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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 the same bread again, in that it is broken, is the body of Christ, declaring his body to be broken and delivered unto death, to redeem us from our iniquities. Furthermore, in that the Sacrament is distributed, it is Christs body, signifying that as verily as the Sacrament is distributed unto us, so verily as Christs body & the fruit of his passion distributed unto all faithful people. In that it is received, it is Christs body, signifying that as verily as the outward man receiveth the sacrament with his teeth & mouth, so verily doth the inward man through faith receive Christs body and fruit of his passion, and is as sure of it, as of the bread which he eateth. Well (said they) doest thou not think that his very natural bode flesh, blood and bone,1 is really contained under the Sacrament, and there present without all figure or similitude? No, said I, I do not so think. Notwithstanding I would not that any should count, that I make my saying (which is the negative) any article of faith. For even as I say, that you ought not to make any necessary article of the faith of your part (which is the affirmative) so I say again, that we make no necessary article of the faith of our part, but leave it indifferent for all men to judge therein, as God shall open his hart, and no side to condemn or despise the other, but to nourish in all things brotherly love, and one to bear an others infirmity. After this they alleged the place of Saint Augustine,2 where he saith: Ferebatur In manibus proprijs. That is to say, he was carried in his own hands. Whereunto I answered, that Saint Augustine was a plain Interpreter of him self: for he hath in an other place:3 Ferebatur tanquam in manibus suis: That is to say, he was carried as it were in his own hands: which is a phrase of speech, not of one that doth simply affirm, but only of one expressing a thing by a similitude And albeit that Saint Augustine had not thus expounded him self, yet he writing unto Boniface,4 doth plainly admonish all men, that the Sacraments do represent and signify those things whereof they are Sacraments, and many times even of the similitudes of the things them selves they do take their names: and therefore according to this rule it may be said, he was borne in his own hands, when as he bare in his hands the Sacrament of his body & blood.