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An account of a disputation at Oxford, anno dom. 1554 with A treatise of…
An account of a disputation at Oxford, anno dom. 1554 with A treatise of the Blessed Sacrament / both written by Bishop Ridley, martyr ; to which is added a letter written by Mr. John Bradford, never before printed all taken out of an orig[i]nal manuscript.
Oxford : Printed at the Theatre, 1688Oxford : Printed at the Theater, 1688
A Brief Treatise of the most blessed SACRAMENT of the Body and Bloo… › Part
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Thus, hitherto, without all doubt, God is my witness (I say so far as I know) there is no controversy among them that be learned in the Church of England, concerning the matter of this Sacrament, but all do agree, whether they be new or old: and to speak plain, as some do odiously call each other, whether they be Protestants, Papists, Pharisees, or Gospellers. And as all do agree hitherto in the aforesaid Doctrine, so all do detest, abhor and condemn the wicked Heresy of the Messalians, which otherwise be called 1Euchits, which said that the holy Sacrament can neither do good nor harm.
Thus, hitherto, without all doubt, God is my witness (I say so far as I know) there is no controversy among them that be learn'd in the Church of England, concerning the matter of this Sacrament, but all do agree, whether they be new or old: and to speak plain, as some do odiously call each other, whether they be Protestants, Papists, Pharisees, or Gospellers. And as all do agree hitherto in the aforesaid Doctrine, so all do detest, abhor and condemn the wicked Heresy of the Messalians, which otherwise be called 1Euchits, which said that the holy Sacrament can neither do good nor harm.
- 1Trip. Hist. Lib. 7. cap. 11.
All do also condemn the wicked Anabaptists, which putteth no difference betwixt the Lords Table, and the Lords meat, and their own.
And forasmuch as Charity would, if it be possible, and so far as we may with the safeguard of good Conscience, and maintenance of the Truth, to agree with all men, therefore methinks that it is not charitably done to burden any man, either new or old, farther than such do declare themselves to dissent from that we are persuaded to be the Truth, or pretend there to be controversies whereas none such are indeed, and so to multiply the debate, the which the more