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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.
As the Bread of the Lord's Table is Christ's natural Body, so 1it is his mystical Body.
- 1Ba-
But it is not Christ's mystical Body by Transubstantiation.
Ergo, It is not his natural Body by Transubstantiation.1
- 1ro- eo.
The second part of my Argument is plain, and the first is proved thus: As Christ, who is the Verity, spake of the Bread, This is my Body which shall be betrayed for you; speaking there of his natural Body: even so St. Paul, moved with the same Spirit of Truth, said, We, though we be many, yet are we all one Bread and one Body, which be partakers of one Bread.