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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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Bland. Sir, I thought you had some matters against me by the law.
Collins. Well, on Monday at nine of the clock you shall see the law, and have articles laid unto you.
THEN they espied Mr. Cox the lawyer, and called him in, and said, Here is a lawyer can tell you are bound by law to answer: And he said as they had said.
Collins. Do you not believe, that after the consecration of the blessed sacrament of the altar, there remaineth no substance of bread, but the substance of Jesus Christ, both God and man?
Collins. Do you not believe, that after the consecration of the blessed sacrament of the altar, there remaineth no substance of bread, but the subst••ce of Jesus Christ, both God and man?
Bland. Mr. Commissary, I know not by any law why you should ask me that question more than any other man here. And after a little talk, my lord of Dover asked me this question: Dost thou not believe, after the consecration, that it is the body of Christ? And I said, No, I do not so believe: for the scriptures do not teach me, that there should remain the flesh of Christ, to eat as a man should eat man's flesh.
THEN Mr. Glassier said, That was the opinion of the Capernaites, there is no man here of that opinion: and spake long of cutting of Christ's body, as men cut flesh in the shambles.
THEN Mr. Glasier said, That was the opinion of the Capernaites, there is no man here of that opinion: and spake long of cutting of Christ's body, as men cut flesh in the shambles.
THEN Dr. Faucet said, Mr. Bland, forasmuch as you and I were brought up both in one house, and born both in one parish, I would be as glad as any man alive to do you good; but you may not thus stand against the church. For Christ saith, You must humble yourself, and take up his cross, and follow him: and to humble yourself in this place, is to be content, and no• stick to your own judgment, but to humble yourself to the holy church, which hath determined, that after the consecration there remaineth no bread, but the natural body and blood of Christ.
Bland. Mr. Doctor, if you take humbling of ourselves in that place, to admit the determination of the church, then must we know by the scriptures, that the same church determined nothing but according to the scriptures, as this is not: and therefore I do not believe any such transubstantiation, nor ever will, God willing. Then, says he, I have done with you; I will no more pray for you than for a dog.
THEN said Mr. Glassier, How think you? Did St. Paul, when he said, Is not the bread that we ⟨p. 707⟩break a partaking of the body of Christ? did he mean baker's bread?
THEN said Mr. Glasier, How think you? Did St. Paul, when he said, Is not the bread that we ⟨p. 707⟩break a partaking of the body of Christ? did he mean baker's bread?
Bland. Though he did not mean baker's bread, that doth not prove that he brake natural and real flesh.
Glassier. No, by St. Mary, we say not so, but we say it is the natural body glorified, under the form of bread and wine.
Glasier. No, by St. Mary, we say not so, but we say it is the natural body glorified, under the form of bread and wine.
Bland. Then the apostles had it not as we have; or else his glorified body was crucified for us.
Glassier. Tush, you do not understand the scriptures. For Christ's body was ever glorified, in that it was so marvellously united to the Godhead: yea, and he showed his body divers times glorified, as in the mount Tabor; and when he walked on the water, we see he was light, and had no weight in him. Was not that then a glorified body?
Glasier. Tush, you do not understand the scriptures. For Christ's body was ever glorified, in that it was so marvellously united to the Godhead: yea, and he shewed his body divers times glorified, as in the mount Tabor; and when he walked on the water, we see he was light, and had no weight in him. Was not that then a glorified body?
Bland. Then belike Peter's body was glorified, if walking on the water was the deed of a glorified body: and the iron that Elisha made made to swim upon the water.
TUSH, said my lord of Dover, that was done by prayer. But there was such a laughing, that I heard no more what my lord said.
Bland. Masters, I know that it availeth nothing to reason with you, no more than it availed you in the time of the gospel. For then neither the reason of Eckius, Cochlaeus, nor yet of detection of the devil's sophistry of my lord chancellor's doing, could take any place. And it is known to some that be here, that something I can say in them.
