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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	blood_n	body_n	sacrament_n	1,702	5	7.6130	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05808	The manuall of prayers, or the prymer in Englyshe set out at lengthe, whose contentes the reader by the prologe next after the kalendar, shal sone perceaue and there in shal se brefly the order of the whole boke. Set forth by Ihon late bysshope of Rochester at the co[m]aundement the ryght honorable Lorde Thomas Cro[m]wel, Lorde Priuie seale Uicegerent to the Kynges hyghnes.; Book of hours (Salisbury). English	Church of England.; Hilsey, John, d. 1539. aut	1539 (1539)	STC 16010; ESTC S105269	116,690	240

the deuels So nowe deare reader what expresse sentence Paule hath wrytten of the bodye and bloud of Christ which after my censure is of suche strength for the presence of the body of Christ in the Sacrament that it can not be iustlye resysted Yet not withstandynge yf ye luste not to geue credyte to my exyle and weke iudgement geue credēce to the iudgement of Chrisostome Ierome Ambrose Theophelacte Thomas and Erasmus which expoundyng this place I am sure do take Saynt Paule here to haue spoken of the bodye and bloud of Christ Whose sentences I wold haue here inferred but for auoydyng of prolixite let the learned search the Doctours and trye the truth In the second chapter to the Corinthians Saynt Paule also after he had rebuked the enormityes and abuses of the Corinthians about the receyuyng of the body of Christ he taught them the true vse of it In the settyng forth of the which he maketh a very euydent mencion of the same body of Christ which document and learnyng which ordinaunces also that he delyuered them he certifyeth them that he receyued it of the LORDE after the rehersall of the wordes of Christ which I desyre the diligent reader there to reade he doth inferre godly monicions for the receyuyng of the body of Christ and declareth the daunger of the euell receyuer sayeng Who so euer shal eate of this bread and drynke of this cuppe of the LORDE vnworthely shal be gylty of the body and bloud of the LORDE But let a man examyne him selfe and so let him eate of thys breade and drynke of this cuppe For he that eateth and drynketh vnworthely eateth and drynkethe his owne dampnacion bycause he maketh no difference of the LORDES bodye I can not a lytle meruayle that mē so malyciously and erroniously wyl fal from the trueth hauynge suche a clere sentence of Saynt Paule which so manifestly doth declare and open the veryte of the body of Christe in the Sacramente that to a Christian reader as I suppose there is no doute nor diffycultye as concernynge hys fayth in this matter left vndesolued Yet althoughe thys place be so good and full of strengthlest shulde offende wyth prolixite or discorage wyth tediousnes brefly nothynge with me two thynges in S. Paule I hertely desyre you pondre hys sentence Fyrste note that where as saynt Paule in the begynnyng of his sentence speakynge of the sacrament accordynge to our sensible knowlege doth call that breade in the ende of the sentence as an exposicion to hys fyrst worde calleth it the body bloude of Christ And in the last sentēce where that he sayeth that the vnworthy receauer of the bread doth receaue it to hys damnacion subuertynge the cause addeth an exposicion of hys worde and sayeth Because he maketh no difference of the Lordes bodye Note then and beholde that S. Paule dothe not call the sacrament onely bread But also namynge the same calleth it the body and bloude of the Lorde and the LORDES body So breade it maye be called accordynge to our sensible knowlege for we se nothynge but bread we tast nothynge but breade we fele nothynge but breade but by faythe we beleue the bodye of Christe and no bread for bread hath no place wyth the body of Christe The other that I do note is of the vnworthynes of the receauyng and of the paynes taxed for the same S. Paule counceleth the receauers of thys sacrament to examen themselues left they shulde receaue it vnworthelye for in so doynge they shall receaue it to theyr damnacion and be gyltye of the bodye and bloude of the LORDE because they make no difference of the body of the LORDE Now yf ther be not the body of Christe in the sacrament of the alter why dothe Paule councell the receauers to examen themselues shulde they do for to eate a pece of bread Or why more for the eatynge of thys breade then of other bread Further how shuld a mā eate a pece of bread vnworthely except ye wyl say that he hath taken excesse of it or as the commē sayenge is that a man is vnworthy to eate of the bread because he laboureth not for it which vnworthynes taketh no place here in thys matter Moreouer yf ther be not the body of Christ but breade why shuld the receauers for the receauynge of a pece of bread be gylty of the body and bloude of the LORDE And how shulde they receaue it to theyr dampnacion There is no comparyson betwexte the facte and the payne yf it be nothynge but breade I suppose that the iustice of god wyll not make a man gylty of the bodye and bloude of the Lorde for eatyng of a pece of bread wythout an ordinaunce or a law goyng before Also howe in the receyuyng of a pece of bread shuld the reaceyuers make difference of the body of the Lorde yf the body of the LORDE be not there But for as much as S Paule willeth vs not to receyue the Sacrament vnworthely for yf we do we receyue it to our dānaciō bycause we make no dyfferēce of the body of the LORD I take it that in the sacramēt of the aulter is the very body of Christ in the respect of whom we receyue it worthely or vnworthely and by whose presence yf we receyue it with the examynacion of our selues we make a dyfference of the body of the LORDE And for as much as Christ blessyng the bread and geuyng it to his Apostles sayd This is my body I beleue that in the Sacramēt is his body for sure I am that he beyng the truth can not lye Yet for as much as the malyce of heresy is not so sone quenched but alwayes seketh to withstand the truth and peraduēture as the Pharisyes dyd agaynst Christ not hauyng what to saye to hym fel to calumniacion So wyll they yet and wyll saye although it hath ben so taken for a smale tyme yet we haue swerued from the prymatyue church Therfore we shall here inferre the sentences of some of the eldest and most auncient Doctours of the church which were very nygh to the primatyue church by whose vniforme consent we maye perceyue the trouth of the matter to be the surer Tertullyan one of the auncient wryters of Christes church nexte to the Apostles agaynst Marcio an here lyke sayth these wordes Christ when he had sayd that hartely he desyred to eate the Easter with his disciples The bread taken distrybuted to his Apostles He made his body sayeng This is my body Yf this auncient wryter beyng so nygh to the prymatyue church which knewe the very truth as it was receyued of the Apostles And knewe also howe they dyd sayth confyrmably to our fayth to our vnderstandyng of the scripture it is an argument that we are in a good way and that we truly do interpretate the scripture although a sorte whotelynges thynke the contrary Saynte Cyprian also a holy martyr and an auncient wryter maketh a hole sermon of