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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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Here followeth the BILL in English, to be published by the PREACHER.
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 leaning 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;