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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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THAT Christ's body is both in heaven, and here also really in the sacrament, is not expressed in the word.
ERGO, (therefore) it is not to be believed, that the body of Christ, being in heaven, is here in the sacrament.
WHY, returned the prolocutor, then you will put Christ in prison in heaven. To which Philpot answered, Do you reckon heaven to be a prison? God grant us all to come to that prison.
AFTER this, Harpsfield affirmed, that the Latin word, oportet, in St. Peter, (in English, must) did not import, as Philpot would infer, a necessity, which might be made appear from other places of scripture, as in the first to Timothy, where St. Paul saith, A bishop must be the husband of one wife. Here the word oportet doth not mean necessity, but a possibility, that he, who never was married, may be a bishop. To which Philpot replied, that the two passages he compared were not alike; and that in comparing the scriptures we must not consider the bare words, but rather their import; and in one place, quoted by him, St. Paul declares of what quality a bishop ought to be; but in the other St. Peter refers to the place where Christ must necessarily be until the end of the world; which we ought to believe to be true. And this comparison of the Latin word, oportet, is no more an answer to my argument, than if I was to say of you, now being here, you must needs be here, which importeth such a necessity for the time, that you can no otherwise but be here; yet you would endeavour, in words, to avoid this necessity with another oportet in another sense, as for instance, you must be a good man, where must doth not indeed imply any such necessity, but that you may be an evil man. Thus your reasoning is not conclusive, and by no means an answer to my argument.