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	wine_n	4,164	5	7.5794	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01236	A Christian confession of the late moste noble and mightie prince, Friderich of that name the third, Count Palatine by [ye] Rhein, one of the electours of the holy Empire, and Duke in Bauire: wherein constantlie and meekelie he departed out of this world the 26. of October in the yere of our Lord God 1576. Taken word for word out of his last will and testament. Whereunto is added the Lantgraue his answere to the French King; Proclamations. 1620-07-01	Friedrich III, Elector Palatine, 1515-1576.; Johann Casimir, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein, 1543-1592.; Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse, 1532-1592.	1577 (1577)	STC 11348; ESTC S116026	25,880	96

vp strengthen our faith to the intent that thereby wee might giue the sooner credit to the worde preached As the same may appeare by this similitude taken from worldly things namely when wee receiue frō an Emperour King or other great Prince a letter or writing although the same be subscribed with the Princes owne hande yet wee are not satisfied therewith if the seale bee not annexed also to it And in case the Seale be put thereto then it contenteth vs and then we may saye I haue from that Emperour King c. a letter seale wherein this or that is written and signified vnto me But to speake of the vse of the Sacraments we beleue and cōfesse that the holy Sacraments of the new Testamēt as the holy Baptisme and Supper of the Lorde were ordeined of Christe himselfe to that ende that Christians should vse them holde thē in great reuerēce and not despise them For that they are not onely markes whereby we are knowen to be Christians of the opē profession before God mā of the couenant grace of God but also especially principally are true assured tokēs witnesses of gods grace towardes vs For which cause whē we shal haue yōg children borne into this worlde wee should not as some do suffer thē to be 8. 9. or 10. yeres old till they be of some reasonable discretiō and then first baptise them But rather much more cōfort our selues with that which our Lord Christ sayd to his disciples Mark. 10. Let litle children come vnto mee for of such is the kingdome of heauen If then the kingdome of heauen belong vnto yong children as it is vndoubtedly true why should we then doubt that they are not also comprehended and concluded in the couenant which God made with Abraham and the beleuing fathers heretofore And for that cause wee ought not by any meanes seclude or forclose them from the holie baptisme Of the efficacie and working of the holie Baptisme we beleue that our children seeing as is before declared they be comprehended in the couenant when they shal be baptised according to the article of our true olde and vniuersall faith and also be afterwardes brought vp in the same they are also made partakers of the bloudie death of our Lord and sauiour Iesus Christ and all his benefites which hee hath purchased vnto vs by his said death in such sorte that they not onely receiue the outwarde seale of the holie Sacrament which is the elemētall water vpon their outward bodies but like wise inwardlie are baptised in their soules by Christe him selfe with his bloud which was shed and also through the working of the holie Ghost regenerated and borne again to be new creatures For as the elementall water of the holie Sacramēt in baptisme is not Christes bloud nor the holy Ghost it selfe so also the holie Ghost or bloud of Christ is not in the Sacrament of the elemental water And although the elemētall water according to his propertie and nature can do no more then outwardly clense the bodie and reacheth not so farre as vnto the soule yet the bloud of Christ clenseth the soule inwardly to euerlasting life And as the minister doth the one so doth Christ the other as saint Iohn the Baptist witnesseth in the third chapter of saint Matthewes Gospel I baptise you with water to repentance or amendement of life but he that commeth after me is strōger then I am whose shoes I am not worthie to carie he shall baptise you with the holie Ghost and with fyre And like vnto this is the saying of Saint Paule in the tenth Chapiter of his first epistle to the Corinthians that after the same sort the Israelites were baptised with the cloudes and sea as also they were fedde with Manna and dronke the water which proceaded out of the rock c. And to speake of the holy most worthy Supper of our Lord Iesus Christ we beleue and confesse willingly with al other Christians that our Lord Iesus Christ first instituted the said Supper which he him selfe kept with his disciples And therefore it ought not to be despised of Christiās but rather to be holdē in great estimatiō reuerence For the Lord Iesus for this cause ordeined this participation and fruition of bread and wine that thereby we should remember him and declare his death vntill his comming and after wee haue bene instructed assured thereof both before God and man acknowledge praise this his great benefit that the bodie of Christ hath bene deliuered vp to death for vs and his bloud shed for the forgiuenes of our sins which if wee shall apprehende and take vnto vs with true faith it wil be a true spirituall foode and drinke to eternall life as the visible bread and wine is foode for the nourishing of the corporal bodie seeing we are in Christ mēbers of him the head branches of him the vine tree incorporated into him by his spirit and so for his sake and through him shall obteine forgiuenes of our sinnes iustification and life euerlasting Wee beleue also that wee at this daye haue no other Supper or Communion then as our Lorde Iesus Christe at his last supper ordeined and held it with his disciples and that wee ought not to haue any other much lesse vse any other vnles wee would contemptuously offende against the commandement and institution of Christ Now it can not be denied but must be confessed of all that obstinatelie malitiously seeke not to contende that our Lorde Iesus Christ did not deliuer vnto his disciples his naturall then present bodye as it was sitting at the table not yet crucified to be eaten with their corporall mouthes much lesse gaue or cōmanded his blood to be drunkē which was yet in his bodie and not shed as at these dayes some haue caused a great diuision in the Church of God teaching that men must beleeue that they must eate and drinke in the communion the bodie and blood of Christ with their corporal mouthes as it was then naturall and present at his last supper and whosoeuer will not beleeue and confesse this which without great preiudice of their consciences they can not beleeue they are called despisers of the Sacramentes and great blasphemers of god But rather he commanded vs to eate his bodie which was the day following nailed to the crosse and drinke his blood which shoulde be shortely shed euen as the very wordes of Christ him selfe sufficientlye giue vs to vnderstande And wee doubte not but that his disciples before at Capernaum were sufficiently instructed persuaded what was the meaning and maner of the eating of his bodie and drinking of his blood so that they had not anye occasion or cause to make the least dout therein As also Peter himselfe notablie confesseth saying Lord whither should we go thou hast the words of euerlasting life and we haue beleeued and confessed that thou