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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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RID. If by perpetual sitting you mean the residence of his body in heaven, your reason containeth manifest contradiction.
SMITH. Th•se two have no contradiction in them at all, both to sit continually at his Father's ⟨p. 340⟩right hand, and also to be seen here really on earth after his ascension. First, You will allow, that Christ sitteth in heaven at the right hand of his Father. For so it is written, Acts v. "Heaven must needs receive him until the time of the restoring of all, &c." Secondly, He was also seen of Paul here corporally on earth. WHEREFORE these two do import, as ye see, no contradiction.
RID. What hindereth, but that Christ, if it please him, and when it pleaseth him, may be in heaven and on earth, and appear to whom he will? And yet notwithstanding you have not yet proved that he will so do. And though Christ continually shall be resident in heaven until the judgment, yet there may be some intermission, notwithstanding. But this controversy, as I said, is amongst all the ancient doctors and writers. And that Christ hath been seen, that they grant all: but whether he was then on earth or in heaven, that is doubtful.