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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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FAREWELL now all you citizens that be of God, of what state and condition soever you be. Undoubtedly in London you have heard God's word truly preached. My heart's desire and daily prayer shall be for you, as for whom, for my time, I know to my Lord God I am accountable, that you never swerve, neither for loss of life, nor worldly goods, from God's holy word, and yield unto Antichrist: whereupon must needs follow the extreme displeasure of God, and the loss both of your bodies and souls, into perpetual damnation evermore.
FAREWEL now all you citizens that be of God, of what state and condition soever you be. Undoubtedly in London you have heard God's word truly preached. My heart's desire and daily prayer shall be for you, as for whom, for my time, I know to my Lord God I am accountable, that you never swerve, neither for loss of life, nor worldly goods, from God's holy word, and yield unto Antichrist: whereupon must needs follow the extreme displeasure of God, and the loss both of your bodies and souls, into perpetual damnation evermore.
NOW that I have gone through the places where I have dwelt any space in the time of my pilgrimage here upon earth, remembering that for the space of king Edward's reign, which was the time of mine office in the sees of London and Rochester, I was a member of the higher house of parliament; therefore seeing my God hath given me leisure, and the remembrance thereof, I will bid the lords of temporality farewell. They shall have no just cause, by God's grace, to take in ill part what I intend to say. As for the spiritual prelacy that now is, I have nothing to say them, except I should repeat again a great part of what I have said before now already to the see of London. To you therefore, my lords of the temporality, will I speak, and this would I have you first to understand, that when I wrote this, I looked daily when I should be called to the change of this life, and thought this my writing should not come to your knowledge before the time of the dissolution of my body and soul should be expired; and therefore know ye, that I had before mine eyes only the fear of God, and christian charity towards you, which moveth me to write; for of you hereafter I look not in this world, either for pleasure or displeasure. If my talk shall do you ever so much displeasure or profit, you cannot promote me, nor if I displease you, can you hurt me or harm me, for I shall be out of your reach. Now therefore, if you fear God, and can be content to hear the talk of him that seeketh nothing at your hands, but to serve God, and to do you good, hearken to what I say.