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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.
Item this deponent being demanded by the said Margery how she believed touching the sacrament of the altar, said that the believed the Sacrament of the altar after the consecration, to be the very body of Christ in form of bread. To whom Margery said: your belief is nought. For if every such Sacrament were God, & the very body of christ there should be an infinite number of Gods, because that a thousand priests and more do every day make a thousand such Gods, and afterward eat them, and void them out again by their hinder parts filthily stinking under the hedges, whereas you may find a great many such Gods, if you will seek for them.1 And therefore know for a certainty, that by the grace of God it shall never be my God, because it is falsely and deceitfully ordained by the priests in the church, to induce the simple people to idolatry, for it is only material bread.
Itē this deponent being demaunded by the said Margery how she beleued touching the sacramēt of the aulter, sayd that the beleued the Sacrament of the aulter after the consecratiō, to be the very body of Christ in forme of bread. To whom Margery sayd: your beliefe is nought. For if euery such Sacrament were God, & the very body of christ there should be an infinite number of Gods, because that a thousand priests and more doe euery day make a thousand such Gods, and afterward eat them, and voyd them out again by theyr hinder partes filthily stincking vnder ye hedges, whereas you may find a great many such Gods, if you will seek for them.1 And therfore know for a certaynty, that by the grace of God it shall neuer be my God, because it is falsly and deceitfully ordeyned by the priests in the church, to induce the simple people to idolatry, for it is onely materiall bread.
- 1The sacrament is not God.
Moreover the said Margery said to this deponent, that Thomas of Canterbury,