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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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THEREFORE all this toucheth not them that be unbaptized, but them that be baptized, and answer not to their baptism. For St. Jerome showeth how true preachers should order themselves, when evil priests and false preachers, and the people that be by them deceived, should be angr• with them for preaching the truth, exhorting them to suffer death for the same, of the evil priests and false preachers, and the people deceived of them, which evil priests and false preachers, with the people deceived, be baptized as well as others. And I fear that St. Jerome might appear to some christian congregation, as they will be called, to write seditiously, to divide the unity of a great honest number confessing Christ, in one baptism, one Lord, one faith, saying, The people which before were brought asleep by their masters, must go up ⟨p. 861⟩to the mountains, not such mountains which smoke when they are touched, but to the mountains of the Old and New Testament, the prophets, apostles, and evangelists. And when thou art occupied in reading in these mountains, if then thou find no instructors, (for the harvest is great▪ and the workmen few) yet shall the diligent study of the people be fleeing to the mountains, and the slothfulness of the masters shall be rebuked.
THEREFORE all this toucheth not them that be unbaptized, but them that be baptized, and answer not to their baptism. For St. Jerome sheweth how true preachers should order themselves, when evil priests and false preachers, and the people that be by them deceived, should be angr• with them for preaching the truth, exhorting them to suffer death for the same, of the evil priests and false preachers, and the people deceived of them, which evil priests and false preachers, with the people deceived, be baptized as well as others. And I fear that St. Jerome might appear to some christian congregation, as they will be called, to write seditiously, to divide the unity of a great honest number confessing Christ, in one baptism, one Lord, one faith, saying, The people which before were brought asleep by their masters, must go up ⟨p. 861⟩to the mountains, not such mountains which smoke when they are touched, but to the mountains of the Old and New Testament, the prophets, apostles, and evangelists. And when thou art occupied in reading in these mountains, if then thou find no instructors, (for the harvest is great and the workmen few) yet shall the diligent study of the people be fleeing to the mountains, and the slothfulness of the masters shall be rebuked.