Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	believe_v	die_v	life_n	6,038	5	4.8496	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08246	The blacke yeare Seria iocis.	Nixon, Anthony.	1606 (1606)	STC 18582; ESTC S119501	20,325	40

whereas the Church of Rome will be known to be the true church by the Visibilitie Antiquitie and multitude thereof and so bee seene and pointed at with the outward eye and finger you shall finde that Visibilitie Antiquitie multitude are not the markes of the true Church but a little flocke few in number and yet of greatest Antiquitie as by these places may appeare For tell me I pray you where the Church was visible when being assembled at Ierusalem there arose agreat persecution against it insomuch as they were all dispersed and ●ca●●red And where or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the church visible when Christ was smitten and all the rest was scattered and hid and concealed themselues Doth not S. Iohn in his Reuelation expresly witnesse that the church of Christ signified there by a woman fled into a desert or wildetnesse where shee had a place prepared for her of God and where she could not for a certaine season be found of the persecutors Where was the Church in the time of Elias the prophe● when he said They haue forsaken thy 〈◊〉 they haue destroyed thine Altar and sla●ne thy Prophets with the sword and I am left alone Agai 〈…〉 That vnder the raigne of Achas there was takē patterne of a the Altar of the Idol●ters of D 〈…〉 sens and Vrias the high-priest remoued the Altar of the Lord. It appeareth thereby that the Priesthood was corrupted the Altar remooued consequentlye the sacrifice ceased I trust then there is no Papist so impudent to ●ay that either the true Church ●as in the Scribes Pharises or in the time of Achas M●●asses and many other Kinges of Israel so visible and populous as they would haue it But that the Church of Christ were in that small number where so●uer dispearsed 2. Secondly the Church of Rome holdes that Ignorance is the mother of de●●tion But Christ saith Ignorance is the mother of ●rr●r saying you ●rre not knowing the Scriptures And Christ ●iddeth the people to search the Scripture Paul commaūded that word of God should dwell p 〈…〉 sly in the people whereby they might themselues and the Bereans examined the Scriptures 3. Thirdly the Church of Rome teacheth that the Scriptures 〈◊〉 to ●●read and prayers to be vsed in a strange tangue Saint Paul faith He that speaketh in a strange tongue speaketh not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but vnto God for no man heareth him howbeit in the spirit hee speaketh secret thinges Hee that speaketh in a strange language edifieth himselfe I would that you al spake strange languages but rather that you prophecied For greater is hee that prophecieth then hee that speaketh diuers tongues except he expound it that the church may receaue edification And now bretheren if I come vnto you speaking diuers tongues what shall it profit you c. Morcouer things without life which giue a sound whether it bee Harpe or Pipe except they haue a distinction in the sound how shall it bee knowne what is piped or harped So likewise by the tongue except you vtter wordes which haue signification how shall it be vnderstood what is spokē for you shal speak in the ayre 4. Fourthly The Church of Rome doth teach there is a Purgatorie Christ in the Gospell sheweth onely two places namely heauen and hell Christ said to the good Theefe this day shalt thou bee with me in Paradlce Christ saith verily verily I say vnto you he that heareth my wordes and beleeueth him that sent me hath eternall life and commeth not into condemnation but passeth from death to life Saint Paul saith I co●et to be dissolued and to be with Christ Againe for we know that when this earthly Tabernacle of ours is dissolued we haue a building of God not made with handes but eternal in the heauens Againe Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from hence foorth they rest from their labours and their workes followe them And Saint Peter telleth the Sa●●tes and Children of God and assureth them of it That the end of their fayth is the Saluation of their soules 5. Fiftly The Church of Ro●e teacheth that since the fall of Adam man hath free-will whereas God saith After that time that the imaginations of mens heartes are onely euill e●er●e day Christ saith No man c●n come vnto me except the Father draw him Againe Conuert thou me and I shall be co●●erted Also There is not one that dooth good 〈◊〉 not one Againe without faith it is impossible to please God And againe whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne Also except men be ingrafted into him they can bring foorth no fruites c. 6. Sixtly the Church of Rome deliuereth the Sacrament 〈◊〉 in one kind namely bread Christ saith Drink ye all of this Cup. Paul saith Let a man examine himselfe and so let him ●ate of this bread and drinke of this Cup. 7. Seauenthly The Church of Rome holdeth Transubstantiation in the Sacrament and this they would seeme to ground vpon these wordes This is my bodie which they wil haue to be expounded liberally But why then doe they not expound the wordes of Christ literally also concerning the cupp For the Text saith in the 27. and 28. verses that he tooke the Cup and said this is my blood I am sure they wil not say that the Cup was the blood of Christ as the wordes bee but they will graunt a signe in those wordes namely that by the Cup is meant the wine in it If then they will admitte a figure in this why may there not be a figure in the other namely this is my body should be vnderstood thus This bread is a figure of my body which was broken for you circumcision was called the Lordes couenant when indeed it was not the couenant So likewise the Pascall Lamb is called the Passouer when indeed it was but a signe of the Passouer Christ saith Doe this in remembrance of mee And Saint Paul saith plainelye and expresly that the communicants doe eate bread and therefore it remaineth breade after the wordes of consecration For if it were transubstantiated into the bodye of Christ then were there no Breade to eate but the bodye of Christ is the thing that should be eaten But none doe eate the verye bodye of Christ For if euerie Communicant did eate the verie bodie of Christ nturally c●rnally really as they ●●ossely suppo●● Christ should haue a number of bodies ●esides if C 〈…〉 gaue his body to be eaten really by his Disciples at the tim● of the institution of this Sacrament what was it that did hang vpon the Crosse on the morrow● moreuer it is said as touching the bodie of Christ. The heanens mus● contai●● 〈◊〉 to the end of the world Eightly The Church of Rom● hol●●●● the Pope h●th ●oritie to depose King●● and Pri 〈…〉 s. God deposeth the mightye from the●r seates and ex●lteth them of the low degree It is God that testifieth of