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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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Only their difference is in this, concerning the sense and meaning of the words of Christ:1 Hoc est corpus meum: This is my body: &c. Which words Luther expoundeth to be taken nakedly and simply, as the letter standeth, without trope or figure, and therefore holdeth the body and blood of Christ truly to be in the bread, and wine, and so also to be received with the mouth. Uldricus Zuinglius, with Joannes Oecolampadius and other moe, do interpret these words otherwise, as to be taken not literally, but to have a spiritual meaning, & to be expounded by a trope or figure, so that the sense of these words: This is my body, is thus to be expounded: this signifieth my body and bloud. Ex Joan. Sled. Lib. 5. With Luther consented the Saxons.2 With the other side of Zuinglius, went the Helvetians. And as time did grow, so the division of these opinions increased in sides, & spread in farther Realms and countries: the one part being called of Luther Lutherians:3 the other having the name of Sacramentaries. Notwithstanding in this one unity of opinion, both the Lutherians, & Sacramentaries do accord & agree,4 that the bread & wine there present is not transubstantiate into the body & blood of Christ (as is said) but is a true Sacrament of the body & blood.
Onely their difference is in this, concernyng the sense and meanyng of the wordes of Christ:1 Hoc est corpus meum: This is my body: &c. Which wordes Luther expoundeth to be taken nakedly and simply, as the letter stādeth, without trope or figure, and therfore holdeth the body and bloud of Christ truely to be in the bread, and wine, and so also to be receaued with the mouth. Uldricus Zuinglius, with Ioannes Oecolampadius and other moe, do interprete these wordes otherwise, as to be taken not litterally, but to haue a spirituall meanyng, & to be expounded by a trope or figure, so that the sense of these wordes: This is my body, is thus to be expoūded: this signifieth my body and bloud. Ex Ioan. Sled. Lib. 5. With Luther cōsented the Saxōs.