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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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for I see they will assault thee also▪ If this be true, (as my lord is a man credible enough in such a matter) hereby is is declared of what mind you were then, as touching the blessed sacrament. ALSO in a sermon of your's at Paul's Cross, you as effectually and as catholicly spake of that blessed sacrament as any man might have done, whereby it appeareth that is no strange thing, nor unknown place whereunto I exhort you. I wish you to return thither from whence you came, that is, with us to acknowledge the church of God, wherein no man may err, to acknowledge the supremacy of our most reverend father in God the pope's holiness, which (as I said) lineally taketh his descent from Peter, upon whom Christ promised, before his death, to build his church; which supremacy or prerogative the most ancient fathers in all ages, in all times did acknowledge: and here he brought a place or two out of the doctors, but especially fixed upon a place of St. Augustine, who writeth after this manner; All the christian countries beyond the sea are subject to the church of Rome. Here you see, Mr. Ridley, that all Christendom is subject to the church of Rome. What should hinder you therefore to confess the same as St. Augustine and other fathers? THEN Dr. Ridley desired his patience to suffer him to speak somewhat of the premises, lest the multitude of things might confound his memory; and having leave granted him, he said in this manner.
for I see they will assault thee also▪ If this be true, (as my lord is a man credible enough in such a matter) hereby is is declared of what mind you were then, as touching the blessed sacrament. ALSO in a sermon of your's at Paul's Cross, you as effectually and as catholicly spake of that blessed sacrament as any man might have done, whereby it appeareth that is no strange thing, nor unknown place whereunto I exhort you. I wish you to return thi•her from whence you came, that is, with us to acknowledge the church of God, wherein no man may err, to acknowledge the supremacy of our most reverend father in God the pope's holiness, which (as I said) lineally taketh his descent from Peter, upon whom Christ promised, before his death, to build his church; which supremacy or prerogative the most ancient fathers in all ages, in all times did acknowledge: and here he brought a place or two out of the doctors, but especi•lly fixed upon a place of St. Augustine, who writeth after this manner; All the christian countries beyond the sea are subject to the church of Rome. Here you see, Mr. Ridley, that all Christendom is subject to the church of Rome. What should hinder you therefore to confess the same as St. Augustine and other fathers? THEN Dr. Ridley desired his patience to suffer him to speak somewhat of the premises, lest the multitude of things might confound his memory; and having leave granted him, he said in this manner.