A57277:392
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.
It is to be observed, That the truth of the Lords Body may be spoken two ways, and ought to be understood two ways. For one verity of his Body is required in the Sacrament, another simply and out of the Sacrament.
As for what concerns our purpose, the very words of Cyprian sufficiently demonstrate, how the Letter is not to be followed in those things, which relate to this Mystery; how far all carnal Sense is to be removed, and all things to be referred to a spiritual Sense; that with this Bread is present, the Divine Virtue, the ⟨p. 63⟩effect of Eternal Life; that the Divine Essence is infused; that the Words are Spirit and Life; that a spiritual Precept is delivered; that this Body, this Flesh and Blood, this Substance of the Body ought not to be understood after a common manner, nor according to the Dictates of human Reason; but is so named, thought and believed, because of certain eminent Effects, Virtues and Properties, which are joined to it, which are naturally found in the Body and Blood of Christ, to wit, that it feed and quicken our Souls, and prepare our Bodies to Resurrection and Immortality.
As for what concerns our purpose, the very words of Cyprian sufficiently demonstrate, how the Letter is not to be followed in those things, which relate to this Mystery; how far all carnal Sense is to be removed, and all things to be referred to a spiritual Sense; that with this Bread is present, the Divine Virtue, the ⟨p. 63⟩effect of Eternal Life; that the Divine Essence is infused; that the Words are Spirit and Life; that a spiritual Precept is delivered; that this Body, this Flesh and Blood, this Substance of the Body ought not to be understood after a common manner, nor according to the Dictates of human Reason; but is so named, thought and believed, because of certain eminent Effects, Virtues and Properties, which are joyned to it, which are naturally found in the Body and Blood of Christ, to wit, that it feed and quicken our Souls, and prepare our Bodies to Resurrection and Immortality.