A57277:170
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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Glin. Well, let it then pass to other mens Judgments. What then say you, to holy St. Cyprian, 1200 years past? Who saith, That the Bread which our Lord gave to his Disciples, was not changed in form or quality, but in very nature, and by the Almighty word was made Flesh.
Madew. I do answer thus, That this word Flesh may be taken two ways, either for the substance it self, or else for a natural property of a fleshly thing. So that Cyprian there did mean of a natural Property, and not of fleshly Substance. And contrariwise in the Rod of Aaron, where both the Substance, and also the Property was changed.
Glin. Holy St. Ambrose saith, The Body there made by the mighty Power of Gods word, is the Body of the Virgin Mary.
Rochest. That is to say, That by the Word of God, the thing hath a Being, that it had not before, and we do consecrate the Body, that we may receive the Grace and Power of the Body of Christ in Heaven, by this Sacramental Body.