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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. 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.
Glin. By your Patience (my Lord) if it be a Body of the Virgin (as St. Ambrose saith) which we do consecrate as Ministers by Gods holy Word, then must it needs be more than a Sacramental, or Spiritual Body; yea, a very Body of Christ indeed; yea, the same that is still in Heaven, without all moving from place to place, unspeakably, and far passing our natural Reason, which is in this Mystery so captivate, that it cannot conceive how it is there, without a lively Faith to Gods word. But let this pass. You do grant that this Bread doth quicken or give Life, which if it do, then it is not a natural Bread, but a super-substantial Bread.
Rochest. So doth the effectual and lively Word of God, which for that it nourisheth the Soul, it doth give Life; for the Divine Essence infuseth it self unspeakably into the faithful Receiver of the Sacrament.