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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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THOU shalt not count at night how much money thou hast gained.
THOU shalt not vex or grieve by justice, or otherwise, the poor that oweth unto thee: for thou may•st not do it without sin.
HE that is rich and liveth of his rents, may not use to over-spend his goods as he will, but thy goods belong as well unto the poor as to thee.
GOD hath not given riches to rich men for to boast and brag therewith; nor to make great cheer, neither to make themselves lords, but to the in […] that they should be servants unto all the world.
GOD hath not given riches to rich men for to boast and brag therewith; nor to make great cheer, neither to make themselves lords, but to the in 〈…〉 that they should be servants unto all the world.
THERE be many men of great literature and judgment, that for the love they have unto the church, and unto the commonwealth, have not feared to put themselves into the greatest infamy that may be in the objection of all the world, yea in the peril of death, to declare their opinion in this matter, which is, that there is no purgatory; but that it is a thing invented by the covetousness of the spirituality, only to translate all kingdoms from other princes unto them; and that there is not one word spoken of it in all holy scripture. God took Enoch away, that is to say, he departed out of this word spoken of it in all holy scripture. God took Enoch away, that is to say, he departed out of this world like other men; the first is wrong translated, for the scripture says, he was translated, not taken away; and the last is false, for in Heb. xi. it is said, by faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him▪ and in Eccles. Enoch pleased God and was translated into paradise, that he might declare the wisdom of his people.
THERE be many men of great literature and judgment, that for the love they have unto the church, and unto the commonwealth, have not feared to put themselves into the greatest infamy that may be in the objection of all the world, yea in the peril of death, to declare their opinion in this matter, which is, that there is no purgatory; but that it is a thing invented by the covetousness of the spirituality, only to translate all kingdoms from other princes unto them; and that there is not one word spoken of it in all holy scripture. God took Enoch away, that is to say, he departed out of this word spoken of it in all holy scripture. God took Enoch away, that is to say, he departed out of this world like other men; the first is wrong translated, for the scripture says, he was translated, not taken away; and the last is false, for in Heb. xi. it is said, by faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him▪ and in Eccles. Enoch pleased God and was translated into para•ise, that he might declare the wisdom of his people.
HE putteth in the book of seven psalms, but he leaveth out the whole Litany, by which it appeareth his erroneous opinion against praying to saints.
HE hath left out all the hymns and anthems of our lady, by which appeareth his erroneous opinions against praying to our lady.
WHOSOEVER in himself doth not feel this godly thing, this gift of chastity, but doth feel incontinency, to him, I say, a commandment is given that he may be married.
HEREOF doth follow, that no person may make a vow, or promise to live chaste or single, and that none are bound to keep any such vows, but rather to break them: and he that shall observe them, it is damnable, and by the law of God already condemned.
THE touching of women, some persons have compassed too straightly, so that they dare not touch a woman's hand or skin; moreover they imagined many, both statutes and ceremonies, to keep them from company of women, as they thought that built abbeys, but how fortunately that hath come to pass, what place thereby hath been given to Satan, it were horrible to be spoken of.
THE touching of women, some persons have compassed too straightly, so that they dare not touch a woman's hand or skin; moreover they imagined many, both statutes and ceremonies, to keep them from company of women, as they thought that built abbies, but how fortunately that hath come to pass, what place thereby hath been given to Satan, it were horrible to be spoken of.
HE that is compelled outwardly to abstain from women, and is inwardly full of lust, is a dissembler, and it is double lechery.
HE that is compelled outwardly to abstain from women, and is inwardly full of lust, is a dissembler, and it is double letchery.
MARK what soul-slayers they be that provoke foolish youth to a vow of chastity, compelling them to nourish inwardly hidden malice.
ALL other evils may be suffered with a mean conscience.
