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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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may seem to be more meet, for that Christ in his Supper to the commandment of eating and drinking his Blood addeth - Do this in remembrance of ⟨p. 21⟩me: which words surely were the Key that opened and revealed this spiritual and godly exposition unto St. Aug. But I have tarried longer in setting forth the form of Christs words upon the Lords Cup written by Paul and Luke then I did intend to do.
And yet here cometh to my remembrance the form of words used in the Latin Mass upon the Lords Cup, whereof I do not a little marvel what should be the cause, that seeing the Latin Mass agreeth with the Evangelists and Paul in the form of words said upon the Bread, why in the form of words said upon the Cup it differeth from them all; yea and addeth these words mysterium Fidei; yea, and if they might have some good exposition, yet why it should not be as well added unto the words of Christ upon the Bread as upon the Cup. Surely I do not see the mystery. And when I see in the Latin Mass the sacrament of the Blood abused when it is denied unto the Lay-man, clean contrary to Gods most certain words, for why, I beseech thee, should the Sacrament of Christs Blood be denied unto the Lay-Christian, more than to the Priest? Did not Christ shed his Blood as well for the Lay Godly man, as for the Godly Priest? If thou wilt say yes, he did so, but yet the Sacrament of the Blood is not to be received without the offering up and sacrificing thereof unto God the Father both for the quick and for the dead, and no man may make oblation of Christs Blood unto God, but a Priest, and therefore the Priest, and that but in his Mass only, may receive the Sacrament of his Blood. And call you this, Masters, Mysterium Fidei? alass alass! I fear me this is before God mysterium Iniquitatis; such as St. Paul speaketh of in his Epistle to the Thessalonians. The Lord be merciful unto us, and bless us, and lighten his countenance upon us and be merciful unto us, that we may know ⟨p. 22⟩thy way upon earth, and among all people thy Salvation.