Selected quad for the lemma: body_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
body_n	nature_n	soul_n	unite_v	6,882	5	9.6339	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60427	Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by H. Smith, sometime preacher at St. Clement Danes.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1688 (1688)	Wing S4049; ESTC R37565	40,777	47

Christ have any such body judg you Here they stand like a Fool which cannot tell on his tale Nabuchadnezzar dreamed a dream and knew not what it meant Beside I ask them to whom Christ spake when he said This is my Body S. Mark saith he spake to them that is to his Disciples well then if these words This is my Body were not spoken to the Signs but to the Persons not to the Bread and Wine but to the Receivers as the words which follow Do this in remembrance of me If these words were not spoken to the Bread and Wine then it is plain that they do not change the nature of the Bread and Wine If the nature of them be not altered then the substance remaineth and then we receive no other substance with them because two substances cannot be in one place What then is there nothing in the Sacrament but Bread and Wine like an hungry nunscion Nay we say not that the Sacrament is nothing but a bare sign or that you receive no more than you see for Christ saith that it is his body and Paul saith that it is the Communion of Christ's body and blood Therefore there is more in sacramental bread then in common bread though the nature be not changed yet the use is changed it doth not onely nourish the body as it did before but also it bringeth a bread with it which nourisheth the Soul for as sure as we receive bread so sure we receive Christ not onely the benefits of Christ but Christ although not in a Popish manner yet we are so joyned and united unto him even as though we were but one body with him As the Spouse doth not marry with the Lands and Goods but with the Man himself and being partaker of him is made partaker of them so the Faithful do not onely marry with Christ's benefits but with Christ himself and being partakers of him they are made partakers of his benefits for Christ may not in any wise be divided from his benefits no more than the Sun from his light It is said The Father gave us his Son and so the Son giveth us himself For as the bread is a sign of his body so the giving of the bread is a sign of the giving of his body Thus he lieth before us like a Pellican which letteth her young ones suck her blood so that we may say the Lord invited us to Supper and he himself was our Meat But if you ask how this is I must answer It is a Mystery but if I could tell it it were no Mystery Yet as it is said when three Men walked in the midst of the Furnace One like the Son of God walked amongst them So when the Faithful receive the Bread and Wine one like the Son of God seemeth to come unto them which fills them with peace and joy and grace that they marvel what it was which they received besides bread and wine For example thou makest a bargain with thy Neighbour for House or Land and receivest in earnest a piece of gold that which thou receivest is but a piece of gold but now it is a sign of thy bargain and if thou keep not touch with him happily it will clasp thee for all that thou art worth so that which thou receivest is bread but this bread is a sign of another matter which passeth bread Again thou hast an Obligation in thy hand and I ask thee what hast thou there and thou sayest I have here an hundred pounds why say I there is nothing but paper ink wax Oh but by this saist thou I will recover an hundreth pounds and that is as good So beloved this is as good that under these signs you receive the vertue of Christ's body and blood by Faith as if you did eat his body and drink his blood indeed which is horrible to think that any should devour their God thinking thereby to worship him never nay Heretick nor Idolater conceived so grossely of their GOD before the Papist We read of a People which did eat Men but never of any People which did eat their God. All the Apostles say that it was needful that Christ should take our flesh but no Apostle saith that it is needful that we should take Christ's flesh for all the blessings of Christ are apprehended by Faith and nothing fit to apprehend him whom we see not but Faith and therefore one of their own Pillers said Believe and thou hast eaten Faith doth more in Religion than the mouth or else we might say with the Woman Blessed are the breasts which gave thee suck and so none should be blessed but Mary but Mary was not blessed because Christ was in her body but because Christ was in her heart and least this should seem incredible unto you because Mary is called blessed among Women when Christ heard the Woman say Blessed are the breasts which gave thee suck he replyed unto her Blessed are they which hear the word of God and keep it these are my Brethrea and Sisters and Mother saith Christ as though the rest were no kin to him in Heaven though they were kin in Earth Thus if Christ were in thy body and thou shouldest say as this Woman Blessed is the body that hath thee in it nay would Christ say Blessed is the heart that hath me in it If Mary were no whit better for having Christ in her arms nor for having him in her body how much better art thou for having him in thy belly where thou canst not see him Must the Sun needs come to us or else cannot his heat and light profit us nay it doth us more good because it is so far off so this Sun is gone from us that he might give more light unto us which made him say It is good for you that I go from you therefore away with this carnal eating of spiritual things Many daughters have done vertuously but thou saith Salomon surpassest them all So many Hereticks have spoken absurdly but this surpasseth them all that Christ most be applied like physick as though his Blood could not profit us unless we did drink it and swallow it as a potion Is this the Papists union with Christ Is this the manner whereby we are made one Flesh with Christ to eat his flesh nay when he took our flesh unto him and was made Man then we were united to him in the flesh and not now Christ took our flesh we take not his flesh but belive that he took ours therefore if you would know whether Christ's Body be in the Sacrament I say unto you as Christ said unto Thomas touch feel and see In visible things God hath appointed our eyes to be judges for as the spirit discerneth spiritual objects so sense discerneth sensible objects As Christ taught Thomas to judge of his Body so may we and so should they therefore if you cannot see his