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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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Errors, Blasphemies, and Heresies, noted in the Book of the Revelation of Antichrist, and the Epistle going before.
TO bind a man perpetually to any vow of religion, is without doubt an error.
TO feign the constitutions of religion are good because holy men did ordain them, as Augustine, Benedict, Francis, Dominic, and such others, that is to leave the faith; and to follow such examples of fathers in some things, that is, in these things, is erring.
TO feign the constitutions of religion are good because holy men did ordain them, as Augustine, Benedict, Francis, Domimick, and such others, that is to leave the faith; and to follow such examples of fathers in some things, that is, in these things, is erring.
IF they would make all the observation• of the ceremonies, as Lent, fasting, holy-days, confession, matrimony, mass, matins, relics, &c. free and indifferent, he should not be Antichrist; but now because he commandeth it in the name of Christ, he doth utterly corrupt the church, suppress the faith, and advance sin.