A57277:406
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.
That was taken of the Body of the Virgin Mary, and was once created; this is not taken of the Virgin, but is created daily by the mystical Benediction potentially.
That is a natural Body, this supernatural. Lastly, That is simply, properly and absolutely his Body; this in a certain respect only and improperly.
Nor is it enough here, if we flee one way of carnally understanding it, and fall upon another. For he who literally understands the eating of the Flesh of Christ, and as although it were a proper Speech, he is a carnal Capernaite; whether he imagine it to be properly done this way, or that way. For it is probable that all the Capernaites understood Christ carnally, but not all the same way.
Nor is it enough here, if we flee one way of carnally understanding it, and fall upon another. For he who literally understands the eating of the Flesh of Christ, and as altho it were a proper Speech, he is a carnal Capernaite; whether he imagine it to be properly done this way, or that way. For it is probable that all the Capernaites understood Christ carnally, but not all the same way.