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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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I will by the help of our Lord God, declare these words in order, even as they do stand. Here is an altar, here is a Sacrifice, here is a Bishop which did offer this Sacrifice, here is a Tabernacle, a serving of the Tabernacle, the blood of the sacrifice which was offered by the Bishop for the sins of the people, in the most holy place of the temple, and the bodies of the beasts (whose blood was offered) were burned without the tents. And this was done the x. day of the vij. month. Ye hear now the words of the Apostle. Wherein appeareth the manifest figure of the Passion of our saviour Jesus Christ, which we this day do honour.
I will by the helpe of our Lord God, declare these wordes in order, euē as they do stād. Here is an aultar, here is a Sacrifice, here is a Byshop which did offer this Sacrifice, here is a Tabernacle, a seruing of the Tabernacle, the bloud of the sacrifice which was offered by the Byshop for the sinnes of the people, in the moste holy place of the temple, and the bodies of the beastes (whose bloud was offered) were burned without the tentes. And this was done the x. day of the vij. moneth. Ye heare now the words of the Apostle. Wherin appeareth the manifest figure of the Passion of our sauior Iesus Christ, which we this day do honor.
In these words the Apostle toucheth the figure of the law. And bringeth it to a spiritual understanding. For it was commanded in the law, in the book of Numbers,1 that the x. day of the vij. month, in the feast that was called the feast of the propitiation, of mercy, of remission, or the feast of purgation, when the people were purged. At which time, they should take a calf and a kid, and slay them: whose blood the only Bishop should bring, In sancta sanctorum, into the most holy, solemn,2 and secret place of the temple: wherein the bishop never came, unless he brought with him blood, to offer in Sacrifice. Quia omnia ferè in sanguine secundum legem mundabuntur, & sine sanguinis effunone non sit remissio, saith the Apostle. Almost all things after the law, or in the law, were cleansed in blood, and by blood: & without the effusion of blood, was no remission. And in that place of the temple called Sancta Sanctorum, the Bishop prayed and offered for the people. The flesh and corps of the sacrifice was burned without the tents, without their pavilions. And it was not law full to any that did serve the tabernacle, to eat of the flesh of that sacrifice.