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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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But nevertheless shall the subject die the death himself also; that is, he shall also be damned for his own sin; for if the blind lead the blind, Christ saith, not the leader only, but he saith, both shall fall into the ditch. Shall the synagogue and senate of the Jews (think you) which forsook Christ, and consented to his death, therefore be excused, because Annas and Caiaphas, with the scribes and pharisees▪ and their clergy, did teach them amiss? Yea, and also Pilate the governor, and emperor's lieutenant, by his tyranny, did without cause put him to death. Forsooth no, my lords, no. For notwithstanding that corrupt doctrine, or Pilate's washing of his hands, neither shall excuse that synagogue, or Pilate; but at the Lord's hand, for the effusion of innocent blood, all shall drink of the deadly cup. You are witty, and understand what I mean, therefore I will pass over this, and return to tell you how you are fallen from Christ to his adversary the bishop of Rome.
AND lest, my lords, you may peradventure think, thus barely to the bishop of Rome Christ's adversary, or (to speak in plain terms) to call him Antichrist that it is done in mine anguish, and that I but rage, and as a desperate man do not care what I say, or upon whom I rail; therefore that your lordships may perceive my mind, and thereby understand that I speak the words of truth and sobriety. (as St. Paul said unto Festus) be it known unto your lordships, (the living Lord beareth me witness, before whom I speak) I do think many a good holy man, many martyrs and saints of God have sat and taught in that place Christ's gospel truly, which therefore justly may be called Apostolici, that is, true disciples of the apostles, and also that church and congregation of christians to be a right apostolic church: yea, and that certain hundred years after the same was first erected and built upon Christ, by the true apostolical doctrine taught by the mouths of the apostles themselves. If you will know how long that was, and how many hundred years, to be curious in pointing the precise number of the years, I will not be too bold, but thus I say, So long and so many hundred years as that see did truly preach and teach that religion, exercised that power, and ordered every thing by those laws and rules which that see received of the apostles, and (as Tertullian saith) the apostles of Christ, and Christ of God: so long, I say, that see might well have been called Peter and Paul's chair, and the bishop thereof Apostolicus, or true disciple and successor of the apostles, and a minister of Christ.