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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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Now then, whether they do godly and charitably, which either by their pen in writing, or by their words in preaching, do bear the simple people in hand that those which thus do teach, and believe, do go about to make the holy Sacrament ordained by Christ himself a thing no better than a piece of common broken bread, or that do say, that such do make this Sacrament of the blessed Body and Blood of Christ but a bare sign or figure to represent Christ, none otherwise than an Ivy-Bush doth represent the Wine in a Tavern, or as a vile person gorgeously apparelled may represent a King or a Prince in a Play: Alas! let us leave lying and speak the truth every man not only to his neighbour, but also of his neighbour; for we are members one of another, saith St. Paul.
Now then, whether they do godly and charitably, which either by their pen in writing, or by their words in preaching, do bear the simple people in hand that those which thus do teach, and believe, do go about to make the holy Sacrament ordain'd by Christ himself a thing no better than a piece of common broken bread, or that do say, that such do make this Sacrament of the blessed Body and Blood of Christ but a bare sign or figure to represent Christ, none otherwise than an Ivy-Bush doth represent the Wine in a Tavern, or as a vile person gorgeously apparrell'd may represent a King or a Prince in a Play: Alass! let us leave lying and speak the truth every man not only to his neighbour, but also of his neighbour; for we are members one of another, saith St. Paul.
The controversy no doubt which at this day troubleth the Church (wherein any mean learned man either old or new, doth stand in) is not whether the holy Sacrament of the blessed Body and Blood of Christ is no better than a piece of common bread or no, or whether the Lords Table be no more to be regarded than the table of any earthly man or no, or whether it be a bare sign or figure of Christ and nothing else or no, for all do grant that St. Pauls words do require that the Bread which we brake is the partaking of the Body of Christ, and also all do grant him that eateth of that Bread and drinketh of that ⟨p. 8⟩