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A brief declaration of the Lords Supper, writtenA brief declaracion of the Lordes Supper, written
A brief declaration of the Lords Supper, written by the singular learned man, and most constant martyr of Jesus Christ, Nicholas Ridley Bishop of London prisoner in Oxford, a little before he suffered death for the true testimony of ChristA brief declaracion of the Lordes Supper, written by the syngular learned man, and most constaunt martir of Iesus Christ, Nicholas Ridley Bishop of London prisoner in Oxforde, a litel before he suffred deathe for the true testimonie of Christ
Emden: printed by E. van der Erve, 1555
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As the sacraments of the body and blood of our Lord are one thing before the invocation, and after the invocation they be changed, and are made an other: so likewise the Lords body (saith the heretic) is after the assumption or ascension in to heaven, turned in to the substance of God: the heretic meaning thereby, that Christ after his ascension, remaineth no more a man. To this Orthodoxus answereth thus, & sayeth to the heretic: Thou art taken (sayeth he) in thine own snare. For those mystical symbols or sacraments after the sanctification do not goo out of their own nature, but they tarry and abide still in their substance, figure and shape, yea & are sensibly seen & groped to be the same they were before. &c.
As the sacramentes of the body and blood of our Lorde are one thing before the inuocacion, and after the inuocaciō they be changed, and are made an other: so likewise the Lordes body (saythe the heretike) is after the assūpcion or ascension in to heauen, turned in to the substance of God: the heretike meaning therby, that Christ after his assension, remayneth no more a mā. To this Orthodoxus answereth thus, & sayeth to ye heretike: Thow art taken (sayeth he) in thyne owne snare. For those mystical symboles or sacramētes after the sanctificacion doo not goo out of their owne nature, but they tarye and abyde still in their substaunce, figure and shape, yea & are sensibly sene & groped to be ye same they were before. &c.
At these words the papists do startle: and to say the truth, these words be so plain, so full, & so clear ⟨image 33⟩that they can not tell, what to say, but yet they will not cease to goo about to play the cuttles, and to cast their colours over them, that the truth, which is so plainly told, should not have place. This author wrote (say they) before the determination of the church. As who would say, what so ever that wicked man Innocentius the Pope of Rome determined in his congregations with his monks and friars, that must be (for so Duns sayeth) holden for an article and of the substance of our faith. Some do charge this author that he was suspected to be a Nestorian, which thing in Calcedon counsel was tried and proved to be false. But the fowlest shift of all,