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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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AT these words the prolocutor was exceedingly offended and troubled, telling him, that he should not brag there, but be fully answered. To which Philpot returned, "It is the only thing I desire, to be answered directly on this point of dispute▪ and I request of you, and of all the house here present, ⟨p. 273⟩that I may be sufficiently answered, which I am sure you cannot do, taking Theodoret's authority, and similitude, as they ought to be taken." Whereupon, without any further reply, or answer to his reasoning, Philpot was commanded to be silent.
AFTER he had sat down, the dean of Rochester arose, offering to dispute against the real presence, wishing that the scriptures, and the ancient doctors, might be weighed, believed, and followed, in this point, And he thought a sufficient argument against it, was that saying of Christ, in St. Matthew, where he says, that the poor we should have always with us, but him we should not have always, which the dean said, was spoken concerning the natural presence of Christ's body, and therefore Christ cannot be naturally present on earth in the sacrament of the altar. To this the prolocutor answered, that we should not have Christ present always to exercise alms deeds, but upon the poor.
THE dean then prosecuted his argument, and quoted St. Austin to prove, that the same interpretation of the scripture alleged by Mr. Weston was no sufficient answer; for St. Austin, in the 50th treatise on St. John, speaketh thus on the same sentence; "When Christ said, Me ye shall not have always with you he spake of the presence of his body. For by his majesty, by his providence, by his unspeakable and invisible grace, that is fulfilled which is said of him, Behold I am with you until the consummation of the world. But in the flesh which the word took upon him, in that which was born of the virgin, in that which was apprehended by the Jews, which was crucified on the cross which was let down from the cross, which was wrapped in cloths, which was hid in the sepulchre, which was manifested in the resurrection, you shall not have me always with you. And why? For after a bodily presence he was conversant with his disciples forty days, and they accompanying him, seeing and not allowing him, he ascended and is not here; for there he sitteth at the right hand of the Father; and yet here he is because he is not departed in the presence of his majesty After another manner we have Christ always by the presence of his majesty; but after the presence of his flesh it is rightly said, you shall not verily […] me always with you. For the church had him in the presence of his flesh a few days, and now by faith it apprehendeth him, and seeth him not with eyes."