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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 Sir EDWARD BAYNTON. Knt.
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LETTER From Mr. LATIMER to Sir EDWARD BAYNTON. Knt.
RIGHT worshipful sir, I recommend myself unto you, with hearty thanks for your friendly, charitable, and mindful remembrance of so poor a wretch. Whereas of late I received your letters by Mr. Bonnam, and perceiving therein who are grieved with me, and what behoveth me to do in case I must needs come up, for which your goodness towards me, whereas I myself am not able to recompense, I shall not cease to pray to my Lord God, who is both able, and also doth indeed regard all them that favour the favourers of his truth for his sake; for the truth is a common thing, pertaining to every man, for which every man shall answer another day. And I desire favour neither of your mastership, nor of any man else, but in the truth and for the truth, I take God to witness, which knoweth all.
RIGHT worshipful sir, I recommend myself unto you, with hearty thanks for your friendly, charitable, and mindful remembrance of so poor a wretch. Whereas of late I received your letters by Mr. Bonnam, and perceiving therein who are grieved with me, and what behoveth me to do in case I must needs come up, for which your goodness towards me, whereas I myself am not able to recompense, I shall not cease to pray to my Lord God, who is both able, and also doth indeed regard all them that favou• the favourers of his truth for his sake; for the truth is a common thing, pertaining to every man, for which every man shall answer another day. And I desire favour neither of your mastership, nor of any man else, but in the truth and for the truth, I take God to witness, which knoweth all.
IN very deed Mr. Chancellor did show me, that my lord bishop of London had sent letters to him for me; and I made answer that he was mine ordinary, and that he might and should reform me as far as I needed reformation, as well and as soon as my lord of London. And I would be very loth (now this deep winter) being so weak and so feeble, (not only exercised with my old disease in my head and side, but also with new, both the colic and stone) to take such a journey and though he might so do, yet he needed not, for he was not bound so to do. Notwithstanding I said, if he, to do my lord of London pleasure, to my great displeasure, would needs command me to go, I would obey his command, yea, though it should be ever so great a grievance and painful to me. With which answer he was content, saying, he would certify my lord of London thereof, trusting his lordship would be content with the same.