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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
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To this the Ualdenses answer again, and grant that Christ is one, and the same with his natural body in the sacrament, which he is at the right hand of his Father: but not after the same existence of his body. For y• existence of his body in heaven is not personal and local, to be apprehended by the faith and spirit of men. In the sacrament the existence of his body is not personal or local, to be apprehended or received of our bodies,1 after a personal or corporal manner, but after a sacramental manner: that is, where our bodies receive the sign, & our spirit the thing insignified. Moreover in heaven the existence of his body is dimensive, and complete with the full proportion and quantity of the same body where with he ascended: here the existence of his complete body, with the full proportion, measure & stature thereof:2 doth not, neither can stand in the sacrament. Briefly, the existence of his body in heaven is natural not sacramental: that is, to be seen, and not remembered: here it is sacramental, not natural: that is, to be remembered, not to be seen.
To this the Ualdenses aunswere againe, and graunt that Christ is one, and the same with his naturall body in the sacrament, which he is at the right hand of his Father: but not after the same existence of his body. For y• existence of his body in heauen is not personall and locall, to be apprehended by the fayth and spirit of men. In the sacramēt the existence of his body is not personall or locall, to be apprehēded or receiued of our bodies,1 after a personal or corporall maner, but after a sacramētal maner: that is, where our bodies receiue the signe, & our spirit the thing insignified. Moreouer in heauen the existence of his body is dimensiue, and complete with the full proportion and quātity of the same body where with he ascēded: here the existēce of his complete body, with the full proportion, measure & stature thereof:2 doth not, neither can stand in the sacramēt. Briefly, the existence of his body in heauen is naturall not sacramentall: that is, to be sene, and not remembred: here it is sacramentall, not naturall: that is, to be remembred, not to be sene.