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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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Of late the Lords Supper was duly ministered and taught to be made common,1 to all that were true Christians, with thanksgiving, and setting forth of the Lords death & passion, until his returning again, to judge both quick and dead: but now (alas) the Lords table is quite overthrown, and that which ought to be common to all godly, is made private to a few ungodly, without any kind of thanksgiving, or any setting forth of the Lords death at all, that the people is able to understand.
Of late the Lordes Supper was duely ministred and taught to be made common,1 to all that were true Christians, with thankesgeuing, and setting foorth of the Lordes death & passion, vntill his returning agayne, to iudge both quicke and dead: but now (alas) the Lordes table is quite ouerthrowne, and that whiche ought to be common to all godly, is made priuate to a fewe vngodlye, without any kind of thankesgeuing, or any setting foorth of the Lordes death at all, that the people is able to vnderstand.
- 1Abuse •n the Lords Supper.Abuse •n the Lordes S•pper.
Of late all that were endued with the light,1 and grace of understanding of Gods holy mysteries, did bless God, which had brought them out of that horrible blindness and ignorance, whereby in times past being seduced by Satan's subtleties, they believed that the Sacrament was not the Sacrament, but the thing it self whereof it is a Sacrament: that the creature was the Creator, and that the thing which hath neither life nor sense (alas such was the horrible blindness) was the Lord himself, which made the eye to see,