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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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BUT, as concerning this matter, other men have showed your grace their minds, how necessary it is to have the scripture in English. Which thing also your grace hath promised by your last proclamation: which promise I pray God that your gracious highness may shortly perform, even to-day before to-morrow. Nor let the wickedness of these worldly men detain you from your godly purpose and promise. Remember the subtle worldly wise counsellors of Hanun the son of Na•s, king of the Ammonites, whom when David sent his servants […] comfort the young king for the death of his father, by crafty imaginations counselled Hanun, not only to receive them gently, but to treat them mo•• shamefully and cruelly, saying, "That they cam• not to comfort him, but to espy and search hi• land, so that afterward, they bringing David wor• how every thing stood, David might come and conquer it." And he caused the young king to she• their heads, and to cut their coats by the point• ▪ and sent them away like fools; whom he ought rather to have made much of, and to have treated them gently, and have given them great thank• and rewards: O wretched counsellors! But […] what followed of this carnal and worldly wisdom▪ truly nothing but destruction of all the whole realm▪ and also of them that took their parts.
BUT, as concerning this matter, other men have shewed your grace their minds, how necessary it is to have the scripture in English. Which thing also your grace hath promised by your last proclamation: which promise I pray God that your gracious highness may shortly perform, even to-day before to-morrow. Nor let the wickedness of these worldly men detain you from your godly purpose and promise. Remember the subtle worldly wise counsellors of Hanun the son of Na•s, king of the Ammonites, whom when David sent his servants 〈…〉 comfort the young king for the death of his father, by crafty imaginations counselled Hanun, not only to receive them gently, but to treat them mo shamefully and cruelly, saying, "That they cam not to comfort him, but to espy and search hi land, so that afterward, they bringing David wor how every thing stood, David might come and conquer it." And he caused the young king to she their heads, and to cut their coats by the point and sent them away like fools; whom he ought rather to have made much of, and to have treated them gently, and have given them great thank and rewards: O wretched counsellors! But what followed of this carnal and worldly wisdom truly nothing but destruction of all the whole realm and also of them that took their parts.