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w quests that of the martyrs is the noblest . We niust expect ^* said he , "to suffer unto blood . He is not a Christiah who is not a martyr in affection and resolution . Let npt the prospect of a bloody exit discourage your faithful adherence to truth s for he who hath appointed our crown hath also appointed our
cross . Better lose our lives than our immortal souls : sad is the story in Fox ^ of one who said he could not burn for religion , but his house being on fire some time after , he was burnt in it . Consider the noble army of martyrs—their numbers : Jerome reckons five thousand for every day in the year- ^ - their quality : weak and sinful like ourselves ; expect the like
assistance . Besides , we must die according to the course of nature ; we cannot live long ; and what if we part with this life a few years sooner than the ordinary time ? ; What matters it whether our lives be taken from us by a lingering distemper , or by a dispatching sword ? No great difference between the heat of a burning fever and the flames of a faggot . But be well
satisfied in your call to sufferings . There are three things which will always warrant our suffering unto blood ; 1 . When we are required to deny the truth / 2 . To omit a certain duty ( Dan , vi # 1 O . ) . 3 . When required to sin against God ( Dan . iii . I 6 , 17 , 18 . ) . Better die a thousand deaths than commit one sin . We must resist and strive against sin to the loss of our lives , but must not resist authori ty ^ though persecuted to blood by it . **
Such was his conduct at that memorable period , and on that very trying and alarming occasion . It strotigiy marked his character , and rendered his sincerity and piety , his earnestness and zeal , his integrity arid fortitude , as well as his inviolable attachment to protestantism $ nd Christian liberty , very conspicuous .
In 1680 he spent some time in vindicating the divinity of Christ , and the divine authority of the historical part of scripture , which had then been attacked by a certain gentleman of liis acquaintance * The substance of this production of his may be seen at the end of the account of his life and writings
published , in 17 O 9 , by his brother , Dr . Charles Owen j from which this imperfect sketch has been chiefly extracted . On the 27 th of September 1681 was held at the town-hall of Oswestree that ' public disputation already mentioned in the sketch of the life of JonathSS Roberts : the occasion of it was
this : the learned and excellent Dr . Lloyd , then Bishop of-St . Asaph , being a declared enemy to persecution , studied to reduce the dissenters in his diocese by mild and conciliating measures ; he visited the principal places within his bishopriek , and , by dint of argument , endeavoured to remove the scruples of all those who dissented from the establishment . After having had
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/11/
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