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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. 2, part 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. 2, part 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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Paul in that place, be otherwise and are thus to be translated: Talibus enim victimis delectatur Deus. &c. 1. With such sacrifices God is delighted or is well pleased. The Judge Vilard. Vilard the Judge turned the book, and found the place even to be so, as the prisoner said. Here the friars were marvellously appalled & troubled in their minds: of whom, one asked then what he thought of confession. The Martyr. To whom the martyr answered, that confession only is to be made to God, & that those places which they allege for auricular confession,1 out of S. James and other, are to be expounded of brotherly reconciliation between one another, and not of confession in the Priests ear. And here again the friars stood, having nothing to say against it. A black Friar. Doest thou not believe the body of Christ to be locally and corporally in the sacrament? I will prove the same. Jesus Christ taking bread said:2 this is my body. Ergo, it is truly his body. The Martyr. The verbe (est) is not to be taken here substantively in his own proper signification, as showing the nature of a thing in substance, as in Philosophy it is wont to be taken: but as noting the property of a thing signifying, after the manner & phrase of the Scripture: Where one thing is wont to be called by the name of an other, so as the sign is called by the name of the thing signified. &c. So is Circumcision called by the name of the Covenant, and yet is not the Covenant. So the Lamb hath the name of the Passover, yet is not the same. In which 2. Sacraments of the old law, ye see the verbe (est) to be taken, not as showing the substance of being, but the property of being, in the thing that is spoken of: And so likewise in the Sacrament of the new law. The Friar. The Sacraments of the old law, & of the new do differ greatly: for these give grace, so did not the other. The Martyr. Neither the sacraments of the old,3 nor of the new law, do give grace, but showeth him unto us which giveth grace in deed. The minister giveth the sacraments, but Jesus Christ giveth grace, by the operation of the holy Ghost: of whom it is said, This is he which baptiseth with the holy Ghost. &c. The Friar. The fathers of the old Testament,4 were they not partakers of the same grace and promises with us? The Martyr. Yes, for S.