Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 2] 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.

¶Certaine things that Winchester granted vnto.

CHrist declared eatyng of hymselfe,* 1.1 to signify beleeuing p. 29. l. antepenultima. Confutation.

Christ must be spiritually in man, before he receiue the Sacrament, or els he cannot receyue the sacrament wor∣thily, p. 54. l. 44. p. 160. l. vltima, p. 196. l. 3. p. 105. l, 32.

How Christ is present, p. 69. l. 29. &c. p. 81. l. 12. p. 181. li. 26. p. 65. l. 15.

By faith we know only the beyng present of Christes most precious body, not the maner thereof, p. 70. l. 15.

When we speake of Christes body, we must vnderstād a true body, which hath both forme and quantitie, p. 81. l. 5. lin. 35.

Although Christs body haue all those truths of forme & quantitie: yet it is not present after the maner of quan∣titie, ibidem, l. 8.9.

The demonstratiue (this) may bee referred to the in∣uisible substance, p. 120. l. 42,

All the old prayers and ceremonies sound, as though the people did communicate with the priest, p. 165. l. 46.

The maner of Christs beyng in the Sacrament is not corporall nor carnall, not natural, not sensible, not percep∣tible, but only spirituall, p. 181. l. 19. &c. l. 25. p. 223. l. 21.

When the vnrepentant sinner receiueth the sacrament he hath not Christes body within hym, p. 256. l. 18.

We eat not Christ as he sitteth in heauen raignyng, p. 276. l. 18.

The worde (Transubstantiation) was first spoken of in a generall Councell, where the B. of Rome was pre∣sent, p. 284. l. 11.

In the sacrifice of the church, Christs death is not ite∣rated, but a memory daily renued of the death:* 1.2 so as Chri∣stes offeryng on the crosse once done and consummate, is now only remembred, p. 440. l. 40. &c.

To these notes & places of D. Ridley, let vs also ad∣ioyne other 12. places or Articles of the lyke affinitie, taken out of his booke called y^e examination of the proud hunter, noted in y^e later end of D. Turners secōd course. By these Articles it may appeare how this Bishop swarueth no lesse from the sound truth of Christes Gospell, then he dyd in the other, both from hymselfe, and also from other hys fellow brethren of hys owne Catholike mother church of Rome. The Articles in summe are these.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Notes de∣claring wherein Winchester graunted to the Spiritus all vse of the Sacra∣ment.
• * 1.2

  Transubstā∣tiation first spoken of.