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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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Grat. My Lord, this is but your gathering of my words for you before confessed the same sayings to be the truth, & this you catch at me, and fain would have a vantage for my blood: but seeing you judge me not to mean the sacrament, of the altar, now come to the probation of the same sacrament, and prove it to be the true sacrament, and I am with you: or else if you can prove your Church to be the true Church, I am also with you. But then he called to memory the last probation of the Church and sacraments, how he before was driven to forsake the scriptures,1 and to show me by good reason how they might minister the sacrament in one kind: & his reason was this: Like as a man or woman dyeth on a sudden and so when we have given him the body of Christ, in the mean time the party dyeth, and so he eateth the body of Christ, & not drinketh his blood. And this was his simple shift in the proving of their Sacraments: so that he was now half abashed to begin that matter again. But yet a little subtle shift he brought in, and said.
Grat. My Lord, this is but your gathering of my wordes for you before confessed the same sayinges to be the truth, & this you catch at me, and fayne woulde haue a vauntage for my bloud: but seeing you iudge me not to meane ye sacramēt, of ye aultar, nowe come to ye probatiō of ye same sacrament, and proue it to be the true sacrament, and I am with you: or els if you can proue your Church to be ye true Church, I am also with you. But then he called to memory the last probation of the Churche and sacramentes, howe hee before was driuen to forsake the scriptures,1 and to shew me by good reason how they might minister the sacrament in one kinde: & his reason was this: Like as a man or woman dyeth on a sodayn and so when we haue geuen him the body of Christ, in the meane time the partie dyeth, and so he eateth the bodye of Christ, & not drinketh his bloud. And this was his simple shift in the prouing of their Sacramentes: so that he was now halfe abashed to begin that matter agayne. But yet a little subtile shift he brought in, and sayd.
- 1The Bishop of Winchesters reason to prove the Sacraments in one kind.The Bishop of Winchesters reason to proue the Sacraments in one kind.