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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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If he will have to do only with mine outward man, and meddle with mine outward conversation, how that I have ordered myself towards my christian brethren, the king's liege people, I trust I shall please and content both my Lord God, and also my lord of London; for I have preached and teached but according to holy scripture, holy fathers, and ancient interpreters of the same, with which I think my lord of London will be pacified: for I have done nothing else in my preaching, but with all diligence moved my auditors to faith and charity, to do their duty, and that which is necessary to be done. As for things of private devotion, mean things, and voluntary things, I have reproved the abuse, the superstition of them, without condemnation of the things themselves, as it becometh preachers to do: which thing, if my lord of London, will do himself (as I wish to God he would), he should be reported, no doubt, to condemn the use of such things, of covetous men that have damage, and find less in their boxes by condemnation of the abuse, which abuse they said rather should continue still, than their profit should not continue (so thorny are their hearts). If my lord will needs coast and invade my inward man, and break violently into my heart, I fear I shall displease my lord of London (which I would not willingly do) or else my Lord God, which I shall be more loath to do: not for any infidelity, but for ignorance, for I believe as a christian man ought to believe: but peradventure my lord knoweth, and will know many things certainly, which, perchance, I am ignorant in, with which ignorance, though my lord of London may if he will be discontent, yet I trust my Lord God will pardon it, as long as I hurt no man withal, and say to him with diligent study, and daily prayer, My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready, so studying, and preaching, and tarrying the pleasure and leisure of God: and in the mean season, Acts viii. as Apollos did, when he knew nothing of Christ, but the baptism of John, teach and preach mine, even christian like, and no farther than I know to be true. There are three creeds, one in my mass, another in my matins, the third common to them that neither say mass nor matins, nor yet know what they say when they say the creed: and I believe all three, with all that God hath left in holy writ, for me and all others to believe;
If he will have to do only with mine outward man, and meddle with mine outward conversation, how that I have ordered myself towards my christian brethren, the king's liege people, I trust I shall please and content both my Lord God, and also my lord of London; for I have preached and teached but according to holy scripture, holy fathers, and ancient interpreters of the same, with which I think my lord of London will be pacified: for I have done nothing else in my preaching, but with all diligence moved my auditors to faith and charity, to do their duty, and that which is necessary to be done. As for things of private devotion, mean things, and voluntary things, I have reproved the abuse, the superstition of them, without condemnation of the things themselves, as it becometh preachers to do: which thing, if my lord of London, will do himself (as I wish to God he would), he should be reported, no doubt, to condemn the use of such things, of covetous men that have damage, and find less in their boxes by condemnation of the abuse, which abuse they said rather should continue still, than their profit should not continue (so thorny are their hearts). If my lord will needs coast and invade my inward man, and break violently into my heart, I fear I shall displease my lord of London (which I would not willingly do) or else my Lord God, which I shall be more loath to do: not for any infidelity, but for ignorance, for I believe as a christian man ought to believe: but peradventure my lord knoweth, and will know many things certainly, which, perchance, I am ignorant in, with which ignorance, though my lord of London may if he will be discontent, yet I trust my Lord God will pardon it, as long as I hurt no man withal, and say to him with diligent study, and daily prayer, My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready, so studying, and preaching, and tarrying the pleasure and leisure of God: and in the mean season,