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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.
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.
Glin. The Bread after Consecration doth feed the Soul, Ergo, The substance of common Bread doth not remain. The Argument is good, for St. Ambrose, De Sacramentis, saith thus, After the Consecration there is not the thing that Nature did form, but that which the blessing doth consecrate. And if the Benediction of the Prophet Elijah did turn the nature of Water; how much more then doth the Benediction of Christ here, both God and Man?
Glin. The Bread after Consecration doth feed the Soul, Ergo, The substance of common Bread doth not remain. The Argument is good, for St. Ambrose, De Sacramentis, saith thus, After the Consecration there is not the thing that Nature did form, but that which the blessing doth consecrate. And if the Benediction of the Prophet Elias did turn the nature of Water; how much more then doth the Benediction of Christ here, both God and Man?
Madew. That Book of St. Ambrose is suspected to be none of his Works.
Rochest. So all the Fathers say.
Glin. I do marvel at that, for St. Augustin in his Book of Retractations maketh plain, that that was his own very Work.