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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Concerning the Supper of the Lord, their faith was, that it was ordained to be eaten, not to be showed & worshipped: for a memorial, not for a sacrifice: to serve for the present ministration, & not for reservation: to be received at the table, not be carried out of the doors: according to the ancient use of the primitive church, when they used to communicate sitting. And this they prove both by an old chronicle called Chronica gestorum:1 as also by ancient Origen upon the third book of Moses: bringing in his words which be these: proving that this sacramental bread ought not to be reserved: Quicunque hunc panem coenae Christi, secunda, vel tertia die sumpserit, non benedicitur anima eius, sed inquinabitur: Propterea Gabaonitae, quia antiquos panes portaverunt ad filios Israel, 2oportuit eos ligna, ac aquam portare. &c. That is, whosoever receiveth this bread of the Supper of Christ upon the second or iii. day after: his soul shall not be blessed but polluted. Therefore the Babaonites, because they brought old bread to the children of Israel, it was enjoined them, to carry wood and water. &c.
Concerning the Supper of the Lord, their fayth was, that it was ordayned to be eaten, not to be shewed & worshipped: for a memoriall, not for a sacrifice: to serue for the presēt ministration, & not for reseruation: to be receiued at the table, not be caryed out of the dores: according to the auncient vse of the primitiue church, when they vsed to cō municate sitting. And this they proue both by an old chronicle called Chronica gestorum:1 as also by auncient Origen vpon the third booke of Moses: bringing in his wordes which be these: prouing that this sacramental bread ought not to be reserued: Quicunque hunc panem coenae Christi, secunda, vel tertia die sumpserit, non benedicitur anima eius, sed inquinabitur: Propterea Gabaonitae, quia antiquos panes portauerūt ad filios Israel, 2oportuit eos ligna, ac aquam portare. &c. That is, whosoeuer receiueth this bread of the Supper of Christ vpon the second or iii. day after: his soule shall not be blessed but polluted. Therfore the Babaonites, because they brought olde bread to the children of Israel, it was enioyned them, to cary wood and water. &c.