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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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AND I would fain learn of your friends, whether St. Jerome's writings were of God, which caused dissension in a christian congregation, as it appeareth by his own words in the prologue before the canonical epistles, which be these: And whilst that you, Eustochium, virgin of Christ, inquire so earnestly of me the truth of the scripture, you seem in some measure to put off my old age, corroded with teeth and bites of the envious, who style me a falsiter and corrupter of scriptures; but I am not affrighted at their envy in such a work, nor will deny the truth of the scriptures to those that require it. I pray you, what were they that called St. Jerome a falsiter and corrupter of scripture, and for envy would have bitten him with their teeth; unchristian or christian? What had the unchristian to do with the christian doctrine? They were worshipful fathers of a christian congregation, men of much hotter stomachs than right judgments, of a greater authority than good charity. But St. Jerome would not cease to do good for the evil speaking of them that were naught, giving in that an example to us of the same; and if this dissension were in St. Jerome's time, what may be in our time? From ill to worse.
AND I would fain learn of your friends, whether St. Jerome's writings were of God, which caused dissention in a christian congregation, as it appeareth by his own words in the prologue before the canonical epistles, which be these: And whilst that you, Eustochium, virgin of Christ, inquire so earnestly of me the truth of the scripture, you seem in some measure to put off my old age, corroded with teeth and bites of the envious, who style me a falsiter and corrupter of scriptures; but I am not affrighted at their envy in such a work, nor will deny the truth of the scriptures to those that require it. I pray you, what were they that called St. Jerome a falsiter and corrupter of scripture, and for envy would have bitten him with their teeth; unchristian or christian? What had the unchristian to do with the christian doctrine? They were worshipful fathers of a christian congregation, men of much hotter stomachs than right judgments, of a greater authority than good charity. But St. Jerome would not cease to do good for the evil speaking of them that were naught, giving in that an example to us of the same; and if this dissention were in St. Jerome's time, what may be in our time? From ill to worse.