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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
Feast & fast : the art of food in Europe, 1500 - 1800 / edited by Victoria Avery and Melissa Calaresu.
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An address to the present stewards and preachers of the Methodist Society, York, on the impropriety and injustice of their recent conduct. By a friend to religion.
Friend to religion.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
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Dissertation sur la difference de deux anciennes religions, la grecque et la romaine. Par M. L'Abbé Coyer.
Coyer, Gabriel-François, 1707-1782.Date: M.D.CC.LV. [1755]- Books
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Thoughts upon calvinism; Or The Bible Christian: wherein the genuine Gospel is clearly pointed out, and who they are that with propriety may be said to embrace it. With a sincere address to every reader, By a Friend to real Bible religion, and common sense.
Friend to real Bible religion and common sense.Date: [1795?]- Books
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On religion : speeches to its cultured despisers / Friedrich Schleiermacher ; introduction, translation, and notes by Richard Crouter.
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 1768-1834Date: 1996- Books
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Philemon to hydaspes; relating a conversation with Hortensius, upon the subject of false religion.
Coventry, Henry, -1752.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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An exhortation to the practice of religion. Written by G. Burnet, bishop of Sarum.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.Date: Printed in the year, MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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Religion a farce. In a letter to a reader at the University of Salamanca.
Guzman, Francisco Xaverio.Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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An essay on religion and morality: or the sum and evidences of true religion.
Date: M.DCC.LXVII. [1767]- Books
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Philemon to hydaspes; Relating a third conversation with hortensius, upon the subject of false religion. In which some general account is indeavoured to be given of the rise and constitution of false theory in religion in the earlier pagan world.
Coventry, Henry, -1752.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- Books
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Philemon to Hydaspes; relating a third conversation with Hortensius, upon the subject of false religion. In which Some General Account is indeavoured to be given of the Rise and Constitution of False Theory in Religion in the earlier Pagan World.
Coventry, Henry, -1752.Date: M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]- Books
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Philemon to Hydaspes; relating a fourth conversation with Hortensius, upon the subject of false religion. In which A farther General Account is endeavoured to be given of the Rise and Constitution of False Theory in Religion in the Earlier Pagan World.
Coventry, Henry, -1752.Date: M.DCC.XLI. [1741]- Books
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Philemon to Hydaspes: Relating a fourth conversation with Hortensius upon the subject of false religion. In which a farther general account is endeavoured to be given of the rise and constitution of false theory in religion in the earlier pagan world.
Coventry, Henry, -1752.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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A letter to the Honourable Colonel John **** in Flanders, on the subject of religion. Letter the first.
Hunter, T.Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Books
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The religion of reason. An extract.
Law, William, 1686-1761.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLVII. [1757]
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The history of all religions in the world: from the Creation down to this present time ... / By William Turner.
Turner, William, 1653-1701.Date: 1695- Books
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A discourse upon religion. In two parts.
Cumming, George, active 1740-1743.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The beauties of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late lord archbishop of Canterbury. Carefully selected from his works. Containing his admirable system of early education-thoughts on religion-atheism and infidelity-the immortality of the soul, &c. To which are prefixed some of his arguments for the truth and belief of the Christian religion.
Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.Date: 1794- Books
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An Affectionate address, on the importance of religion. ...
Date: 1780?]- Books
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A letter from New-England, Concerning The State of Religion there.
Oliphant, Andrew.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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Fanaticism and treason: or, a dispassionate history of the rise, progress, and suppression, of the rebellious insurrections in June, 1780. By a real friend to religion and to Britain.
Real friend to religion and to Britain.Date: 1781- Books
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England's bloody tribunal: or, popish cruelty displayed. Containing a compleat account of the lives, religious principles, cruel persecutions, sufferings, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of the most pious English Protestant martyrs, Who have sealed the Faith of our Holy Religion with their Blood. Exhibiting A full View of Popery, with all its superstitious and horrid Practices; and tending to promote the Protestant Religion, by displaying the Errors of Popish Idolatry, and confirming the true Believer in the Faith of Our Blessed Redeemer, who was crucified for our Sins, and rose again for our Justification, and now sitteth at the Right Hand of God, making Intercession for us. To Which IS Added, A faithful Narrative of the many hortid Cruelties and Persecutions that have been inflicted by the Roman Catholics on the Protestants of Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. With A particular Description of the various Tortares and Barbarities, that are practiced by the Inquisition in Different Parts of the World. Also The Lives of the Primitive Reformers, whose Effigies are given in the Frontispiece to the Work. Together With A full and plain Refutation of the Errors of the Romish Church, laid down in such a Manner as to enable the unlearned Protestants to confute the chief Arguments of the most artful Popish Priests and their Emissaries. By the Reverend Matthew Taylor, D. D. By the King's Authority.
Taylor, Matthew, D.D.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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The sincere and zealous practice of religion recommended. In Consideration of the Certainty of its Principles, The Reasonableness of its Duties; and the great Wisdom of Mankind in serving God. With respect both to the Advantages of this Life, and the Recompences of the next. To which is added, A Brief Account how those who incline to Religion, may best bring their Good Desires to Good Effect. By John Turner, Lecturer of Christ-Church, London, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable, the Earl of Scarbrough.
Turner, John, 1660-1720.Date: MDCCI. [1701]- Books
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Philemon to hydaspes: relating a fifth conversation with Hortensius upon the subject of false religion. In which the origin and progress of the rite of sacrifice in antiquity is particularly considered.
Coventry, Henry, -1752.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]