A57277:408
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.
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.
For it is not therefore to be accounted a Spiritual sense, because they say the Flesh of Christ is there invisibly present. For if they mean his proper Flesh, we do not therefore not eat it carnally, because we do not see it.
Now in this Sacrament the ancient Fathers observed two things, for each of which it might deservedly be called and esteemed the Body of Christ; but more especially when it comprehends both. For the Bread is justly called his Body, as well because it is the figure of his true Body, as because it hath the lively virtue of it conjoined to it, much more; but most especially, because it comprehendeth both.
Now in this Sacrament the ancient Fathers observed two things, for each of which it might deservedly be called and esteemed the Body of Christ; but more especially when it comprehends both. For the Bread is justly called his Body, as well because it is the figure of his true Body, as because it hath the lively vertue of it conjoyned to it, much more; but most especially, because it comprehendeth both.