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
A26654	God's covenant displayed by John Alexander, a converted Jew ; with a proœmial discourse of the reasons of his conversion.	Alexander, John, Converted Jew.	1689 (1689)	Wing A914; ESTC R18631	21,651	38

and a reasonable service Rom. 12. 1. Which works are acceptable to God upon the score of their being the gifts of GOD whereof he doth not repent Rom. 11. 29. but as such coronat Deus dona sua non merita nostra rewards them with a Crown of Righteousness 2 Tim. 4. 8. according to promise Jam. 1. 12. to shew himself a righteous judge by granting an Equivalent for the purchace of his Son. And here falls the conceit of meritoriousness of Works because they being no ways ours but Christ's and his holy Spirit 's within us can no more of themselves deserve Heaven than they could Redemption whose effects they are in order to the better fitting of us for that end thence via ad regnum Bern. for which we were pre-ordained by Grace Thus all things have their Off-spring from GOD and through him end in him not unlike to the periphery of a Circle the most perfect figure and sustaining its own self ending in the same point from which it began Of him through him to him are all things to him be glory for ever Rom. 11. 36. Fourthly After the Conditions follow the signs and seals of the Covenant In the first place Baptism a sign of initiation into the benefit of Christ's Death Burial and Resurrection Rom. 6. 3 4 5. for that we may put on Christ Gal. 3. 27. and even as water be united in one Body until the whole Church being by it and the word sanctified and cleansed Eph. 5. 26 27. we become an aggregate Christ 1 Cor. 11 12. The manner of its administration I will leave untoucht and straight proceed to the second sign viz. the Supper of the Lord which to be short for I have already gone beyond the limits of my Province is a visible sign of invisible grace purchased by the Sacrifice of Christ which to our comfort and for the sealing up of God's Promises it doth efficaciously represent to us To give an insight into the nature of it without launcing into the doleful Chaos of unnecessary and sometimes blasphemous Controversies about it I will only take notice of a passage amongst the Jews which if it should not clear the doubt will yet give some light to the lovers of truth 'T was therefore and is now a common Custom amongst the Jews for the chief of the Family after the eating of the Passover at their going to rest to take the Unleavened-Bread and to distribute the same amongst his Houshold and after that Wine with that nicety that not one crum of the Bread nor one drop of Wine is to be left and this they do in remembrance of the Sacrifice of the Lamb and separately of its Body and Blood having no Temple wherein to offer as those that were at the standing of the Temple without Jerusalem could not and this they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whereupon Christ the true Passover-Lamb who was to bear the iniquity of the people and to take away the Sacrifice and the oblation by his Death following this Rite instituted his Sacrament by Bread and Wine and call'd it his Body and Blood in remembrance of his Passion and Death Lastly Upon this Covenant is grounded our hope of Resurrection Christ himself insists upon it Matth. 22. 31 32. I am the God of Abraham c. Here Christ puts the Sadducees in mind of God's Covenant grounded upon his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exod. 3. 6 7 8. For if God be an Essentiator of Beings by way of a Covenant he cannot call himself an Essentiator of what is devoid of being If therefore God be a Jehova of Abraham c. it must be by making them existent for their upholding of the impression of that Covenant by which he is theirs If so the Patriarchs must be still existent after death since that after it God bears that denomination in reference to them a non Entity not being able to bear the stamp of an Entity as a shadow or nothing cannot represent the lineaments of a Seal Hence it proceeded as we mentioned before that at the day of annual propitiation this name was thrice not without a mystery put upon Israel Num. 6. 27. to remember them of God's Covenant and their Eternal Welfare To which all spiritual Israel being brought once at the Consummation of the World and Christ having finished his work shall lay down the Office of a Mediator and deliver the Kingdom to his Father that then being only conspicuous by his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and needing no further Covenanting he together with his Father may begin the period of an Everlasting Sabbath FINIS ERRATA PAge 4. line 27. add after and they p. 5. l. 2. for fooling read footing p. 18. l. 15. add after that is p. 21. l. 9. for liked read linked As for some Hebrew Letters the Ingenious Reader is able to perceive the Mistakes of himself GOD'S COVENANT