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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.
Bishop Ridley's Answer to the Three Propositions proposed to him in the Disputation at Oxford, April 12. 1554.
I Received of you the other day, Right Worshipful Mr. Prolocutor, and ye my Reverend Masters, Commissioners from the Queens Majesty and her Honourable Council, Three Propositions; whereunto ye commanded me to prepare against this day, what I thought good to answer concerning the same.
Now whilst I weighed with my self, how great a charge of the Lord's Flock was of late committed unto me, for the which I must once render an account to my Lord God, (and that how soon, he knoweth) and that moreover, by the Commandment of the Apostle Peter, I ought to be ready alway to give a Reason of the Hope that is in me, with Meekness and Reverence unto every one that shall demand the same. Besides this, considering my Duty to the Church of Christ, and to your Worships, being Commissioners by Public Authority, I determined with my self to obey your Commandment, and so openly to declare unto you my mind touching the foresaid Propositions; and albeit plainly to confess unto you the Truth in these things which ye now demand of me. I have thought otherwise in times past, than now I do, yet (God I call to record unto my Soul, I lye not) I have not altered my Judgment, as now it is, either by constraint of any Man or Laws; either for the dread of any dangers of this World; either for any hope of Commodity; but only for the love of the Truth revealed unto me by the Grace of God (as I am undoubtedly persuaded) in his holy Word, and in the reading of the Ancient Fathers.
Now whilst I weighed with my self, how great a charge of the Lord's Flock was of late committed unto me, for the which I must once render an account to my Lord God, (and that how soon, he knoweth) and that moreover, by the Commandment of the Apostle Peter, I ought to be ready alway to give a Reason of the Hope that is in me, with Meekness and Reverence unto every one that shall demand the same. Besides this, considering my Duty to the Church of Christ, and to your Worships, being Commissioners by Publick Authority, I determined with my self to obey your Commandment, and so openly to declare unto you my mind touching the foresaid Propositions; and albeit plainly to confess unto you the Truth in these things which ye now demand of me. I have thought otherwise in times past, than now I do, yet (God I call to record unto my Soul, I lye not) I have not altered my Judgment, as now it is, either by constraint of any Man or Laws; either for the dread of any dangers of this World; either for any hope of Commodity; but only for the love of the Truth revealed unto me by the Grace of God (as I am undoubtedly perswaded) in his holy Word, and in the reading of the Ancient Fathers.