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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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THE Galatians having for preachers and teachers the false apostles, by whose teaching they were degenerate from the sweet liberty of the gospel into the four bond of ceremonies, thought themselves, peradventure, a christian congregation, when St. ⟨p. 860⟩Paul did write his epistle unto them, and were in a quiet trade under the dominion of masterly curates, so that the false apostles might have objected to St. Paul, that his apostleship was not of God, forasmuch as there was a dissension in a christian congregation by occasion thereof▪ whilst some would renew their opinions by the occasion of the epistle, some would judge, as they were wont to do, and follow their great lords and masters the false apostles, which were not heathen and unchristened, but christened prelates of the professors of Christ. For your friends I know right well what Erasmus hath said in an epistle set before the paraphrases of the first epistle to the Corinthians, which Erasmus hath caused no small dissension with his pen in a christian congregation, inasmuch as many have dissented from him, not only in cloisters (men more than christened men) of high perfection, but also at Paul's cross, and St. Mary Spittle, besides many that with no small zeal have written against him, but not without answer.
THE Galatians having for preachers and teachers the false apostles, by whose teaching they were degenerate from the sweet liberty of the gospel into the four bond of ceremonies, thought themselves, peradventure, a christian congregation, when St. ⟨p. 860⟩Paul did write his epistle unto them, and were in a quiet trade under the dominion of masterly curates, so that the false apostles might have objected to St. Paul, that his apostleship was not of God, forasmuch as there was a dissention in a christian congregation by occasion thereof▪ whilst some would renew their opinions by the occasion of the epistle, some would judge, as they were wont to do, and follow their great lords and masters the false apostles, which were not heathen and unchristened, but christened prelates of the professors of Christ. For your friends I know right well what Erasmus hath said in an epistle set before the paraphrases of the first epistle to the Corinthians, which Erasmus hath caused no small dissention with his pen in a christian congregation, inasmuch as many have dissented from him, not only in cloisters (men more than christened men) of high perfection, but also at Paul's cross, and St. Mary Spittle, besides many that with no small zeal have written against him, but not without answer.