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.

* 1.1¶Concernyng the seuenth Article, that they refuse to come to heare Masse, and to receyue the sayde Sacrament, callyng it an Idol, &c.

To the seuenth Article, they aunswer and confesse the contents thereof to be true, geuyng withall the reason and cause of this their so doyng, for that the masse with the sa∣crament thereof, as it was then vsed and set foorth in the Church of England, is dissonant to the word & teachyng of the Gospell. &c.

Iohn Went furthermore said, as concerning the masse, that he beleueth no lesse, but the masse which he calleth the supper of the Lord,* 1.2 as it is now vsed in the realm of Eng∣land, is naught, full of Idolatry, and against gods worde so farre as he seeth it: howbeit, he sayd y^t since the Queens coronation, by chance he hath bene present where y^e Masse hath bene sayd, whereof he is sory.

Isabel Foster also answering to the sayd articles with the other before, confessed moreouer, that since Queene Maries raigne she hath not heard Masse, nor receiued the sacrament, but hath refused to come in place where it was ministred: for she knoweth no such sacrament to bee. And beyng demanded of her beliefe in the same, she sayth, that there is but onely materiall bread, and material wine, and not the substance reall of the body of Christ in the same sa∣crament: for so she hath bene taught to beleue by the prea∣chers in the tyme of K. Edward, whom she beleeueth to haue preached the truth in that behalfe.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The Catholicke Church and the church of Rome are 2. thinges. To the 7. article. The Masse dis∣sonant from the word of the Gospell.
• * 1.2

  The Masse full of Idolatry. Iohn Went re∣penteth his go∣ing to Masse.