Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

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
A52823	Old popery as good as new, or, The unreasonableness of the Church of England in some of her doctrines and practices and the reasonableness of liberty of conscience : in a letter from a private gentleman in the country to his friend a clergy-man in the city.	N. N.	1688 (1688)	Wing N47; ESTC R42186	9,235	20

Unintelligible and makes some Pious Ejaculations thereupon And what need there is to make or think this Sacrament so Unintelligible I protest I know not Most certainly our Saviour in his Institution of it nere meant it so When he said Eat this is my Body and Drink this it my Blood He little thought that the Pronoun my should occasion these Doctrines of Transubstantiation and the Real Presence if he had he surely would not have given those other Directions viz That as oft as we do it we should do it in Remembrance of Him Remembrance being only of Persons and Things absent and not present He surely did intend it a plain and easie thing both to be done and understood As if he had said I for your sakes have left those heavenly Mansions where my Father dwells and where I sate at his Right Hand enjoying equally Eternal Bliss in Vnity with him and am from thence come down to put on Human Nature here and to become Obnoxious to all the Frailties and Infirmities thereof even to Death it self This Body of mine must be Bruised for your Iniquities and my Blood spilt for your Sins Nay I must Dye the Death too even the accursed Death of the Cross a Death more due to you that I may rescue you from Death Eternal And therefore when I am Dead and Gone I would have you Meet and Eat and Drink sometimes together and remember me When you break Bread remember this Body of mine that was Wounded for your sakes and when you Drink remember also my Blood that was for your sakes Shed Remember that bitter Cup that I drank of those horrid Agonies that I endured to satisfie the Divine Vengeance due to you And when you do this repent of and for sake your Sins that brought me to it and believe in me and rely upon this Satisfaction and Attonement thus made for you So shall you Eat and Drink Worthily So shall you Grow and Encrease in Grace So shall your Souls be Nourish'd and Preserv'd to Everlasting Life and so shall my Flesh be to you Meat indeed and my Blood Drink indeed This seems to me to be the sole and whole intent and meaning of our Saviour when he instituted this holy Festival of the Lords Supper viz. Thankfully to commemorate his Death and Passion and to believe in him How the Immortal God could become Man and Dye for us is the great Mystery to be Admired and Believed That God was made Man and did Dye for us is the great Mercy to be Remembred and Ador'd Now by these Notions of Transubstantiation and the Real Presence we make our Commemoration as Mysterious as the thing Commemorated and consequently the practical part of our Res … ion which should be plain and easie does become difficult and unintelligible 'T is good Craft in the Priesthood to make it so who thereby make themselves so much the more Necessary by how much the more Mysterious they make our Religion And if they would set to it and make the best use of all those Figurative and Metaphorical and other Rhetorical Expressions that are in the Scriptures and take them Litterally they may furnish us with Mysteries good store But enough of this matter Now for the Kneeling at the Lords Prayer at the end of other Prayers which are said Standing What may this mean I trow Do we vary the object of our Devotion when we use the Lords Prayer Do we not in our other Prayers before it pray to the same God Why not then the same Reverent Posture at one Prayer as at another Nay methinks if any difference ought to be the most Reverent Posture should be used when we do our Devotions in our own imperfect Words and Forms and when we use that absolute Form our Saviour taught us one would think we rather might approach the Throne of Grace more boldly And when we put off our Hats in the Church when there is no Divine Service there to what purpose is it and to whom do we do that Respect If to the Deity why do we walk and talk and transact other matters there at the same time as Parish Business c. If not to the Deity to whom or what else I doubt there can no good account be given of it Yet I am told of a tantivy Country Parson in Northamtonshire who being lately very angry with an honest Neighbour of his for keeping on his Hat at a Parish Meeting in the Church and being restrained from his usual and proper course of Revenge by the Kings late gracious Declaration of Indulgence he prevailed with a young Baronet his Patron and his Neighbours Landlord to turn his Neighbour out of his Farm where he had Lived long and paid his Rent well to his no small Damage A wise Landlord and a precious Parson in the mean time I 'll warrant You. Another Objection I have against our Church of England Is the Singing their Prayers in their Cathedral Service We blame the Papists for Praying in an unknown Tongue and what is this less It is Intelligible to none but those whose Business it so much is that I doubt it is but little their Devotion And yet we tell the Papists that all publick Devotion ought to be Intelligible to all and therefore not in Latine and therefore say I too not in this noisie confused manner that can't be understood Then there 's the business of the Cross in Baptism very lyable to Exception I Sign thee with the Sign of the Cross says the Church of England in token that thou shalt become Christs Souldier and Servant and manfully Fight under his Banner c. I Sign my self with the Sign of the Cross says the Papists when in Danger and upon such like Occasions in token that my Faith and Trust is in my Blessed Saviour that he that hath set me free from the Bondage and Slavery of Sin and Satan can and will preserve me from all outward Dangers Pray where 's the difference Another thing I object against the Church of England which I find in the Exposition of the Church Catechism that I mentioned before page 28. where he tells us of the Saints Praying for us in Heaven whilst we are Celebrating their Memorials here If they can pray for us and do us kindness sure we may pray to them to do it And so in that point I think we are very good Catholicks One thing more I must not omit to mention which methinks is very scandalous in our Church of England and that is the slight regard we have to the Sabath-Day or Sunday With what industry we have endeavoured to suppress the Observation of that Day the Book of Sports heretofore published and publickly read in Churches and the several Books written against the Sunday-Sabath by Eminent Church-Men may sufficiently shew And at this Day it is enough to brand any Man for a Fanatick or Whig if the be for the strict Observation of that Day or for twice