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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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But the foolest shift of all, and yet the best that they can find in this matter, is,—That Theodoretus understandeth by the word Substance, Accidents, and not Substance. Indeed this gloss is like the gloss of a Lawyer upon a Decree, the Text whereof begins thus—Statuimus; that is, We Decree; The gloss of the Lawyer there after many other shifts - vel dic - Statuimus - i. e. Abrogamus; that is - We do Decree, that is, - We do abrogate or disannul. Is not this a goodly and a worthy gloss?
But the foolest shift of all, and yet the best that they can find in this matter, is,—That Theodoretus understandeth by the word Substance, Accidents, and not Substance. Indeed this gloss is like the gloss of a Lawyer upon a Decree, the Text whereof begins thus—Statuimus; that is, We Decree; The gloss of the Lawyer there after many other shifts - vel dic - Statuimus - i. e. Abrogamus; that is - We do Decree, that is, - We do abrogate or disanul. Is not this a goodly and a worthy gloss?
Hitherto you have heard three Writers of the Greek Church, not all what they do say, for that were a Labour too great for to gather, and too tedious for the Reader; but one or two places of every one the which how plain, how clear, and how full they be against the Error of Transubstantiation, I refer here unto the Judgment of the indifferent Reader.
Hitherto you have heard three Writers of the Greek Church, not all what they do say, for that were a Labour too great for to gather, and too tedious for the Reader; but one or two places of every one the which how plain, how clear, and how full they be against the Error of Trausubstantiation, I refer here unto the Judgment of the indifferent Reader.
And now I will also rehearse the saying of other three old Ancient Writers of the Latin Church, and so make an end. And first I will begin with Tertullian, whom Cyprian, the holy Martyr, so highly esteemed, that whensoever he would have his Book, he was wont to say, - Give us now the Master's,—This old Writer in his fourth Book against Marcion the Heretic, saith -