and pharisees, ye shall in no case enter the kingdom of heaven; you say, Christ preached his sermon on the mount only to a few of his disciples; this is plainly to contradict the scripture. In the 7th of St. Matthew it is said, that having ended these sayings, they were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught them as one that had authority. Who was it that were astonished? Why St.