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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.
And first I will begin with Tertullian, whom Cyprian the holy martyr 1so highly esteemed, that whensoever he would have his book, he was wont to say: Give us now the Master.
And first I wil begin with Tertullian, whom Ciprian the holy martyr 1so highly estéemed, that whensoeuer he would haue his book, he was wonte to saye: Giue vs now the Maister.
- 1Tertullian.
This old writer in his fourth book against Martian the heretic, saith thus: Jesus made the bread, which he took, and distributed to his disciples, his body, saying: This is my body. That is to say (saith Tertullian) a figure of my body.
This olde writer in his fourthe booke against Martian the heretike, saith thus: Iesus made the bread, which he tooke, and distributed to his disciples, his body, saying: This is my body. That is to say (saith Tertullian) a figure of my body.
In this place it is plain, that after Tertullians exposition, Christ meant not by calling the bread his body, and the wine his blood, that either the bread was the natural body, or the wine his natural blood, but he called them his body and blood, because he would institute them to be unto us Sacraments: that is holy tokens and signs of his body and of his blood: that by them remembering and firmly believing the benefits procured to us by his body, which was torn and crucified for us, and of his blood, which was shed for us upon the cross: and so with thanks receiving these holy Sacraments, according to Christs institution, might by the same be spiritually nourished and fed to the increase of all godliness in us here in our pilgrimage and journey wherein we walk unto everlasting life.