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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 2] 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 2] 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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Rid. My Lord, you know that where any equivocation (which is a word having two significations) is, except distinction be given, no direct answer can be made: for it is one of Aristotle's fallacies, containing two questions under one, the which cannot be satisfied with one answer. For both you and I agree herein, that in the sacrament is the very true and natural body and blood of Christ, even that which was borne of the Virgin Mary,1 which ascended into heaven, which sitteth on the right hand of God the Father, which shall come from thence to judge the quick and the dead, only we differ in modo:2 in the way and manner of being: we confess all one thing to be in the sacrament, and dissent in the manner of being there. I being fully by Gods word thereunto persuaded, confess Christs natural body to be in the sacrament in deed by spirit and grace, because that whosoever receiveth worthily that bread and wine, receiveth effectually Christs body and drinketh his blood, that is, he is, made effectually partaker of his Passion: and you make a grosser kind of being, enclosing a natural, a lively and moving body under the shape or form of bread and wine. Now, this difference considered, to the question thus I answer:3 that in the sacrament of the altar is the natural body and blood of Christ verè & realiter, in deed and really, if you take these terms in deed and really for spiritually by grace and efficacy: for so every worthy receiver receiveth the very true body of Christ: but if you mean really and in deed, so that thereby you would include a lively and a movable body under the forms of bread and wine, then in that sense is not Christs body in the sacrament really and in deed. This answer taken and penned of the Notaries, the Bishop of Lincoln proposed the second question or Article. To whom he answered.
Rid. My Lorde, you know that where anye aequiuocation (whiche is a woorde hauyng two significations) is, excepte distinction bee geuen, no direct aunswere can bee made: for it is one of Aristotles fallacies, containing two questions vnder one, the whiche cannot bee satisfied with one aunswere. For both you and I agree herein, that in the sacrament is the verye true and naturall bodye and bloud of Christ, euen that whiche was borne of the Uirgine Marye,