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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 so demonstrating and showing that bread which he had in his bands, to say then, This is my body: and to have said, This bread is my body.
and so demonstrating and shewing that bread which hee had in his bandes, to saye then, This is my body: and to haue saide, This bread is my body.
As it were all one, if a man lacking a Knife, and going to his Oysters, would say unto an other, whom he saw to have two knives. Sir I pray you lend me the one of your-knives. Were it not now all one to answer him, Sir, hold I will lend you this to eat your meat, but not to open Oysters withal: and hold, I will lend you this Knife to eat your meat but not to open Oysters. This similitude serveth but for this purpose, to declare the nature of speech withal, where as the thing that is demonstrated and showed, is evidently perceived, and openly known to the eye.
As it were all one, if a man lackinge a Knife, and going to his Oisters, would say vnto an other, whom he saw to haue two kniues. Sir I praye you lend mee the one of your-kniues. Were it not now all one to answere him, Sir, holde I will lende you this to eat your meat, but not to open Oisters withall: and holde, I wil lend you this Knife to eate your meat but not to open Oysters. This similitude serueth but for this purpose, to declare the nature of speach withall, where as the thinge that is demonstrated and shewed, is euidently perceiued, and openly knowen to the eye.
But O good Lord, what a wonderful thing is it to see, how some men do labour to teach, what is demonstrated and showed by the pronoun demonstrative (this) in Christs words when he sayeth: This is my body: This is my blood: how they labour (I say) to teach, what that (This) was then indeed, when Christ spake in 1