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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
Volume 3 › Proposition 1 › The Confirmation of the aforesaid Answer.
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It maketh precious things common to profane and ungodly Persons, and constraineth men to confess many absurdities. For it affirmeth, that Whoremongers and Murderers, yea, and (as some of them hold opinion) that Mice, Rats and Dogs also may receive the very real and corporal Body of the Lord, wherein the fullness of the Spirit of Light and Grace dwelleth; contrary to the manifest words of Christ in six Places and Sentences of the 6th Chapter of St. John. 4. It confirmeth also and maintaineth that beastly kind of Cruelty of the Anthropophagi, that is, the Devourers of Man's Flesh: for ⟨p. 49⟩it is a more cruel thing to devour a quick Man, that to slay him.
It maketh precious things common to prophane and ungodly Persons, and constraineth men to confess many absurdities. For it affirmeth, that Whoremongers and Murtherers, yea, and (as some of them hold opinion) that Mice, Rats and Dogs also may receive the very real and corporal Body of the Lord, wherein the fulness of the Spirit of Light and Grace dwelleth; contrary to the manifest words of Christ in six Places and Sentences of the 6th Chapter of St. John. 4. It confirmeth also and maintaineth that beastly kind of Cruelty of the Anthropophagi, that is, the Devourers of Man's Flesh: for ⟨p. 49⟩it is a more cruel thing to devour a quick Man, that to slay him.
Pie. He requireth time to speak Blasphemies. Leave your Blasphemies.
Rid. I had little thought to have had such reproachful words at your hands.