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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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AGAIN, touching these words, [the lively sacrifice of the church,] there is doubt whether they are to be understood figuratively and sacramentally, for the sacrament of the lively sacrifice (after which sort we deny it not to be in the Lord's supper) or properly and without any figure; of the which manner there was but one only sacrifice, and that once offered, namely upon the altar of the cross.
MOREOVER, in these words, [as well as,] it may be doubted whether they be spoken in mockage; as men are wont to say in sport, of a foolish and ignorant person, that he is apt as well in conditions as in knowledge; being apt indeed in neither of them both.
THERE is also a doubt in the word [propitiable,] whether it signify here that which taketh away sin, or that which may be made available for the taking away of sin, that is to say, whether it is to be taken in the active, or in the passive signification.
NOW the falseness of the proposition, after the meaning of the schoolmen and the Romish church, and impiety in that sense which the words seem to import, is this; that they leaning to the foundation of their fond transubstantiation, would make the quick and lively body of Christ's flesh, (united and knit to the divinity) to lie hid under the accidents and outward appearances of bread and wine; and they building upon this foundation, do hold, that the same body is offered unto God by, the priest, in his daily massings, to put away the sins of the quick and the dead; whereas, by the apostle to the Hebrews, it is evident, that there is but one oblation, and one only true and lively sacrifice, of the church, offered upon the altar the cross, which was, is, and shall be for ever, the propitiation for the sins of the whole world and where there is remission of the same, there is (saith the apostle) no more offering for sin.