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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 2 › Chapter 3 › Letter: A LETTER, From the Rev. Dr. ROWLAND TAYLOR, to his WIFE.
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BUT the popish mass is another matter. The mass, as it is now, is but one of Antichrist's youngest daughters, in which the devil is rather present and received, than our Saviour, the second person in the Trinity, God and Man. O Lord God, heavenly Father, for Christ's sake, we beseech thee to turn again England to the right way it was in, in king Edward's time.
BUT to return again to the packer, rather than preacher, he bringeth St. Chrysostom, where he maketh a comparison between Christ's flesh and Elijah's cloak cast down to Elisha, when Elijah was taken up in the fiery chariot; at length he saith, that Christ, ascending up to heaven, took his flesh with him, and also left his flesh behind him on earth.
BUT to return again to the packer, rather than preacher, he bringeth St. Chrysostom, where he maketh a comparison between Christ's flesh and Elias's cloak cast down to Elizeus, when Elias was taken up in the fiery chariot; at length he saith, that Christ, ascending up to heaven, took his flesh with him, and also left his flesh behind him on earth.
THE meaning is, he did ascend with his flesh, and left a memorial cloak of the same body and flesh, which he calleth his flesh, as he in the sacramental phrase calleth bread his body, because it representeth his body: and as in like manner of sacramental speech, a lamb was called the passover, the circumcision, God's covenant. He took up his flesh corporally, and left his flesh in mystery and sacrament spiritually. Or it may be said, that he left his flesh upon earth, that is, his mystical body, his faithful people; whom St. Paul calleth the members of his body, of his flesh, of his bones, Ephes. v. In the xlix. chapter of Genesis, there is no word of Christ's sacrament, but there is a prophesy of Christ's passion. And where he speaketh there of grapes and wine, it is what is spoken of Christ in another place, where he saith, "I alone did tread the wine-press," meaning thereby, that Christ alone suffered painful passion for the remission of sins, and for the consolation of his faithful soldiers.