A57277:211
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.
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.
Tertullian is very plain, for he calleth it a Figure of his Body, &c.
Chrysostom writeth to Caesarius the Monk, albeit he be not received of diverse, yet will I read the place, to fasten it more deeply in your minds; for it seemeth to show plainly the substance of Bread to remain. The words are these:
Chrysostome writeth to Caesarius the Monk, albeit he be not received of diverse, yet will I read the place, to fasten it more deeply in your minds; for it seemeth to shew plainly the substance of Bread to remain. The words are these:
Before the Bread is sanctified, we name it Bread: but by the grace of God sanctifying the same, through the Ministry of the Priest, it is delivered from the Name of Bread, and is counted worthy to bear the Name of the Lord's Body, although the very substance of Bread notwithstanding do still remain therein, and now is taken not to be two Bodies, but one Body of the Son, &c.