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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 From Mr. LATIMER to Dr. SHERWOOD.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
LETTER From Mr. LATIMER to Dr. SHERWOOD.
MAY the Spirit of truth be with you. I have read your letter through carefully, but it is more worthy of the flames than of my perusal, it abounds so much with slanders. What you have truly said you shall soon see. It is now a great ••ile ago since several persons, who heard the sermon preached at Marchfield, told me, you being present suffered the person openly, and with authority, to say that those were unworthy and miserable wretches who saluted the virgin mother of God with the angelic salutation, unless they could raise her up again that she might bear Christ. I said, this was neither christianly nor religiously done▪ had you not been there; for we ought not to offend pious christians, who may not believe just as we do. Now whether this was slandering, or not, rather giving pious and religious advice, &c.
[The remaining part of this letter is vindicating ⟨p. 851⟩himself from the same things as the former, and almost in the same words, which for brevity's sake we omit.]
[The remaining part of this letter is vin•dicating