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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
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.
The Fifth Ground.
The Fifth Ground is the certain persuasion of this Article of Faith, He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth at the Right Hand, &c.
The Fifth Ground is the certain perswasion of this Article of Faith, He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth at the Right Hand, &c.
Augustine saith, The Lord is above, even to the end of the World; but yet the verity of the Lord is here also. For his Body wherein he rose again must needs be in one place, but his verity is spread abroad every where. Also in another place he saith, Let the godly also receive that Sacrament, but let them not be careful (speaking there of the presence of his Body.) For as touching his Majesty, his Providence, his invisible and unspeakable Grace, these words are fulfilled which he spake, I am with you to the end of the World. But according to the flesh which he took upon him, according to that which was born of the Virgin, was apprehended of the Jews, was fastened to a Tree, taken down again from the Cross, lapped in Linen Cloths, was buried and rose again, and appeared after his Resurrection, so ye shall not have me always with you; and why? because, that as concerning his Flesh, he was conversant with his Disciples forty days, and they accompanying him, seeing him, but not following him, he went up into Heaven, and is not here, for he sitteth at the right hand of his Father; and yet he is here, because he is not departed hence, as concerning the presence of his Divine Majesty.
Augustine saith, The Lord is above, even to the end of the World; but yet the verity of the Lord is here also. For his Body wherein he rose again must needs be in one place, but his verity is spread abroad every where. Also in another place he saith, Let the godly also receive that Sacrament, but let them not be careful (speaking there of the presence of his Body.) For as touching his Majesty, his Providence, his invisible and unspeakable Grace, these words are fulfilled which he spake, I am with you to the end of the World. But according to the flesh which he took upon him, according to that which was born of the Virgin, was apprehended of the Jews, was fastned to a Tree, taken down again from the Cross, lapped in Linnen Cloths, was buried and rose again, and appeared after his Resurrection, so ye shall not have me always with you; and why? because, that as concerning his Flesh, he was conversant with his Disciples forty days, and they accompanying him, seeing him, but not following him, he went up into Heaven, and is not here, for he sitteth at the right hand of his Father; and yet he is here, because he is not departed hence, as concerning the presence of his Divine Majesty.