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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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—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, ⟨p. 30⟩that this which he writeth was the receiv'd Opinion of Learned men in his days.
- 1Chrysost.
If that solution will not serve (saith another) we may say, that Chrysostom did not speak of the Vessels of the Lords Cup, or such as were then used at the Lords Table, but of the Vessel used in the Temple in the old Law.—But here Chrysostom speaketh of such Vessels wherein was that which is called the Body of Christ, although' it was not the true Body, saith he, of Christ, but the Mystery of Christs Body. And Erasmus declareth plainly, that this saying of this Writer is none otherwise to be understood.