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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 › ¶Argument, › Explication of article 2: The second Article.
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In historia tripartita, it was said to the Emperor Theodosius, 1how will you receive the body of the Lord, with such bloody hands, or the cup of his precious blood, with that mouth, which have spilled so much innocent blood?
In historia tripartita, it was sayde to ye Emperour Theodosius, 1how will you reciue the body of the Lord, with such bloudy handes, or the cup of hys precious bloud, with that mouth, which haue spilled so much innocent bloud?
- 1In Histor tripart. lib. 9.
In the Canon of Gelasius, and in the Popes own decrees,1 these words we read: We understand that there be some which receiving only the portion of the Lords body, do abstain from the cup of his sacrate blood, to whom we enjoin, that either they receive the whole Sacrament in both the kinds, or else that they receive neither: 2for the dividing of that whole & one Sacrament cannot be done without great sacrilege, &c. So that this decree of Pope Gelasius being contradictory to the council of Constance, it must follow, that either the pope did err, or else the council of Constance must needs be a sacrilegious Council, as no doubt it was.
In the Canon of Gelasius, and in the Popes own decrees,1 these words we read: We vnderstand that there be some whych receauing onely the portion of the Lordes bodye, doe abstaine from the cuppe of hys sacrate bloud, to whom we enioyne, that either they receaue the whole Sacrament in both the kinds, or els that they receaue neither: