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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
A BRIEF DECLARATION OF THE Lords Supper.A BREEFE DECLARATION OF THE Lordes Supper.
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.
A BRIEF DECLARATION OF THE Lords Supper.
A BREEFE DECLARATION OF THE Lordes Supper.
MANY things confound a weak memory: A few places well weighed and perceived, lighten the understanding. Trueth is there to be searched, where it is certain to be had, though God doth speak the trueth by man, yet in mans word, which God hath not revealed to be his, a man may doubt without mistrust in God. Christ is the trueth of God revealed unto man from Heaven by God him self, and therefore in his word the trueth is to be found, which is to be embraced of all that be his. Christ biddeth us ask, and we shall have: search and we shall find: knock, and it shall be opened unto us. Therefore our Heavenly 1Father, the Author and fountain of all trueth, the bottomless Sea of all understanding, send down we beseech thee, thy holy spirit into our harts, and lighten our understanding with the beams of thy heavenly grace. We ask thee this, O merciful Father, not in respect of our deserts, but for thy deer Son our Saviour Jesus Christs sake. Thou knowest, O heavenly Father, that the controversy about the Sacrament of the blessed body and blood of thy deer Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, hath troubled not of late only the Church of England, France, Germany, and Italy, but also many year ago. The fault is ours (no doubt) therefore, for we have deserved thy plague. But (O Lord) be merciful, and relieve our misery with some light of grace. Thou knowest (O Lord) how this wicked world rolleth up and down, and reeleth to and fro, and careth not what thy will is, so it may abide in wealth. If trueth have wealth, who are so ⟨p. 2⟩stout to defend the trueth, as they? But if Christs cross be laid on truths back, then they vanish away straight, as Wax before the fire. But these are not they, O Heavenly Father, for whom I make my most moan, but for those silly ones, O Lord, which have a zeal unto thee: those I mean, which would 2