A57277:383
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. My Protestation always saved, that by this mine 1Answer I do not condescend to your Authority, in that you are Legate to the Pope; I answer thus, In a sense, the first Article is true, and in a sense it is false; for if you take really for vere, for spiritually by Grace and Efficacy, then it is true that the Natural Body and Blood of Christ is in the Sacrament vere & realiter, indeed and really; but if you take these terms so grossly, ⟨p. 60⟩that you would conclude thereby a Natural Body, having Motion, to be contained under the Forms of Bread and Wine, vere & realiter, then really is not Christ's Body and Blood in the Sacrament, no more than the Holy Ghost is in the Element of Water in our Baptism. Because this Answer was not understood, the Notaries wist not how to note it; wherefore the Bishop of Lincoln willed him to answer either Affirmatively or Negatively, either to grant the Article, or to deny it.
Ridley. My Protestation always saved, that by this mine 1Answer I do not condescend to your Authority, in that you are Legate to the Pope; I answer thus, In a sense, the first Article is true, and in a sense it is false; for if you take really for vere, for spiritually by Grace and Efficacy, then it is true that the Natural Body and Blood of Christ is in the Sacrament vere & realiter, indeed and really; but if you take these terms so grosly, ⟨p. 60⟩that you would conclude thereby a Natural Body, having Motion, to be contained under the Forms of Bread and Wine, vere & realiter, then really is not Christ's Body and Blood in the Sacrament, no more than the Holy Ghost is in the Element of Water in our Baptism. Because this Answer was not understood, the Notaries wist not how to note it; wherefore the Bishop of Lincoln willed him to answer either Affirmatively or Negatively, either to grant the Article, or to deny it.
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