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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.
And here I can not but marvel at some men, surely of much excellent fineness of wit, and of great eloquence, that are not ashamed to write and say, that this aforesaid saying of Christ is after S. Augustine a figurative speech indeed: howbeit not unto the learned, but to the unlearned. Here let any man that but indifferently understandeth the Latin tongue, read the place in S. Austine: and if ye perceive not clearly S. Augustins words, and mine to be contrary, let me abide thereof the rebuke.
And héer I can not but maruail at some men, surely of much excellent finenesse of wit, and of great eloquence, that are not ashamed to write and saye, that this aforesaide saying of Christe is after S. Augustine a figuratiue speache indéede: howbeit not vnto the learned, but to the vnlearned. Héere let any man that but indifferently vnderstandeth the Latin tongue, reade the place in S. Austine: and if ye perceiue not cléerly S. Augustins woords, and mine to be contrarye, let me abide therof the rebuke.
This lesson of S. Augustine I have therefore the rather set forth, because it teacheth us to understand that place in John figuratively. Even so surely the same lesson with the example of S. Augustins expositions thereof, teacheth us nor only by the same, to understand Christs words in the Institution of the Sacrament both of his body and of his blood figuratively, but also the very true meaning and understanding of the same. For if to command to ⟨p. 15⟩eat the flesh of the son of man, and to drink his blood, seemeth to command an inconvenience and an ungodliness, & is even so indeed, if it be understanded as the words do stand in their proper signification: and therefore must be understanded figuratively and spiritually, as S. Augustine doth godly and learnedly interpret them: then surely Christ commanding in his last Supper to eat his body and drink his blood, seemed to command in sound of words as grate and even the same inconvenience and ungodliness, as did his words in the vj. of S. John: and therefore must even by the same reason, be likewise understanded and expounded figuratively and spiritually, as S. Augustine did the other: Whereunto that exposition of S. Augustine may seem to be the more meet, for that Christ in his supper, to the commandment of eating and drinking of his body and blood, addeth: Do this in remembrance of me. Which words surely were the key that opened and revealed the spiritual and godly exposition unto Saint Augustine.