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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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Here doth he show, that he meaneth of eating, not without the Sacrament only, but also in the Sacrament: And therefore he doth not only say, I have commended unto you a certain Sacrament. &c. But he addeth moreover. Although it is requisite the same to be celebrate visibly. How therefore can the eating of Christ, and the Sacrament thereof be visibly celebrate, but in the Maundy, or in his Supper? Which is celebrate visibly in visible things of bread and wine: which can not quicken or relieve us and our souls, except they be understand and so received spiritually.
Here doth hee shewe, that hee meaneth of eatyng, not without the Sacrament onely, but also in the Sacramēt: And therfore he doth not onely say, I haue commended vnto you a certaine Sacrament. &c. But he addeth moreouer. Although it is requisite the same to be celebrate visibly. How therfore can the eatyng of Christ, and the Sacramēt therof be visibly celebrate, but in the Maūdy, or in his Supper? Which is celebrate visibly in visible thynges of bread and wine: which can not quicken or relieue vs and our soules, except they be vnderstand and so reciued spiritually.
Furthermore, as concerning the Exposition of these words of the Supper, This is my body &c. 1S. Augustine writing to Bonifacius, saith thus: Sepè ita loquimur, ut Pascha appropinquante, crastinam vel perendinam Domini passionem dicamus. &c. We use oftentimes this manner of phrase, that when Easter doth approach, 2we name the day that cometh after, or the next day after that, the Passion of the Lord, when as he notwithstanding had suffered before that, many years: neither that Passion was done but once for all. So truly do we say upon the Lords day: This day the Lord hath risen, when so many years are past since he rose. Wherefore no man is so fond, that he will reprove us as liars, for this manner of speaking, because we call these days according to the similitude of those, in which these things were done: so that it is called the same day which is not the same, but by course of time of the year coming about, is like unto it: and also because that thing is said to be done that day, through the celebration of the Sacrament, which was not done that day, but long before that time. Was not Christ once offered up in him self? And yet notwithstanding he is not only offered up in the Sacrament, in the solemn feasts of Easter, but every day mystically for the people. Neither doth he make a lye, which being demanded, answereth, that Christ is offered up. For if the Sacraments had not a certain similitude of those things whereof they are Sacraments, then should they be no Sacraments at all. By reason of this similitude or likeness, Sacraments oftentimes do receive the names of the self same things, whereof they are Sacraments.