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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.
The Analogy of the Sacraments is necessary; for if the Sacraments had not some similitude, or likeness of the things whereof they be Sacraments, they could in no wise be Sacraments. And this similitude in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is taken three manner of ways.
1. The first consisteth in nourishing, as you shall read in Rabanus, Cyprian, Austin, Irenaeus, and most plainly in Isidore out of Bertram. 2. The second in the uniting and joining of many into one, as Cyprian teacheth. 3. The third is a similitude of unlike things: Where, like as the Bread is turned into one Body; so we by the right use of this Sacrament, are turned through Faith into the Body of Christ.
1. The first consisteth in nourishing, as you shall read in Rabanus, Cyprian, Austin, Irenaeus, and most plainly in Isidore out of Bertram. 2. The second in the uniting and joyning of many into one, as Cyprian teacheth. 3. The third is a similitude of unlike things: Where, like as the Bread is turned into one Body; so we by the right use of this Sacrament, are turned through Faith into the Body of Christ.
The sayings of the Fathers declare it to be a figurative speech, as it appeareth in Origen, Tertullian, Chrysostom in opere imperfecto, Augustin, Ambrose, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, Hilary, and most plainly of all, in Bertram. Moreover the sayings and places of all the Fathers, whose names I have before recited against the assertion of the first Proposition, do quite overthrow Transubstantiation. But of all most evidently and plainly, Irenaeus, Origen, Cyprian, Chrysostom to Caesarius the Monk, Augustine against Adamantus, Gelasius, Cyril, Epiphanius, Chrysostom again on the 20th of Matth. Rabanus, Damascene and Bertram.