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A brief declaration of the Lords Supper with some other determinations and disputations concerning…
A brief declaration of the Lords Supper with some other determinations and disputations concerning the same argument by the same author / written by Dr. Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London during his imprisonment ; to which is annexed an extract of several passages to the same purpose out of a book entitled Diallacticon, written by Dr. John Poynet.A brief declaration of the Lords Supper with some other determinations and disputations concerning the same argument by the same author / written by Dr. Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London during his imprisonment ; to which is annexed an extract of several passages to the same purpose out of a book intituled Diallacticon, written by Dr. John Poynet.
London: printed for Richard Chiswell, 1688
A BRIEF DECLARATION OF THE Lords Supper.A BREEFE DECLARATION OF THE Lordes Supper.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The answer that is made to this place of Origen of the Papists, is so foolish, that it be wraieth it self, without any further confutation. It is the same, that they make to a place of S. Augustin in 1his book De doctrinae Christiana: Whereas S. Augustine speaketh in effect the same thing that Origen doth here. The Papists answer is this: To the carnal man the literal sense is hurtful, but not so to the spiritual. As though to understand that in his proper sense, which ought to be taken figuratively, were to the carnal man a dangerous peril: but to the spiritual man none at all.
The answere that is made to this place of Origen of the Papists, is so foolish, that it be wraieth it self, without any further confutation. It is the same, that they make to a piace of S. Augustin in 1his book De doctrinae Christiana: Whereas S. Augustine speaketh in effecte the same thinge that Origen dooth héer. The Papists answer is this: To the carnal man the literal sence is hurtfull, but not so to the spirituall. As though to vnderstande that in his proper sence, which ought to be taken figuratiuely, were to the carnall man a dangerous perill: but to the spirituall man none at all.
- 1Lib. 3. ca. 16.
Now to Chrysostom, whom I bring for the second writer in the 1Greek Church, He speaking against the unholy using of mans body, which after S. Paul ought to be kept pure and holy, as the very temple of the Holy Ghost, saith thus: If it be a fault (saith he) 2to translate the holy vessels, in the which is contained not the true body ⟨p. 23⟩