A57277:411
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 therefore to be admired, what they mean, who will not suffer it to be called a figure, nor acknowledge any figure in the words of Institution, but contumeliously call those who own it, Figurative men, whereas it is manifest that all the Ancients did so call it. And indeed if there be no figure in it, it will be neither a sign nor Sacrament. So that those who traduce the maintainers of the other opinion as Sacramentaries, do indeed take away all Sacrament from it.
It is therefore to be admired, what they mean, who will not suffer it to be called a figure, nor acknowledg any figure in the words of Institution, but contumeliously call those who own it, Figurative men, whereas it is manifest that all the Ancients did so call it. And indeed if there be no figure in it, it will be neither a sign nor Sacrament. So that those who traduce the maintainers of the other opinion as Sacramentaries, do indeed take away all Sacrament from it.
There is yet another thing, which the Ancient Fathers acknowledging to ⟨p. 66⟩be in this Sacrament, taught it to be truly the Body of our Lord; And that is the efficacious and lively virtue of the Body it self, which is joined with the Bread and Wine by Grace and Mystical Benediction, and is called by divers names, although it be the same thing: by Augustine, the Intelligible, Invisible and Spiritual Body: by Jerome the Divine and Spiritual Flesh: by Irenaeus an Heavenly Thing: by Ambrose the Spiritual Food and Body of the Divine Spirit: by others some other like thing. And this doth chiefly cause this Sacrament to be worthy of the appellation of his true Body and Blood, since it doth not only externally bear the Image and Figure of it, but also carrieth along with it the inward and hidden natural propriety of the same Body; so that it cannot be esteemed an empty Figure, or the sign of a thing wholly absent, but the very Body of our Lord: Divine indeed and Spiritual, but present by Grace, full of virtue, powerful in efficacy. For this is very frequent, that the names of things themselves be ascribed to their virtue and efficacy.