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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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MOREOVER, I will ask them the cause of all insurrections, which have heretofore been in this realm. And whence is it that there be so many extortioners, bribers, murderers, and thieves, which ••ily do not only break your grace's […], and statutes▪ but also the laws and commandments of Almighty God? I think they will not say these books, but rather their pardons, which causeth many a man to sin in trust of them. For as for those malefactors which I now rehearsed, you shall not find one among a hundred; but he will cry out, both of these books, and also of them that have them, yea and will be glad to spend the goods which he hath wrongfully gotten; upon faggots, to burn both the books, and them that have them.
MOREOVER, I will ask them the cause of all in•urrections, which have heretofore been in this realm. And whence is it that there be so many extortioners, bribers, murderers, and thieves, which ••ily do not only break your grace's 〈…〉, and statutes▪ but also the laws and commandments of Almighty God? I think they will not say these books, but rather their pardons, which causeth many a man to sin in trust of them. For as for those mal•factors which I now rehearsed, you shall not find one among a hundred; but he will cry out, both of these books, and also of them that have them, yea and will be glad to spend the goods which he hath wrongfully gotten; upon faggots, to burn both the books, and them that have them.
AND as touching these men that were lately punished for these books, there is no man, I hear say, that can lay any word or deed against them that should sound to the breaking of any of your grace's laws, this only except, if it be you•'s, and not rather […]. And be it so that […] b• some that have these books, that be evil, unruly, and self-willed persons, not regarding God's law, […] man's, yet thse books be not the cause thereof, no more than was the bodily presence of Christ and his words the cause that […] sell, but their own froward mind and […], which should be amended by the virtuous example of living of their rates, and by the true exposition of the scripture. If the lay-people had such curates that would […] do their office, neither these books, nor the devil himself, could hurt or put them out of order, so that the lack of good […] is the destruction and cause of all mischief. Neither do I write […] things because that I will either excuse these mn lately punished, or to affirm all to be true […] in these bks, which I have not all read, but to show that there cannot such inconvenience follow of them, and especially of the scripture, as they would make […] believe should follow.