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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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Volume 1 › Book 2 › Chapter 11 › The Confession of JOHN LAUNDER, before BONNER, Bishop of London.
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ALSO he doth confess and believe, that in the sacrament, now called the sacrament of the altar, there is not really and truly contained▪ under the forms of bread and wine, the very natural body and blood of Christ in substance: but his belief and faith therein is as followeth, to wit, That when he doth receive the material bread and wine, he doth receive the same in a remembrance of Christ's death and passion; and so receiving it, he doth eat and drink Christ's body and blood by faith, and none oth•• ways as he believeth.
ALSO he do•h confess and believe, that in the sacrament, now called the sacrament of the altar, there is not really and truly contained▪ under the forms of bread and wine, the very natural body and blood of Christ in substance: but his belief and faith therein is as followeth, to wit, That when he doth receive the material bread and wine, he doth receive the same in a remembrance of Christ's death and passion; and so receiving it, he doth eat and drink Christ's body and blood by faith, and none oth•• ways as he believeth.
AND moreover he doth confess, say, and believe, that the mass now used in the realm of England, or elsewhere in all Christendom, is naught and abominable, and directly against God's word, and his catholic church; and that there is nothing said or used in it good and profitable. For he saith that albeit the Gloria in excel•is, the creed, Sanc••• Parer-noster, Agnus, and other parts of the mass, be of themselves good and profitable, yet the […] being used amongst other things that be naught and superfluous in the mass, the same good things […] become naught also, as he believeth.
AND moreover he doth confess, say, and believe, that the mass now used in the realm of England, or elsewhere in all Christendom, is naught and abominable, and directly against God's word, and his catholic church; and that there is nothing said or used in it good and profitable. For he saith that albeit the Gloria in excelis, the creed, Sanc Parer-noster, Agnus, and other parts of the mass, be of themselves good and profitable, yet the being used amongst other things that be naught and superfluous in the mass, the same good things become naught also, as he believeth.