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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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And that the eating of his very flesh profiteth not,1 may well be known by his words which he spake in the 6. of John, where after that he had said: Except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood, ye shall not have life in you: they murmuring thereat, he reproved them for their gross & fleshly taking of his words, and said: What will ye think when ye see the son of man ascend to the place that he came from? It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing, to be eaten as they took it, and even so take ye it.2
And that the eating of his very flesh profiteth not,1 may well be knowne by his wordes which he spake in the 6. of Iohn, where after that he had sayd: Except ye eate my fleshe and drinke my bloud, ye shall not haue life in you: they murmuring therat, he reproued them for their grosse & fleshly taking of his wordes, and sayd: What will ye thinke when ye se the sonne of man ascend to the place that he came frō? It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing, to be eaten as they tooke it, and euen so take ye it.2
It is an horrible heresy, said the Bishop of Orknay. When he began to speak again, and bad the Lord Governor ⟨p. 1273⟩