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	bread_n	cup_n	4,095	5	9.9348	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58941	Sacramentorum encomium: or The praise of the sacraments in a letter written in the year 1654 to the preacher then at Barham in the county of Kent, with-holding the holy sacraments from a great number of godly souls, unless they would subject themselves against laws and good conscience to a rigid Presbyterian government. Wherein the said government is plainly and undeniably proved to be (of all other) the most injurious to the magistrate, most oppressive to the subject, &c. Published by a member of the parish of Barham, for the satisfaction of all wel-affected subjects, and good Christians.	Member of the parish of Barnham.	1661 (1661)	Wing S223B; ESTC R219820	25,942	69

on the truth of his heavenly promise doubteth not but from creatures despicable in their own condition and substance to obtain grace of inestimable value or rather not from them but from him yet by them as by his appointed means and howsoever he by the secret wayes of his own incomprehensible mercy may be thought to save without Baptism this cleareth not the Church from guiltiness of blood if through her superfluous scrupulositie le ts and impediments of less regard should cause a grace of so great moment to be witheld wherein our merciless strictness may be our own harm although not theirs towards whom we shew it and we for the hardness of our hearts may perish albeit they through Gods unspeakable mercy may live God which did not afflict that innocent whose circumcision Moses had overlong deferred was about to have killed a Exod. 4.24 Moses himself for the injury which was done through so great neglect giving us thereby to understand that they whom Gods own mercy saveth without us are on our parts notwithstanding and as much as in us lyeth even destroyed when under unsufficient pretences we defraud them of such ordinary outward helps as we should exhibit Not that we hereby make Baptism a cause of grace but say that the grace wh ch is given with baptism doth so far forth depend on the outward Sacrament that God will have it embraced not only as a sign or token what we receive but also as an instrument or mean whereby we receive Grace And as concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper we say that he which hath said of the one Sacrament wash and be clean hath said concerning the other Eate and live Life being therefore proposed unto all men as their end they which by Baptism have laid their foundation and attained the first beginning of a new life have here their nourishment and food prescribed for the continuance of life in them Such as will live the life of God must eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of man because this is a part of that diet which if we want we cannot live whereas therefore in our infancy we are incorporated into Christ and by Baptisme receive the grace of his Spirit without any sence or feeling of the gift which God bestoweth in the Eucharist we so receive the gift of God that we know by grace what the grace is which God giveth us the decrees of our increase in holiness and vertue we see and can judge of them we understand that the strength of our life began in Christ is Christ that his flesh is meat and his blood is drink not by surmized imagination but truly even so-truly that through Faith we perceive in the signs of the Body and Blood Sacramentally presented the very taste of Eternal Life The grace of the Sacrament is here as the food which we eat and drink The Sacrament is a true and real participation of Christ who thereby imparteth himself even his whole intire person as a mystical head into every soul that receiveth him and every such receiver doth thereby incorporate or unite himself unto Christ as a Mystical member of him yea of them also whom he acknowledgeth to be his own And to whom the person of Christ is thus communicated to them he giveth by the same Sacrament his Holy Spirit to sanctifie them as it sanctifieth him which is their head and what merit force or vertue soever there is in his sacrificed body and bloud we freely fully and wholy have it by this Sacrament the effect whereof in us is a real transmutation of our Souls and Bodies from sin to righteousness from death and corruption to immortality and life and though the Sacrament it self be but a corruptible and earthly creature yet he by the strength of his glorious power will bring to pass that the Bread and Cup which he giveth us shall be truly the thing he promiseth This Sacrament keepeth Christians in a continual remembrance of that propitiatory sacrifice which Christ once for all offered by his death upon the Cross to reconcile us to God He was himself once really offered and as oft as this Sacrament is celebrated so oft is he spiritually offered by the faithfull This Sacrament confirmeth our Faith for God by it doth signifie and seal unto us from Heaven that according to the promise and new Covenant which he hath made in Christ he will truly receive into his grace and mercy all penitent believers who duly receive this holy Sacrament and that for the merit of the death and passion of Christ he will as verily forgive them all their sins as they are made partakers of this Sacrament It is also a pledg and Symbole of the most neer and effectual communion which Christians have with their Head from which communion there followeth to the faithfull many inestimable benefits as his taking by imputation all their sins and guiltiness upon him to satisfie Gods justice for them and he freely gives by imputation unto us all his righteousness in this life and all his right unto eternal life when this is ended and counteth all the good or ill that is done unto us as done to his own person there likewise floweth from Christ nature into our nature united unto him the lively spirit and breath of Grace which reneweth us unto a spiritual life and so sanctifieth our minds wills and affections that we dayly grow more and more conformable to the Image of Christ he also bestoweth upon us all saving graces necessary to attain eternal life as the sence of Gods love the assurance of our election with regeneration sanctification and grace to do good works This Sacrament also feeds the Souls of the faithfull in the assured hope of life everlasting and withal doth seal unto them the assurance of the injoyment of that life Manna Angels food fed the Israelites forty years in the wilderness but behold a better food is prepared for them even the body and blood of our most blessed Saviour the bread of life on which whosoever by a sincere and stedfast faith do feed it will nourish their souls for ever unto a blessed life without end in order to which it is an assured pledg of the spiritual resurrection of our souls from the death of sin here and of the corporal resurrection of our bodies at the last day of the first resurrection our Saviour hath said a John 6.57 He that eateth me even he shall live by me of the second He himself hath also said b 57. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life and I will raise him at the last day for this Sacrament signifieth and sealeth unto us that Christ died and rose again for us and that His flesh quickeneth and nourisheth unto eternal life and that therefore our bodies shall surely be then raised unto that life for seeing our Head is risen all the members of the body shall likewise surely rise