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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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BUT now I hear say that my lord of London is informed, and upon the said information hath informed the king, that I go about to defend Bilney, and his cause, against his ordinaries and his judges, which I assure you is not so: for I had nothing to do with Bilney, nor yet with his judges, except his judges did him wrong; for I did nothing else but admonish all judges indifferently to do right; n•• am I altogether so foolish as to defend the thing which I knew not. It might have become a preach•• to say as I said, though Bilney had never been born▪ I have known Bilney a great while, I think much better than ever I did my lord of London: for • have been his spiritual father many times; and to tell you the truth, what I have thought always […] him, I have known hitherto few such so prompt and ready to do every man good according to his power, both friend and foe, and willingly offending no man; in short, he was a very good and pious soul▪ in nothing fit for this wretched world, for the blindness of which he would lament and bewail as much as any man that I ever knew: as for his singular learning, as well in holy scripture as in all good letters, I will not speak of it. Notwithstanding, if either now of late, or at any time, he attempted any thing contrary to the obedience which a christian man doth owe either to his prince or to his bishop, I neither do nor will allow and approve that, neither in him, or any other man; we are all men, and liable to fall; wherefore he that standeth, let him beware he fall not. How he ordered or misordered himself in judgment, I cannot tell, nor will I meddle with it; God knoweth, whose judgments I will not judge. But I cannot but wonder, if a man living so mercifully, so charitably, so patiently, so continently▪ so studiously and virtuously, and killing his old Adam, that is to say, mortifying his evil affections, and blind motions of his heart so diligently, should die an evil death, there is no more, but let him that standeth beware that he fall not: for if such as he shall die evil, what shall become of me, such a wretch as I am? But let this go, as little to the purpose, and come to the point we must rest upon. Either my lord of London will judge my outward man only, as it is said, Man seeth those