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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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It is not this Body which ye do see that ye shall eat, nor ye shall not drink this Blood which the Soldiers which Crucify me, shall spill or shed; I do commend unto you a Mystery or a Sacrament, which spiritually understood, shall give you Life.
It is not this Body which ye do see that ye shall eat, nor ye shall not drink this Blood which the Soldiers which Crucify me, shall spil or shed; I do commend unto you a Mystery or a Sacrament, which spiritually understood, shall give you Life.
Now, if Christ had no more Natural or Corporal Bodies but that one, which they there then presently ⟨p. 36⟩both heard and saw; and none other Natural Blood, but that which was in the same Body, and the which the Soldiers afterward did cruelly shed upon the Cross; and neither this Body, neither this Blood was by this Declaration of St. Augustin either to be eaten or drunken, but the Mystery thereof, spiritually to be understood: Then I conclude, that the Mystery which the Disciples should eat, was not the Natural Body of Christ, but a Mystery of the same, spiritually to be understood. For, as St. Augustin saith in his Twentieth Book Contra Faustum, Christs Flesh and Blood was 1in the Old Testament promised by Similitudes and Figures of their Sacrifices, and was exhibited indeed and in truth upon the Cross; but the same is celebrated by a Sacrament of Remembrance upon the Altar. And in his Book De Fide, ad Petrum. Cap. 19. he saith;
- 1Cap. 21.
That in those Sacrifices (meaning of the old Law) it is figuratively signified what then was to be given; but in this Sacrifice, it is evidently signified what is already given: Understanding in the Sacrifice upon the Altar, the Remembrance and Thanksgiving for the Flesh which he offered for us, and for the Blood which he shed for us upon the Cross.