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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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And if (sayeth he) these words do not change neither the Cup,1 neither the wine corporally into the new Testament: by like reason it is not agreeable that the words spoken of the bread, should turn the bread corporally into the body of Christ.
And if (sayeth he) these wordes do not chaunge neyther the Cup,1 neither the wine corporally into the newe Testament: by like reason it is not agreeable that the woordes spoken of the bread, should turne the bread corporally into the body of Christ.
- 1The words of consecration change not the cup: Ergo neither do the words change the bread corporally into th• body. One body can not fill many places at once naturally.The wordes of consecration chaunge not the cup: Ergo neyther do the wordes chaunge the bread corporallye into th• body. One bodye can not fill many places at once naturally.
An other reason was this: that it is not agreeable unto a natural body to be in two places or more at one time: wherefore it must follow of necessity, that either Christ had not a natural body, or else truly according to the common nature of a body, it cannot be present in two places at once, and much less in many: that is to say, in heaven & in earth, on the right hand of his father, and in the Sacrament.
An other reason was thys: that it is not agreeable vnto a natural body to be in two places or more at one time: wherfore it must followe of necessity, that either Christ had not a naturall body, or els truely according to the common nature of a body, it cānot be present in two places at once, and much lesse in many: that is to say, in heauen & in earth, on the right hand of hys father, and in the Sacrament.