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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 Bishop LATIMER, in Answer to Sir EDWARD BAYNTON.
RIGHT worshipful sir, and my singular good master, &c. Whereas you have communicated my last letters to some of your friends, which rather this or that in me, &c. what I think therein I will not now say, not that there could be my peril or danger in the said letters (well taken) as far as I can judge, but for that they were rashly and unadvisedly scribbled, as you might well know both by my excuse, and by themselves also, though no excuse had been made. And besides that, you know right well, that where the bee gathereth honey, even there the spider gathereth venom, not for any diversity of the flower, but for different natures in them that suck the flower: as in times past, and in the beginning, the very truth, and one thing in itself was to some an offence, to some foolishness, to others otherwise disposed, the wisdom of God. Such difference there was in the hearers thereof.
BUT this notwithstanding, there is no more but either my writing is good or bad. If it be good, the communicating thereof to your friends cannot be hurtful to me; if it be otherwise, why should you not communicate it to them, who both could and would instruct you in the truth, and reform my error? Let this pass, I will not contend: "had I knew," ever cometh out of season. Truly I were not well advised if I would not either be glad of your instruction, or yet refuse mine own reformation; but yet it is good for a man to look before he leap, and God forbid that you should be so addict and sworn to me so wretched a fool, that you should not rather follow the doctrine of your friends in truth, so great learned men as they appear to be, than the opinions of me, having ever so christian a breast.