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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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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.
TO the tenth, the said Osmond and Bamford answered and said, That by reason of their belief before by them confessed, they are not to be reputed, taken, or adjudged for wilful and obstinate heretics, nor to be punished therefore, as is declared in that article. The other answered nothing
THESE articles, in the same form and manner of words, are commonly objected to all others that follow after, with the same answers thereunto annexed. In which articles thou mayest note, reader, the crafty and subtle handling of these lawyers and registers, who so deceitfully frame their articles and positions, that unless a man do advisedly consider them, it is hard for a simple man to answer to them, but he shall be ensnared and entangled. So they paint their church with such a visage of universal, holy, catholic, as it should seem, he that denieth Rome, denieth the holy church of Christ here on earth. Likewise in examining them, and especially the simple sort in the matter of the sacrament, to the material bread in the sacrament they put the word [only] very captiously and fraudulently, to take them at the worst advantage, making the people believe that they take the holy sacrament to be no better than only common bread: when they do not so, but make a difference between the same, both in the use, honour, and name thereof.
THESE articles, in the same form and manner of words, are commonly objected to all others that follow after, with the same answers thereunto annexed. In which articles thou mayest note, reader, the crafty and subtle handling of these lawyers and registers, who so deceitfully frame their articles and positions, that unless a man do advisedly consider them, it is hard for a simple man to answer to them, but he shall be ensnared and entangled. So they paint their church with such a vis•ge of universal, holy, catholic, as it should seem, he that denieth Rome, denieth the holy church of Christ here on earth. Likewise in examining them, and especially the simple sort in the matter of the sacrament, to the material bread in the sacrament they put the word [only] very captiously and fraudulently, to take them at the worst advantage, making the people believe that they take the holy sacrament to be no better than only common bread: when they do not so, but make a difference between the same, both in the use, honour, and name thereof.
AGAIN, when the examinates hold only against the erroneous points of Romish religion, these bishops in their interrogatories give out the matter so generally, as though the said examinates in general spake against all the articles taught in Rome, Spain, England, France, Scotland, &c.
