Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	faith_n	good_a	purge_v	1,223	5	9.3250	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02831	The confutation of the abbote of Crosraguels masse, set furth by Maister George Hay ...	Hay, George, d. 1588.	1563 (1563)	STC 12968; ESTC S112574	167,121	196

no other thing nor that which the Euāgelistes meaneth signifieth by thanks geuing or blissing so that they referre it not to the wordes of the promise that ye call the wordes of consecration but to expres that he gaiue thankes or blissed which is not altogether intollerable albeit it lacke not iuste cause of reprehension Further it is a thing more then manifest that all Sacramentes consisteth in these two to wit the word ād externall Element This word whereof principally dependeth the virtue and strenth of the Sacrament is not to be takē for a certane quhispered or mumled wordes or a son● rather without all sense or fayth not vnlyke the magick incautions but rather oppenly and plain●ly preached that may teach the auditorie what is ment by the visible signe whereby it may euidently appeare that your whole proceadinges in the papistrie lacketh not a great prophanation of these holy mysteries where it is thoght suffic●ent if the preiste the people gasing vpon him without all intelligence should blowe and br●●th out the wordes that ye call of consecration For it is plainely commanded that all be recyted in a strange tongue yea and that the wordes be not pronounced but rather murmured with a rauk voice But farre otherwise we be teached by Augus●ine Let the word be ioyned with the Element ▪ and then shall we haue a Sacrament for whereof proceadeth this great virtue of the water that when it shal touch the body it shal purge the hart but by the working of the word not because it is spoken but because it is bele●e● For in the worde it self the sound is an thing that p●s●●th and the virtue an other thing that remaneth this is the word of fayth that we preach sayeth the Apostle so in the Actes of the Apostles by Faith purging their hartes And Peter the Apostle sayeth that Baptisme maketh vs saife not by the wyping away of the fylth of the fleshe but that a good conscience maketh requeist to God This then is the worde of Faith that we preach by the which that it may haue the strenth to clange Baptisme is hallowed So we may euidently perceaue the mynde of this godlie Author to require and vrge preaching which engenders Faith We neid not to spend much tyme in this mater seing it is cleare what our Sauiour did what he cōmanded to be done what the Apostles practised to his imitation what the godly Fathers followed and approued yea and what the Church did euer reteane so long as there remaneth any spunk of integritie in it and so shall we obserue euē from the begining that cōtinually when God offered any signe vnto the Fathers to their instruction confort that euer he ioyned the word with the Simboles So that we may clearly vnderstand that the Fathers neuer did meane of no such magicall consecration made by a certane whispered wordes rounded with the Element after the abuse of the papistrie but that the promise should be pronounced with a loude and cleare voice in a familiare lāguage the which being preached to the people might lead them as it were by the hand to that that is signified by the whole action For this that is recyted by Augustine of Baptisme no dout apperteaneth also to the Lordes Table and to all Sacramentes practised since the beginning Now consider with your self how miserablie ye are deceaued how maliciously being enuennomed with a wicked opinion ye wrye wreast the sayinges of the Scriptures and Doctors out of their naturall meaning to establishe and confirme your fore conceaued error I knowe that by this word ye will meane that assone as euer these wordes this is my body are spoken immediatlie the substance of bread is taken away and the body of Iesus Christe ent●reth in really naturally and substantially euen the same body that wes borne of the Virgine wes crucified scur●ed buried ascended into the heauen and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father which is a deuillish assertion and expres against the Scripture affirming that the bread remaneth still bread and the wyne vyne and against all naturall reason that a body may or can be in mo places at one tyme and also against the nature of a Sacrament wherein the Simboles and Elementes do represent vnto vs the thinges signified and are not the self same thinges albeit the names be attributed vnto theme against the authorities of the Fathers and fynally this detestable opinion of the Papistes sauoreth of the herysie of Mar●ion who attributed vnto Christe a phantasticall bo●y which of necessitie shall follow if he thus shal be in euerie ●omer against the proprieties of the naturall body which being taken away his office of mediation and Preisthead muste vanishe and fall Of the omnipotencie of Gods worde ye haue not to brage in this mater for howsoeuer his worde is almighty if his will be not ioyned with the word it is nothing But thou will collect his will of the wordes this is my body In deid if the wordes of the Scripture shal be alwayes vnderstand euen as they are spoken then shall we proue Christ to be a Rock Stone according to the sayinge of the Apostle to be a wyne tre to be a doore and the way so furth Let vs here then Augustine in this mater To this answereth Augustine in his Epistle to Bonifaciꝰ 2● If the Sacramentes sayeth he should not haue some aggrement and similytude with these thinges which they represent then shall they not be Sacramentes For of this similytude oftentymes they take the names of the thinges them selues Therefore as after a certane maner the Sacrament of Christes body is Christes body the Sacrament of Christes blood is Christes blood so the Sacrament of Faith is Faith And writing against Adamantus Manicheus plainely our Maister Christe douted not to call it his body when he gaue the fygure of his body And vpon the thrid Psal. wonderfull sayeth he is Christes pacience in that that he receaued Iudas to the Banked in the which he cōmanded and gaue to his Disciples the figure of his body blood Of the which Authorities of this godly learned Father we may easylie answer this speaking of our Sauioure to be Sacramentale Me●onymical and so his wil to performe any such thing as thou falsly gathered in no wayes to haue bene For we giue that reuerence vnto our Sauioure and Maister that there is nether inconstancie lyghtnes nor repugnancie in his worde nether yet do we think these wordes spoken of the bread to be otherwayes vnderstand or exponed nor they that after followeth of the cuppe where of necessitie ye must grant al 's many fygures as there be wordes Shall we say that the cuppe is the New Testament● ▪ Or the cuppe is the blood of the new Testament Here thou can not eshew how good a Gladiator or Fensare soeuer thou be turne thy self in al● many formes and shappes

him sayth he who giueth aliments to vs the first fructes of there gyftes in the new Testam●nt as he should say in that that our Sauiour tuke breade and wyne and offred to his Disciples he teacheth vs a new oblation of the new Testament how we ought with the oblation of oure prayers action of thankes the predication of the mercies of our God the holy Supper ioyn●●●●tly 〈◊〉 that is to acknowledge vs to receaue all at the 〈◊〉 o● God to be as it wer stewarts and despēs●tours of his gyftes and thus to offre vp the first fructes to God that is to sanctifie them to thereleif of the poore and so he declareth him self in the Chap. following by the gyft sayeth or the honoure the affection is schowen towards the Kyng the whiche the Lorde wylling to be offred in all simplicitie and innocencie preached saying when thow bringest the gyft to the altare and sofurth then should thow offre sayeth Ireneus and concludeth the first fructes of his creature to be offred to God as Moyses sayeth thow shall not appeare empty in the presence of the Lorde thy God Now as I haue decleared alreaddy his principale studie is that with these outwarde actions the inwarde worshipping be ioyned we must make our oblatiō sayeth he to God and be found thankfull in all to our maker God in simple mynde and faith without Hypocrisie a stedfaste hope a seruent dilection offring vp the first fructes of them that be his creaturs and this oblation cleane and vndefyled the onely church and Congregation offreth vp to the maker Sacrifiing to him of his owen workmaschipe with action of thankes in the which wordes he planely declareth what he wyll we vnderstande by the oblation of the new Testamēt which no wayes may apperteyne to your masse where one goeth asyde and pretendeth a certane oblation not of no creature but of the verrie Sonne of God where we be teached here of one oblation made by the holy Churhe and that of the creaturs to the maker ioyning to the inwarde Sacrifice of faith a cleane conscience a stedfaste hope together with prayers and the furthschewing of Gods mercies exhibited in Iesus Christe Syndrie other places may I adduce of the same two Cheptres wherein he decleareth plainely that he meaneth of almous geuen to the nedy in the Lordes Supper and of the table it self prayer and thankes geuing and others suche laudable and Godlie customes as were then vsed whiche alltogether are called the oblatiō of the new testament by this author Followis Cypriane quha wes martyred for the faith of Christe 1296. zearis bypaste and wryttis in this maner gif our Iesus Christ God himself be the hie preist of God the father and be him self did first offer a Sacrifice to God the father and hes commandid the sam to be done in remembrance of him that preist verrelie goddis Vicar quha dois follow the thīg that Christe hes done Hither to Cypriane and al 's he affirmis that God is author and teacher of the Sacrifice of the Masse Now ye adde to the wordes of Cypriane by him self and omitteth a part of his sentence which is this verrie and full Sacrifice then he offereth in the Congregatiō to God the Father if he shall so begin to offre as he hath sene Christ alreddy to haue offred passe by and wyll go to the mater What do ye finde here that wyl serue any wayes to your masse and in verrie dede because ye perceaued no thing to be here making for yow ye adde that God is author and teacher of the masse Why do ye not alledge the place if any thing myght be found in Cypriane ye should no dout haue broght it furth for it should haue serued more to your purpose Shall ye thus be suffred to raill against God ād inure suche insufferable blasphemies to the Eternall and his sanctes making him author of the moste detestable impietie that euer wes diuised Shall ye thus be permitted to deceaue the simple ones of Christs flock redemed by his bloode Be you assured that the Eternall wyll not suffer the prophanation of his mysterijs the decept of his people and the wrangling of the wryttinges of his sanctes vnpunished Let vs returne to the wordes of Cypriane in the which it is moste certane that he speaketh no thing of priuat masses vnknowen in his dayes nether yet euer had place til that all being distroyed ād waisted by the Gotthes Vandelles and others fearslie could any multitude be conueyned to the Celebration of the Lordes Table but belyke all goode sciences falling in decaye the ignorance and contempt of Gods worde entred in and receaued that one should eat for all the multitude one should take vpō him to do that which ought to haue bene done of all Now the ancients did abhorre these priuate massts we may knowe by the Epistle of Leo Pope who wes many yeares efter Cypriane to Diofcurus where he declareth planelie that there wes but a masse and that the whole people being cōueyned together at festuall dayes and tymes yea ād euen in these our dayes the Greik Churche hath no priuate masses in the Popes owen Chapell there is but one altare and a masse and that seldome at certane appoynted tymes in the year The wordes of Cypriane are to be vnderstande of the distribution of the Sacrament and Cōmunion of the people For lyke as Christe vpon the Croce offred him self to God the Father and that the memorie of this his oblation myght be kept euer fresche and recent in his Congregation he instituted the Supper and cōmanded the practeis thereof breaketh bread calleth it his body and distributeth to his Disciples and sanctifieth the cuppe calling it the blood of the new Testament So the minister making distribution of the body and blood of our Sauiour according to his exemple and institution and giuing thankes to the Eternall for the Sacrifice and oblation ones made vpon the Crote the virtue whareof euer remaneth no dont he is the stedholder of Christ in the imitatiō doing that which Christ did cōmāded to be done Now lest that the wordes that I haue added of Cypriane may appeare to be hurtsum and preiudicial to satisfie all readers and take all enasion frome yow Let no man thinke that Cypriane wylleth a preist to stande vp by one altare allone and there to make one oblation by him self But that he shall diuide and distribute to the assistars the body and bloode of our Sauiour offre vnto God prayers and action of thankes for the Sacrifice of the Croce the memorie where of is there solemnedlie celebrated for that is to offre as Christe offred in the Supper to wit to giue thankes pray to God and so make distribution of the simboles of his body and bloode It is well noted by Chrysostomus there be some thinges wherein the Minister differeth frome the Commoun and layick people