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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.
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 2Christ, but not by Transubstantiation, but by a Sacramental Conversion or turning. It is Transformed, saith Theophylact in the same place, by a Mystical Benediction, and by the accession or coming of the Holy Ghost unto the Flesh of Christ. He saith not, by expulsion, or driving away the Substance of Bread, and by substituting or putting in its place the Corporal Substance of Christ's Flesh. And where he saith, It is not a Figure of the Body, we should understand that saying, as he himself doth elsewhere add one, that is, it is no ⟨p. 59⟩naked or bare Figure only. For Christ is present in his Mysteries; neither at any time, as Cyprian saith, doth the Divine Majesty absent himself from the Divine Mysteries. And I also worship Christ in the Sacrament, but not because 3he is included in the Sacrament: Like as I worship Christ also in the Scriptures, not because he is really included in them. Notwithstanding, I say, that the Body of Christ is present in the Sacrament, but yet Sacramentally and Spiritually, according to his Grace giving Life, and in that respect really, that is according to his Benediction, giving Life. Furthermore, I acknowledge gladly the true Body of Christ to be in the Lord's Supper in such sort as the Church of Christ (which is the Spouse of Christ, and is taught of the Holy Ghost, and guided by God's Word) doth acknowledge the same. But the true Church of Christ doth acknowledge a Presence of Christ's Body in the Lord's Supper, to be communicated to the Godly by Grace, and spiritually, as I have often showed, and by a Sacramental Signification, but not by the Corporal Presence of the Body of his Flesh.