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Fox's original and complete book of martyrs; or, an universal history of martyrdom. Containing full, copious, and authentic accounts of the lives and sufferings, together with the actions, characters, examinations, trials, religious principles, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of all the glorious Protestant martyrs, during the reign of Queen Mary the First. To which will be added, a genuine, circumstantial, full and universal history of the lives, persecutions, tortures and deaths of the primitive martyrs, [... and] Church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and others, from the birth of our blessed saviour Jesus Christ to the reign of Queen Mary. The whole originally composed b the Rev. John Fox, M.A. Formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford. A new edition. Now carefully revised by Paul Wright, D.D. Vicar of Oakley, &c. in Essex, and author of the Christian's Complete Family Bible, and other learned, peons, and useful works, universally approved by the public. Assisted by other ministers of the gospel. This most valuable and complete work will also include many additional articles of importance, among which are a genuine history of the persecutions of the people called Quakers; a full account of the western Martyrology or Bloody Assizes, under Judge Jefferies, in the West of England, in which many eminent Protestants suffered painful and cruel deaths, including also, a full account of the ten great persecutions under the roman emperors ... with a great number of cruelties exercised against the glorious Christian Martyrs not related in any other work of the kind whatever. With many other remarkable martyrdoms and persecutions, viz. Those of the more early Christian Martyrs in the very earliest Ages of the World. ... Embellished with near 300 elegant engravings.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Books
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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 Not only a New, Copious, Complete, Universal and Authentic Account of the Lives, Actions, Characters, Trials, Religious Principles, Sufferings, Tortures, and Triumphant Deaths, of the English Protestant Martyrs, In the Reign of Queen Mary the First. But also a Genuine, Full, and Circumstantial History of all the many dreadful and cruel Persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all Parts of the World, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and Others, From the very Earliest Ages of the Church, to the Present Period. Comprehending the Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Martyrdom of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs. - And including the Ten Great Persecutions, under the Roman Emperors, and many other Particulars under the following General Heads: An Ecclesiastical History of the Persecutions in Persia, under Sapores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. - The horried Persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the Martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France. - The Persecutions in Germany and Poland. - The Cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia. - The Martyrdoms in Italy. - The shocking Barbarities practised by the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, Goa, &c. and the Popish Persecutions of the Protestants during the Massacre of Paris. - A full Account of all the English Martyrdoms, particularly those in the Times of King Henry Viii. and Queen Mary I. wherein are amply displayed all the Butcheries, Tortures, and Cruelties exercised by the Roman Catholics against the Protestants, in the Reign of that tyrannical King and bloody Queen. - The Persecutions of the Quakers, &c. - Persecutions in the West of England by Judge Jeffreys. - Persecutions in Holland, Flanders, Scotland, &c. - The bloody Irish Massacre. - The great Spanish Invasion. - The dreadful Fire of London. - The shocking Gunpowder Plot. - The horrid Conspiracies in 1678. - The barbarous Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the Designs of Perkins, Friend, and Fenwick, for the Re-Establishment of Popery, and the Extirpation of Protestantism. - The Martyrdoms of the Missionaries in China. - The Persecutions in the East-Indies. - The Barbarities exercised in America. - The Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia. - The late Persecutions in France against the Calas Family. - Also the final Establishment of the Reformed Religion in the various Protestant Countries. - With a great Number of other Cruelties exercised against the Christian Martyrs, not related in any other Work of the Kind. Together with the Martyrdoms of The Faithful and Virtuous in the first Ages of the World; the Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistiries, and other barbarous Nations. Throughout this Work will be Interspersed Accounts of several singular Judgments against Persecutors, a great Variety of Original Anecdotes, the Letters which passed between the Martyrs, Letters from Bishop Bonner, and other Papists, to the Magistrates, &c. concerning the Methods of Indictment and Treatment, Translations of Popish Bulls, and other Deeds of Destruction, levelled against the Protellants, in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. &c. suitable Notes and practical Reflections adapted to the various Subjects, and many curious Lives and Memoirs; to which will be added; an Account of the Life and Death of the original Author, the Rev. Mr. John Fox. The Whole Forming At Once A General Christian Martyrology, and Complete History of Persecutions. A Work Calculated to promote the Protestant Religion, and expel Romish Superstition, and by giving a pious and Christian Turn to the Mind, be general Use and Advantage to Mankind. The whole originally composed by the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M. A. formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford, And Prebendary in the Church of Balisbury; And now revised, corrected and improved, with many necessary additional Articles relating to the Acts and Monuments of the Church, not to be found in any other Publication of this Sort, and written in a clear intelligible Stile, free from that Obscurity of Language, and Tediousness of Diction, as well as that impertect Brevity and Coheiseness, which have been so much complained of in former Works of this kind. By Paul Wright, D. D. F. S. A. Vicar of Oakley and Rector of Snoreham in Essex. late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; and Author of the Complete British Family Bible, and of the New and Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, elegantly printed in Folio; both of which Works (with the inimitable Sets of fine Copper-Plates) have met with universal Approbation, as the best and most perfectly complete Works of the Kind, for the Use of all Christian Families. Embellished with a great variety of copper-plates, representing the various Modes of cruelly torturing the Christian Martyrs for their Constancy.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Articella and other tracts
Date: 12th century - 14th centuryReference: MS.801A- Books
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A catalogue of a select and valuable collection of ancient and modern books, in various languages. Containing, A considerable Number of very rare and curious Articles in the finest Condition. Also, An extensive Assortment of the best Modern Books in the most elegant Bindings. Including the Libraries of the late J. Mainwaring, M. D. an eminent Civilian, and a celebrated Collector, deceased. Among others equally curious are, Caxton's Game of Chesse. Caxton's Chaucer. Caxton's Cato. Caxton's Alain Chartier. Caxton's Catharine of Senes. Caxton's Bull of Pope Innocent for the Marriage of Henry Vii. and Elizabeth of York. several by Wynken de Worde, Pynson, Maclinia, and other early Printers. Books printed on Vellum. Books printed at Strawberry-Hill. Sir William Dugdain's Works. Most of the scarce English Topographical Histories. Early English Poetry. Chronicles, by Froissart, Higden, Hollinshed, Hall, Grafton, Fabian, &c. Romans de Chevalerie de la Table ronde Illuminated Missals and Mss. Mss. on English History and Antiquities. Buffon's Birds, coloured, 5 vol. Morocco. Hill's Vegetable System, coloured, 26 vol. Merian's Surinam Insects, coloured. Knorr's Shells, coloured. Martyn's Shells, painted. Lister's Shells, orig. edit. large paper. Hamilton's Sicilies, coloured, 3 vol. - Etruscan Vases, coloured, 4 vol. Antiquities of Herculaneum, 7 vol. Voyages Pittoresques de la Grece, de Naples, de France, de Sicile, de Suisse, &c. 18 vol. Houbraken's Heads, large paper. Perrault Hommes Illustres, lar. pap. Vandyke's Heads. Claude's Drawings, Proofe. Pilastres of the Vatican, coloured. Cielings of the Vatican, coloured. Oeuvres de Buffon, 33 vol. complets. - de Voltaire, 30 vol. - de Rousseau, 30 vol. Tasso, 3 vol: 4 to. par Didot. Which will begin to be sold, for Ready Money, at the Prices fixed in the Catalogue, and marked in the first Leaf of each Book, in May 1787, at Edwards's, No. 102, Pall-Mall. - The full Value given for any Library or Parcel of Books. Catalogues to be had of Mr. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and at the Place of Sale; also at Edwards's, Halifax.
Edwards, James, 1756-1816.Date: 1787]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The beauty of social religion; or, the nature and glory of a Gospel Church, represented in a circular letter from the Baptist ministers and messengers, assembled at Oakham, in Rutlandshire, May 20, 21, 1777: ...
Baptist Church. Northamptonshire Association.Date: [1777]- Books
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An exposition of the XXXIV article of religion, of the traditions of the church: Refer'd to in a Report of the Committee of the Lower House of Convocation, appointed to draw up a Representation concerning several dangerous Positions and Doctrines contained in the Bishop of Bangor's Preservative, and his Sermon preach'd March 31. 1717. By a Clergyman of the Church of England.
Church of England.Date: [1718]- Books
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Ecclesiæ versæ, non eversæ: or, the churches swept, not tumbl'd down. Turned, not overturned, but prop'd up to their just height, neither too low nor too high. Humbly addressed to the serious, speedy, and necessary Consideration of this present Parliament. By a hearty well-wisher to the health and prosperity of the Church of England, by law established.
Hearty Well-wisher to the Health and Prosperity of the Church of England.Date: 1707- Books
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Minutes of a general conference of the members of the New Church, signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation: held in Great East Cheap, London, from the 13th to the 17th of April, 1789. In Consequence of a general Invitation, by Circular Letters, to all the Readers of the Theological Works of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg, who are desirous of rejecting, and separating themselves from the Old Church, or the present established Churches, together with all their Sectaries, throughout Christendom, and of fully embracing the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem.
New Jerusalem Church.Date: 1789- Books
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Ecclesiastical law; or, the statutes, constitutions, canons, rubricks, and articles, of the Church of Ireland. Methodically digested under proper heads. With a commentary, historical and juridical. By Ed. Bullingbrooke, Doctor of Laws, Vicar-General to His Grace, the Lord Primate of all Ireland. In two volumes. ...
Church of Ireland.Date: M,DCC,LXX. [1770]- Books
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A narrative of the proceedings of seven General Synods of the Northern Presbyterians in Ireland, with relation to their differences in judgment and Practice, from the Year 1720 to to the Year 1726, in which they issu'd in a Synodical Breach: Containing the occasion, Rise, true State, and progress of the differences; Expedients for Peace, offer'd by the Non-Subscribers, and many other Original Papers; Synodical Debates, Overtures, and Decisions; the Conduct of the Parties, since the Breach; with General Observations upon the whole: and, an appendix, in answe to a late Pamphlet, Entituled, A seasonable warning, offer'd by some subscribing ministers in the north, to their congregations, &c. By the Ministers of the Presbytery of Antrim, in the North of Ireland.
Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Synod of Ulster.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- Books
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The kent and Sussex, association of Baptist Churches, consisting of those which meet at Ashford, Sandhurst; Folkstone, Bessel's Green, Chatham, and Eynsford, in Kent; and at Rye, Rotherfield, Wivelsfield, Lewes, Brighthelmston, and Handcross, in Sussex. Maintaining The important Doctrines of Three equal Persons in the Divine Essence. - Eternal and Personal Election to Holiness here, and Eternal Life hereafter. - The original Guilt and Depravity of Mankind. - Particular Redemption. - Free Justification by the imputed Righteousness of Christ alone. - Efficacious Grace in Regeneration. - And the Perseverance of the Saints to Eternal Glory. Assembled at Rye, in Sussex, the 3d and 4th days in June, 1800.
Baptist Church. Kent and Sussex Association.Date: [1800]- Books
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The General history of the Christian Church, from her birth to her final triumphant state in heaven: chiefly deduced from the apocalypse of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist. The third edition, with a few additional remarks and elucidation. By the author, Sig. Pastorini.
Date: 1800- Books
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The history of religion: particularly of the principal denominations of Christians, viz. Of the Church of Rome, --- England, --- Scotland, - Nonjurors, - Lutherans, - Presbyterians, Of the Independents, - Baptists in general, - Quakers, -- Antinomians, - Moravians, - Methodists in general. Containing a succinct and genuine account of their original and present constitution, discipline, doctrines, worship, and ceremonies: With a general Account of the various Sectaries of less Note, since the first Establishment of Christianity. Including a general History of the Reformation, and so much of Civil and Ecclesiastical History as is connected with, or necessary to explain and illustrate the Work. To which is added, A Dictionary of the principal Religious Orders, Offices, Days, Rites, Customs, Habits, and Characters; the most important Transactions of Ecclesiastical Councils, Synods, &c. explaining all such ambiguous Words and Phrases as have a proper Connexion with the Subjects of this History. By an impartial hand.
Murray, James, 1732-1782.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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Reasons of dissent from the resolution of the last General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, to apply to Parliament for augmentation of stipends, entered by the officer of state, &c. With a short introduction.
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.Date: M,DCC,L. [1750]- Books
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A collect to be used on Sunday the twenty sixth of this instant May, in all the churches of London and Westminster, the parishes within the bills of mortality, and as many others adjacent, to which notice can be given in time. By Her Majesties special command.
Church of England.Date: 1706- Books
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Donatus redivivus: or, a reprimand to a modern church-schismatick, for his revival of the donatistical heresy of re-baptization, in defiance to the judgment and practice of the Catholick church, and of the Church of England in particular. In a letter to himself.
Optatus, Augustin.Date: [1714]- Books
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The General history of the Christian Church, from her birth, to her final triumphant state in heaven, chiefly deduced from the apocalypse of St. John the apostle. By Sig. Pastorini.
Date: 1794- Books
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The General history of the Christian Church, from her birth, to her final triumphant state in heaven, chiefly deduced from the apocalypse of St. John the apostle. By Sig. Pastorini.
Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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Animadversions upon the conduct of the Rev. Dr. Rutherforth, in the controversy which has followed the publication of The confessional. With a word to the author of an "essay on establishments in religion, &c." By Anonymous.
Disney, John, 1746-1816.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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A letter to the author of the Ecclesiastick characteristicks, or arcana of church-policy.
Moir, Andrew.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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Bombay church: or, a true account of the building and finishing the English church at Bombay in the East Indies; with a list of the benefactions contributed thereunto, from the year it was begun 1715, To The Year it was Finished 1718: Also the First Rise of the Charity - School Proposed to be Erected There 1719; With a few Remarks on the Indian Letters. By Richard Cobbe, M. A. Late Chaplain to the Honourable East India Company.
Cobbe, Richard.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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Vicaria Leodiensis: or, the history of the church of Leedes in Yorkshire. Containing an account of the learned men, bishops, and writers, who have been vicars of that populous parish; with the Catalogues of their Works, Printed and Manuscript. To which are added, The Lives of several Archbishops of York, and other eminent Persons, Benefactors to that Church; with many other Things interspers'd, relating to the City and County of York. And Archbishop Thoresby's memorable Exposition of the Decalogue, Creed, and Lord's Prayer. With an appendix of original records, and manuscripts. By Ralph Thoresby of Leedes, F. R. S.
Thoresby, Ralph, 1658-1725.Date: 1724- Books
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The ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodorit. Faithfully translated and abridg'd from the originals. Together with a brief account of the lives of these historians, and several Useful Notes and Illustrations, and a copious Index. By Mr. Parker. The third edition, carefully review'd by the author, and very much corrected, Improv'd, and Enlarg'd. To which is now added, by a friend, An abridgment of the History of Evagrius Scholasticus. The Whole chiefly design'd for the Use of Young Students in Divinity, and Families Religiously disposed.
Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]