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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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you will bring quietness to your conscience, and health to your soul; then shall we with great joy, by the authority committed to us from the cardinal's grace, receive you into the church again, acknowledging you to be no longer a rotten, but a lively member of the same; but if you shall still be singular, if you shall still obstinately persevere in your errors, stubbornly maintaining your former heresies▪ then we must against our will, according to our commission, separate you from us, and cut you off from the church, lest the rottenness of one part, in process of time, putrefy and corrupt the whole body, then must we confess and publish you to be none of our's; then must we yield you up to the temporal judges, of whom, except it otherwise please the king and queen's highness, you must receive punishment by the laws of this realm, due for heretics. WHEREFORE, Mr. Ridley, consider your state, remember your former degrees, spare your body, especially consider your soul, which Christ so dearly bought with hi• pre•ious blood, do not rashly cast away that which was precious in God's sight; enforce us not to do all that we may do, which is not only to publish you to be none of us, but to cut you off from the church: we do not, nor can we condemn you to die, (as most untruly hath been •eported of us) but that is the office of the temporal judges; we only declare you to be not of the church, and then you must, according to the tenor of them, and pleasure of the rulers, abide their determination, so that we, after we have given you up to the temporal rulers, have no further to do with you. ⟨p. 886⟩BUT I trust, Mr. Ridley, we shall not have occasion to do what we may. I trust you will suffer us to rest in that point of our commission, which w• most heartily desire, that is, upon recantation and repentance to •eceive to reconcile you, and again to join you to •he unity of the church. THEN Dr. Ridley, with often interruption, at length spake.
you will bring quietness to your conscience, and health to your soul; then shall we with great joy, by the authority committed to us from the cardinal's grace, receive you into the church again, acknowledging you to be no longer a rotten, but a lively member of the same; but if you shall still be singular, if you shall still obstinately persevere in your errors, stubbornly maintaining your former heresies▪ then we must against our will, according to our commission, separate you from us, and cut you off from the church, lest the rottenness of one part, in process of time, putrify and corrupt the whole body, then must we confess and publish you to be none of our's; then must we yield you up to the temporal judges, of whom, except it otherwise please the king and queen's highness, you must receive punishment by the laws of this realm, due for heretics. WHEREFORE, Mr. Ridley, consider your state, remember your former degrees, spare your body, especially consider your soul, which Christ so dearly bought with hi• pre•ious blood, do not rashly cast away that which was precious in God's sight; enforce us not to do all that we may do, which is not only to publish you to be none of us, but to cut you off from the church: we do not, nor can we condemn you to die, (as most untruly hath been •eported of us) but that is the office of the temporal judges; we only declare you to be not of the church, and then you must, according to the tenor of them, and pleasure of the rulers, abide their determination, so that we, after we have given you up to the temporal rulers, have no further to do with you. ⟨p. 886⟩BUT I trust, Mr. Ridley, we shall not have occasion to do what we may. I trust you will suffer us to rest in that point of our commission, which w• most heartily desire, that is, upon recant•tion and repentance to •eceive to reconcile you, and again to join you to •he unity of the church. THEN Dr. Ridley, with often interruption, at length spake.
RIDLEY. My lord, I acknowledge an unspotted church of Christ, in which no man can err, without which no man can be saved, which is spread throughout all the world, that is, the congregation of the faithful; neither do I alligate or bind the same to any one place, as you said, but confess the same to spread throughout all the world; and where Christ's sacraments are duly administered, his gospel truly preached and followed, there doth Christ's church shine as a city upon a hill, and as a candle in a candlestick: but rather it is such as you that would have the church of Christ bound a place, who appoint the same to Rome, that there and no where else is the foundation of Christ's church. But I am fully persuaded that Christ's church is every where founded, in every place where his gospel is truly received, and effectually followed. And in that the church of God is in doubt, I us• herein the counsel of Vincentius Lyrinen•is, whom I am sure you will allow, who giving precepts how the catholic church may be in all schisms and heresies known, writeth in this manner: When (saith he) one part is corrupted with heresies, then prefer the whole world before that one part; but if the greatest part be infected, then prefer antiquity. IN like manner now when I perceive the greatest part of christianity to be infected with the poison of the see of Rome, I repair to the usage of the primitive church, which I find quite contrary to the pope's decrees; as in that the priest receiveth alone, that it is made unlawful to the laity to receive in both kinds, and such like, wherefore it requireth, that I prefer the antiquity of the primitive church, before the novelty of the Romish church.
LINCOLN. Mr. Ridley, these faults which you charge the see of Rome withal, are indeed no faults. For first, it was never forbid the laity, but that they might, if they demanded, receive under both kinds. You know also, that Christ after his resurrection, at the time he went with his apostles to Galilee, op•ned himself by breaking of bread. You know that St. Paul after his long failing towards Rome, brake bread, and that the apostles came together in breaking of bread, which declareth that it is not unlawful to administer the sacrament under the form of bread only. And yet the church had just occasion to decree, that the laity should receive in one kind only, thereby to t•ke away an opinion of the unlearned, that Christ was wholly both flesh and blood, under the form of bread. Therefore to take away their opinion▪ and to establish better the people's faith, the Holy Ghost in the church thought fit to decree, that the laity should receive only in one kind; and it is no news for the church upon just consideration to alter rites and ceremonies. For you read in the Acts of the Apostles, that St. Paul writing to certain of the Gentiles, who had received the gospel biddeth them to abstain from things stifled, and from blood, so that this seemeth to be an express commandment; y•t who will say but tha• it is lawful to eat bloodings? How is it lawful but by the permission of the church?
LINCOLN. Mr. Ridley, these faults which you charge the see of Rome withal, are indeed no faults. For first, it was never forbid the laity, but that they might, if they demanded, receive under both kinds. You know also, that Christ after his resurrection, at the time he went with his apostles to Galilee, op•ned himself by breaking of bread. You know that St. Paul after his long failing towards Rome, brake bread, and that the apo••les came together in breaking of bread, which declareth that it is not unlaw•ul to administer the sacrament under the form of bread only. And yet the church had just occasion to decree, that the laity should receive in one kind only, thereby to t•ke away an opinion of the unlearned, that Christ was wholly both flesh and blood, under the form of bread. Therefore to take away their opnion and to establish better the people's faith, the Holy Ghost in the church thought fit to decree, that the laity should receive only in one kind; and it is no news for the church upon just consideraion to alter rites and ceremonies. For you read in the Acts of the Apostles, that St. Paul writing to certain of the Gentiles, who had received the gospel biddeth them to abstain from things stifld, and from blood, so that this seemeth to be an exprss commandment; yt who will say but tha it is lawful to eat bloodings? How is it lawful but by the permission of the church?
RIDLEY. My lord, such things as St. Paul enjoined to the Gentiles for a sufferance, by a little to win the Jews to Christ, were only commandments of time, and respected not the successors. But Christ's commandment. Do this, (that is, that which he did in remembrance, which was not to administer in one kind only) was not a commandment for a time, but to persevere to the world's end.
BUT the bishop of Lincoln not attending to this answer, without any stay proceeded in this oration.
SO that the church seemeth to have authority by the Holy Ghost, whom Christ said he would send after his ascension, which should teach the apostles all truth, to have power and jurisdiction to alter such points of the scripture, ever reserving the foundation: but we came not, as I said before, in this sort to reason the matter with you, but ⟨p. 887⟩have certain instructions ministered unto us, according to the tenor of which we must proceed, proposing certain articles, unto which we require your answer directly, either affirmatively, or negatively, to every of them, either denying them or granting them, without farther disputations or reasoning; for we have already stretched our instructions, in that we suffered you to debate and reason the matter, in such sort as we have done; which articles you shall hear now, and to-morrow at eight o'clo•k, in St. Mary's church, we will require and take your answers; and then according to the same proceed: and if you require a copy of them, you shall have it, pen, ink, and paper, also such books as you shall demand, if they be to be gotten in the university.
SO that the church seemeth to have authority by the Holy Ghost, whom Christ said he would send after his ascension, which should teach the apostles all truth, to have power and jurisdict•on to alter such points of the scripture, ever reserving the founda•ion: but we came not, as I said before, in this sort to reason the matter with you, but ⟨p. 887⟩have certain instructions ministered unto us, according to the tenor of which we must proceed, proposing certain articles, unto which we require your answer directly, either affirmatively, or negatively, to every of them, either denying them or granting them, without farther disputations or reasoning; for we have already stretched our instructions, in that we suffered you to debate and reason the matter, in such sort as we have done; which articles you shall hear now, and to-morrow at eight o'clo•k, in St. Mary's church, we will require and take your answers; and then according to the same proceed: and if you require a copy of them, you shall have it, pen, ink, and paper, also such books as you shall demand, if they be to be gotten in the university.
IN the name of God, Amen. We John of Lincoln, James of Gloucester, and John of Bristol, bishops, &c.
1. WE do object to thee, Nicholas Ridley, and to thee Hugh Latimer, jointly and severally; first, that in the year 1554, in the month of April, May, June, July, or in some one or more of them, hast affirmed and defended and maintained, and in many other times and places besides, that the true and natural body of Christ, after the consecration of the priest, is not really present in the sacrament of the altar.
1. WE do obj•ct to thee, Nicholas Ridley, and to thee Hugh Latimer, jointly and severally; first, that in the year 1554, in the month of April, May, June, July, or in some one or more of them, hast affirmed and defended and maintained, and in many other times and places besides, that the true and natu•al body of Christ, after the consecration of the priest, is not really present in the sacrament of the altar.
2. THAT in the year and months aforesaid thou hast publicly affirmed and defended, that in the sacrament of the altar remaineth still the substance of bread and wine.
2. THAT in the year and months aforesaid thou hast pu•licly affirmed and defended, that in the sacram•nt of the altar remaineth still the substance of bread and wine.
3. ITEM. That in the said year and months thou hast openly affirmed, and obstinately maintained, that in the mass is no propitiatory sacrifice for the quick and the dead.
3. ITEM. That in the said year and months thou hast openly affirmed, and obstinately maintained, that in the mass is no p•opitiatory sacrifice for the quick and the dead.
4. ITEM. That in the year, place, and months aforesaid, th•se the aforesaid assertions solemnly had been condemned, by the scholastical censure of this school as heretical and contrary to the catholic faith, by the worshipful Dr. Weston, prolocuter then of the convocation house, as also by other learned men of both the universities.
4. ITEM. That in the year, place, and months aforesaid, th•se the aforesaid ass••tions solemnly had been condemned, by the s•holastical censure of this school as heretical and contrary to the catholic faith, by the worshipful Dr. Weston, prolocuter then of the convocation house, as also by other learned men of both the universities.
5. ITEM. That all and singular the premises be true, notorious, famous, and openly known by public same, as well to them near hand, as also to them in distant places far off.
All these articles I thought good here to place together, that as often as hereafter rehearsal shall be of any of them, the reader may have recourse hither, and peruse the same, and not to trouble the story with several repetitions thereof.
AFTER these articles were read, the bishops took counsel together. At last the bishop of Lincoln said, These are the very same articles which you in open disputation here in the university did maintain and defend. What say you unto the first? I pray you answer affirmatively, or negatively.
AETER these articles were read, the bishops took counsel together. At last the bishop of Lincoln said, These are the very same articles which you in open disputation here in the university did maintain and defend. What say you unto the first? I pray you answer affirmatively, or negatively.
