A57277:413
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.
The Fathers therefore in Treating of the Sacraments, use the words Nature and Substance not Philosophically but Theologically: that is, they speak not as natural Philosophers, but as men disputing of Divine matters; they give the name of Nature and Substance to Grace, Virtue and Efficacy: the nature of the Sacrament so requiring.
But this (that the Spiritual virtue is inseparable from the Elements) is to be understood to be true, as long as the Sign serveth for that use, and is directed to that end, for which it was destined by ⟨p. 67⟩the Word of God. For if we apply it to other uses, and abuse it against the institution of Christ, it either is altogether not a Sacrament, or ceaseth to be a Sacrament.
The dignity and due honour of the Sacraments is not injured, but remaineth whole and inviolate, while we confess both the truth of the Body, and the nature and substance of it, to be received by the Faithful, together with the Symbols: which also the ancient Fathers testify to be done. And then this distinction which also those Fathers diligently observed, being received between that proper or assumed Body of the Lord, and this Symbolical Body, or Sacrament of the Body, the analogy of our Faith is not violated, which no ways ought to be shaken: since we attribute to each Body his peculiar properties. For we say that the proper and assumed Body is in a place, and circumscribed with a space, by reason of the modus of a true Body, as Augustine saith, &c.
The dignity and due honour of the Sacraments is not injured, but remaineth whole and inviolate, while we confess both the truth of the Body, and the nature and substance of it, to be received by the Faithful, together with the Symbols: which also the ancient Fathers testifie to be done. And then this distinction which also those Fathers diligently observed, being received between that proper or assumed Body of the Lord, and this Symbolical Body, or Sacrament of the Body, the analogy of our Faith is not violated, which no ways ought to be shaken: since we attribute to each Body his peculiar properties. For we say that the proper and assumed Body is in a place, and circumscribed with a space, by reason of the modus of a true Body, as Augustine saith, &c.