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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
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Also the same Vigilius saith, Which things, seeing they be so, the course of the Scripture must be searched of us, and many Testimonies must be gathered, to show plainly what a wickedness and sacrilege it is to refer those things to the property of the Divine Nature, which do only belong to the nature of the Flesh; and contrariwise, to apply those things to the nature of the Flesh, which do properly belong to the Divine Nature. Which thing the Transubstantiators do, whilst they affirm Christ's Body not to be contained in any one place, and ascribe that to his Humanity, which properly belongeth to his Divinity, as they do who will have Christ's Body to be in no one certain place limited.
Also the same Vigilius saith, Which things, seeing they be so, the course of the Scripture must be searched of us, and many Testimonies must be gathered, to shew plainly what a wickedness and sacriledg it is to refer those things to the property of the Divine Nature, which do only belong to the nature of the Flesh; and contrariwise, to apply those things to the nature of the Flesh, which do properly belong to the Divine Nature. Which thing the Transubstantiators do, whilst they affirm Christ's Body not to be contained in any one place, and ascribe that to his Humanity, which properly belongeth to his Divinity, as they do who will have Christ's Body to be in no one certain place limited.
Now in the latter Conclusion concerning the Sacrifice, because it dependeth upon the first, I will in few words declare what I think. For if we did once agree in that, the whole Controversy in the other would soon be at an end. Two things there be which do persuade me that this Conclusion is true; that is, certain places of the Scripture, and also certain Testimonies of the Fathers. Saint Paul saith Hebrews the 9th, Christ being become an High Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this building, neither by the Blood of Goats and Calves, but by his own Blood, entered once into the Holy Place, and obtained for us eternal Redemption, &c. And now in the end of the World he hath appeared once to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And again, Christ was once offered to take away the sins of many. Moreover he saith, With one offering hath he made perfect for ever those that are sanctified. These Scriptures do persuade me to believe that there is no other oblation of Christ (albeit I am not ignorant there are many Sacrifices) but that which was once made upon the Cross.