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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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This in a manner was the whole sum of the reasons of Frithes book: First to declare the Popes belief of the Sacrament, to be no necessary article of our faith, that is to say, that it is no article of our faith necessary to be believed under pain of damnation,1 that the Sacrament should be the natural body of Christ. Which he thus proveth: For many so believe, & yet in so believing the Sacrament to be the natural body, are not thereby saved but receive it to their damnation.
This in a maner was the whole summe of the reasons of Frithes booke: First to declare the Popes beliefe of the Sacrament, to be no necessary article of our faith, that is to say, that it is no article of our fayth necessary to be beleued vnder payne of damnation,1 that the Sacrament should be the naturall body of Chryst. Whych he thus prooueth: For many so beleue, & yet in so beleuing the Sacrament to bee ye naturall bodye, are not thereby saued but receyue it to their damnation.
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Again, in believing the Sacrament to be the natural body, yet that natural presence of his body in the bread, is not that which saveth us,1 but his presence in our harts by faith. And likewise the not believing of his bodily presence in the Sacrament, is not the thing that shall damn us, but the absence of him out of our hart, through unbelief. And if it be objected, that it is necessary to believe gods word under pain of damnation: to that he answereth, that the word taken in the right sense as Christ meant, maintaineth no such bodily presence as the Popes church doth teach, but rather a Sacramental presence. And that (saith he) may be further confirmed thus.