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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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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.
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 Heretick) is, after the Assumption or Ascension into Heaven, turned into the substance of God.—The Heretick meaning thereby, that Christ after his Ascension remaineth no more a Man. To this Orthodoxus answereth thus, and saith to the Heretick;—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.
This Author wrote, say they, before the Determination of the Church; as who would say—Whatsoever that wicked man Innocentius the Pope of Rome determined in his Congregations with his Monks and Fryers, that must be, for so Dunse saith, holden for an Article, and for the substance of our Faith.—Some do charge this Author, that he was suspected to be a Nestorian, which thing in Calcedon Council was tried, and proved to be false.