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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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Whereas if we would judge our selves, that is, if we would thoroughly search and examine our own consciences as we should, in coming to the table of the Lord, we finding any faith in us, would never go to the table, or make thereof the feast of devils. Wherefore your judgement herein is not amiss in expounding the word of judging in S. Paul, to signify as much, as, considering,1 perpending, and inquiring. To your second question I answer, that Jesus took bread, and brake, &c. Also, he took the cup, &c. Ista verba sunt peculiariter agentis, non hospitaliter inuitantis: that is, these words declare the action of one which properly doeth a thing, and not the hospitality of one which inviteth another to eat. Touching your third question out of the 6. chap. of John:2 Doeth this offend you? herein I do full agree with you. As for this word Ostren, which is your fourth question, I understand thereby, the time of the great feast or solemnity, which we keep in remembrance of the great deliverance of Gods people, from the thraldom now of Satan, before from the thraldom of Pharaoh. Neither is it greatly material with what word we express the thing, so the thing it self be one, and the analogy and consonancy of the Scripture be kept: For the Scripture calleth Christ both the Lamb, and S. Paul calleth him our Easter or Passover. Now your word wanderfest well pleaseth me,3 for the Passover, or Paesah. To your fifth interrogation, of Christ descending into Hell, I suppose this particle was inserted into the Creed, by the sentence of the Fathers, to declare how the fathers were redeemed by the death of Christ, which died in the faith. For Christ led away captivity wherewith they were holden, with him up into heaven:4 so that his going down into Hell, non sic intelligatur, quasi circumscriptivè, sed potentionaliter: that is, be not so understanded, as circumscriptively, which is, when a thing is present by circumscription of any one place: but by power, which is, by the operation of his spirit, which is not comprehended in any certainty of place, but without prescription of certain place, is diffused every ⟨p. 874⟩