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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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1After this deed, God led the people of Israel over the red Sea with dry foot, & drowned therein Pharaoh and all his army together with their possessions, and fed afterward the Israelites 40. years, with heavenly food,2 and gave them water out of the hard rock, until they came to the promised land. Part of this story we have treated off in an other place, partly we shall now declare, to wit, that which belongeth to the holy housell, Christen men may not now keep that old law bodily, but it behooveth them to know what it Ghostly signifieth. That innocent Lamb which the old Israelites did then kill, had signification after Ghostly understanding, of Christs suffering, who unguilty shed his holy blood for our redemption. Hereof sing Gods servants at every *Masse, Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. That is in our speech: Thou Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Those Israelites were delivered from that sudden death, and from Pharaoh's bondage by the lambs offering, which signified Christs suffering: through which we be delivered from everlasting death, and from the devils cruel reign, if we rightly believe in the true redeemer of the whole world Christ the Saviour. That Lamb was offered in the evening: and our saviour suffered in the sixth age of this world. This age of this corruptible world is reckoned unto the evening. They marked with the lambs blood upon the doors, and the upper posts *Thau, that is the sign of the cross, and were so defended from the Angels that killed the Egyptians first borne child. And we *ought to mark our foreheads and our bodies with the token of Christs rood, that we may be also delivered from destruction, when we shall be marked both on forehead, and also in heart with the blood of our Lords suffering. Those Israelites did eat the lambs flesh at their Easter time, when they were delivered, and we receive ghostly Christs body, & drink his blood, when we receive with true belief, that holy housell. That time they kept with them at Easter 7. days with great worship, when they were delivered from Pharaoh, and went from that land. So also Christen men keep Christs resurrection at the time of Easter these 7.