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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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After this manner of speech, as St. Augustin teacheth in his Questions Super Leviticum & contra Adamantium,—it is said, - That seven ears of Corn be seven years, seven Kine be seven years, and the Rock was Christ, Blood is the Soul. The which last saying, saith St. Augustin in his Book Contra Adamantium, is understood to be spoken in a sign or figure; for the Lord himself did not stick to say, This is my Body, when he gave the sign of his Body: For we must not consider in Sacraments, (saith St. Augustin, contra Maximinum. Lib. 3. cap. 22.) what they be, but what they do signify; for they be signs of Things, being one Thing in themselves, and yet signifying another ⟨p. 38⟩Thing; for the Heavenly Bread, (saith he) by some manner of speech, is called Christs Body, when indeed it is the Sacrament of his Body.—What can be more plain, or more clearly spoken, than are these places of St. Augustin, if Men were not obstinately bent to maintain an untruth?—Yet one place more of St. Augustin will I allege to this purpose, That Christs Natural Body is in Heaven, and not here Corporally in the Sacrament. In his 50th Treatise upon John, he speaks thus of Christ.
After this manner of speech, as St. Augustin teacheth in his Questions Super Leviticum & contra Adamantium,—it is said, - That seven ears of Corn be seven years, seven Kyne be seven years, and the Rock was Christ, Blood is the Soul. The which last saying, saith St. Augustin in his Book Contra Adamantium, is understood to be spoken in a sign or figure; for the Lord himself did not stick to say, This is my Body, when he gave the sign of his Body: For we must not consider in Sacraments, (saith St. Augustin, contra Maximinum. Lib. 3. cap. 22.) what they be, but what they do signifie; for they be signs of Things, being one Thing in themselves, and yet signifying another ⟨p. 38⟩Thing; for the Heavenly Bread, (saith he) by some manner of speech, is call'd Christs Body, when indeed it is the Sacrament of his Body.—What can be more plain, or more clearly spoken, than are these places of St. Augustin, if Men were not obstinately bent to maintain an untruth?—Yet one place more of St. Augustin will I alledge to this purpose, That Christs Natural Body is in Heaven, and not here Corporally in the Sacrament. In his 50th Treatise upon John, he speaks thus of Christ.