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The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of marytrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
New-York: printed by William Durell, 1794
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THEN said the chancellor, He •is an heretic, he denieth the sacrament of the altar.
THEN said I, Will ye know how I believe in the holy supper of the Lord?
AND he said, Yes.
THEN said I, I believe that if I come rightly and worthily as God hath commanded me to the holy supper of the Lord, I receive him by faith, as by believing in him. But the bread being received is not God, and the bread that is yonder in pyx is not ⟨p. 499⟩God. God dwelleth not in temples made with hands, neither will he be worshipped with the works of men's hands. And therefore you do very evil to cause the people to kneel down and worship the bread; for God did never bid you hold it above your heads, neither had the apostles such use.
THEN said the chancellor, He denieth the presence in the sacrament. Write this article also. He is a very heretic.
THEN said I, The servant is not greater than his master. For your predecessors killed my master Christ, the prophets and apostles, and holy virtuous men, and now you also kill the servants of Christ, so that all the righteous blood that hath been shed, even from righteous Abel until this day, shall be required at your hands.
WELL, said the chancellor, have him away.
Bishop. SIRRAH, dost thou not believe in the catholic faith of the holy church?
Spurred. I believe Christ's catholic church.
Spurd. I believe Christ's catholic church.
Bishop. Yea in Christ's church, of which the pope is head? Dost thou not believe that the pope is supreme head of the catholic church?
Bishop. Yea in Christ's church, of which the pope is head? Dost thou not belive that the pope is supreme head of the catholic church?
Spurred. No. I believe not that he should be above the apostles, if he take them to be his predecessors. For when there came a thought among the apostles, who should be the greatest when their master was gone, Christ answered them unto their thoughts, "The kings of the earth bear dominion above each other, but ye shall not so do. For he that will be greatest among you shall become servant unto all. How is it then (said I) that he will climb so high above his fellows? And also we were sworn in my master king Henry's time, that we should, to the utmost of our power, never consent to him again. And therefore as he hath nothing to do here in England, so neither hath he in his own country more than a bishop hath in his diocese.
Spurd. No. I belive not that he should be above the apostles, if he take them to be his predecessors. For when there came a thought among the apostles, who should be the greatest when their master was gone, Christ answered them unto their thoughts, "The kings ot the earth bear dominion above each other, but ye shall not so do. For he that will be greatest among you shall become servant unto all. How is it then (said I) that he will climb so high above his fellows? And also we were sworn in my master king Henry's time, that we should, to the utmost of our power, never consent to him again. And theref•re as he hath nothing to do here in England, so neithe• hath he in his own country more than a bishop hath in his diocese.
Bishop. Yea, what of that? We were then in error and sin, now we are in the right way again, and therefore thou must home again with us, and acknowledge thy fault, and become a christian man, and be sworn unto the pope as our supreme head. Wilt thou be sworn unto the pope? How sayest thou?
Spurred. No, I warrant you, by the grace of God, not as long as I live. For you cannot prove by the scripture that the pope is head of the church, and may do therein what he listeth.
Spurd. No, I warrant you, by the grace of God, not as long as I live. For you cannot prove by the scripture that the pope is head of the church, and may do therein what he listeth.
Bishop. No? yes I trow; for as the bell-weather which weareth the bell, is head of the flock of sheep, even so is the pope the head of the church of Christ. And as the bees in the hive have a master be, when they are gone out, to bring them home to the hive; even, so the pope, when we be gone astray, and wandered from the fold, from the hive, &c. then is ordered our head by succession of Peter, to bring us home again to the true church: as thou now, my good fellow, hast long wandered out of the way like a scattered sheep, &c. Hear therefore that bell-weather, the master bell, &c. and come home with us again to thy mother the church.
Bishop. No? yes I trow; for as the bell-weather which weareth the bell, is head of the flock of sheep, even so is the pope the head of the church of Christ. And as the bees in the hive have a master bee, when they are gone out, to bring them home to the hive; even, so the pope, when we be gone astray, and wandered from the fold, from the hive, &c. then is ordered our head by succession of Peter, to bring us home again to the true church: as thou now, my good fellow, hast long wandered out of the way like a scattered sheep, &c. Hear therefore that bell-weather, the master bell, &c. and come home with us again to thy mother the church.
Spurred. My lord, all this is but natural reason, and no scripture: but since you cannot prove the pope to be authorized by scripture, you answer me not a• I thought you would.
Spurd. My lord, all this is but natural reason, and no scripture: but since you cannot prove the pope to be authorized by scripture, you answer me not a• I thought you would.
