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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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FIFTHLY, In that it is given in an unknown tongue, whereby the people are ignorant of the right use thereof, how Christ died for our sins, and rose again for our justification, by whom we are set at peace with God, and received into his savour and mercy by his promise, whereof this sacrament is a sure seal and witness.
BESIDES this, it is hanged up, and shut in a box, many times so long, that worms breed in it, and so it putrefieth: whereby the rude people have an occasion to speak irreverently thereof, which otherwise would speak reverently.
BESIDES this, it is hanged up, and shut in a box, many times so long, that worms breed in it, and so it putrifieth: whereby the rude people have an occasion to speak irreverently thereof, which otherwise would speak reverently.
THEREFORE they that thus abuse it, bring up the slander, and not we, which pray daily to God to restore it to the right use, according to Christ's institution.
NOW concerning Christ's words, "This is my body," we deny them not: but we say, that the mind of Christ in them must be searched out by other open scriptures, whereby we may come to the spiritual understanding of them, which shall be most to the glory of God: for as the holy apostle saith, "There is no scripture that hath any private interpretation." Besides this, the scriptures are full of the like figurative speeches: as for example: Christ saith, "This cup is the New Testament of my blood." "The rock is Christ," saith St. Paul. "Whosoever receiveth a child in my name, (saith our Saviour Jesus Christ) receiveth me." Which sentences must not be understood after the letter, lest we do err as the Capernaites did, which thought that Christ's body should be eaten with their teeth, when he spake of the eating thereof. Unto whom Christ said, "Such a fleshly eating of my body profiteth nothing: it is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: for my words are spirit and life."