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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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RIDLEY. Why, my lord, will you require my answer, and not suffer me to publish it? I beseech you, my lord, let the audience bear witness to your doings.
LINCOLN. Well, Mr. Ridley, we will first see what you have written, and then if we shall think it good to be read, you shall have it published; but except you will deliver it first, we we will take none at all of you. WITH that Dr. Ridley, seeing no remedy, delivered it to an officer, who immediately delivered it to the bishop of Lincoln, who after he had secretly communicated it to the other two bishops, declared the sense, but would not read it as it was written, saying, that it contained words of blasphemy: therefore he would not fill the ears of the audience therewithal, and so abuse their patience: notwithstanding Dr. Ridley desired very instantly to have it published, saying, that except a line or two, there was nothing contained but the ancient fathers saying for the confirmation of his assertions. AFTER the said bishops had secretly viewed the whole, the then bishop Lincoln said: In the first part, Mr. Ridley, is nothing contained but your protestation, that you would no• have these your answers to be taken, as though you seemed thereby to consent to the authority or jurisdiction of the pope's holiness.
RIDLEY. No, my lord, I pray you read it out that the audience may hear it: but the bishop of Lincoln would in no wise, because (he said) there were contained words of blasphemy. THEN the bishop of Lincoln recited the first article, and required Dr. Ridley's answer to it. Then Dr. Ridley said, that his answer was there in writing, and desired that it might be published; but the bishop would not read the whole, but here and there a piece of it. So the notaries took his answer, that he referred them to his answer in writing exhibited now, and also before at the time of disputation, Dr. Weston being prolocutor. IN like manner the bishop of Lincoln recited the second article, and required an answer, and Dr. Ridley referred him to his answer in writing exhibited now, and also before at the time of disputation: and like answers were taken to all the rest of the articles. THESE answers in this manner rehearsed, taken and penned by the notaries, the bishop of Gloucester began an exhortation to move Dr. Ridley to turn.