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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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IT had also holy and wholesome homilies in commendation of the principal virtues, which are ⟨p. 911⟩commended in scripture; and likewise other homilies against the most pernicious and capital vices that used (alas) to reign in this realm of England. This church had in matters of controversy, articles so penned and framed after the holy scriptures, and grounded upon the true understanding of God's word, that in short time if they had been universally received, they should have been able to have set in Christ's true religion, and to have expelled many false errors and heresies, wherewith this church, alas, was almost overgone.
IT had also holy and wholesome homil••s in commendation of the p•incipal virtues, which are ⟨p. 911⟩commended in scripture; and likewise other homilies against the most pernicious and capital vices that used (alas) to reign in this realm of England. This church had in matters of controversy, articles so penned and framed after the holy scriptures, and grounded upon the true understanding of God's word, that in short time if they had been universally received, they should have been able to have set in Christ's true religion, and to have expelled many false errors and heresies, wherewith this church, alas, was almost overgone.
BUT alas, of late into this spiritual possession of the heavenly treasure of these godly riches, are entered in thieves, that have robbed and spoiled all this treasure away. I may well complain of these things, and cry out upon them with the prophet, saying, "O Lord God, the Gentiles, heathen nations, are come into thy heritage: they have defiled thy holy temple, and made Jerusalem an heap of stones, that is, they have broken and beaten down to the ground thy holy city." This heathenish generation, these thieves of Samaria, these Sabaei and Chaldaei, these robbers have rushed out of their dens, and have robbed the church of England of all the aforesaid holy treasure of God; they have carried it away and overthrown it, and instead of God's holy word, the true and right administration of Christ's holy sacraments, as of baptism and others, they mixed their ministry with man's foolish fancies, and many wicked and ungodly traditions.