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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 saith, that the fathers of the old Testament did eat the same spiritual meat, and did drink of the same spiritual drink, with us. The Friar. Jesus Christ saith, John. 6. Your Fathers did eat Manna in the desert, and are dead. Ergo, they were not partakers of the same grace with us, in the new Testament. The Martyr. Christ here speaketh of them, which did not eat ⟨p. 907⟩that Manna with faith, which was a type and figure of that bread of life,1 that came from heaven: and not of them, which did eat the same with faith, as Moses and Aaron, Joshua Caleb, and such other, who under the shadows of the old Testament, did look for Christ to come. For so it is written of Abraham, that he saw the day of Christ, and rejoiced, not seeing it with his bodily eyes, but with the eyes of his faith. Here the doltish Doctor was at a stay, having no thing to say, but hear friend, be not so hot nor so hasty, tarry a while, tarry a while. At length after his tarrying, this came out. The Friar. I will prove, that they of the old Testament were not partakers of the same grace with us.2 The law (saith S. Paul) worketh anger: And they that are under the law, are under malediction. Ergo, they of the old law and Testament, were not partakers of the same grace with us. The Martyr. S. Paul here proveth that no man by the law, can be justified, but that all men are under the anger and curse of God thereby, for so much as no man performeth that which in the law is comprehended, and therefore we have need every man to run to Christ, to be saved by faith, seeing no man can be saved by the law. For who so ever trusteth to the law, hoping to find justification thereby, and not by Christ only, the same remaineth still under malediction: not because the law is cursed, or the times thereof under curse: but because of the weakness of our nature, which are not able to perform the law. The Friar. S. Paul. Rom. 7. declareth in the old Testament to be nothing but anger, and threatenings: and in the new Testament, to be grace and mercy, in these words where he saith: Wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death▪ The grace of god by Jesus Christ. The Martyr. S. Paul in this place, neither meaneth nor speaketh of the difference of times between the old and the new Testament: