Memoirs of the Life and Martyrdom of John Bradford: With His Examinations, Letters, &c. Arranged in Chronological Order. Together with a Translation of Bishop Gardiner's Book "De Vera Obedientia," and Bonner's "Prefatory Letter"

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R. Fenn and T. Stevenson, 1832 - 426 pages

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Page 84 - Christ: in whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Page 342 - Praise the Lord, O my soul : and all that is within me praise his holy Name.
Page clvii - Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
Page 83 - Christ; according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love ; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved...
Page 347 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water, and in the water...
Page 408 - Lord God, deliver me out of this miserable and wretched life, and take me among thy chosen ; howbeit not my will but thine be done ; Lord, I commit my spirit to thee. O Lord, thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee ; yet for thy chosen's sake send me life and health, that I may truly serve thee. O my Lord God, bless my people, and save thine inheritance.
Page lxxxvi - ... we must duly weigh how strongly its performance is enforced upon ourselves by the conduct of one greater than Moses, who expressly " suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow his footsteps.
Page 401 - Wide is the gate, saith Christ, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat. But strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Page 210 - JESUS CHRIST'S sake; to whom with thee and the HOLY GHOST, three persons and one GOD, be all honour and glory, world without end, Amen."1 BOSWELL. " Pray, Mr. Dilly, how does Dr. Leland's History of Ireland sell...
Page cli - O dear brother, what meaneth this, that you are sent into your own native country ? The wisdom and policy of the world may mean what they will, but I trust God will so order the matter finally by his fatherly providence, that some great occasion of God's gracious goodness shall be plenteously poured abroad amongst his, our dear brethren in that country, by this your martyrdom, where the martyrs for Christ's sake shed their blood, and lost their lives.

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