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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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He answered: I wot not what that word consecration meaneth. I have not much latin,1 but I believe that the son of God was conceived of the holy Ghost, and borne of the Virgin Mary, & hath a natural body with hands feet, and other members, and in the same body he walked up & down in the world, preached, and taught, he suffered death under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried, and that by his godly power he raised that same body again the third day: and the same body ascended in to heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the father,2 which shall come again to judge both the quick and the dead. And that this body is a natural body with hands & feet and cannot be in two places at once, he showeth well him self: For the which everlasting thanks be to him that maketh this matter clear.3 When the woman brake the ointment on him, answering to some of his Disciples which grudged thereat, he said: The poor shall you have always with you, but me shall you not have always, meaning of his natural body. And likewise at his Ascension said he to the same Disciples that were fleshly, and would ever have had him remaining with them corporally:4 It is needful for you that I pass away, for if I pass not away, the comforter the holy Ghost shall not come to you (meaning that his natural body behoved to be taken away from them) But be stout and be of good cheer, 5for am with you unto the worlds end.
He answered: I wot not what that word consecration meaneth. I haue not much latine,1 but I beleeue that the sonne of God was conceaued of the holy Ghost, and borne of the Uirgin Mary, & hath a naturall body with handes feete, and other members, and in the same body hee walked vp & downe in the world, preached, and taught, he suffered death vnder Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buryed, and that by his godly power hee raysed that same body agayne the thyrd day: and the same body ascended in to heauen, and sitteth on the right hand of the father,