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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.
Here it is to be remembered, that the words are spiritual, and spiritually to be understood; that it is indeed named Flesh and Blood, but that this ought to be understood of the Spirit and Life, that is, of the lively Virtue of the Flesh of our Lord, so that the Efficacy of Life is conferred on the external Signs.
Here it is to be remembred, that the words are spiritual, and spiritually to be understood; that it is indeed named Flesh and Blood, but that this ought to be understood of the Spirit and Life, that is, of the lively Virtue of the Flesh of our Lord, so that the Efficacy of Life is conferred on the external Signs.
When Theophylact said, That the Bread is not the Figure of our Lords Body, he means that it is not only (or a bare) Figure of it.
See how Chrysostom saith, That we are really, as I may so say, turned into the Flesh of Christ. Yet who doth not see that this is a spiritual, not a carnal Conversion: So the Bread is really turned and transelementated into the Flesh of Christ, but by a spiritual, not a carnal Conversion, inasmuch as as the Bread obtains the Virtue of the Flesh.