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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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days, because through his suffering and rising we be delivered, and be made clean by going to this holy housel, as Christ sayeth in his Gospel: Verily, verily I say unto you ye have no life in you except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, 1abideth in me, and I in him, and hath that everlasting life, and I shall raise him up in the last day. I am the lively bread that came down from heaven: not so as your forefathers did eat that heavenly bread in the wilderness, and afterward died. He that eateth this bread, liveth for ever. He blessed bread before his suffering, and divided it to his Disciples, thus saying: Eat of this bread, it is my body, and do this in my remembrance. Also he blessed wine in one cup,2 and said: Drink ye all of this: This is my blood that is shed for many, in forgiveness of sins. The Apostles did as Christ commanded, that is, they blessed bread and wine to housel again afterward in his remembrance. Even so also their successors and all priests by Christs commandment do bless bread and wine to housel in his name with the Apostolic blessing. Now men have often searched and do yet often* search, how bread that is gathered of corn, and through fires heat baked, may be turned to Christs body: or how wine that is pressed out of many grapes is turned through one blessing, to the Lords blood. Now say we to such men, that some things be spoken of Christ by *signification▪ and some be things certain. True this is and certain that Christ was borne of a maid, and suffered death of his own accord, and was buried, and on this day rose from death. He is said to be bread by signification, and a Lamb, & a Lyon, & a mountain. He is called bread, because he is our life and angels life. He is said to be a Lamb for his innocency: a Lyon for strength wherewith he overcame the strong devil. But Christ is not so notwithstanding after true nature, neither bread, nor a lamb, nor a lion. Why is then the holy house called Christs body, or his blood, if it be not truly that it is called?5