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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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1Neither is it to be doubted, but that both Manna and this water had a Prophetical mystery in them, declaring the very self same thing then, which the bread & the wine do now declare unto us in the sacrament. For this saith S. Augustine: Who soever did understand Christ in the Manna, did eat the spiritual food that we do. 2But they which by that Manna sought only to fill their bellies, did eat thereof, and are dead. So likewise saith he of the drink: For the rock was Christ. And by and by after he inferreth thus: Moses did eat Manna and Phinehas also, and many other also did eat thereof which pleased God, and are not dead. Why? because they did understand the visible meat spiritually. They did spiritually hunger, and did spiritually taste of it, that they might spiritually be satisfied. They all did eat the same spiritual meat, and all did drink the same spiritual drink:3 all one spiritual thing, but not all one corporal matter (for they did eat Manna, and we an other thing) but the self same spiritual thing that we do, and although they drank the same spiritual drink that we do, yet they drank one thing, and we an other: which nevertheless signified all one thing in spiritual effect. Howe did they drink all one thing? The Apostle answereth: Of the spiritual rock which followed them, for the rock was Christ. And Bede also adding these words, saith: Behold the signs are altered, and yet the faith remaineth one. Thereby a man may perceive that the Manna, which came down from heaven, was the same unto them, that our Sacrament is unto us,4 and that by either of them is signified that the body of Christ came down from heaven, & yet notwithstanding never any of them said,5 that Manna was the very body of Messiah, as our Sacramental bread is not in deed the body of Christ, but a mystical representation of the same. For like as the Manna which came down from heaven, and the bread which is received in the Supper, doth nourish the body, even so the body of Christ coming down from heaven, and being given for us, doth quicken up the spirits of the believers unto life everlasting. Then if the salvation of both people be alike, and their faith also one, there is no cause why we should add transubstantiation unto our Sacrament, more then they believed their Manna to be altered and changed.