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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 5: The Fifth Day's Debate.
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THE prolocutor here perceiving, that Mr. Watson was closely attacked, called upon Mr. Morgan to help him out, who said, that Theodoret did no more than what he might lawfully do; for, first, he granted the truth, and then, for fear of such as were not fully instructed in the faith, he spake mystically: he granted the truth, by calling the bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ; after which he seems to give somewhat of the senses and to reason: but that Theodoret was of the same opinion with them, will appear from his words that follow, which are the cause of what went before; therefore he says, The immortality, &c. whereby it seemeth, that he meant the divine nature, and not the human. Morgan was then detected in misapplying the text; for the book had not this word [for] and the Greek word did rather signify [truly], whence it plainly appeared, that it was the beginning of a new matter, and not a sentence rendering a cause of that he had said before.
WATSON now repeated what he had before said: "Suppose Theodoret be on your side, of whom we never beard in print, before two or three years ago▪ yet he is but one; and what is one against the consent of the whole church?" Cheyney affirmed, that not only Theodoret was of his opinion, that the substance of bread and wine do remain, but many others also, particularly Irenaeus, who making mention of this sacrament, says thus: "When the cup which is mingled with wine, and the bread which is broken, do receive the word of God, it is made the Eucharist of the body and blood of Christ, by which the substance of our flesh is nourished, and doth consist." From whence I infer, that if the thanksgiving do nourish our body, then there is some substance besides Christ's body. To ⟨p. 280⟩this both Watson and Morgan replied, observing that [by which,] in that sentence of Irenaeus, was to be referred to the next antecedent, that is, to the body and blood of Christ; and not to the wine which is in the cup, and the bread which is broken. Mr. Cheyney said, that it was not the body of Christ which nourished our bodies; and granting that the flesh of Christ nourisheth to immortality, yet it doth not make for their argument, although it might be true; no more than that answer which was made to my allegation out of St. Paul, The bread which we break, &c. with many others; whereunto you answered, that bread was not to be taken there in its proper signification, that is, not for that it was bread, but for that it had been so; any more than the od of Aaron was taken for a serpent, […] had been a serpent. After this, Mr. […] esychius, and used the same reason that he did concerning the burning of symbols; and asked them, what was burnt? Mr. Watson said, we must not enquire no ask, but if there wa any fault, impute it to Christ. Then said Mr Cheyney, whence came those ashes, if not from substance? or can any substance arise from accidents?