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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.
We worship, I confess, the same true Lord and Saviour of 1the world, which the Wise men worshipped in the Manger; howbeit we do it in a Mystery, and in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and that in Spiritual Liberty, as saith S. Aug. lib. 3. de Doct. Christiana, Not in carnal servitude; that is, we do not worship servilely the signs for the things; for that should be, as he also saith, a part of a servile Infirmity; but we behold with the eyes of Faith him present after Grace, and spiritually set upon the Table; and we worship him who sitteth above, and is worshipped of the Angels; for Christ is always assistant to his Mysteries, as the said Augustine saith. And the Divine Majesty, as saith Cyprian, doth never absent it self from the Divine Mysteries; but this Assistance and Presence of Christ, as in Baptism, it is wholly Spiritual, and by Grace, and not by any Corporal Substance of the Flesh: Even so it is here in the Lord's Supper, being rightly, and according to the Word of God duly ministered.
We worship, I confess, the same true Lord and Saviour of 1the world, which the Wise men worshipped in the Manger; howbeit we do it in a Mystery, and in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and that in Spiritual Liberty, as saith S. Aug. lib. 3. de Doct. Christiana, Not in carnal servitude; that is, we do not worship servilely the signs for the things; for that should be, as he also saith, a part of a servile Infirmity; but we behold with the eyes of Faith him present after Grace, and spiritually set upon the Table; and we worship him who sitteth above, and is worshipped of the Angels; for Christ is always assistant to his Mysteries, as the said Augustine saith. And the Divine Majesty, as saith Cyprian, doth never absent it self from the Divine Mysteries; but this Assistance and Presence of Christ, as in Baptism, it is wholly Spiritual, and by Grace, and not by any Corporal Substance of the Flesh: Even so it is here in the Lord's Supper, being rightly, and according to the Word of God duly ministred.
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