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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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December 1, 1530.
IN this letter of Bishop Latimer to the king above prefixed, many things we have to consider; First, his good conscience to God, his good will to the king, the duty of a right pastor unto truth, his tender care to the commonwealth, and especially to the church of Christ. Further, we have to consider the abuse of princes' courts, how kings may be abused with flatterers and wicked counsellors about them; and especially, we may note the subtle practices of prelates, in abusing the name and authority of kings, to set forth their own malignant proceedings. We may see moreover, and rather marvel at in the said letter, the great boldness and divine stoutness in this man, who as yet being no bishop, so freely and plainly without any fear of death, adventuring his life to discharge his conscience, durst so boldly, to so mighty a prince, in such a dangerous case, against the king's law and proclamation set out in such a terrible tim• take upon him to write, and to admonish that which no counsellor durst so much as once mention unto him in defence of Christ's gospel. Whose example, if the bishops and prelates of this realm, for their parts likewise, in like cases would follow (as indeed they ought to do) it is very probable that many things would not be so out of frame as they be.
FINALLY, this moreover in the said letter is to be noted, how blessedly Almighty God wrought with ⟨p. 875⟩his faithful servant's bold adventure, and wholesome counsel, though it did not prevail through the iniquity of the time, yet God so wrought with his servant in doing his duty, that no danger, nor yet displeasure rose to him thereby, but rather thanks and good will of the prince; for not long after the same he was advanced by the king to the bishopric of Worcester, as is above declared.