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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	blood_n	bull_n	goat_n	1,261	5	10.5000	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81228	A discourse concerning Christ his incarnation, and exinanition. As also, concerning the principles of Christianity: by way of introduction. / By Meric Casaubon. D.D.	Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.	1646 (1646)	Wing C803; Thomason E354_1; ESTC R201090	58,852	100

over the which the holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Being justified freely by his grace Rom. 3.24.5 through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his bloud to declare his righteousnesse for the remissi●n of sins that are past through the forbearanc● of God But of him are ye in Christ Jesus 1 Cor. 1.30 who of God is made unto us Wisdome and Righteousnesse and Sanctification and Redemption But Christ being come an high Priest of good things to come c neither by the bloud of goats and calves Heb. 9.11 12 13 14. but by his own bloud he entred in once into the holy place having obtained eternall redemption for us For if the bloud of buls and goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh How much more shall the bloud of Christ who through the eternall Spirit offered himsel without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God Heb. 9.26 For then c. but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself 1 Pet. 2.24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tre● that we beeng dead to sins should live unto righteousnesse by whose stripes ye were healed I said before my purpose was not to encounter adversaries here but to comfort and confirm them who stood unshaken in the same precious faith to use Saint Peters words upon which precious faith the Church was first founded and which by the succession of so many ages hath been continued and derived unto us Otherwise we might and must have taken notice of many more places and not content our selves with passages and testimonies of the New Testament only but ground especially upon prophesies of the Old as also have taken notice of many false glosses interpretations whereby the adversaries have endeavoured to elude the clearest testimonies of either whether Old or New Testament all which could not be without much more discourse then I can allow my selfe at this time Of prophesies there is not any that hath either more troubled the obstinate Jews as appears by their writings or converted more of the more candid and ingenuous among them then the fifty third Chapter of the Prophet Esay which whole Chapter both as a precious cordiall to them that are wounded in spirit and an excellent antidote against the danger of all spreading infection of unsound doctrine in this main fundamentall deserves to be committed to memory or at least often to be read and pondered by all prudent and wary Christians There be some texts of Scripture concerning this high and sublime mystery which by them that are not well grounded without some precaution may easily be mistaken We are taught by the Scriptures and true analogy of faith that the Word is so united unto our flesh the nature of God unto the nature of man as that both make but one person though but one person yet so neverthelesse that as the natures themselves so the properties of both remain distinct unpermixed unconfused But this though in the truth and reality of the thing it bee perpetuall and immutable yet in verball expressions it is not so precisely observed There is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they commonly call it that is a communication of idioms and properties in words and speeches sometimes used Ancient Fathers call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a communication not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of properties but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of names or words S. Cyrill useth the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 appropriation and Damascen besides other words as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the like 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about the right interpretation of which word there is some controversie amongst the Learned These kinde of expressions however called have bred great disputes and occasioned as much as any thing that dolefull division between us and those Protestants commonly called Lutherans they contending that this communication of properties is not verball onely but reall whereupon they inferre strange conclusions The truth is as some moderate learned men of this side especially state the businesse the controversie it self may seem rather verball then reall not such at least as should disturb the peace of the Church so much as it hath done But we will not meddle with controversies For the better understanding of the Scriptures in this sacred subject I finde five rules or propositions collected out of them or rather the severall expressions and modos loquendi there used upon this argument digested and reduced into five heads or rules They are such as every body needs not I know but such as every body is very well capable of and therefore I shall the more willingly insert them here I. The first is some things are spoken of Christ in the Scriptures which must be understood of his divine nature onely as Rom. 9.5 Christ who is over us all God blessed for ever John 8.58 Before Abraham was I am Heb. 1.2 3. By whom also he made the worlds Who being the brightnesse of his glory and the expresse image of his Person and upholding all things by the word of his power and other like places II. The second is Some things are spoken of Christ which must be understood of his humane nature onely as Luke 1.31 Thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a Son and shalt call his Name Jesus Luke 2.52 And Jesus increased in wisdome and stature and in favour with God and man Matth. 26 39. Neverthelesse not as I will but as thou wilt and the like Some at first hearing may think that those speeches Matth. 20.23 But to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father and Mark 13.32 But of that day and that houre knoweth no man no not the Angels which are in heaven neither the Son but the Father should bee referred to this head or rule Certain enough it is that of the Ancients not a few did so understand them as spoken by Christ of himself not as God but Man But most Interpreters expound them otherwise and shew reasons why that exposition as contrary to other places of Scripture cannot stand The truth is they are difficult pl●ces as may appear by the diversity of expositions But I will not make it my businesse here This caveat I thought would not be amisse which is all I intended The third is some things are spoken of Christ III. which must be understood of his Person onely not of either of his natures particularly as Matth. 17.5 This is my beloved