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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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but of the conflict between the flesh and the spirit, so that, whereas the flesh is ever rebelling against the spirit: yet the spiritual man notwithstanding through the faith of Christ, hath the victory. Furthermore the true translation of the place, hath not, Gratia Dei: but Gratias ago Deo, per Jesū Christum. &c. Primacius the Official. The Official seeing the Friar almost here at a point,1 set in, & said: Thou lewd heretic, doest thou deny the blessed Sacrament? The Martyr. No Sir, but I embrace and reverence the Sacrament, so as it was instituted of the Lord, and left by his Apostles. The Official. Thou denyest the body of Christ to be in the Sacrament: and thou callest the Sacrament bread. The Martyr. The Scripture teacheth us to seek the body of Christ in heaven, and not in earth: where we read Colos. 3. If ye be risen with Christ, seek not for the things which are upon the earth: but for the things which are in heaven, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. &c. And where as I affirm the Sacrament, not to be the body, but bread, speaking of bread remaining in his own substance, herein I do no other, but as S. Paul doth, which Cor. 11. doth call it bread likewise. 4. or 5. times together. The Friar. Jesus Christ said, that he was the bread of life. The Official. Thou naughty heretic, Jesus Christ said, that he was a vine, & a door. &c. Where he is to be expoū dead to speak figuratively. But the words of the Sacrament are not so to be expounded· The Martyr. Those testimonies which you allege, make more for me, then for you. The Official. What sayest thou lewd heretic? is the bread of the Lords Supper, and the bread that we eat at home, all one, and is there no difference between them? The Martyr. In nature and substance there is no difference: in quality and in use there is much difference. For the bread of the Lords table though it be of the same nature & substance, with the bread that we eat at home, yet when it is applied to be a sacrament, it taketh an other quality, and is set before us to seal the promise of our spiritual and eternal life. And this was the effect of their examinations. Ex Crisp. The name of his persecutor appeareth not in his story. | Petrus Bergerius. At Lyons. An. 1553. | About the same time,2 when these 5.
but of the conflicte betweene the flesh and the spirite, so that, whereas the flesh is euer rebelling agaynst the spirit: yet the spirituall manne notwithstanding through the faith of Christ, hath the victory. Furthermore the true translation of ye place, hath not, Gratia Dei: but Gratias ago Deo, per Iesū Christum. &c. Primacius the Officiall. The Officiall seeing the Frier almoste here at a poynt,