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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 6: The Sixth Day's Debate.
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(2) BUT the body of Christ is a human nature, distinct from the deity, and is a proper nature of itself.
(3) ••GO, therefore it cannot receive any thing that is contrary to that nature, and that varieth from itself.
BUT bodily to be present, and to be absent bodily, to be on earth, and to be in heaven, and all at one present time, are things contrary to the nature of an human body. Therefore, it cannot be said of the human body of Christ, that the self-same body is both in heaven, and also on the earth at one instant, either visibly or invisibly. Morgan denied the first part of the argument, which Philpot supported out of Vigilius, an ancient writer; yet still Morgan cavilled thereat, and said it was no scripture, and desired him to prove the same from scripture. Philpot deduced the same from St. Paul, who says, that "Christ is like unto us in all points, except sin; therefore, like as one of our bodies cannot receive in itself any thing contrary to the nature of a body, as to be in St. Paul's church and at Westminster in one instant, or to be at London visibly, and at Lincoln invisibly at one time; so, in like manner, the body of Christ cannot be in more places than one, which is in heaven, and consequently is not included or contained in the sacrament of the altar. But, said the prolocutor, it is not true, that Christ was like unto us in all points, since he was not conceived by the seed of man as we are. Philpot replied, that Christ's conception was prophesied before by the angel to be supernatural, but after he had received our nature by the operation of the Holy Ghost in the virgin's womb, he became in all points like unto us, except sin.
BUT bodily to be present, and to be absent bodily, to be on earth, and to be in heaven, and all at one present time, are things contrary to the nature of an human body. Therefore, it cannot be said of the human body of Christ, that the self-same body is both in heaven, and also on the earth at one instant, either visibly or invisibly. Morgan denied the first part of the argument, which Philpot supported out of Vigilius, an ancient writer; yet still Morgan cvilled thereat, and said it was no scripture, and desired him to prove the same from scripture. Philpot deduced the same from St. Paul, who says, that "Christ is like unto us in all points, except sin; therefore, like as one of our bodies cannot receive in itself any thing contrary to the nature of a body, as to be in St. Paul's church and at Westminster in one instant, or to be at London visibly, and at Lincoln invisibly at one time; so, in like manner, the body of Christ cannot be in more places than one, which is in heaven, and consequently is not included or contained in the sacrament of the altar. But, said the prolocutor, it is not true, that Christ was like unto us in all points, since he was not conceived by the seed of man as we are. Philpot replied, that Christ's conception was prophesied before by the angel to be supernatural, but after he had received our nature by the operation of the Holy Ghost in the virgin's womb, he became in all points like unto us, except sin.