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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.
These are the things (right worshipful Mr. Prolocutor, and ye the rest of the Commissioners) which I could presently prepare to the answering of your three foresaid Prophesies, being destitute of all help in this shortness of time, sudden warning, and want of Books.
Wherefore I appeal to my first Protestation, most humbly desiring the help of the same (as much as may be) to be granted unto me. And because ye have lately given most unjust and cruel Sentence against me, I do here appeal (so far forth as I may) to a more indifferent and just censure and judgment of some other Superior, Competent and Lawful Judge, and that according to the approved state of the Church of England. Howbeit, I confess, I am ignorant what that is at this present, through the trouble and alteration of the state of the Realm. But if this Appeal may not be granted to me upon Earth, then do I fly (even as to my only Refuge and alone Haven of Health) to the Sentence of the Eternal Judge, that is, of the Almighty God, to whose most merciful Justice towards us, and most just Mercifulness, I do wholly commit my self, and all my Cause, nothing at all despairing of the Defence of my Advocate and alone Saviour Jesus Christ, to whom with the Everlasting Father, and the Holy Spirit, the Sanctifier of us all, be now and for ever all Honour and Glory. Amen.
Ridley. Of Christ's Real Presence there may be a double understanding: 1If you take the Real Presence of Christ according to the Real and Corporal Substance which he took of the Virgin, that Presence being in Heaven, cannot be on the Earth also. But if you mean a Real Presence, secundum rem aliquam quae ad Corpus Christi pertinet: i. e. according to something that appertaineth to Christ's Body, certes the Ascension and abiding in Heaven are no let at all to that Presence. Wherefore Christ's Body after that sort is here present to us in the Lord's Supper, by Grace, I say, as Epiphanius speaketh it. I grant the Bread to be converted and turned into the Flesh of