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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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The Papists answer is this, - That unto the Carnal man the literal sense is hurtful, but not so to the Spiritual: As tho' to understand that in its proper sense which ought to be taken Figuratively, were to the Carnal dangerous, and to the Spiritual not at all.
Now to Chrysostom, whom I bring in for my second Author in the Greek Church. He speaking against the ungodly using of Mans body, which after St. Paul ought to be kept pure and holy, as the very Temple of the holy Ghost; saith thus - Cap. 5. Hom. 11. operis Imperfecti.
—If it be a fault, saith he, to translate the hallowed 1Vessels in the which is not contained the true Body of Christ, but the Mystery of his Body, to private uses; how much more amiss is it to abuse and defile the Vessels of our Bodies?—These be the words of Chrysostom. But I know that here many foul shifts are found to defeat this place. The Author, saith one, is suspected: I answer, but in this place, never fault was found with him unto these our days. And whether this Author was John Chrysostom himself, the Arch-Bishop of Constantinople, or no, that is not the matter, for of all it is granted, that he was a Writer of that Age, and a Man of great Learning, so that it is manifest, ⟨p. 30⟩that this which he writeth was the received Opinion of Learned men in his days.
—If it be a fault, saith he, to translate the hallowed 1Vessels in the which is not contain'd the true Body of Christ, but the Mystery of his Body, to private uses; how much more amiss is it to abuse and defile the Vessels of our Bodies?—These be the words of Chrysostom. But I know that here many foul shifts are found to defeat this place. The Author, saith one, is suspected: I answer, but in this place, never fault was found with him unto these our days. And whether this Author was John Chrysostom himself, the Arch-Bishop of Constantinople, or no, that is not the matter, for of all it is granted, that he was a Writer of that Age, and a Man of great Learning, so that it is manifest,