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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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Bland. Sir, when it pleased Almighty God to send his angel unto the virgin Mary to salute her, and said, "Hail, full of grace," &c. came any substance from God our Father into the virgin's womb to become man? Whereat Mr. Archdeacon, my lord of Dover, and Mr. Collins were silent But my lord spake first, and said, The Holy Ghost came to her; and ere he had brought out his sentence, Mr. Syriac Peters said, "The power of the Most High overshadowed her." Truth, said Mr. Archdeacon, it was the power of God sent by the Holy Ghost. They had forgot, that He was begotten of the substance of his Father; or else they perceived whereunto this question tended: and so both I and they left it, by what words I cannot tell. But I said, Sir, I shall ask one other? […] he said, Yea. Is there in the sacrament, after the consecration, Christ's natural body, with all the qualities of a natural body, or no?
Bland. Sir, when it pleased Almighty God to send his angel unto the virgin Mary to salute her, and said, "Hail, full of grace," &c. came any substance from God our Father into the virgin's womb to become man? Whereat Mr. Archdeacon, my lord of Dover, and Mr. Collins were silent But my lord spake first, and said, The Holy Ghost came to her; and ere he had brought out his sentence, Mr. Syriac Peters said, "The power of the Most High overshadowed her." Truth, said Mr. Archdeacon, it was the power of God sent by the Holy Ghost. They had forgot, that He was begotten of the substance of his Father; or else they perceived whereunto this question tended: and so both I and they left it, by what words I cannot tell. But I said, Sir, I shall ask one other? 〈…〉 he said, Yea. Is there in the sacrament, after the consecration, Christ's natural body, with all the qualities of a natural body, or no?
Harps. Hark, said Mr. Archdeacon, hear you this heretic? He thinks it an absurdity to grant all the qualities of Christ's natural body to be in the sacrament. But it is no absurdity: for even that natural body that was born of the virgin Mary is glorified, and that same body is in the sacrament after the consecration. But perceive you not the arrogancy of this heretic, that will put me to answer him, and he will not answer me? He thought to put me to a pinch with his question; for I tell you it is a learned question.