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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CRAN. The sacrament of his blood is made. The words make the blood to them who receive it: not that the blood is in the cup, but in the receiver.
PIE. There is made the blood which redeemed the people.
PYE. There is made the blood which redeemed the people.
CRAN. The blood is made, that is, the sacrament of the blood, by which he redeemed the people: [Fit,] "It is made," that is to say, [ •••enditur.] "It is showed forth there:" and Ambrose saith, we receive in a similitude. "As thou hast received the similitude of his death, so also thou drinkest the similitude of his precious blood."
CRAN. The blood is made, that is, the sacrament of the blood, by which he redeemed the people: [Fit,] "It is made," that is to say, [ •••enditur.] "It is shewed forth there:" and Ambrose saith, we receive in a similitude. "As thou hast received the similitude of his death, so also thou drinkest the similitude of his precious blood."
WEST. He saith in a similitude, because it is ministered under another likeness. This is the argument. (1) THERE is made blood which redeemed the people. (2) BUT the natural blood redeemeth the people. (3) THEREFORE, there is the natural blood of Christ. YOU answer, that words make it blood to them that receive it; not that blood is in the cup, but because it is made blood to them that receive it. That all men may see how falsely you would avoid the fathers, hear what Ambrose saith in the sixth book and first chapter. "PERADVENTURE thou wilt say, how be they true? I which see the similitude, do not see the truth of the blood. First of all I told thee of the word of Christ, which so worketh, that it can change and turn kinds ordained by nature. Afterwards, when the disciples could not abide the words of Christ, but hearing that he gave his flesh to eat, and his blood to drink, they departed. Only Peter said, Thou hast the words of eternal life, whither should I go from thee? Lest therefore more should say this thing, as though there should be a certain horror of blood, and yet the grace of redemption should remain; therefore in a similitude thou receivest the sacrament, but indeed thou obtainest the grace and power of his nature."
CRAN. These words of themselves are plain enough. (And he read this place again,) "Thou receivest the sacrament for a similitude." But what is that he saith, Thou receivest for a similitude? I think he understandeth the sacrament to be the similitude of his blood.
CHED. That you may understand that truth dissenteth not from truth, to overthrow that which ⟨p. 325⟩you say of that similitude; hear what Ambrose saith: "IF the heavenly word did work in other things, doth it not work in the heavenly sacraments? Therefore thou hast learned, that of bread is made the body of Christ, and that the wine and water is put into that cup, but by consecration of the heavenly word it is made blood. But thou wilt say peradventure, that the likeness of blood is not seen. But it hath a similitude. For as thou hast received the similitude of his death, so also thou drinkest the similitude of his precious blood, so that there is no horror of blood, and yet it worketh the price of redemption. Therefore thou hast learned, that that which thou receivest is the body of Christ."
CRAN. He speaketh of sacraments, sacramentally. He calleth the sacraments by the names of the things; for he useth the signs of the things signified: and therefore the bread is not called bread, but his body; for the excellency and dignity of the thing signified by it. Ambrose speaketh the same sense, when he saith, "For a type or figure whereof we receive the mystical cup of his blood, for the safeguard of our souls and bodies."
CHED. A type! He calleth not the blood of Christ a type or sign; but the blood of bulls and goats, in that respect, was a type.
CHED. A type! He calleth not the blood of Christ a type or sign; but the blood of bulls and goats, in that respect, was a tpye.
CRAN. This is new learning: you never read this among the fathers.
CHED. But Ambrose saith so.
CRAN. He calleth the bread and the cup a type or sign of the blood of Christ, and of his benefit.
WEST. Ambrose understandeth it for a type of his benefit, that is, of redemption, not of the blood of Christ, but of his passion.
CRAN. He saith expressly that the cup is a type of Christ's blood.
WEST. You have corrupted Justine, Emissenus, and Duns, by false translations: (the contrary of which Cranmer fairly proved, and also, you have set forth a catechism in the name of the synod of London, and yet there are fifty to witness, that though they were of the number of the convocation, yet they never heard one word of this catechism.
CRAN. I was ignorant of the setting to of that title; and as soon as I had knowledge thereof, I did not like it; therefore I complained to the council, and was answered by them, that the book was so entitled, because it was set forth in the time of the convocation.
CRAN. I was ignorant of the setting to of that title; and as soon as I had knowledge thereof, I did not like it; therefore I complained to the council, and was answered by them, that the book was so intitled, because it was set forth in the time of the convocation.
WEST. Moreover, you have in Duns translated In Romana ecclesia, pro ecclesia catholica: "In the church of Rome," for, "The catholic church."
