BY PAGANS, JEWS, TURKS, PAPISTS, AND OTHERS, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES OF THE CHURCH TO THE PRESENT PERIOD.
INCLUDING THE Life, Sufferings, and Martyrdom of Our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST; WITH THE Martyrdom of the APOSTLES, EVANGELISTS, and other PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS.
The Ten Great Persecutions under the Roman Emperors.
The Persecutions in Persia, under Saphores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. The Martyrdom of the Missionaries in China: The Persecutions in the East-Indies: The Barbarities exercised by the Spaniards in America: And the Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia.
The Persecutions exercised by the Papists in various Parts of Europe.
Together with a COMPLETE HISTORY of the MARTYRDOMS of The FAITHFUL and VIRTUOUS in the First Ages of the World: The Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistines, and other barbarous Nations.
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.
THE NEW AND COMPLETE BOOK of MARTYRS; OR, An Vniversal 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 THE EARLIEST AGES OF THE CHURCH TO THE PRESENT PERIOD.INCLUDING THE Life, Sufferings, and Martyrdom of Our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST; WITH THE Martyrdom of the APOSTLES, EVANGELISTS, and other PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS.The Ten Great Persecutions under the Roman Emperors.The Persecutions in Persia, under Saphores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. The Martyrdom of the Missionaries in China: The Persecutions in the East-Indies: The Barbarities exercised by the Spaniards in America: And the Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia.The Persecutions exercised by the Papists in various Parts of Europe.Together with a COMPLETE HISTORY of the MARTYRDOMS of The FAITHFUL and VIRTUOUS in the First Ages of the World: The Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistines, and other barbarous Nations.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.
Title page of The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being…, New-York, 1794
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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].
John Foxe 1516–1587New-York: printed by William Durell, 1794
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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.
IT is good for a man not to touch a woman; this word good is not understood of merit and deserving before God, as though an unmarried man were better before him, than the married, like as St. Jerome hath expounded this text; for it concerneth only faith▪ and […] deed or work, but it is spoken of temporal •••etness of this life, so that the virgin and maid hath much more joy and tranquillity.
IT is good for a man not to touch a woman; this word good is not understood of merit and deserving before God, as though an unmarried man were better before him, than the married, like as St. Jerome hath expounded this text; for it concerneth only faith▪ and 〈…〉 deed or work, but it is spoken of temporal •••etness of this life, so that the virgin and maid hath much more joy and tranquillity.
CHARITY is a good thing, if lust and incontinency make it not so common a thing as we have hitherto used to do, and yet do, but all amiss; but the apostle willeth, that all men universally be conjugal; but all the bishops since his time have destroyed this godly ordinance, when they babble and rail in pulpits, changing this word every into certain.
CHANTITY is a good thing, if lust and incontinency make it not so common a thing as we have hitherto used to do, and yet do, but all amiss; but the apostle willeth, that all men universally be conjugal; but all the bishops since his time have destroyed this godly ordinance, when they babble and rail in pulpits, changing this word every into certain.
MEN ought to stint of their statutes-making for a better statute can none be than this, that men without any respect of time use their wife, not to exempt certain days as they have which we call vigils, and women conceived.
