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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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THEN the commissary would prove to me, that Christ's manhood was in two places at one time, by these words of Christ in the third chapter of John, where he saith, "No man ascendeth up into heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." By this he would prove, that Christ was then in heaven, and on earth also, naturally and bodily.
Shut. This and other places must needs be understood for the unity of the person, in that Christ was God and man, and yet the matter must be referred to the Godhead, or else you must fall into great error.
Shet. This and other places must needs be understood for the unity of the person, in that Christ was God and man, and yet the matter must be referred to the Godhead, or else you must fall into great error.
Commis. That is not so: for it was spoken of the manhood of Christ, forasmuch as he saith, "The Son of man which is in heaven."
Shut. If you will needs understand it to be spoken of Christ's manhood, then must you fall into the error of the Anabaptists, who deny that Christ took flesh of the virgin Mary; for if there be no body ascended up, but that which came down