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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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FOR my life, I trust in God that I neither (by God's grace) shall, neither in soberness, nor yet in drunkenness, affirm any truth of myself, therewith intending to divide that unity of the congregation of Christ, and the received truth agreed upon by the holy fathers of the church, consonant to the scripture of God, though it be showed you ever so often, that an opinion or manner of teaching, which causeth dissension in a christian congregation, is not of God, by the doctrine of St. John in his epistle, where he saith, Every one that confesseth Christ hath come in the flesh, is of God. First, Not every thing whereupon followeth dissension, causeth dissension, as I would that they showed you, that would also show you, whether this opinion, that a man may not marry his brother's wife, be of God or of men: if it be of men, then as Gamaliel said, dissolve it; if it be of God, as I think it is, and perchance your friends also, who can dissolve it, but shall seem to repugn against God? And yet there may be many, not heathens, but in Christendom, that dissent from the same, which could bear full evil to hear said unto them. You are of the devil's side. So that such an opinion might seem to some to make a dissension in a christian congregation, saying that they may say perchance with more liberty than others, that an occasion is sometimes taken and not given, which with their favour I might abuse for my defence, saying, that it is not granted unto all in these worst of times.
FOR my life, I trust in God that I neither (by God's grace) shall, neither in soberness, nor yet in drunkenness, affirm any truth of myself, therewith intending to divide that unity of the congregation of Christ, and the received truth agreed upon by the holy fathers of the church, consonant to the scripture of God, though it be shewed you ever so often, that an opinion or manner of teaching, which causeth dissention in a christian congregation, is not of God, by the doctrine of St. John in his epistle, where he saith, Every one that confesseth Christ hath come in the flesh, is of God. First, Not every thing whereupon followeth dissention, causeth dissention, as I would that they shewed you, that would also shew you, whether this opinion, that a man may not marry his brother's wife, be of God or of men: if it be of men, then as Gamaliel said, dissolve it; if it be of God, as I think it is, and perchance your friends also, who can dissolve it, but shall seem to repugn against God? And yet there may be many, not heathens, but in Christendom, that dissent from the same, which could bear full evil to hear said unto them. You are of the devil's side. So that such an opinion might seem to some to make a dissention in a christian congregation, saying that they may say perchance with more liberty than others, that an occasion is sometimes taken and not given, which with their favour I might abuse for my defence, saying, that it is not granted unto all in these worst of times.