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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.
Was Christ, saith saint Augustine, offered any more but once? And he offered himself. And yet in a Sacrament or representation not only every solemn feast of Easter, but also every day to the People he is offered: so that he doth not lye that saith: he is every day offered.
Was Christe, saithe sainte Augustine, offered any more but once? And he offered himself. And yet in a Sacramente or representation not onelye euerye solemne feast of Easter, but also every daye to the People he is offered: so that he dooth not lye that saith: he is euery day offered.
For if Sacraments had not some similitude or likeness of those things, whereof they be Sacraments, they could in no wise be Sacraments: and for their similitudes or likeness: commonly they have the names of the things, whereof they be Sacraments. Therefore as after a certain manner of speech, the Sacrament of Christs body, is Christs body; the Sacrament of Christs blood, is Christs blood, so likewise the Sacrament of faith is faith.
For if Sacraments had not some similitude or likenes of those things, whereof they be Sacraments, they coulde in no wise be Sacraments: and for their similitudes or likenes: commonly they have the names of the things, whereof they be Sacraments. Therefore as after a certaine manner of speech, the Sacrament of Christs body, is Christs body; the Sacramente of Christes blood, is Christs bloode, so likewise the Sacrament of faith is faith.
After this manner of speech, as S. Augustine teacheth in his questions 1Super Leviticum and Contra Adimantum, it is said in scripture, that vij. ears of corn be vij. years, seven Kine be seven years, and the rock was Christ: and blood is the soul, the which last saying (saith Saint Augustine) in his book Contra Adimantum is understanded