A57277:388
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.
I Will so divide the question, that it may be briefly reduced to three heads. First, I will show that the true Body of Christ is given to the Faithful in the Sacrament; and that the words Nature and Substance, are not to be rejected, but that the Ancients treating of this Sacrament did use them. In the next place, I will show that there is a difference between the proper Body of Christ, and that which is present in the Sacrament, and that the Ancient Fathers thought so. Lastly, I will show, what manner of Body this is, which is received in this Mystery, ⟨p. 62⟩and why it is called by that Name, according to the Doctrine of the saint Fathers.
I Will so divide the question, that it may be briefly reduced to three heads. First, I will shew that the true Body of Christ is given to the Faithful in the Sacrament; and that the words Nature and Substance, are not to be rejected, but that the Ancients treating of this Sacrament did use them. In the next place, I will shew that there is a difference between the proper Body of Christ, and that which is present in the Sacrament, and that the Ancient Fathers thought so. Lastly, I will shew, what manner of Body this is, which is received in this Mystery, ⟨p. 62⟩and why it is called by that Name, according to the Doctrine of the sante Fathers.
The Body of Christ is so called properly and improperly; properly, that Body which was taken of the Virgin. Improperly, as the Sacrament and the Church. That the Church is not properly the Body of Christ, cannot be doubted by any. It remains, that we now prove the same of the Sacrament.
It may easily be observed from what Chrysostom writeth in this place, that that which Christ called his Body when he said, Take, eat, this is my Body; and which be received together with his Apostles, is in another manner his Body, than is his very proper Body, which was fed with that other. This did eat, that was eaten, and each is called his Body, but in a different manner.