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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.
Weston. Reverend Mr. Doctor, concerning the lack of Books, there is no cause why you should complain: What Books soever you will name, you shall have them; and as concerning the Judgment of your Answers to be had of your self with further deliberation, it shall, I say, be lawful for you until Sunday next to add unto them what you shall think good your self. My mind is, that we should use short Arguments, lest we should make an infinite process of the thing.
Ridley. There is another thing besides, which I would gladly obtain at your hands; I perceive that you have Writers and Notaries here present. By all likelihood our Disputations shall be published; I beseech you for Gods sake let me have liberty to speak my mind freely, and without interruption, not because I have determined to protract the time with a solemn Preface, but lest it may appear that some be not satisfied. God wot I am no Orator, nor have I learned Rhetoric to set Colours on the matter.
Ridley. There is another thing besides, which I would gladly obtain at your hands; I perceive that you have Writers and Notaries here present. By all likelihood our Disputations shall be published; I beseech you for Gods sake let me have liberty to speak my mind freely, and without interruption, not because I have determined to protract the time with a solemn Preface, but lest it may appear that some be not satisfied. God wot I am no Orator, nor have I learned Rhetorick to set Colours on the matter.
Weston. Among this whole Company, it shall be permitted you to take two for your part.