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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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FASTING is a measurable usage of meats and drinks; prayer is a crying, sighing, desiring, and mourning.
NO man ought to enforce and compel men to fasting and prayer, as they hitherto by laws have done.
BEFORE God, all things are alike and equal.
ABOMINABLY they do sin who make nuns swell in pride, when they babble, that their religion is more precious than matrimony, and then feign that they shall have a crown or garland of gold, so making them arrogant, wicked, unfaithful; chastity is a gift of God, and therefore can no man neither promise, nor vow, nor keep it.
THE sects of all them that are called religious, and of all manner of shavelings, are falsely called the spiritual orders: for matrimony like as in very deed, so it ought to be called the spiritual state before other orders worldly and secular; matrimony is of all other the highest religion, and most spiritual estate.
THE sects of all them that are called religious, and of all manner of shavelings, are falsly called the spiritual orders: for matrimony like as in very deed, so it ought to be called the spiritual state before other orders worldly and secular; matrimony is of all other the highest religion, and most spiritual estate.
BY testimony of scriptures, all the apostles and all the bishops' successors were married.
ST. PAUL saith, That he ought to be chosen to be a bishop that is the husband of one wife.
SEEING you choose not married men to be bishops, either Christ must be a fool and unrighteous, who did not so choose, or you Antichrists and deceivers.
SEEING you chuse not married men to be bishops, either Christ must be a fool and unrighteous, who did not so chuse, or you Antichrists and deceivers.
YOU put away universal marriage from priests, contrary unto God, to nature, to season, to right, only of presumption, without any manner of cause.
THERE is no sin nor mischief in all the world so great, that can hinder a man from priest-hood, but godly matrimony.
WHAT other thing is it to say, that a priest should not marry, than to say, that a man should not be a man?
THIS I dare be bold to say, that where one is chaste, there ought to be more than an hundred thousand to live married.
TO keep a young man in a cloister to live chaste, is as much as to offer a child to Moloch there to be burnt.
TO keep a young man in a clo•ster to live chaste, is as much as to offer a child to Moloch there to be burnt.
ALL which great errors and pestilent heresies being contagious and damnable, with all the books containing the same, with the translation of scripture corrupted by William Tyndale, as well in the Old Testament as in the New, and all other books in English containing such error, the king's highness present in person, by one whole advice and assent of the prelates and clerks, as well of the universities, as of all o•her assembled together, determined utterly to be repelled, rejected, and put away out of the hands of his people, and not to be suffered to go abroad among his subjects; and his highness willeth further, that his pleasure and determination should be notified by preachers abroad unto the people, as well for putting away of all such books, as reading, retaining, or having hereafter of any other like, delivering unto certain preachers the form of a writing to be published in effect unto the people in their sermons, whereof the form here followeth, willing them in all his realm to publish the same.
ALL which great errors and pestilent heresies being contagious and damnable, with all the books containing the same, with the transla•ion of scripture corrupted by William Tindal, as well in the Old Testament as in the New, and all other books in English containing such error, the king's highness present in person, by one whole advice and assent of the prelates and clerks, as well of the universities, as of all o•her assembled together, determined utterly to be repelled, rejected, and put away out of the hands of his people, and not to be suffered to go abroad among his subjects; and his highness willeth further, that his pleasure and determination should be notified by preachers abroad unto the people, as well for putting away of all such books, as reading, retaining, or having hereafter of any other like, delivering unto certain preachers the form of a writing to be published in effect unto the people in their sermons, whereof the form here followeth, willing them in all his realm to publish the same.
IT is the office and duty of every preacher and teacher of the word of God, not only to show and declare unto his audience that which might be profitable and wholesome for the wealth of their ⟨p. 867⟩souls, to be followed and taken, but also to note and signify unto them such things as may be dangerous and contagious, to the intent they might be avoided and eschewed, and also as near as they can judge who be teachers and authors of the same; this example we have of our Saviour Christ, where he saith. Beware of false prophets, &c. St. Paul likewise many times giveth warning to such as he wrote unto, that they should beware of the false apostles▪ that in his absence went about to corrupt the doctrine that he had taught them being present. Wherefore considering that it hath pleased the king's highness, like a noble and a virtuous prince, tendering not only the present wealth and tranquillity of all his subjects, for his and the worldly benefit and advantage, but most chiefly regarding the wealth of their souls and their due order towards God, thereby to deserve and attain immortal glory, to assemble and call together the chief personages of his prelates, and a great number of learned men of both universities, charging and commanding them for the discharge and exoneration of his conscience, to find, read, examine and discuss, the contents of such books as are now spread abroad within his grace's realm in the English tongue, concerning the points and articles of our faith, and after their learning and conscience to make relation unto his highness, whether the same books be expedient and profitable for his people, to the direction and ordering of their conscience and soul, or else contagious and pestiferous for the same: and whether the opinions contained in them, were agreeable to God's word and doctrine or no, forasmuch as the said congregation and assembly had free liberty and licence granted unto every man to say as his conscience and lea•ning served him, without any reproof or blame to be imputed or arrested for any thing to be spoken there, whose person soever it touched, or any necessity to agree to the greater part, but only to say that his own learning and conscience could maintain and justify;
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