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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	blood_n	body_n	shed_v	4,580	5	9.5800	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10040	Short questions and answers, plainely opening and explaining both the nature and also the vse of the sacraments of baptisme and the Lords Supper Very profitable for all those who desire to know the nature and vse of the said sacraments. By Richard Preston, preacher of the Word of God at Rushden in Northhampton shiere.	Preston, Richard, d. ca. 1624.	1621 (1621)	STC 20286; ESTC S115178	6,203	30

To whom doth the administration of this Supper belong Ans To them who are fit Ministers of the Word Quest What say you then to a dumbe dogge Hee is no fit Minister and therefore his sacrament is no sacrament Ans Not so For first though he be no fit Minister of God yet because he is come in the roome of a Minister by the election of the Church we must not refuse him nor his Sacrament 2. Beeing enabled by the Church to giue what he can though hee come neuer so inordinately to administer this Sacrament yet he must not be reiected but wee must receiue what hee can giue Thirdly we must distinguish betweene a calling and the execution of it for it proues not he hath no calling because he executeth it not as a Magistrate ceaseth not to be a Magistrate or to want office because he doth not duely execute it Quest How may I communicate with a wicked Minister Ans The wickednesse of a Minister doth not pollute the Sacrament to a worthy receiuer Quest Why Ans First a good Minister doth not make it the better to a bad man therefore not a bad Minister the worse to a good man Secondly the efficacy of the Sacrament depends onely vpon Gods promise and the faith of the beleeuer not on mans goodnesse or badnesse A message may bee as truely deliuered by a bad man as a good and good waxe will receiue an impression as well by a brazen seale as a golden one Quest But hee is a gracelesse man and how can hee then bee a meanes of conueying grace to mee Ans Grace is compared to water now may not water that passeth through a stony channell which it selfe is so vndisposed that it cannot haue any benefit of it make a whole garden fruitfull Thus stands the case with a gracelesse Minister Quest But by communicating with him shall I not communicate in his sinne Ans No if you made him not minister nor allow of his insufficiency but communicate onely in the Lords ordinance so farre as he is able to administer it Quest With whom may I rightly communicate Ans With such as are of a godly life and conuersation First because we professe our selues members and fellow Christians with them Secondly because we desire to be confirmed in that Communion Thirdly because our loue and zeale may bee better stirred vp by the prayers and examples of such Quest How may I partake where open sinners are tollerated to receiue the Sacrament Ans No mans sinne can defile another or make Gods promise or the seale of it in vaine to him that is no way accessary to it neither hath it power to hinder him from the Sacrament Ezek. 18.20 Gal. 6.5 Secondly Christ entred into the same Tēple with wicked persons and eat the same Passeouer with Iudas and was vndefiled Luk. 2.22 Lastly we are not so bound to examine the vnworthines of others as of our selues which maketh the Apostle say Let a man examine himselfe and not another man 1. Cor. 11 28. By these reasons wee see that the wickednesse of another communicant doth not preiudice him that is rightly prepared Quest To conlude seeing that I haue learned of you the nature of this Sacrament and where when of whom and with whom to receiue the same now I would gladly know of you to what end vse the Lord Iesus instituted this Sacrament Answere First to put vs in remembrance of that loue and fellowship which should be among vs being all members of one mysticall body Rom. 12.4.5 1. Cor. 10.17.12.12 Secondly to stirre vs vp vnto continuall thankfulnesse vnto God the Father for the great benefits wee haue receiued of him by the death of his Sonne Act. 2.46.47 Lastly to put vs in remembrance that his body was broken and his bloud shed for our redemption 1. Cor. 11.26 Mat. 26.28 Luke 22.19 FINI●