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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 4 › Argument 6: The SIXTH ARGUMENT.
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1. THE first consisteth in nourishing, as ye shall read in Rabana, Cyprian, Augustine, Irene, and most plainly in Isidore out of Bertram.
2. THE second in uniting and joining of many into one, as Cyprian teacheth.
3. THE third is a similitude of unlike things; where, like as the bread is turned into one body, so we, by the right use of this sacrament, are turned through faith into the body of Christ.
THE sayings of the fathers declare it to be a figurative speech, as it appeareth in Origen, Tertullian, Chrysostom in an unfinished work, Augustine, Ambrose, Basil, Gregory, Nazianzen, Hilary, and most plainly of all in Bertram. Moreover, the sayings and places of all the fathers, whose names I have before recited against the assertion of the first proposition, do quite overthrow transubstantiation. But of all most evidently and plainly, Irene, Origen, Cyprian, Chrysostom to Cesarius the monk, Augustine against Adamatus, Gelasius, Cyril, Epiphanius, Chrysostom again on the xx. Matthew, Rabana, Damascene, and Bertram.