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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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I Find in the Scriptures (said she) that Christ took the bread and gave it to his disciples▪ 1saying▪ Take, eat, this is my body which shall be broken for you, meaning in substance, his own very body, the bread being thereof an only sign or Sacrament. For after like manner of speaking, he said, he would break down the temple, and in three days build it up again, signifying his own body by the temple, as S. John declareth it, John. 2. and not the stony temple it self. So that the bread is but a remembrance of his death, or a Sacrament of thanks giving for it,2 whereby we are […] unto him by a communion of christian love. Although there be many that cannot perceive the true meaning thereof, for the veil that Moses put over his face before the children of Israel, that they should not see the clearness thereof, Exod. 24. and 2. Cor. 3. I perceive the same veil remaineth to this day. But when God shall take it away, then shall these blind men see. For it is plainly expressed in the history of Bell in the Bible, that God dwelleth in no thing material.3 O king (saith Daniel) be not deceived, for God will be in nothing that is made with hands of men. Daniel, 14. Oh, what stifnecked people are these, that will always resist the holy Ghost?4 But as their fathers have done, so do they, because they have stony hearts. Written by me Anne Askew, that neither wisheth death, nor yet feareth his might, and as merry as one that is bound towards heaven.
I Finde in the Scriptures (sayd she) that Christ tooke the bread and gaue it to his disciples▪ 1