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Title: The acts and monuments of John Foxe: a new and complete edition: with a preliminary dissertation, by the Rev. George Townsend ...
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Foxe, John, 1516-1587 Cattley, Stephen Reed, ed Townsend, George, 1788-1857
Subjects: Martyrs Persecution Church history
Publisher: London, Pub. by R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, sold by L. & G. Seeley
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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red by hisquiet standing, and sweet sleeping in the fire, as is above declared.strength And to the intent to give the reader to understand the better,in Christ, ^hat the grace of Christ worketh in his servants; and again, howno?o? feeble and weak man is of himself without this grace given fromJJjjsdyes, above, though he seem otherwise never so stout in himself: here,the gift of therefore, have we added to the aforesaid story of Laurence Saunders,^°^ the communication Avhich in the beo^innini? of his trouble was betweenhim and Dr. Pendleton, by the example whereof, such as stand, maylearn to understand to take heed wdth due fear, and not to brag; tolean to the grace of the Lord, and not to presume in themselves. a certain communication between laurence saunders and dr. pendleton, in the beginning of queen Marys time. At the change of religion in this realm, and the beginning ofqueen Marys reign. Dr. Pendleton and master Saunders, men known (1) Ahab accuseth Elias for troubling IsraeJ.
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! ?. TALK BETWEEN SAUNDERS AND PENDLETON. ()^required (by reason of the persecution that was then at hand), fell to r^,dictondebate what was best for them to do in so dangerous a season.Whereupon master Saunders, whether tln-ough very frailty of his ofViu-weak flesh that was loth to taste the bitter cuj), though his spirit were Sf^ready thereunto ; or whether it were upon the mistrust of his own u;l,e^strength, that he might receive the greater power from above; orwhether it were not for any one of the said causes alone, but for bothtogether, or such like; seemed so fearful and feeble s))irited, that he saun.icrsshowed himself in appearance, like either to fall quite from God and his ^ThrT cause at. m.t word, which he had taught, or at least to betake him

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