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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 2 › Chapter 1: The HISTORY of STEPHEN GARDINER, Bishop of WINCHESTER.
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CHAP. I. The HISTORY of STEPHEN GARDINER, Bishop of WINCHESTER.
THE next month after the burning of Dr. Ridley, and Mr. Latimer, which was the month of November, Stephen Gardiner, bishop, and chancellor, a man hated of God and all good men, ended his wretched life. This viper's bird crept out of the town of Bury, in Suffolk, was brought up most part of his youth in Cambridge; his wit, capacity, memory, and other endowments of nature, were not to be complained of, if he had well used, and rightly applied the same; wherein there was no great want of God's part in him, if he had not rather himself wanted to the goodness of his gifts. Through this promptness, activity, and towardness of his, he profited not a little in such studies as he gave his head unto, as first in the civil law, then in languages, and such other like, especially in those arts and faculties which had any prospect to dignity and preferment to be hoped for. Besides other ornaments or help of nature, memory chiefly seemed in him very beneficial, rather than diligence of study.
TO these gifts or qualities were joined again his great or greater vices, which not so much followed him, as overtook him, and made him burdensome to the whole realm. He was of a proud stomach, and high-minded, in his own opinion and conceit flattering himself too much; in wit, crafty and subtle: towards his superiors, flattering and fair spoken; to his inferiors, fierce; against his equals, stout and envious, especially if in judgment and sentence he any thing withstood him, as appeared between the good lord Cromwell and him, in the reign of king Henry the Eighth. Who, although he would give no place to men, yet notwithstanding I wish he would have given place to truth, according as he seemed not altogether ignorant of the truth. What his knowledge was therein