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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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And in that he said further, do this in the remembrance of me, it is a memorial and token of the suffering & death of Jesus Christ: and he commanded it for this cause,1 that the congregation of Christ should come together to show his death, and to thank and laud him for all his benefits, & magnify his holy name, & so to break the bread & drink the wine, in remembrance that Christ had given his body and shed his blood for us.
And in that he sayd further, do this in the remembrance of me, it is a memoriall and token of the suffering & death of Iesu Christ: and he commaunded it for this cause,1 that ye congregatiō of Christ should come together to shew his death, and to thanke and laud him for all his benefites, & magnifye his holy name, & so to breake the bread & drinke the wine, in remembrance that Christ had geuen his body and shed his bloud for vs.
- 1The cause why the bread and cup wa• given in the Supper.The cause why the bread and cup wa• geuen in the Supper.
Thus you may well perceive, though Christ called the bread his body, & the wine his blood, yet it followeth not, that the substance of his body should be in the bread and wine: as divers places in Scripture are spoken by Christ and the Apostles in like phrase of speech, as in John. 15. I am the true vine, also in John the .10. I am the door, and as ⟨p. 1974⟩it is written in the 9. to the Hebrews,1