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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
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THIS carnal presence is contrary to the word of God, as appeareth, John xvi. "I tell you the truth. It is profitable to you that I go away, for if I go not away, the comforter shall not come unto you." Acts iii. "Whom the heavens must receive until the time of restoring all things which God hath spoken." Matt. ix. "The children of the bridegroom cannot mourn so long as the bridegroom is with them: but now is the time of mourning." John xvi. "But I will see you again, and your hearts shall rejoice." John xiv. "I will come again and take you to myself." Matt. xxiv. "If they shall say unto you, Behold here is Christ, or there is Christ, believe them not: for wheresoever the dead carcass is, thither the eagles will resort."
THIS carnal presence is contrary to the word of God, as appeareth, John xvi. "I tell you the truth. It is profitable to you that I go away, for if I go not away, the comforter shall not come unto you." Acts iii. "Whom the heavens must receive until the time of restoring all things which God hath spoken." Matt. ix. "The children of the bridegroom cannot mourn so long as the bridegroom is with them: but now is the time of mourning." John xvi. "But I will see you again, and your hearts shall rejoice." John xiv. "I will come again and take you to myself." Matt. xxiv. "If they shall say unto you, Behold here is Christ, or there is Christ, believe them not: for wheresoever the dead carcase is, thither the eagles will resort."
IT varieth from the articles of the faith; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father, from whence (and not from any other place, saith St. Augustine) he shall come to judge both the quick and the dead.
IT destroyeth and taketh away the institution of the Lord's supper, which was commanded only to be used and continued until the Lord himself should come. If therefore he be really present in the body of his flesh, then must the supper cease: for a remembrance is not of a thing present, but a thing past and absent. And there is a difference between remembrance and presence, and (as one of the fathers saith) a figure is in vain where the figured is present.
IT maketh precious things common to profane and ungodly persons, and constraineth men to confess many absurdities. For it affirmeth, that whoremongers and murd•••rs▪ yea, and (as some of them hold opinion) the wicked and faithless, mi•e, rats, and dogs, also may receive the very real and corporal ⟨p. 331⟩body of the Lord, wherein the fullness of the Spirit of light and grace dwelleth; contrary to the manifest words of Christ in six places and sentences of the sixth chapter of St. John.
IT maketh precious things common to profane and ungodly persons, and constraineth men to confess many absurdities. For it affirmeth, that whoremongers and murd•••rs▪ yea, and (as some of them hold opinion) the wicked and faithless, mi•e, rats, and dogs, also may receive the very real and corporal ⟨p. 331⟩body of the Lord, wherein the fulness of the Spirit of light and grace dwelleth; contrary to the manifest words of Christ in six places and sentences of the sixth chapter of St. John.
IT confirmeth also and maintaineth that beastly kind of cruelty of the anthropophagi, that is, the devourers of man's flesh: for it is a more cruel thing to devour a quick man, than to slay him.
PIE. He requireth time to speak blasphemies. Leave your blasphemies.
PYE. He requireth time to speak blasphemies. Leave your blasphemies.
RID. I little thought to have had such reproachful words at your hands.
WEST. All is quiet. Go to your arguments, Mr. Doctor.
RID. I have not many things more to say.
WEST. You utter blasphemies with a most impudent face; leave off, I say, and get you to the argument.
RID. It forceth men to maintain many monstrous miracles, without any necessity and authority of God's word. For at the coming of this presence of the body and flesh of Christ, they thrust away the substance of bread, and affirm that the accidents remain without any subject, and instead thereof they place Christ's body without his qualities and the true manner of a body. And if the sacrament be reserved so long until it mould, and worms breed, some say that the substance of bread miraculously returneth again, and some deny it. Others affirm, the real body of Christ goeth down into the stomach of the receivers, and doth there abide so long only as they shall continue to be good.
BUT now (my brethren) think not, because I disallow that presence which the first proposition maintaineth (as a presence which I take to be forged, fantastical, and besides the authority of God's word, perniciously brought into the church by the Romanists) that I therefore go about to take away the true presence of Christ's body in his supper rightly and duly ministered, which is grounded upon the word of God, and made more plain by the commentaries of the faithful fathers. They that think so of me, the Lord knoweth how far they are deceived. And to make the same evident unto you, I will in few words declare what true presence of Christ's body in the sacrament of the Lord's supper I hold and affirm, with the word of God and the ancient fathers.
BUT now (my brethren) think not, because I disallow that presence which the first proposition maintaineth (as a presence which I take to be forged, fantastical, and besides the authority of God's word, perniciously brought into the church by the Romanists) that I therfore go about to take away the true presence of Christ's body in his supper rightly and duly ministered, which is grounded upon the word of God, and made more plain by the commentaries of the faithful fathers. They that think so of me, the Lord knoweth how far they are deceived. And to make the same evident unto you, I will in few words declare what true presence of Christ's body in the sacrament of the Lord's supper I hold and affirm, with the word of God and the ancient fathers.
I say and confess with the evangelist Luke, and with the apostle P••l, that the bread, on which thanks are given, is the body of Christ in the remembrance of him and his death, to be set forth perpetually of the faithful until his coming.
I say and confess the bread which we break to be the communion and partaking of Christ's body, with the ancient and faithful fathers.
I say and believe that there is not only a signification of Christ's body set forth by the sacrament, but also that therewith is given to the godly and faithful the grace of Christ's body, that i•, the food of life and immortality. And this I hold with Cyprian.
I say also with St. Augustine, that we […] life and we drink life: with Emisene, that we feel the Lord to be present in grace: with Athanasius, that we receive celestial food, which cometh from above: the propriety of natural communion, with Hilarius: the nature of flesh and benediction which giveth life in bread and wine, with Cyril; and with the same Cyril, the virtue of the very flesh of Christ, life and grace of his body, the property of the only begotten, that is to say, life, as he himself in plain words expoundeth it.
I say also with St. Augustine, that we 〈…〉 life and we drink life: with Emisene, that we feel the Lord to be present in grace: with Athanasius, that we receive celestial food, which cometh from above: the propriety of natural communion, with Hilarius: the nature of flesh and benediction which giveth life in bread and wine, with Cyril; and with the same Cyril, the virtue of the very flesh of Christ, life and grace of his body, the property of the only begotten, that is to say, life, as he himself in plain words expoundeth it.
