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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
Mr. FOX 2d Volume of Acts and Monuments, Edit. London, 1684.
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Rochest. Well-beloved Friends and Brethren in our Saviour Christ, you must understand that this Disputation, with other that shall be after this, are appointed to search for the plain truth of the Holy Scriptures in these matters of Religion, which of a long Season have been hidden from us by the false Glosses of the Church of Rome, and now in our days must be revealed to us Englishmen through the great Mercy of God principally; and secondarily, through the most gentle Clemency of our natural Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty, whom the living Lord long preserve to reign over us in Health, Wealth and Godliness, to the maintenance of Gods holy Word, and to the extirpation of all blind Glosses of Men, that go about to subvert the Truth. Because therefore, that I am one that doth love the Truth, and have professed the same amongst you; therefore I say, because of conferring my mind with yours, I will here gladly declare what I think in this point now in Controversy. Not because this worshipful Doctor hath any need of my help in dissolving of Arguments proposed against him; for as me seemeth, he hath answered hitherto very well, and Clerkly, according to the Truth of Gods Word. But now to the purpose, I do grant unto you (Mr. Opponent) that the old Ancient Fathers do record and witness a certain Honour and Adoration to be due unto Christs Body, but they speak not of it in the Sacrament, but of it in Heaven, at the right hand of the Father, as holy Chrysostom saith, Honour thou it, and then eat it; but that Honour may not be given to ⟨p. 32⟩the outward sign, but to the Body of Christ it self in Heaven. For that Body is there only in a sign virtually, by Grace, in the exhibition of it in Spirit, Effect and Faith, to the worthy receiver of it. For we receive virtually only Christs Body in the Sacrament.
Rochest. Wellbeloved Friends and Brethren in our Saviour Christ, you must understand that this Disputation, with other that shall be after this, are appointed to search for the plain truth of the Holy Scriptures in these matters of Religion, which of a long Season have been hidden from us by the false Glosses of the Church of Rome, and now in our days must be revealed to us Englishmen through the great Mercy of God principally; and secondarily, through the most gentle Clemency of our natural Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty, whom the living Lord long preserve to reign over us in Health, Wealth and Godliness, to the maintenance of Gods holy Word, and to the extirpation of all blind Glosses of Men, that go about to subvert the Truth. Because therefore, that I am one that doth love the Truth, and have professed the same amongst you; therefore I say, because of conferring my mind with yours, I will here gladly declare what I think in this point now in Controversy. Not because this worshipful Doctor hath any need of my help in dissolving of Arguments proposed against him; for as me seemeth, he hath answered hitherto very well, and Clerkly, according to the Truth of Gods Word. But now to the purpose, I do grant unto you (Mr. Opponent) that the old Ancient Fathers do record and witness a certain Honour and Adoration to be due unto Christs Body, but they speak not of it in the Sacrament, but of it in Heaven, at the right hand of the Father, as holy Chrysostome saith, Honour thou it, and then eat it; but that Honour may not be given to