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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 › ARGUMENTS and ANSWERS between DR. SMITH, and BISHOP RIDLEY.
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SMITH. Nay, nay, I will frame it myself. CHRIST after his ascension was seen really and corporally on earth, albeit he do abide in heaven continually. ERGO, Notwithstanding his ascension and continual abiding at the right hand of the Father, he may be really and corporally on the earth.
RID. Let us first agree about the continual sitting at the right hand of the Father.
SMITH. Doth he so sit at the right hand of his Father, that he doth never forsake the same?
RID. Nay, I do not bind Christ in heaven so straightly. I see you go about to beguile me with your equivocations. Such equivocations are to be distinguished. If you mean by his sitting in heaven, to reign with his Father, he may be both in heaven and also on earth. But if you understand his sitting to be after a corporal manner of sitting, so is he always permanent in heaven. For Christ to be corporal here on earth, when corporally he is resident in heaven, is clean contrary to the holy scriptures, as Austine saith; "The body of Christ is in heaven, but his truth is dispersed in every place." NOW, if continually he abide in heaven after the manner of his corporal presence, then his perpetual abiding there stoppeth or hindereth that the same corporal presence of him cannot be in the sacrament.