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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.
How? it can not, but with high blasphemy and heinous arrogancy, and intolerable pride, be claimed of any man, other then of Christ himself: how much and how plainly it repugneth unto the manifest words, the true sense and meaning of holy Scripture in many places, especially in the Epistle to the Hebrews: the matter it is so long, and other have written in it at large, that my mind is now, not to entreat thereof any further.
How? it can not, but with highe blasphemy and hainous arrogancy, and intollerable pride, be claimed of any man, other then of Christe himselfe: how muche and how plainly it repugneth vnto the manifest woords, the true sence and meaning of holy Scripture in many places, especially in the Epistle to the Hebrewes: the matter it is so long, and other haue written in it at large, that my minde is nowe, not to intreate therof any further.
For only in this my scribbling, I intend to search out and set forth by the Scriptures (according to God's gracious gift of my poor knowledge) whether the true sense and meaning of Christs words in the institution of his holy supper, do require any Transubstantiation, as they call it: or that the very substance of bread and wine do remain still in the Lords Supper and be the material substance of the holy Sacrament of Christ our Saviours blessed body and blood. Yet there remaineth one vain Quiddity of Duns in this matter, the which because some 1that write now do seem to like it so well that they have stripped him out of Dunces dusty and dark terms, and pricked him and painted him in fresh colours of an eloquent stile: and may therefore deceive the more, except the error be warily eschewed.
For only in this my scribling, I intend to search out and set foorthe by the Scriptures (according to Godes gracious gifte of my poore knowledge) whether the true sence and meaninge of Christes woordes in the institution of his holye supper, doo require any Transubstantiation, as they cal it: or that the very substance of breade and wine doo remaine still in the Lordes Supper and be the materiall substance of the holy Sacramente of Christe our Sauiours blessed bodye and bloode. Yet there remaineth one vaine Quidditi of Duns in this matter, the whiche because some