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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.
Duns saith in these words of Christ, This is my body, this pronoun demonstrative, meaning the word (This) if ye will know what it doth show or demonstrate, whether the bread that Christ took or no: he answereth no, but only one thing in substance […] painteth, whereof the nature or name it doth not tell, but leaveth that to be determined and told by that which followeth the word Is, that is by Praedicatum, as the Logician doth speak: and therefore he calleth this pronoun demonstrative. (This) Individuum vagum, that is, a wandering proper name, whereby we may point out and show any one thing in substance, what thing soever it be. That this imagination is vain and untruly applied unto these words of Christ, This is my body: it may appear plainly in the words of Luke and Paul said upon the cup, conferred with the form of words spoken upon the cup in Matthew and Mark. ⟨p. 17⟩For as upon the bread it is said of all. This is my body: so of Matthew and Mark, it is said upon the cup: This is my blood. Then if in the words, This is my body, the word (This) be as Duns calleth it, a wandering name to appoint and show forth any one thing, whereof the name and nature it doth not tell: so must it be likewise in those words of Matthew and Mark upon the Lords cup This is my blood. But in the words of Matthew and Mark, it signifieth and pointeth out the same that it doth in the Lords words upon the cup in Luke and Paul, where it is said: This cup is the new testament in my blood, &c. Therefore in Matthew and Mark the pronoun demonstrative (this) doth not wander to point only one thing in substance, not showing what it is, but telleth it plainly what it is, no less in Matthew and Mark unto the eye then is done in Luke and Paul, by putting too this word (cup) booth unto the eye, and unto the ear. For taking the cup and demonstrating or showing it unto his disciples, by this pronoun demonstrative, (this) and saying unto them, Drink ye all of this: it was then all one to say. This is my blood; as to say: This cup is my blood, meaning by the cup as the nature of the speech doth require: the thing contained in the cup. So likewise without all doubt, when Christ had taken bread, given thanks, and broken it, and giving it to his disciples, said, Take:
Duns saith in these woords of Christe, This is my bodye, this pronowne demonstratiue, meaning the woorde (This) if ye will knowe what it dooth showe or demonstrate, whether the bread that Christ took or no: he answereth no, but onely one thing in substance 〈…〉 paintethe, wherof the nature or name it doothe not tell, but leaueth that to be determined and told by that which followeth the woord Is, that is by Praedicatum, as the Logician dooth speake: and therfore he calleth this pronowne demonstratiue. (This) Indiuiduum vagum, that is, a wandring proper name, wherby we may poynte out and shewe anye one thing in substance, what thinge soeuer it be. That this imagination is vaine and vntruely applyed vnto these woordes of Christe, This is my bodye: it may appeare plainely in the woordes of Luke and Paule said vpon the cup, conferred with the forme of woords spoken vpon the cup in Mathewe and Marke.