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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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Then they alleged a place of Chrysostom, which at the first blush may seem to make much for them:1 who in a certain Homily upon the Supper writeth thus: Doest thou see bread and wine? Do they depart from thee into the draught as other meats do? No, God forbid. For as in wax when it cometh to the fire, nothing of the substance remaineth nor abideth: so likewise think that the mysteries are consumed by the substance of the body &c. These words I expounded by the words of the same Doctor, which in an other Homily saith on this manner. The inward eyes (saith he) as soon as they see the bread, they flee over all creatures, and do not think of the bread that is baken of the baker, but of the bread of everlasting life, which is signified by the mystical bread. Now confer these places together, & you shall perceive that the last expoundeth the first plainly. For he sayeth, Doest thou see the bread and wine? I answer by the second, nay. For the inward eyes as soon as they see the bread, do pass over all ⟨p. 1035⟩creatures, and do not any longer think upon the bread but upon him which is signified by the bread. And after this manner he seeth it,2 and again he seeth it not: for as he seeth it with his outward and carnal eyes, so with his inward eye he seeth it not, that is to say regardeth not the bread, or thinketh not upon it, but is otherwise occupied. Even as when we play or do any thing else negligently, we commonly are wont to say, we see not what we do: not that in deed we do not see that which we go about but because our mind is fixed on some other thing, and doth not attend unto that which the eyes do see. In like manner may it be answered unto that which followeth: Do they avoid from thee (saith he) into the draught as other meats do? I will not so say. For other meats passing through the bowels, after they have of them selves given nourishment unto the body, be voided into the draught, but this is a spiritual meat, which is received by faith, and nourisheth both body and soul unto everlasting life, neither is it at any time avoided as other meats are.3
Then they alleaged a place of Chrysostome, whiche at the first blush maye seeme to make muche for them: