Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.

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Title: Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
Author: Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
Publication: [At London :: Imprinted by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate beneath S. Martins],; An. 1583. Mens. Octobr.
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The next dayes talke.

THe next day, the Bishop called me into his chamber, & sayd: ye haue bene with mee a great while: & ye are ne∣uer the better but worse and worse:* 1.1 and therefore I will delay the time no longer, but send you to Newgate.

Haukes.

My Lord you ran do me no better pleasure.

Boner.

Why? would ye so fayne go to prison?

Haukes.

Truely I did looke for none other, when I came to your handes.

Boner.

Come on your wayes: ye shall see what I haue written. Then did he shew me certaine articles, and these are the contentes of them:* 1.2

Whether the Catholicke Church do teach and beleeue y^t Christes reall presence doth remaine in the Sacrament or no, after the wordes of consecration: according to y^e words of S. Paule, which are these: Is not the bread which we break the partaking of the body of Christ, and the cup which we blesse, the partaking of the bloud of Christ? whiche if it were not so, Paule would neuer haue sayd it.

Haukes.

What your Church doth, I cannot tell: but I am sure that the holy Catholicke Church doth neither so take it, nor beleue it.

Boner.

Whether doth the Catholicke Church teach and be∣leue the Baptisme that now is vsed in the Church, or no?

Haukes.

I aunswered to it, as I did to y^e other question be∣fore. Then did the Byshop with much flattery counsell me to be perswaded, & to keepe me out of prison,* 1.3 which I vt∣terly refused, and so we departed. And I supposed that the next day I should haue gone to prison, and so I had, saue for the Archdeacon of Canterbury, whose name is Harps∣field, whome the bishop had desired to talke with me, and began to perswade me concerning the Sacrament, & the ceremonies: and after much talke he sayd that the Sacra∣ment of the aultar was the same body that was borne of y^e virgine Mary, which did hang vpon the Crosse.

Haukes.

He was vpon the crosse both aliue & dead: which of them was the Sacrament?* 1.4

Harps.

The Archdeacon aunswered, aliue.

Haukes.

How proue you that?

Harps.

Ye must beleue. Doth not S. Iohn say: He is already condemned, that beleueth not?

Haukes.

S. Iohn sayth: He that beleeueth not in the sonne of God, is already condemned: but he sayth not, he that bele∣ueth not in the sacrament, is already condemned.

Harps.

There is no talke with you: for ye are both with∣out fayth and learning, and therefore I will talke no more with you in scripture.

Haukes.

Thē ij. that stode by, bad me enter further in talke with him, and then said I vnto him:* 1.5 why is the Roodeloft set betwixt the body of the Church, and the Chauncel?

Harps.

I cannot tell: for ye haue asked a question, which ye cannot assoyle your selfe.

Haukes.

Yes that I can: for this sayth one of your owne Doctours: that the body of the Church doth represent the Church militant: and the Chauncell the Churche trium∣phant: and so because we cannot go from the Church mili∣tant to the Church triumphant, but that we must beare the crosse of Christ, this is the cause of the Roodeloft being be∣tweene the body of the Church and the Chauncell.

Harps.

This is well and clarkely concluded.

Haukes.

As all the rest of your doctrine is: & so with ma∣ny perswasiōs on his part we ended, and so departed: and I to the Porters lodge agayne.

Notes

* 1.1

An other dayes talke betweene Haukes and Boner.

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* 1.2

〈1 paragraph〉〈1 paragraph〉

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* 1.3

Aunswere of Haukes to the first article. Aunswere to the 2. article. Talke betweene Haukes and D. Harpsfield Archdeacon of Cant.

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* 1.4

A question put to Harpsfield.

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* 1.5

An other que∣stion put to Harpsfield why ••he Roodeloft is set betwene the Church and the Chauncell.

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