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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 › Persecution in the town of Calais.Book 8 › Persecution in the towne of Calice.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The young man first objected against the said Broke,1 that he should say that the thing which the Priest useth to hold up over his head at Mass, is not the natural body of Jesus Christ: for if that were so, who so would, might have their belly full of Gods, their guts full of Gods, and he that had lately received the Sacrament before he went to the Sea, might haply vomit God up again on shipboard.
The yong man first obiected againste the sayde Broke,1 that he should say that the thing which the Priest vseth to hold vp ouer his head at Masse, is not the natural body of Iesu Christ: for if that were so, who so would, might haue their belly ful of Gods, their guts ful of Gods, and he that had lately receiued the Sacrament before he wente to the Sea, might happely vomit God vp againe on shypboord.
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And thus much he brought over in writing with him from Calais, and added thereto, as it should seem, to exasperate the Commissioners and the rest of the Clergy against him, certain other heinous words spoken against Bishops and Priests. Which words the said Broke there denied, confessing nevertheless that certain private talk he had with him touching the Sacrament, wherein he showed to the young man the right use of the same, concluding, that albeit with our mouths we received very material bread and wine, yet by faith,1 all Christian men do receive, eat, and drink, to their great comfort and benefit, the very natural body and blood of Christ, which was both borne of the virgin Mary, and suffered death on the Cross for the remission of their sins: which most holy Sacrament, who so came unworthily unto, the same was so far from the eating of Christs body and blood, that all such (without hearty repentance) do eat their own damnation. And to conclude with him in that private talk he told him, that if the gross & unlearned error of transubstantiation, were in deed matter of truth and sincere doctrine, then not only this should follow of it, that every man who would, might have everlasting life (for they might when they would receive the outward Sacrament, seen with our eyes, which the Priests call Christs natural body, and who so eateth Christs body, and drinketh his blood, hath everlasting life, sayeth Christ) but also there should great absurdities follow thereby, as when a man happeneth to go to the sea, having lately received the sacrament, he should put it over board, or do it on the hatches, & therefore exhorted the said Payton to leave that gross error.