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Date: 1795-1967Reference: RET/8/10/1/3Part of: The Retreat Archive- 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?]- Books
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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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A letter from a Quaker-Preacher to a church-man (who had been a Quaker forty years.) With the church-man's answer.
Quaker-Preacher.Date: 1708- Books
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Aminadab, one of the people called Quakers, to the B--p of L--n; on his Letter to the clergy and inhabitants of London and Westminster, concerning the late earthquakes.
Aminadab, one of the people called Quakers.Date: 1750?]- Books
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A letter from a quaker in Newcastle to a quaker-sister in Dublin, expressing his concern for his brother Quaker Thomas Erskine at Edinburgh.
Quaker in Newcastle.Date: 1746]- Books
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A quaker's letter, to the Universal Advertiser, concerning the coalition.
Quaker.Date: Printed in the Year, 1755- Books
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To Robert Steuart.
Quaker.Date: 1790]- Books
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A short supplement to the Letter to a person of quality, in relation to the affirmation of the Quakers.
N. N.Date: 1712?]- Books
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A Method to shorten controversy exemplified; Address'd to the quakers at their general meeting.
Date: 1732- Books
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Multum in parvo contra parvum in multo. Or a six days candid review of a six years uncandid controversy: wherein Mr. Phipps's arguments in defence of Quakerism, in his Observations, and The original and present state of man, against Mr. Newton of Norwich, are shewn to be defective; and the Doctrines of Absolute Necessity and Universal Redemption fairly deduced from some of the Quakers Principles, as laid down in Barclay's and Phipps's Writings. Addressed to the people called Quakers in particular, by one who was formerly a member of that Christian Society.
One who was formerly a member of the Christian Society (of Quakers).Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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A rejoynder to the Quakers answer to F. Buggs reply to the printed case, touching the printing bill.
Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?.Date: 1704?]- Books
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Cursory observations, occasioned by a late address to the people called quakers. To which the address is prefixed.
Crafton, William Bell.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A Reply to the answer unto the letter written to a Quaker in Norfolk. With an appendix. In the letter, reply, and appendix, all Robert Barclay's arguments, the standard of the Quakers faith, are fairly drawn forth, examined and confuted.
Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
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Reasons why the people called Quakers do not pay tithes.
Gough, John, 1721-1791.Date: 1773?]- Books
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A reply to Tho. Andrews's letter to a parishioner of Ponty-Pool, called, a serious expostulation with the people call'd Quakers. By Theodor Eccleston.
Eccleston, Theodor, 1651-1726.Date: 1708- Books
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A Quaker's fifth letter, to the priests and government, and inhabitants of England, concerning the victory of the beast, and his subtle workings in all nations of the Christian world. By R. Watts.
Watts, Richard, Quaker.Date: 1756- Books
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Further correction of the Vicar of Banbury, in a reply to his third pamphlet intituled, The plain-dealing of the quakers, &c. By Richard Vivers.
Vivers, Richard, -1727.Date: 1704- Books
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Brif Gristionogaeth a ymadfywiwyd, yn y ffydd ac ymarferiad y bobl a elwir Quakers. ... Gan William Penn.
Penn, William, 1644-1718.Date: 1748?]- Books
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An appeal to the people called Quakers, on the late difference between John Fothergill and Samuel Leeds; so far as the discipline of the Society was concerned therein. To which is added, A Letter wrote to Dr Fothergill by a Friend, whilst the Affair was in Litigation.
Weston, Lewis.Date: [1773]- Books
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A lying-Tongue reproved: in some remarks upon a Scandalous Pamphlet lately published, Stiled, The spirit of Quakerism cloven-footed, &c. subscribed by Samuel Audland, and a preface by Thomas Dixon. The false and foul charges of forgery, &c. detected, and the Quakers cleared thereof. By Thomas Camm.
Camm, Thomas, 1641-1707.Date: 1708- Books
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A brief epistle to Henry Sacheverel, the high-flying doctor. In behalf of the peaceable people called Quakers, whom he damns by wholesale. In a sermon (as he calls it) preach'd at Paul's [sic], November. 5. 1709. By W. P.
W. P.Date: [1709]- Books
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The answer unto the letter written to a Quaker in Norfolk.
Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
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Vox populi: or, a cloud of witnesses, proving the leading Quakers great imposters by undeniable evidence, both of the divines of the Church of England, and many of the most eminent preachers amongst the Protestant Dissenters. Humbly submitted to authority. By Francis Bugg.
Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?.Date: 1702- Books
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The Quaker turn'd Jevv : Being a true relation, how an eminent Quaker in the Isle of Ely, on Monday the 18th. of April. 1675. circumcised himself, out of zeal for a certain case of conscience, renounced his religion, and become a prosolited Jew. With the occasion, and manner thereof, in all circumstances.
Date: 1675