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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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which day is not far of, the day wherein the kingdom of Antichrist shall have an end, and never arise any more.1 In the mean time, abide in certain and sure hope, cleaving unto the promises of God, which in their own time shall be fulfilled. Acquit your selves like men against the enemies of GOD in all humbleness of mind,2 strong in spirit to acknowledge one God, one holy Saviour Jesus Christ, one only everlasting and sufficient sacrifice for the remission of sins even the precious body of the Lord Jesus once offered for all and for ever. Which now sitteth on the right hand of God, and from thence shall he come,3 to judge both the quick and the dead at the last day: & until that time, occupieth that blessed body, none other place to dwell in, to be kept in, to be closed in,4 but only in the heavens, even in the glorious majesty of God, personally abiding there in the flesh, not coming down from thence till the last hour. And as he never ceaseth to be man, so doth he never lose the similitude of man:5 his body there hath his lineaments, he leaveth them not: so hath that body there his highness, and shrinketh not, and his manly shape, he altereth not at any time. He is in that he took of the virgin Mary, a natural man in all conditions except sin. And what he took of his blessed Mother,6 by the working of the holy Ghost, he took it for ever, and will not exchange the same for any other. He took the shape of a man with the substance of his manhood, in one sacred womb. There were they coupled together by the holy ghost,7 never to be divided a sunder. He retaineth the one with the other, in separably. As he will not altar the substance of his flesh, into the substance of bread no more will he altar the shape of his body, into the form of bread There cannot be a greater absurdity against the truth, then to think that he would leave the shape that he took in the virgins womb, being an accident unto his manhood, and join unto the same a wafer cake baken in an oven, or between a pair of irons. As he is in heaven very man, one only mediator between God and man, even the man Christ Jesus,