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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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Volume 1 › Book 2 › Chapter 12 › Bishop LATIMER'S Letter to a Justice of the Peace.
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For in that you would your awardship should take no effect, you show yourself nothing inclinable to the redress of your brother's u•right dealing with an honest poor man, which hath been ready at ⟨p. 877⟩your request to do you pleasure with his things, or he had never come into this wrangle for his own goods with your brother. AH, master N. what manner of man do you show yourself to be? or what manner of conscience do you show yourself to have? For, first, as touching your brother, you know well that sir Thomas Coking, with a letter of his own hand writing, hath witnessed unto your brother's agreement; which letter he sent to me unsealed, and I showed the same to my neighbour, and others before I sealed it, and perchance have a copy of the same yet to show. With what conscience then can you say that I shall never be able to prove it? Shall not three men upon their oaths make a sufficient proof, think you? The Lord himself says, is the mouth of two or three, &c. Yea, you think i• true, I dare say, in your conscience, if you have any conscience, though I were in my grave, and so unable to prove any thing. As for the two tenants, they be as they be, and I trust to see them handled according as they be three men yet alive, that dare swear upon a book, that they both did agree. But what should we look for at such men's hands, when you yourself play the part you do? But God is yet alive, who seeth all, and judgeth justly. ALSO, sir, you said yet further, that the justices of the peace in the county think you▪ very unnatural, in taking part with me before your brother, &c. Ah, master N. what a sentence is this to come out of your mouth? For partaking is one thing, and ministering of justice is another thing; and a worthy minister of justice will be no partaker, but one indifferent between party and party. And did I ••quire you take my part, I pray you? No, I required you to administer justice between your brother and my neighbour, without any partaking with either▪ But what manner of justices be they, I pray you, who would so fain have you to take part naturally with your brother, when you ought and should reform and amend your brother? as you yourself know, no man better. What, justice! No, jugglers you might more worthily call such as they be, than justices.