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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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5. ITEM, That thou hast believed and taught, and hast openly spoke and defended, and so dost believe, think, maintain, and defend, that the very true receiving and eating of Christ's body and blood, is only to take material and common bread, and to break it and distribute it among the people, remembering thereby the passion and death of Christ only.
6. ITEM, That thou hast likewise believed, thought, and spoken, that the mass, now used in the realm of England, and other the churches aforesaid, is abominable and naught, and full of idolatry, and is of the ordinance of the pope, and not of the institution of Christ, and hath no goodness in it, saving the Gloria in Excelsis, the epistle and gospel, and therefore thou hast not, nor wilt come to be present at mass, nor receive the sacrament of the altar, nor any other sacrament of the church, as they are now used in the realm of England, &c.
7. ITEM, That thou hast in times past believed, and yet dost now believe, that auricular confession is not necessary to be made unto the priest, but is a thing superfluous, void, and naught, only to be made to God and to none other person. And likewise thou hast condemned as superfluous, vain, and unprofitable, all the ceremonies of the church, and the service of the same, and hast said that no service in the church ought to be said but in the English tongue, and if it be otherwise, it is unlawful and naught.
8. ITEM, That thou being notoriously and openly suspected for an heretic, and a person culpable in the premises, wast of late called and brought before the earl of Oxford, and Mr. Philip Paris, and there wast charged with the said heresies, and wouldst not come to the church to be conf•ss•d, and receive the said sacrament as other christian people did, but utterly didst refuse to do the same, thou w•st by the said earl of Oxford, and Mr. Philip Paris, sent up by a constable unto m• bishop of ⟨p. 613⟩London, and was by them denounced, detected, and put up to me as an heretic and misbelieving person.
8. ITEM, That thou being notoriously and openly suspected for an heretic, and a person culpable in the prem•ses, wast of late called and brought before the earl of Oxford, and Mr. Philip Paris, and there wast charged with the said heresies, and wouldst not come to the church to be conf•ss•d, and receive the said sacrament as other christian people did, but utterly didst refuse to do the same, thou w•st by the said earl of Oxford, and Mr. Philip Paris, sent up by a constable unto m• bishop of ⟨p. 613⟩London, and was by them denounced, detected, and put up to me as an heretic and misbelieving person.
9. ITEM, That thou hast known and believed, thou dost know and believe, or at least thou hast credibly heard reported, spoken, and said, that all and all manner of persons, which do teach, preach, or hold any thing concerning the sacraments of the church, or any of the articles of faith, otherwise than is found already discussed and determined by our mother the holy church, or doth call into doubt or question that thing which is already decided or determined by the church, or that willingly and wittingly do utter, openly or privily, any slanderous or blasphemous words concerning the said sacraments or any of them, or that do preach, teach, or keep any sect or kind of heresy against the wholesome doctrine of the church, and do wittingly, or obstinately defend the sect or kind of heresy, are by the canons of the whole and universal catholic church, and also by the ecclesiastical laws of this church of England, by their so doing, accursed with that curse, which doth separate them from the entry into the church, from the receiving of the sacraments, and from the company of faithful people, and are (in continuing in this said sect and heresy) to be pronounced, declared, and taken for heretics, and to be delivered to the secular power, and by the laws temporal of this realm of England, and the custom of the same, to be by the said secular power put to death, and burnt for this said sect and heresy.
9. ITEM, That thou hast known and believed, thou dost know and believe, or at least thou hast credibly heard reported, spoken, and said, that all and all manner of persons, which do teach, preach, or hold any thing concerning the sacraments of the church, or any of the articles of faith, otherwise than is found already discussed and determined by our mother the holy church, or doth call into doubt or question that thing which is already decided or determined by the church, or that willingly and wittingly do utter, openly or privily, any slanderous or blasphemous words concerning the said sacraments or any of them, or that do preach, teach, or keep any sect or kind of heresy against the wholsome doctrine of the church, and do wittingly, or obstinately defend the sect or kind of heresy, are by the canons of the whole and universal catholic church, and also by the ecclesiastical laws of this church of England, by their so doing, accursed with that curse, which doth separate them from the entry into the church, from the receiving of the sacraments, and from the company of faithful people, and are (in continuing in this said sect and heresy) to be pronounced, declared, and taken for heretics, and to be delivered to the secular power, and by the laws temporal of this realm of England, and the custom of the same, to be by the said secular power put to death, and burnt for this said sect and heresy.
10. ITEM, That thou by reason of the premises wast and art to be pronounced, taken, had, reputed, and judged for a manifest and open, wilful and obstinate heretic, for a wicked and cursed person, and to be punished accordingly for the same, according to the said canon laws, usages, and customs.
TO the first they answered and confessed the same to be true, except that they do believe that there is here in earth one catholic and whole church, and that the same church doth hold and believe, as is contained in this article.
TO the second they answer and believe the said article not to be true; for they say, that they have and do believe that they are necessarily bounden, under pain of damnation of their soul, to give full faith and credence unto the said catholic church, and to the faith and religion of the same, in all necessary points of the same faith and religion, without wavering or doubting in any part thereof.
TO the third they answer, That the church of Rome, and other churches mentioned in this article, be not true members and parts (as they be used in faith and religion) of the catholic church of Christ, and that the faith and religion used in the said churches, is not agreeable with the church of Christ, but is false and erroneous.
TO the fourth they answer and say, That howsoever the said churches of Rome and others of Christendom have and do believe touching the sacrament of the altar, yet they do believe that in the sacrament, under the forms of bread and wine, there is not the very substance of Christ's body and blood, but there is only the substance of material bread and wine, and that the same material bread and wine be only the signs and tokens of Christ's body and blood, and are to be received only for a remembrance of Christ's passion and death, without any substance of Christ's body and blood at all.
TO the fifth article they answer, That the true receiving and eating of Christ's body, according to Christ's institution, is to take, distribute, and eat material bread, and thereby to remember the passion and death of Christ, and so receive by faith (as they believe) Christ's body and blood, and not otherwise.
TO the sixth they answer, The same to be true in every part thereof, except that over and besides the Gloria in Excelsis, the epistle and gospel, which they believe to be good, they believe the pater-noster and creed used in the mass, to be also good.
TO the seventh they answer and confess, That auricular confession is not necessary to be made to ⟨p. 614⟩the priest; nevertheless they think it is necessary to go to such a priest as is liable to give good counsel; and that for counsel only, and not otherwise. And as concerning the ceremonies of the church, they answer the same •o be vain and unprofitable. No service in the church ought to be said, but only in the English tongue.
TO the eighth they answer, and believe the same to be true in every part thereof, except that they do not believe that they be heretics, or suspected of heresy.
TO the ninth Osmond and Bamford answered, That they referred themselves to the said laws mentioned in that article; but Chamberlain made no answer at all to this article.
