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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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And here in speaking of the Lord's Cup, it cometh to my remembrance the vanity of Innocentius fantastical Invention, which by Pauls words I did confute before, and here did promise somewhat more to speak; and that is thus. If the Transubstantiation be made by this word [Blessed] in Mark said upon the Bread, then surely seeing that word is not said of Christ, (neither of any of the Evangelists, nor of Paul) upon the Cup, then there is no Transubstantiation of the Wine at all: For where the cause doth fail, there cannot follow the Effect. But the Sacramental Bread, and the Sacramental Wine do both remain in their natural Substance alike, and if the one be not changed, (as of the Sacramental Wine it appeareth evidently,) then is there no such Transubstantiation in either of them both.
And here in speaking of the Lord's Cup, it cometh to my remembrance the vanity of Innocentius phantastical Invention, which by Pauls words I did confute before, and here did promise somewhat more to speak; and that is thus. If the Transubstantiation be made by this word [Blessed] in Mark said upon the Bread, then surely seeing that word is not said of Christ, (neither of any of the Evangelists, nor of Paul) upon the Cup, then there is no Transubstantiation of the Wine at all: For where the cause doth fail, there cannot follow the Effect. But the Sacramental Bread, and the Sacramental Wine do both remain in their natural Substance alike, and if the one be not changed, (as of the Sacramental Wine it appeareth evidently,) then is there no such Transubstantiation in either of them both.
All that put and affirm this change of the substance of Bread and Wine into the substance of Christ's Body and Blood (called Transubstantiation) do also say and affirm this change to be made by a certain form of prescript words and none others: but what they be which make the change, either of the one or of the other, undoubtedly even they which write most sincerely in these our days, almost confess plainly that they cannot tell. For although' they grant to certain old Authors, as Chrysostom and Ambrose, that these words—This is my Body, are the words of Consecration of the Sacrament of the Body; yet say they, these words may well be so called, because they do assure us of the consecration