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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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I recognise that to be the true Church, where the Gospel is truly preached, and the Sacraments rightly administered, so as they be left by Jesus Christ, and his Apostles. The Doctor. And is the Church (think you) of Geneva such a one as you speak of? The Martyr. I so judge it to be. The Doctor. And what if I do prove the contrary, will you believe me? The Martyr. Yea, it you shall prove it by the Scripture. The Doctor. Or will you believe S. Austen and other holy doctors innumerable? The Martyr. Yea so they dissent not from the scripture and the word of God. The Doctor. By the authority of S. Austen,1 the Church is there, where is the succession of Bishops: whereupon I frame this argument. There is the Church, where is the perpetual succession of Bishops. In the Church of Paris, is such succession of bishops. Ergo, the Church of Paris is the true Church. The Martyr. To your Major I answer, that if S. Austen mean the succession of such as are true Bishops in deed, which truly preach the Gospel, and rightly administer the Sacraments, such Bishops I suppose to be at Geneva, where the Gospel is truly preached, and Sacraments duly ministered, and not in the Church of Paris. But otherwise, if S. Austen mean the succession of false Bishops, such as neither preach nor minster according to Gods word, so is the same in no wise to be granted. The Doctor. Calvin is there by his own thrusting in, & only by the choosing of the people. The Martyr. And that soundeth more for him to be of Gods divine election, for so much as by him the Gospel of God is preached truly: and from this no man shall bring me. After this disceptation, the 9. of the same month came against him an other Doctor with two Sorbonists, who bringing forth a scroll out of his bosom, pretended that a certain scholar coming from Geneva, made his confession, wherein was contained, that in receiving of the bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ is received really. Whereupon they demanded of him whether he would receive the same confession. The Martyr. Whatsoever I have said unto you,2 that will I hold. And as touching this word really, I know right well that they of Geneva do not take it for any carnal presence, as you do: but their meaning is, to exclude thereby only a vain imagination. The Doctor.
I recognise that to be the true Church, where the Gospell is truely preached, and the Sacramentes rightly administred, so as they bee lefte by Iesus Christ, and his Apostles. The Doctor. And is the Church (thinke you) of Geneua such a one as you speake of? The Martyr. I so iudge it to be. The Doctor. And what if I doe prooue the contrary, will you beleue me? The Martyr. Yea, it you shall proue it by the Scripture. The Doctor. Or will you beleue S. Austen and other holy doctors innumerable? The Martyr. Yea so they dissent not from the scripture and the word of God. The Doctor. By the authority of S. Austen,