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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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That housel is temporal, not eternal,1 *corruptible and dealed into sundry parts chewed between teeth and sent into the belly: howbeit nevertheless after ghostly might it is all in every part. Many receive that holy body: and yet notwithstanding, it is so all in every part after ghostly mystery. Though some chew the less, yet is there no more might notwithstanding in the more part, then in the less, because it is whole in all men after the invisible might. This mystery is a *pledge and a figure: Christs body is truth it self. This pledge we do keep mystically, until that we be come to the truth it self, and then is this pledge ended. Truly it is so as we before have said, Christs body and his blood: not bodily, but ghostly. But now here the Apostles words about this mystery. Paul the Apostle speaketh of the old Israelites thus writing in his epistle to faithful men: Al our forefathers were baptised in the cloud and in the sea, 4and all they did eat the same ghostly meat, & drank the same ghostly drink. They drank truly of the stone that followed them, and that stone was Christ Neither was that *stone then from which the water ran bodily Christ, but it signified Christ, that calleth thus to all believing and faithful men: Who soever thirsteth, let him come to me and drink, and from his bowels shall flow lively water. This he said of the holy Ghost, which they received who believed on him. The Apostle Paul saith: that the Israelites did eat the same ghostly meat, & drank the same ghostly drink, ⟨p. 1146⟩because that heavenly meat that fed them 40. years, and that water which from the stone did flow, had signification of Christs body and his blood, that now be offered daily in Gods Church. It was the same which we now offer, not bodily, but ghostly. We said unto you ere while, that Christ hallowed bread and wine to housell before his suffering,6