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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 appeareth before the Commissioners.
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LINCOLN. Mr. Latimer, I am sorry you are brought so soon, although it is the bailiff's fault, and not mine: but it shall be amended.
THEN Mr. Latimer bowed his knee down to the ground, holding his hat in his hand, having a kerchief on his head, and upon it a night cap or two, and a great cap (such as townsmen use, with two broad fl••s to button under the chin), wearing an old thread-bare Bristow frieze gown girded to his body with a penny leather girdle, at which hanged by a long string his Testament, and his spectacles without a case, depending about his neck upon his breast. After this the bishop of Lincoln began on thi• manner.
THEN Mr. Latimer bowed his knee down to the ground, holding his hat in his hand, having a kerchief on his head, and upon it a night cap or two, and a great cap (such as townsmen use, with two broad fl••s to button under the chin), wearing an old thread-bare Bristow frize gown girded to his body with a penny leather girdle, at which hanged by a long string his Testament, and his spectacles without a case, depending about his neck upon his breast. After this the bishop of Lincoln began on thi• manner.
LINCOLN. Mr. Latimer, you shall understand, that I and my lords here have a commission from my lord cardinal Poole's grace, legate a latere to this realm of England, from our most reverend father in God, the pope's holiness, to examine you upon certain opinions and assertions of your's, which you, as well here openly in disputations in the year of our Lord 1554, as at sundry and at divers other times, did affirm, maintain, and obstinately defend. In which commission be specially two points; the one which we must desire you is, that if you shall now recant, revoke, and disannul these your errors, and together with all this realm, yea, all the world, confess the truth, we, upon due repentance on your part, shall receive you, reconcile you, acknowledge you no longer a strayed sheep, but adjoin you again to the unity of Christ's church, from which you, in the time of schism, fell. So that it is no new place to which I exhort you; I desire you to return thither from whence you went. CONSIDER, Mr. Latimer, that without unity of the church there is no salvation, and in the church there be no errors. Therefore what should hinder you to confess that which all the realm confesseth, to forsake that which their majesties the king and queen have renounced, and all the realm recanted: it was a common error, and it is now of all confessed; it will be no more shame to you than it was to us all. Consider, Mr Latimer, that within this twenty years this realm also with all the world confessed one church, acknowledged in Christ's church an head, and by what means, and for what occasion it cut off itself from the rest of christianity, and renounced that which in all times and ages was confessed, it is well known, and might be now declared upon what good foundation the see of Rome was forsaken, save that we must spare them that are dead, to whom the rehearsal would be opprobrious; it is no usurped power, as it hath been termed, but founded upon Peter by Christ, a sure foundation, a perfect builder, as by divers places, as well of the ancient fathers, as by the express word of God may he proved. WITH that Mr. Latimer, who before leaned his