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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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FIRST, where he seemeth to say, that Christ ascending took his flesh with him, and left his flesh also behind him; it is true; for the fl•sh Christ took with him was that which he received from the virgin Mary, and the flesh he left behind was not his natural body, but the members of his visible ⟨p. 277⟩church; as St. Paul doth aptly testify, when he says, Eph. v. "We are flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bones." And if any one will reply, that he there treateth of the sacrament, and that this interpretation cannot so properly be applied to him in that place, then I will explain St. Chrysostom another way by himself, for a few lines before those now quoted, are these words: "That Christ, after he ascended into heaven, left to us, endued with his sacraments, his flesh in mysteries, that is, sacramentally; and that mystical flesh Christ leaveth as well to his church in the sacrament of baptism, as in the the sacramental bread and wine." "As many (saith St. Paul) as are baptized in Christ, have put on Christ." Hence you may perceive, that St. Chrysostom makes nothing for your gross carnal presence in the sacrament, as you wrongly interpret him.
FIRST, where he seemeth to say, that Christ ascending took his flesh with him, and left his flesh also behind him; it is true; for the fl•sh Christ took with him was that which he received from the virgin Mary, and the flesh he left behind was not his natural body, but the members of his visible ⟨p. 277⟩church; as St. Paul doth aptly testify, when he says, Eph. v. "We are flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bones." And if any one will reply, that he there treateth of the sacrament, and that this interpretation cannot so properly be applied to him in that place, then I will explain St. Chrysostom another way by himself, for a few lines be•fore those now quoted, are these words: "That Christ, after he ascended into heaven, left to us, indued with his sacraments, his flesh in mysteries, that is, sacramentally; and that mystical flesh Christ leaveth as well to his church in the sacrament of baptism, as in the the sacramental bread and wine." "As many (saith St. Paul) as are baptized in Christ, have put on Christ." Hence you may perceive, that St. Chrysostom makes nothing for your gross carnal presence in the sacrament, as you wrongly interpret him.