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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
A BRIEF DECLARATION OF THE Lords Supper.A BREEFE DECLARATION OF THE Lordes Supper.
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 sacramental bread is the mystical body, and so it is called 1in Scripture, 1 Cor. 10. as it is called the natural body of Christ. ⟨p. 11⟩But Christs mystical body is the congregation of Christians. Now no man was ever so fond, as to say, that that sacramental bread is transubstantiated and changed into the substance of the congregation. Wherefore no man should likewise think, or say, that the bread is transubstantiated and changed into the natural substance of Christs human nature.
The sacramentall bread is the misticall body, and so it is called 1in Scripture, 1 Cor. 10. as it is called the naturall body of Christe. ⟨p. 11⟩But Christs misticall body is the congregation of Christians. Now no man was euer so fond, as to say, that that sacramentall breade is transubstantiated and changed into the substance of the congregatione. Wherfore no man shoulde likewise think, or saye, that the breade is transubstantiated and changed into the naturall substance of Christes humaine nature.
- 1The second reason.
But my mind is not here to write what may be gathered out of Scriptures for this purpose, but only to note here briefly, those which seem unto me, to be the most plain places. Therefore contented to have spoken thus much of the Sacramental bread: I will now speak a little of the Lords cup.