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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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BUT I expect here to be answered with a blind distinction; that he is visibly departed in his humanity, but remaineth invisibly in the sacrament; but that no such idle distinction can take away the force of my argument, will appear from the answer which Christ's disciples returned, saying, "Now thou speakest plainly, and utterest no proverb;" which words St. Cyril interpreting saith, that our Saviour ⟨p. 276⟩spake without any ambiguity, or figure of speech, and therefore I do from thence conclude, that if Christ spake plainly, and without parable, then that obscure, dark, and imperceptible presence of Christ's natural body remaining in the sacrament invisibly upon earth, contrary to the plain words of Christ, ought not to be allowed: for nothing can be more uncertain, parabolical, and absurd, than so to say. I will now give attention to your answer, and then descend to confirm what I have said by ancient writers.
THEN Dr. Chedsey, reciting his argument as it was made, took upon him to answer every part thereof severally. First, to the saying of the angel, That Christ is not here, and, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He answered that these sayings pertained nothing to the presence of Christ's natural body in the sacrament, but that they were spoke of Christ's body being in the sepulchre, when the three Maris thought him to have been in the grave still. And therefore the angel said, Why do ye seek him that liveth among the dead? And to the authority of St. John, where Christ saith, Now I leave the world and go to my Father; he meant that of his ascension. And so likewise did Cyril, interpreting the saying of the disciples, that they knew plainly that Christ would visibly ascend into heaven▪ but that doth not exclude the invisible presence of his natural body in the sacrament. For St. Chrysostom, writing to the people of Antioch, doth affirm the same, comparing Elijah and Christ together, and Elijah's cloak, and Christ's flesh. "When Elijah (saith he) was taken up in the fiery chariot, he left his cloak behind him unto his disciple Elis•ous. But Christ ascending into heaven, took his flesh with him, and left also his flesh behind him." From whence we may justly conclude, that Christ's flesh is visibly ascended into heaven, and abideth still invisibly in the sacrament of the altar.