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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.
Mark and consider well what St. Augustine saith, he is ascended into Heaven, and is not here, saith he. Believe not them therefore which say that he is here still in the Earth.
Moreover, Doubt not (saith the same Augustine, but that Jesus Christ, as concerning the nature of his Manhood, is there from whence he shall come. And remember well and believe the Profession of a Christian man, that he arose from death, ascended into Heaven, and sitteth at the Right hand of his Father, and from that Place and none other (not from the Altars) shall he come to judge the quick and the dead, and he shall come, as the Angel said, as he was seen to go into Heaven; that is to say, in the same form and substance, unto the which he gave immortality, but changed not Nature. After this form (meaning his Humane Nature) we may not think that it is every-where. And in the same Epistle he saith, Take away from the Bodies limitation of places, and they shall be no-where; and because they are no-where, they shall not be at all.
Vigilius saith, If the Word and the Flesh be both of one nature, seeing that the Word is every-where, why then is not the Flesh also every-where? For when it was in Earth, then verily it was not in Heaven; and now when it is in Heaven, it is not surely in Earth. And it is so certain that it is ⟨p. 42⟩not in Earth, that as concerning the same, we look for him from Heaven; whom as concerning the Word, we believe to be with us in Earth.