A57277:208
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
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.
Now my Second Ground against this Transubstantiation, are the Ancient Fathers a Thousand Years past. And so far off is it, that they do confirm this Opinion of Transubstantiation, that plain they seem to me, both to think and to speak the contrary.
Dionysius, in many places, calleth it Bread. The places are so manifest and plain, that it needeth not to recite them.
Ignatius to the Philadelphians saith, I beseech you, Brethren, cleave fast unto one Faith, and to one kind of Preaching, using together one manner of Thanksgiving; For the Flesh of the Lord Jesus is one, and his Blood is one which was shed for us: There is also one Bread broken for us, and one Cup of the whole Church.
Irenaeus writeth thus: Even as the Bread that cometh of the Earth, receiving God's Vocation, is now no more common Bread, but Sacramental Bread, consisting of two Natures, Earthly and Heavenly; even so our Bodies receiving the Eucharist, are now no more corruptible, having hope of the Resurrection.