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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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I deny your argument by your leave; yea, if it be by faith, as you say, it is more sure, because the certainty of faith is the surest certainty, as Duns and other school doctors say▪ that there is a great disagreement between certain knowledge and clear knowledge; for that may be of things absent that appear not, this requireth the presence of the object, I mean of the thing known, so that I certainly and surely know the thing which I perfectly believe, though I do not clearly and evidently know […] know your school […] as well as you, which disput• as though […] knowledge, that is to say, dark and obscure knowledge, might not be certain and sure knowledge▪ because it is not clear, manifest, and evident knowledge; and yet there have been (say they) which have had a zeal, but not after knowledge. True it is there have been such, and yet are too many to great hindrance of Christ's glory, which nothing doth more obscure, than a hot zeal accompanied with great authority without right judgment. There have been also, which have had knowledge without any zeal of God, who holding the verity of God in unrighteousness, shall be beaten with many stripes, while they knowing the will of God do nothing thereafter. I mean not among Turks and Saracens that be unchristened, but of them that be christened. And there have been also, they that have lost the spiritual knowledge of God's word which they had before, because they have not followed after it, nor promoted the same, but rather with their mother's wits have impugned the wisdom of the Father, and hindered the knowledge thereof, which therefore hath been taken away from them; that Christ may be justified in his sayings, and overcome when he is judged, threatening, Matth. xiii. To him that hath not, that also which he hath, that is, that which he seemeth to have, shall be taken from him: when as to abuse that which a man hath, or not to use it well, is as not to have it. And also seeing it is true, that God's wisdom will not dwell in a body subject to sin, although' he abound too much in carnal wisdom: yet the same carnal and philosophical understanding of God's scriptures, is not the wisdom of God, which is hid from the wise, and is revealed to little ones.
I deny your argument by your leave; yea, if it be by faith, as you say, it is more sure, because the certainty of faith is the surest certainty, as Duns and other school doctors say that there is a great disagreement between certain knowledge and clear knowledge; for that may be of things absent that appear not, this requireth the presence of the object, I mean of the thing known, so that I certainly and surely know the thing which I perfectly believe, though I do not clearly and evidently know know your school as well as you, which disput as though knowledge, that is to say, dark and obscure knowledge, might not be certain and sure knowledge because it is not clear, manifest, and evident knowledge; and yet there have been (say they) which have had a zeal, but not after knowledge. True it is there have been such, and yet are too many to great hindrance of Christ's glory, which nothing doth more obscure, than a hot zeal accompanied with great authority without right judgment. There have been also, which have had knowledge without any zeal of God, who holding the verity of God in unrighteousness, shall be beaten with many stripes, while they knowing the will of God do nothing thereafter. I mean not among Turks and Saracens that be unchristened, but of them that be christened. And there have been also, they that have lost the spiritual knowledge of God's word which they had before, because they have not followed after it, nor promoted the same, but rather with their mother's wits have impugned the wisdom of the Father, and hindered the knowledge thereof, which therefore hath been taken away from them; that Christ may be justified in his sayings, and overcome when he is judged, threatening,