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The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being…
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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Volume 1 › Book 1 › Chapter 2 › Day 3: The Third Day's Debate.
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UPON which, Mr. John Philpot stood up, and said, he could make it appear, from the whole subject matter, in the place alleging, and from the similitude Theodoret uses, for proving his purpose, that Moreman's explanation of the Greek word for substance, could by no means be taken in the sense he would interpret it: for, he observed, Theodoret was in that place urging against the heretic Eutiches, who denied two natures of substance to remain in Christ as one person, and that his humanity, after the accomplishment of the mystery of our salvation, ascending into heaven, and being joined to the divinity, was absorbed thereby; so that, according to his opinion, Christ was no more but of one divine substance only: against which opinion Theodoret writeth, and by the similitude, of the sacrament proveth the contrary against that heretic: for like as in the sacrament of the body of Christ, after the consecration, there is the substance of Christ's humanity, with the substance of the bread remaining as before, not being absorbed by the humanity of Christ, but by divine operation joined thereunto, even so, in the person of Christ, being now in heaven, of whom this sacrament is a representation, there being two several substances, his humanity and divinity, united in one hypostacy or person, which is Christ: the humanity not being absorbed by the conjunction of the divinity, but remaining in its former substance: and Theodoret's similitude, continued Mr. Philpot, would prove nothing, if the substance of the sacramental bread remained not as it did before. The heretic therefore, according to Dr. Moreman's interpretation, would have a strong argument to support his error; and to prove himself an orthodox christian, might say to Theodoret thus: Like as thou Theodoret, if thou wert of Dr. Moreman's mind, dost say that, after the consecration in the sacrament, the substance of the bread is changed into the human body of Christ, coming thereunto, so that in the sacrament there is but one substance of the humanity alone, and not the substance of bread as it was before; even so, likewise, may I affirm and conclude from thine own similitude, that the humanity ascending up by the power of God into heaven, and adjoined to deity, was absorbed, and turned into one substance with the deity;
UPON which, Mr. John Philpot stood up, and said, he could make it appear, from the whole subject matter, in the place alledging, and from the similitude Theodoret uses, for proving his purpose, that Moreman's explanation of the Greek word for substance, could by no means be taken in the sense he would interpret it: for, he observed, Theodoret was in that place urging against the heretic Eutiches, who denied two natures of substance to remain in Christ as one person, and that his humanity, after the accomplishment of the mystery of our salvation, ascending into heaven, and being joined to the divinity, was absorbed thereby; so that, according to his opinion, Christ was no more but of one divine substance only: against which opinion Theodoret writeth, and by the similitude, of the sacrament proveth the contrary against that heretic: for like as in the sacrament of the body of Christ, after the consecration, there is the substance of Christ's humanity, with the substance of the bread remaining as before, not being absorbed by the humanity of Christ, but by divine operation joined thereuto, even so, in the person of Christ, being now in heaven, of whom this sacrament is a representation, there being two several substances, his humanity and divinity, united in one hypostacy or person, which is Christ: the humanity not being absorbed by the conjunction of the divinity, but remaining in its former substance: and Theodoret's similitude, continued Mr. Philpot, would prove nothing, if the substance of the sacramental bread remained not as it did before. The heretic therefore, according to Dr. Moreman's interpretation, would have a strong argument to support his error; and to prove himself an orthodox christian, might say to Theodoret thus: Like as thou Theodoret, if thou wert of Dr. Moreman's mind, dost say that, after the consecration in the sacrament, the substance of the bread is changed into the human body of Christ, coming thereunto, so that in the sacrament there is but one substance of the humanity alone, and not the substance of bread as it was before; even so, likewise, may I affirm and conclude from thine own similitude, that the humanity ascending up by the power of God into heaven, and adjoined to deity, was absorbed, and turned into one substance with the deity;