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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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Secondly, there is yet remaining one certain piece or fragment of an epistle of Elfricus in the Library of Worcester, wherein, so much as maketh against the matter of transubstantiation, we have found in the middle of the said Latin epistle, utterly razed out, so that no letter or piece of a letter doth there appear. The words cut out, were these: Non est tamen hoc sacrifi•ium corpus eius, in quo passus est pro nobis neque sanguis eius quem pro nobis effudit: 1sed spiritualiter corpus eius efficitur & sanguis, sicut Manna quod de caelo pluit, & aqua quae de petra fluxit. Sicut Paulus &c. 1. Notwithstanding this sacrifice is not the same body of his, wherein he suffered for us, nor the same blood of his: which he shed for us but spiritually it is made his body and blood as that Manna which rained from heaven and the water which did flow out of the rock, as Paul. &c. These words so razed out are to be restored again by an other Saxon book found in Exeter. By the razing of which one place, it may easily be conjectured, what these practisers have likewise done in the rest.
Secondly, there is yet remaining one certaine peece or fragment of an epistle of Elfricus in the Library of Worceter, wherin, so muche as maketh agaynst the matter of transubstantiation, we haue found in the middle of the said Latin epistle, vtterly rased out, so that no letter or piece of a letter doth there appeare. The woordes cut out, were these: Non est tamen hoc sacrifi•ium corpus eius, in quo passus est pro nobis neque sanguis eius quem pro nobis effudit: 1sed spiritualiter corpus eius efficitur & sanguis, sicut Manna quod de caelo pluit, & aqua quae de petra fluxit. Sicut Paulus &c. 1. Notwithstanding this sacrifice is not the same body of hys, wherin he suffered for vs, nor the same bloud of hys: whiche he shed for vs but spiritually it is made his body and bloud as that Manna whiche rayned from heauen and the water whiche did flowe out of the rocke, as Paule. &c. These woordes so rased out are to be restored agayne by an other Saxon booke found in Exceter. By the rasing of whiche one place, it may easily be coniectured, what these practisers haue likewyse done in the rest.
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