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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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As no man cometh to the presence of an earthly king or prince, without means made by some about him: so, or rather much more, to the heavenly king above. &c. The Martyr. To this earthly example I will answer with an other heavenly example of the prodigal son: who sought no other means to obtain his fathers grace but came to the father himself. Then they came to speak of adoration, which the said Rebezies disproved by the scriptures. 1Act. 10.13.14. Apoc. 19 22. Heb. 10.14.12. Where is to be noted, that where the martyr alleged the 12. to the Heb. the Doctors answered, that it was the 11. chap. when the place in deed is neither in the 11. nor in the 12. But in the 14. chap. of of the Acts. So well seen were these Doctors in their divinity. The Doctor. Touching the mass, what say you? Believe you not that when the priest hath consecrated the host,2 our Lord is there as well, and in as ample sort as he was hanging upon the cross? The Martyr. No verily. But I believe that Jesus Christ is sitting at the right hand of his father, as appeareth Heb. 10.1. Cor. 15. Colos. 3. and therefore (to make short with you) I hold your mass for none other,3 but for a false and a counterfeited service set up by satan, and retained by his ministers, by the which you do annihilate the precious blood of Christ, & his oblation once made, of his own body: & you know right well, that the same is sufficient, and ought not to be reiterated. The Doctor. You deceive your selves in the word reiteration: for we do not reiterate it so as you think, as by example I will show. You see me now in this religious garment, but if I should put upon me a soldiers weed, then should I be disguised, and yet for all that I should remain the same still, within my doublet that I was before in my friars weed. So is it with the sacrifice,