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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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Volume 1 › Book 2 › Chapter 12 › Out of the Book of BEGGARS.
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Out of the Book of BEGGARS.
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