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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.
Origene, which lived about 1250. years ago: a man for the excellency of his learning so highly esteemed in Christs Church, 1that he was counted and judged the singular teacher in his time of 2Christs religion, the confounder of heresies, the schoolmaster of many godly matters, and an opener of high mysteries in scripture. He writing upon the iv chapter of Saint Mathews gospel, sayeth▪ bus: But if any thing enter into the mouth it goeth away in to the belly, and is avoided into the draught: Yea and that meat which is sanctified by the word of God and prayer, concerning the matter thereof, it goeth away into the belly, and is avoided into the draught. But for the prayer which is added unto it, for the proportion of the faith, it is made profitable, making the mind able to perceive and see that which is profitable. For it is not the immaterial substance of bread, but the word which is spoken upon it, that is profitable to the man that eateth it not unworthily. And his I mean of the Typical and Symbolical, that is, Sacramental body. Thus far go the words of Origene, where it is plain, first that Origene speaking here of the sacrament of the Lords supper as the last words do plainly signify, doth mean and teach, that the material substance thereof is received, digested, and avoided, as the material substance of other bread and meats is, which could not be, if there were no material substance of bread at all, as the fantastical opinion of Transubstantiation doth put. It is a world too see the answer of the Papists to this place of Origen, in the disputations which were in this 3matter in the Parliament house, and in both the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, they that defended Transubstantiation said, that this part of Origen was but set forth of late by Erasmus, and therefore is to be suspected. But how vain this their answer is, it appeareth plainly. For so may all the good old authors, which lay in old libraries, and are set forth of late, be by this reason re••cted, as Clement Alexandrinus, Theodoretus, Justinus, Ecclesiastica 4historia, Nicephori, and other such. An other answer they ⟨p. 21⟩