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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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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.
As the Sacraments of the Body and Blood of our Lord are one thing before the Invocation, and after the Invocation they be changed and made another; so likewise the Lords Body, (saith the Heretic) is, after the Assumption or Ascension into Heaven, turned into the substance of God.—The Heretic meaning thereby, that Christ after his Ascension remaineth no more a Man. To this Orthodoxus answereth thus, and saith to the Heretic;—Thou art taken, saith he, in thine own snare, for those Mystical Symbols or Sacraments, after the Sanctification, do not go out of their own nature, but they tarry and abide still in their substance, figure, and shape, yea, and are sensibly seen, and groped to be the same they were before.—At these words the Papists do startle, and to say the truth, these words be so plain, so full, and so clear, that they cannot tell what to say, but yet will they not cease to cast their colour over them, that the Truth which is so plainly told, should not have place.