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conscience_n	die_v	hell_n	worm_n	1,009	5	9.7957	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15779	A treatise, shewing the possibilitie, and conueniencie of the reall presence of our Sauiour in the blessed Sacrament the former is declared by similitudes and examples: the latter by the causes of the same.	Wright, Thomas, d. 1624.	1596 (1596)	STC 26043.5; ESTC S111546	105,764	270

their shoulders the cognusance of the effects of this sacrament as the tree of life in Paradise the rainbow to we and his posteritie Manna in the desart the honie which opened the eies of Ionathas the Christall water which the stonie vaines of craggie rocks gushed forth at the request and stroake of Moses Others God ordained principally to insinuate vnto vs the continuance and perpetuitie of this oblation as the two sacrifices God appointed the Iews daily to offer one in the morning another in the euening others hee determined to expresse sundrie circumstances as the puritie and perfection by the sacrifice of most pure oyle finest flower Others to foretell howe grat●full this sacrifice was vnto God by insence themiamata and other odoriforous smelles All which figures sacrifices ceremonies and ordinances of God hee that would take the assumpt to declare and applie euerie one to the Eucharist might easily find sufficient matter to fill a whole volume Therfore I meane to omit all the rest and only betake me to two of the principall and most celebrated of all antiquitie I meane Manna and the Pascall Lambe Manna Exod. 16 ALthough we had not the testimony of all antiquitie pronouncing that manna was a figure of the blessed Eucharist yet the very conformitie proportion admirable simpathie betwixt thē would sufficiētly perswade any reasonable iudgement that the one was a picture of the other as manfestly shall appeare First manna was called food of angels pane● angelorum manducauit homo man hath eaten the bread of angel because either it Iob. 28. was formed by the ministerie of angels or so worthy a meat as might serue for the table of Angels And who sees not the Eucharist consecrated by the Priests the terrestrial angells sent from God to feed his flocke and that the angels in heauen feed on no other substance then the sacred body soule person and diuinitie of Christ the meat which is serued vppon these fragile platters of bread and wine Secondly manna descended from heauen panem coeli dedit eis bread from heauen he Psal 77. gaue them And what saide Christ of the Eucharist ego sum panis qui de coelo dese●●ài I am the bread that descended from heuen Psal 77. Thirdly Salomon calleth manna the substance of God substantians tuam dulcedinens Iohn ● tuam quam in filios habes ostendebas Thou diddest shew thy substance and thy sweetnes which thou bearest towardes children note that manna was really the substance of God but by it hee declared his treasures the ritches of his loue In the Eucharist is the very substance of GOD indeed all his sweetnes and glory Hoc est corpus meum This is my body registered Sap. 16. by Christ declareth no lesse Fourthly manna in coulour was white in similitudinē Sap. 16. pruinae after the liknes of hore forst and by beating it in a morter it became after it was baked like a cake of bread and oile Exod. 1● None can be ignorant how this represented Numb 11 the externall forme of our sanctified bread in the Eucharist When the people sawe manna descended from heauen they wondered at it and saide Man hu Quid est hoc what is this And did not the Iews Exod. 16. wonder at Christs promising this sacrament Quomodo potest hic nobis caruem suam Iohn 6. dare ad manducandum How can this man giue vs his flesh to eat Sixtly manna was their food for fortie yeares all the while they wandred in the desart and the Eucharist so long as wee wander in the desart of this world Seuenthly manna was not giuen them from heauen till the flower of Egypt was spent and the sweet effects of this sacrament are not communicated till we renounce by baptisme the flesh diuell and world our Egyptian enimies Eightly they gathered it vp all the weeke except the Saboth day wherein they enioyed that they had collected vppon Fryday and in the saboth of rest we shall liue of that we gathered heere on earth here wee sowe there wee reape heere we fight there we shal be crowned here we eat Christ with some difficultie with faith belieuing a most profound mysterie there wee shall take full possession without any crosse or labour Ninthly those that gathered more than that in quantitie which GOD prescribed they Exod. 1● found nothing remaining in their vessels but wormes and putrifaction who eate this sacrament vnworthiely against the prescript of Christ shall finde no other f●uit left in their soules then remorse of consciēce that stinging worme that neuer dieth and eternal corruption in hel without euer dieing Tenthly manna had all sweetnes of taste Omne delectaementum Sap. 16. saporis suauitatem All delight and sweetnes of taste The Eucharist containeth Christ who affordeth and containeth all the ioyes both in heauen and earth Eleuenthly in manna euery one had that taste he desired in the Eucharist euery passion Sap. 16. affection and sore findeth a perfect remedy and euery desire a complet sacietie because by nourishing the soule it yeeldeth spirituall force by producing grace it ministereth all varietie of vertues by ioyning our hearts to Christ the fountaine of all comforts it shaketh off all the disgusts and griefes which our enemies by sinnes or temtations canimpose vppon vs Twelfthly the ordinary taste was conuerted into that taste which euery one desired Deseruiens vniuscuinsque voluntati ad 〈◊〉 16. quod quisque volebat conuertebatur deseruing to euery ones will it was conuerted to what euery one desired What could more liuely expresse the misterie of transubstantiation as this admirable conuersion and transmutation of tastes the like we haue in conuersion of the rocke into water the substance of stone by the wonderful worke of god became transformed into the substance of water Conuertit petrum Psal 113 in stagna aquarum rupem in fontes aquarum He conuerted the stone vnto a lake of waters and the rocke vnto fountains 13. Those who gathered more and those who gathered lesse found in equall portion to eat Nec qui plus collegerat habnit Exod. 16. amplius nec qui minus paraner at reperit minus He that had much abounded not 2. Cor. 8. he that had litle wanted not In the Eucharist he that receiues both formes as the Priest or a greater hoast or many hoasts or in in fine more or little receiueth no more then they which communicate with the least parcell of this Sacrament The fourteenth when the sun did rise it consumed away when the sunne of Iustice shall appeare that is when Christ shall come to vs in his glory then the manna of his church shall vanish awaynot in substance but in forme The fifteenth Although that God hath vouchsafed to feed his children with the foode of angelles with bread sent from heauen with the substance of God yet they murmured against it they lothed it they