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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 4: The FOURTH DAY'S DEBATE.
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THEN said Philpot, you have much disappointed me, thus suddenly to go from your former order: but I will accomplish your commandments, leaving mine oration apart, and I will come to my arguments, which, as well as so sudden a warning will serve, I will make in English. But before I bring forth any argument, I will in one word declare what manner of presence I disallow in the sacrament, to the intent the hearers may the better understand to what end and effect mine arguments shall tend: not to deny utterly the presence of Christ in his sacrament, truly ministered according to his institution, but only to deny that gross and carnal presence, which you of this house have already subscribed unto, to be in the sacrament of the altar, contrary to the true and manifest meaning of the scriptures: that by transubstantiation of the sacramental bread and wine, Christ's natural body should, by virtue of the words pronounced by the priest, be contained and included under the forms or accidents of bread and wine. This kind of presence imagined by men, I do deny, and against this I will reason. But before he could make an end of what he was about, he was interrupted by the prolocutor, and commanded ⟨p. 275⟩to descend to his argument: at whose unjust importunity Philpot being offended, and hoping to find remedy, fell down upon his knees before the earls and lords which were there present, being a great number, whereof some were of the queen's council, beseeching them that he might have liberty to prosecute his arguments without interruption, which was readily granted by the lords. But the prolocutor making use of a point of the practice of prelates, would not condescend to it, but still cried, "Hold your peace, or else make a short argument." "I intend it," said Philpot, "if you will let me alone: but first I must ask a question of my respondent, Dr. Chedsey, concerning a word or two of your supposition, that is▪ of the sacrament of the altar, what he meaneth thereby." Dr. Chedsey answered, that, in their supposition, they took the sacrament of the altar, and the sacrament of the mass, to be all one. Then said Mr. Philpot, by Mr.
THEN said Philpot, you have much disappointed me, thus suddenly to go from your former order: but I will accomplish your commandments, leaving mine oration apart, and I will come to my arguments, which, as well as so sudden a warning will serve, I will make in English. But before I bring forth any argument, I will in one word declare what manner of presence I disallow in the sacrament, to the intent the hearers may the better understand to what end and effect mine arguments shall tend: not to deny utterly the presence of Christ in his sacrament, truly ministered according to his institution, but only to deny that gross and carnal presence, which you of this house have already subscribed unto, to be in the sacrament of the altar, contrary to the true and manifest meaning of the scriptures: that by transubstantiation of the sacramental bread and wine, Christ's natural body should, by virtue of the words pronounced by the priest, be contained and included under the forms or accidents of bread and wine. This kind of presence imagined by men, I do deny, and against this I will reason. But before he could make an end of what he was about, he was interrupted by the prolocutor, and commanded