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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.
Tertullian writeth here (say they) as none hath done hitherto before him.
Tertullian writeth heere (say they) as none hath deon hithertoo before him.
This saying is too too manifest false: for Origene, Hilary, Ambrose, Basil, Gregory, Nazianzene, Saint Augustine, and other old authors, likewise do call the sacrament, a figure of Christs body. And where they say, that Tertullian wrote this, when he was in a heat of disputation with an heretic, coveting by all means to overthrow his adversary. As who say, he would not take heed, what he did say, and specially what he would write in so high a matter so that he might have the better hand of his adversary.
This saying is too too manifeste false: for Origene, Hilarye, Ambrose, Basill, Grigorie, Nazianzene, Saint Augustine, and other old authors, likewise doo call the sacrament, a figure of Christes bodye. And where they say, that Tertullian wrote this, when he was in a heate of disputatione with an heretike, coueting by all means to ouerthrow his aduersarye. As who saye, he would not take heed, what he did say, and specially what he would write in so high a matter so that he might haue the better hand of his aduersarye.
Is this credible to be true in any godly wise man? How much less then is it worthy to be thought or credited in a man of so great a wit, learning, and excellency as Tertullian is worthily esteemed ever to have been?
Is this credible to be true in any godly wise man? How muche lesse then is it woorthye to be thought or credited in a man of so great a wit, learning, and excellency as Tertullian is worthily esteemed euer to haue been?