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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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Book 8 › Scriptural evidences 2: The second part of this matter.
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This eating and drinking is nothing but such true faith and belief as is showed. Wherefore as Christ saith: He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath life everlasting. Even so doth he say: He that believeth in me, hath life everlasting. And Saint Augustine agreeably to the same,1 treating upon John, doth say: At quid paras dentem & ventrem? Creed, & manducasti, &c. Why dost thou prepare thy teeth and belly? Believe, and thou hast eaten. I do know that Christ ordaineth his Sacrament to be received and eaten, which is in a certain wise called his body, as after shall be more largely opened: but the same doth not feed the mind of them, except it be taken spiritually & not corporally. Heb. 13. It is good to stablish the hart with grace, & not with meat.
This eating and drinking is nothing but suche true fayth and beliefe as is shewed. Wherefore as Christ sayth: He that eateth my fleshe, and drinketh my bloud, hath lyfe euerlastyng. Euen so doth he saye: He that beleeueth in mee, hath lyfe euerlastyng. And Saint Augustine agreeably to the same,1 treating vpon Iohn, doth say: At quid paras dentem & ventrem? Crede, & manducasti, &c. Why dost thou prepare thy teeth and belly? Beleue, and thou hast eaten. I do know that Christ ordeineth his Sacrament to be receiued and eaten, which is in a certaine wise called his body, as after shalbe more largely opened: but the same doth not feede ye mynde of them, except it be takē spiritually & not corporally. Heb. 13. It is good to stablish the hart with grace, & not with meat.
- 1August. in Joan.August. in Ioan.
And S. Augustine assenting to the same, doth say in a Sermon, that he maketh upon these words,