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Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, between the two reverend fathers, and holy martyrs…Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, betwene the two reuerende fathers, and holye martyrs…
Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, between the two reverend fathers, and holy martyrs of Christ, D. Nicolas Ridley late Bishop of London, and M. Hugh Latimer sometime Bishop of Worcester, during the time of their imprisonments. Whereunto is added. A treatise against the error of transubstantiation, made by the said reverend father D. Nicolas Ridley. M.D.LVI.Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, betwene the two reuerende fathers, and holye martyrs of Christe, D. Nicolas Rydley late Bysshoppe of London, and M. Hughe Latymer sometyme Bysshoppe of Worcester, during the tyme of their emprysonmentes. Whereunto is added. A treatise agaynst the errour of transubstantiation, made by the sayd reuerende father D. Nicolas Rydley. M.D.LVI.
Strasbourg: printed by the heirs of W. Rihel, 1556
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Hitherto ye have hard three writers of the Greek Church / not all what they do say / for that were a labour to great for to gather / and to tedious for the reader / but one or two places of every one. The which how plain and how full / and clear they be against the error of Transubstantiation I refer it to the judgement of the indifferent reader.
Hitherto yee haue harde three writers of the Greke Churche / not all what they doe saie / for that were a laboure to greate for to gather / and to tedyous for the reader / but one or twoo places of euerye one. The whiche howe plaine and howe full / and cleare they bee againste the erroure of Transubstantiation I referre it to the iudgemente of thindifferente reader.
And now I will likewise rehearse the sayings of other three old ancient writers of the Latin Church / and soe make an end.
And nowe I wil likewise rehearse the saiynges of other three olde aunciente writers of the Lattin Churche / and soe make an ende.
1And first I will begin with Tertullian / whom ⟨p. 62⟩Cyprian the holy Martyr so highly esteemed that whensoever he would have his book / he was wont to say / give us now the Master.2 This old writer in his 4. book against Martion the heretic / saith thus: Jesus made the bread / which he toke and distributed to his disciples / his body / saying: This is my body / that is to say / (sayeth Tertullian) a figure of my body. In this place it is plain / that after Tertullians exposition / Christ meant not by calling the bread his body / and the wine his blood / that either the bread was his natural body / or the wine his natural blood / but he called them his body and his blood because he would institute them to be unto us Sacraments / that is holy tokens and signs of his body / and of his blood / that by them remembering / and firmly believing the benefits procured to us by his body / which was torn and crucified for us / and of his blood / which was shed for us upon the cross / and soe with thanks receiving these holy sacraments / according to Christs institution / might by the same be spiritually nourished / and fed / to the increase of all Godliness in us / here in our pilgrimage and journey wherein we walk unto everlasting life.