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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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Wood. My Lord▪ I pray you what is a sacrament?
Chich. It is the sign of a holy thing.
Chich. It is the signe of a holy thing.
Wood. Me thinks you have certified me very well. There need not be a sign of a holy thing, where the holy thing is it self. Then his Chaplains would have interrupted me, but I desired my Lord I might say out my mind in the matter. So with much ado he bade me say what I could. There need not to be a sign of a thing, where the thing is it self.1 Matrimony is a holy thing it self and is ended outwardly, and need no more signs but themselves: Wherefore it can not be a Sacrament as other be.
Wood. Me thinkes you haue certified mee verye well. There neede not be a signe of a holy thing, where the holy thing is it selfe. Then hys Chapleynes woulde haue interrupted me, but I desired my Lorde I might say out my minde in the matter. So with much adoe he bade me saye what I could. There neede not to be a signe of a thing, where the thing is it self.1 Matrimony is a holy thing it selfe and is ended outwardly, and neede no more signes but themselues: Wherefore it canne not be a Sacrament as other bee.
- 1Argument. A thing signified, & a thing signifying can not be at one time in respect of it self, in one subject. Matrimony is a holy thing it self signified Ergo, Matrimony cannot be a Sacrament signifying a holy thing.