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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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The Explication.
How far the diversity and newness of the Phrase in all this first Proposition, is from the Phrase of the Holy Scripture, and that in every part almost, it is so plain and evident to any that is but meanly exercised in Holy Writ, that I need not now (especially in this Company of Learned Men) to spend any time therein, except the same shall be required of me hereafter.
First, There is a double sense in these words (by virtue of God's Word) for it is doubtful what word of God this is; whether it be that which is read in the Evangelists, or in St. Paul, or any other. And if it be that which is in the Evangelists, or in St. Paul, what that is. If it be in none of them, then how it may be known to be God's Word, and of such virtue that it should be able to work so great a matter.
Again, There is a doubt of these words (of the Priest) whether no man may be called a Priest, but he who hath Authority to make a Propitiatory Sacrifice for the quick and the dead; and how it may be proved that this Authority was committed of God to any man, but to Christ alone.