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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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"Christ is in the sacrament, as he is where two or three are gathered together in his name." THE difference of the doctrine between the faithful and the papists concerning the sacrament is, that the papists say, that Christ is corporally under, or in the forms of bread and wine; but the faithful say, that Christ is not there, neither corporally nor spiritually; but in them that worthily eat and drink the bread and wine, he is spiritually, but not corporally. FOR figuratively he is in the bread and wine, and spiritually he is in them that worthily eat and drink the bread and wine; but really, carnally, and corporally he is only in heaven, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. "My belief in the sacrament of the blessed body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ." AS concerning the sacrament of the body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ, my belief is this, that the bread and wine is appointed unto a sacrament; and that after thanks be give• to God the Father, then it doth represent unto […] the very body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ; not that the bread is the body, or the wi•• the blood, but that I in faith do see that blessed body of our Saviour broken on the cross, and his precious blood plenteously shed for the redemption of my sins. Also in faith I hear him call us unto him, saying, "Come unto me all ye that lab••• and are laden, and I will refresh you," Isa. lv. […] Matth. xi. &c. In faith I come unto him, and I am refreshed, so that I believe that all that do come to the table of the Lord in this faith, fear and love, being sorry for their offences, intending earnestly […] lead a godly conversation in this vale of misery, do receive the fruit of the death of Christ, which fruit is our salvation. I do understand (spiritually) that as the outward man doth eat the material bread which comforteth the body, so doth the inward man (through faith) eat the body of Christ, believing that as the bread is broken, so was Christ's body broken on the cross for our sins: which comforteth our souls unto life everlasting; and signifying thereby, that even a• that bread was divided among them, so should his body and fruit of his passion be distributed unto as many as believed in his words.
"Christ is in the sacrament, as he is where two or three are gathered together in his name." THE difference of the doctrine between the faithful and the papists concerning the sacrament is, that the papists say, that Christ is corporally under, or in the forms of bread and wine; but the faithful say, that Christ is not there, neither corporally nor spiritually; but in them that worthily eat and drink the bread and wine, he is spiritually, but not corporally. FOR figuratively he is in the bread and wine, and spiritually he is in them that worthily eat and drink the bread and wine; but really, carnally, and corporally he is only in heaven, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. "My belief in the sacrament of the blessed body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ." AS concerning the sacrament of the body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ, my belief is this, that the bread and wine is appointed unto a sacrament; and that after thanks be give• to God the Father, then it doth represent unto 〈…〉 the very body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ; not that the bread is the body, or the wi•• the blood, but that I in faith do see that blessed body of our Saviour broken on the cross, and his precious blood plenteously shed for the redemption of my sins. Also in faith I hear him call us unto him, saying, "Come unto me all ye that lab••• and are laden, and I will refresh you," Isa. lv. 〈…〉 Matth. xi. &c. In faith I come unto him, and I am refreshed, so that I believe that all that do come to the table of the Lord in this faith, fear and love, being sorry for their offences, intending earnestly 〈…〉 lead a godly conversation in this vale of misery, do receive the fruit of the death of Christ, which fruit is our salvation. I do understand (spiritually) that as the outward man doth eat the material bread which comforteth the body, so doth the inward man (through faith) eat the body of Christ, believing that as the bread is broken, so was Christ's body broken on the cross for our sins: which comforteth our souls unto life everlasting; and signifying thereby, that even a• that bread was divided among them, so should his body and fruit of his passion be distributed unto as many as believed in his words.
But the bread broken and eaten in the supper admonisheth, and putteth us in remembrance of his death, and so exciteth ⟨p. 731⟩us to thanksgiving, to laud and praise God for the benefits of our redemption. AND thus we there have Christ present, in the inward eye and sight of our faith we eat hi• body and drink his blood; that is, we believe surely that his body was crucified for our sins, and his blood shed for our salvation. CHRIST'S body and blood are not contained in the sacramental bread and wine, as the papists have said, and as some yet do say, as ye read in these scriptures following: namely in Matth. ix.xxiv. and xxvi. Luke v.xxiii. and xxiv. Mark xvi. John xiii.xiv.xv.xvi. and xvii. Acts i.iii.vii. and ix. Rom. viii. Psal. viii. 1 Cor. x. and xi. Exod. xii. Coloss. i. Ephes. i. and iv. Phil. i. and ii. 1 Thess. i. and ix. Heb. i.v.viii.ix x. and xii. 1 Pet. iii. Psal. vi.xlvii.ciii. and x. "Christ's material body is not in all places, as these scriptures do testify hereafter." FIRST read St. Matthew the last, Luke the last,
NOW to return to the commissioners again: they receiving these prisoners before-mentioned, after they saw they could little prevail with their own persuasions, sent them to bishop Bonner, to be handled after his fatherly and charitable discretion. Which how discreet and favourable i• was, the history of others, as well as the sequel of this doth manifestly declare. For the 28th of June then next following, he caused the said Denley and Newman, with one Patrick Packingham, to be brought into his chamber within his house or palace, there examining them upon their confessions (which Tyrel had found about them), objecting also unto them certain other articles of his own. To which they all answered in effect one thing, although Denley answered more largely than the others, and therefore I thought his answers sufficient to lay down, as containing the substance of all the rest, except that Packingham had one article of no great force objected to him, which the others had not.
THIS done, the bishop began with his accustomed persuasions; to whom Mr. D••ley replied, God save me from your counsel, and keep me in the mind I am now in, for what you count heresy I take to be the truth: and thereupon they were commanded to appear in the bishop's consistory the fifth day of July then next coming, in the afternoon, where these articles were objected against them.
FIRST, That the said Denley now is of the diocese of London, and the jurisdiction of the bishop of London.
Secondly, That the said Denley hath not believed, nor doth believe, that there is any catholic church of Christ here in earth.
Thirdly, That the said Denley hath not believed, nor doth believe, that this church of England is any part or member of the said catholic church.
Fourthly, That the said Denley hath believed and doth believe, that the mass now used in this realm of England is naught, and full of idolatry and evil, and plain against God's word, and therefore […], the said Denley, hath not heard it, nor will hear it.
Fourthly, That the said Denley hath believed and doth believe, that the mass now used in this realm of England is naught, and full of idolatry and evil, and plain against God's word, and therefore 〈…〉, the said Denley, hath not heard it, nor will hear it.
Fifthly, That the said Denley hath believed, and doth so believe, that auricular confession now used in this realm of England, is not good, but contrary to God's word.
Sixthly, That the said Denley hath believed, and doth so believe, that absolution given by the priest hearing confession, is not good, nor allowable by God's word, but contrary to the same.
Seventhly, That the said Denley hath believed, and doth so believe, that christening of children, as it is now used in the church of England, is not good, nor allowable by God's word, but against it: likewise confirming of children, giving of orders, saying of matins and even-song, anointing of sick persons, making of holy bread and holy water, with the rest of the church.
Seventhly, That the said Denley hath believed, and doth so believe, that christening of children, as it is now used in the church of England, is not good, nor allowable by God's word, but against it: likewise confirming of children, giving of orders, saying of mattins and even-song, anointing of sick persons, making of holy bread and holy water, with the rest of the church.
