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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.
It is not this body, which ye do see, that ye shall eat, neither shall ye drink this blood, which the Soldiers that crucify me, shall spill or shed.
It is not this bodye, whiche ye doo see, that ye shall eate, nother shall ye drinke this blood, which the Souldiers that crucifie me, shall spill or shed.
I do commend unto you a mystery or a Sacrament, which spiritually understanded, shall give you life.
I doo commend vnto you a misterye or a Sacrament, which spiritually vnderstanded, shall give you life.
Now if Christ had no more natural and corporal bodies, but that one which they then presently both heard and saw, nor other natural blood, but that which was in the same body, and the which the soldiers did afterward cruelly shed upon the cross: and neither this body nor this blood was (by this declaration of S. Augustine) either to be eaten or drunken, but the mystery thereof spiritually to be understanded: then I conclude (if this saying and exposition of S. Augustine be true, that the mystery which the disciples should eat, was not the natural body of Christ, but a mystery of the same spiritually to be understanded.
Now if Christe had no more naturall and corporall bodies, but that one which they then presently both heard and sawe, nor other natural blood, but that which was in the same body, and the which the souldiers did afterward cruelly shed vpon the crosse: and nother this bodye nor this bloode was (by this declaration of S. Augustine) either to be eaten or drunken, but the misterie thereof spiritually to be vnderstanded: then I conclude (if this saying and exposition of S. Augustine be true, that the mistery which the disciples should eate, was not the naturall body of Christ, but a mistery of the same spiritually to be understanded.