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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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[…] they those justices which call you unnatural, for that you will not take your brother's part against all right and conscience, whom you had picked out and appointed to have the final hearing and determining my neighbour's cause, after your substantial and final award-making? Verily, I think no less. Forsooth, he is very much obliged to you, and I also for his sake. Is that the wholesome counsel that you have to give your poor neighbours in their need? Indeed you show yourself a worthy juggler: oh, I would have said a justicer, among other of your juggling and partaking justices. O good God! what is in the world? Marry, sir, my neighbour had spun a fair thread, if your partaking-justices through your good counsel had had his matter in ordering and finishing. I pray God save me and all my friends, with all God'• flock, from your natural, and so partaking-justices, Amen. LORD God! who would have thought that there •ad been so many partaking-justices in Warwick•hire, if master N. himself, one of the same order▪ (but altogether out of order) and therefore knoweth it best, had not told us the tale? But the•• call you, you say, very unnatural, &c. And […] not rather, I pray you, too much natural? for we read of a double nature, found and corrupt. That was full of justice: this, unless it be restored, abideth always unjust, bringing forth the fruits of wickedness one after another; so that he that will not help his brother, having a just cause in his […] may be justly called unnatural, as one following […] disposition and inclination of corrupt nature against the will of God; and so to be natural may […] be cater-cousin, or cousin-german with, to be […] bolical. I fear we have too many justices that be too much natural, to their own punishment both of body and soul. For worthy justices having ever the fear and dread of God before their eye•, (of which sort we have fewer amongst us than I wish we had) w•ll have no respect at all in their judgments and proceedings, to vicinity of blood, but altogether to the worth and justice of the cause, judging that to be just which is so in the sight of God, though not of men; of which number I pray God to make you one, Amen. He is just that doth justice.