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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.
Now then, if you grant me, that Paul did use the form of words, which he writeth: Let us then rehearse and consider Pauls word, which he saith, Christ spake thus upon the Cup.
Now then, if you graunt mee, that Paule did vse the forme of woords, which he writeth: Let vs then rehearse and consider Paules woorde, which he saith, Christ spake thus vpon the Cuppe.
This Cup is the New Testament in my blood, this do: as often as ye shall drink it in the remembrance of me.
This Cup is the New Testament in my blood, this doo: as often as ye shall drinke it in the remembrance of me.
Here I would know, whether that Christs words spoken upon the cup were not as mighty in work, and as effectual in signification to all intents, constrictions, and purposes, (as all our Parliament men do speak) as they were spoken upon the bread. If this be granted, which thing I think no man can deny: then further I reason thus. But the word (Is) in the words spoken upon the Lords bread doth mightily signify (say they) the change of the substance of that which goeth before it into the substance of that which followeth after, that is, of the substance of bread into the substance of Christs body, when Christ saith: This is my body. Now then if Christs words which are spoken upon the cup, which Paul here rehearseth be of the same might and power, both in working and signifying: then must this word (Is) when Christ saith: This Cup is the new Testament, &c. turn the substance of the cup into the substance of the new testament. And if thou wilt say, that this word (Is) neither maketh nor signifieth any such change of the cup, Although it be said of Christ, that this cup is the new testament, yet Christ meant no such change as that. Marry sir, even so say I, when Christ said of the bread, which he took, and after thanks given, brake, and gave them, saying: Take, eat, this is my body, he meant no more any such change of the substance of bread into the substance of his natural body, then he meant of the change and transubstantiation of the cup into the substance of the new Testament. And if thou wilt say that the word (Cup) here in Christs words doth not signify the Cup it self, but the Wine or thing contained in the cup, by a figure called Metonymia, for that Christs