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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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LETTER From Sir EDWARD BAYNTON, Knight, in Answer to Bishop LATIMER.
MASTER LATIMER, after hearty recommendations, I have communicated the effect of your letters to divers of my friends, such as for christian charity (as they say) rather desire in you a reformation, either in your opinion, if it swerve from the truth, or at least in your manner and behaviour, inasmuch as it giveth occasion of slander and trouble, to the hindrance of your good purposes, than any other inconvenience to your person or good name. And forasmuch as your said letter misliketh them in some part, and that I have such confidence […] your christian breast, as in my judgment you will conformably and gladly both hear what may be reformed in you, and also (as it is worthy) so acknowledge and confess the same: I have therefore desired them to take the pains to note their mind in this letter which I send you, as the sum of their sayings, and sent from me your assured friend and favourer, in that which is the very truth of God's word: wherein nevertheless, as I trust you will temper your own judgment, and in soberness affirm no truth of yourself, which should divide the unity of the congregation in Christ, and the received truth agreed upon by holy fathers of the church, consonant to the scripture of God, even so whatsoever you will do therein, (as I think you will not do otherwise than you should do) I being unlearned, and not of the knowledge to give sentence in this altercation and contention, must rather of good congruence show myself in that you disagree with them, readier to follow their doctrine in truth than your's, unless it may please Almighty God to inspire and confirm the hearts of such people to testify the same in some honest number, as ought to induce me to give credence unto them.
MASTER LATIMER, after hearty recommendations, I have communicated the effect of your letters to divers of my friends, such as for christian charity (as they say) rather desire in you a reformation, either in your opinion, if it swerve from the truth, or at least in your manner and behaviour, inasmuch as it giveth occasion of slander and trouble, to the hindrance of your good purposes, than any other inconvenience to your person or good name. And forasmuch as your said letter misliketh them in some part, and that I have such confidence your christian breast, as in my judgment you will conformably and gladly both hear what may be reformed in you, and also (as it is worthy) so acknowledge and confess the same: I have therefore desired them to take the pains to note their mind in this letter which I send you, as the sum of their sayings, and sent from me your assured friend and favourer, in that which is the very truth of God's word: wherein nevertheless, as I trust you will temper your own judgment, and in soberness affirm no truth of yourself, which should divide the unity of the congregation in Christ, and the received truth agreed upon by holy fathers of the church, consonant to the scripture of God, even so whatsoever you will do therein, (as I think you will not do otherwise than you should do) I being unlearned, and not of the knowledge to give sentence in this altercation and contention, must rather of good congruence shew myself in that you disagree with them, readier to follow their doctrine in truth than your's, unless it may please Almighty God to inspire and confirm the hearts of such people to testify the same in some honest number, as ought to induce me to give credence unto them.