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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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That answer being made to the captious proposition of D. Augustine.1 The Ualdenses (retorting the like interrogation to him again) demand of him to answer them in the like objection: whether it be all on christ substantially & naturally, which sitteth in heaven: & which is under the forms of bread and wine, and in the receivers of the Sacrament▪ If he grant to be: Then they did him say, seeing Christ is as well in the sacrament as in heaven, & as well in the receiver as in the sacrament, & all one Christ in substance & nature: why then is not the same Christ as well in the breast of the receiver to be worshipped, as under the forms of bread and wine in the sacrament? seeing he is there after a more perfect manner in man, then in the sacrament: for in the sacrament he is but for a t••e, and not for the sacraments sake, but for the mans cause. In man he is not for the sacraments cause: but for his own, and that not for a season but for ever: as it is written: Qui manducat hunc panem vivet in aeternum, that is: he that eateth this bread shall live for ever, &c.
That aunswere being made to the captious propositiō of D. Augustine.1 The Ualdenses (retorting the like interrogation to him againe) demaund of him to answere them in the like obiection: whether it be all on christ substātially & naturally, which sitteth in heauen: & which is vnder the formes of bread and wine, and in the receiuers of the Sacrament▪ If he graunt to be: Then they did him say, seing Christ is as well in the sacrament as in heauen, & as well in the receiuer as in the sacrament, & all one Christ in substance & nature: why then is not the same Christ as well in the brest of the receiuer to be worshipped, as vnder the formes of bread and wine in the sacramēt? seing he is there after a more perfect maner in man, then in the sacrament: for in the sacrament he is but for a t••e, and not for the sacraments sake, but for the mans cause. In man he is not for the sacraments cause: but for his owne, and that not for a season but for euer: as it is written: Qui manducat hunc panem viuet in aeternum, that is: he that eateth this breade shall liue for euer, &c.