A57277:395
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.
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.
How much better did Cyprian, Ambrose, Epiphanius, Emysenus, and others speak, who teach a like change to be performed in the Eucharist, as is performed in Baptism, by which the external ⟨p. 64⟩Signs remain the same, and by Grace acquire a new substance in the same manner.
The Exposition and Doctrine of Bertram, concerning the Sacrament, ought in my Opinion to be diligently examined and embraced for two Reasons.