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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 let us hear Theodoretus, the last of the three Greek Authors. He writeth in his Dialogue contra Eutychen, thus:—He that called the Natural Body 1Corn and Bread, and also named himself a Vine-tree, even he, the same, hath honoured the Symbols, that is, the Sacramental Figure, with the name of his Body and Blood, not changing indeed the Nature it self, but adding Grace unto the Nature.
Now let us hear Theodoretus, the last of the three Greek Authors. He writeth in his Dialogue contra Eutychen, thus:—He that called the Natural Body 1Corn and Bread, and also named himself a Vine-tree, even he, the same, hath honour'd the Symboles, that is, the Sacramental Figure, with the name of his Body and Blood, not changing indeed the Nature it self, but adding Grace unto the Nature.
- 1Theodoretus.
What can be more plainly said than is this, that although the Sacraments bear the name of the Body and Blood of Christ, yet is not their nature changed, but ⟨p. 32⟩abideth still: And where is then the Papists Transubstantiation? The same Writer in the second Dialogue of the same Work, writeth yet more plainly against this Error of Transubstantiation, if any thing can be said to be more plain: For he maketh the Heretic to speak thus against him that defendeth the true Doctrine, whom he calleth Orthodoxus.
What can be more plainly said than is this, that altho the Sacraments bear the name of the Body and Blood of Christ, yet is not their nature chang'd, but ⟨p. 32⟩abideth still: And where is then the Papists Transubstantiation? The same Writer in the second Dialogue of the same Work, writeth yet more plainly against this Error of Transubstantiation, if any thing can be said to be more plain: For he maketh the Heretick to speak thus against him that defendeth the true Doctrine, whom he calleth Orthodoxus.