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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	holy_a	life_n	5,129	5	4.3998	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02884	The catechisme, or maner to teach children and others the Christian fayth used in all the landes and dominions that are under the mighty Prince Frederike, the Palsgraue of ye Rhone, elector of the empyre, &c. Translated out of Latin into Englysh, by William Turner Doctor of Phisicke, easely to be vnderstanded and read, aswell of the people of the north cuntry, as others.; Heidelberger Katechismus. English.	Turner, William, d. 1568.	1572 (1572)	STC 13028; ESTC S112597	22,595	59

the Holy gost that worker of fayth is as wel promised to them through the bloud of christ as to them that are full growen men and women they ar to be grafted into the chyrch by baptisme and are to be knowne from the children of vnbeleuers or infidels as in the olde testament the children of them that beleued were knowne from them that beleued not by circumcision In whose place sted now being taken away Baptisme was appoynted ¶ Of the Supper of the Lorde QVESTION HOw art thou in the Supper of the Lord warned assured and sickered that thou art partaker of that onely one sacrifice of Christ offred vpon the crosse and of all his good déeds AN. * Because Christ hath commanded me and al faythfull men to eat of this bred that is broken and to drinke of this cup that is reached vnto me in the remēbrance of him with promise put there to y firste his bodye was assurely broken on the Crosse offred for me and his bloud as surely shed for me as I se the bread of the Lord broken vnto me and the cuppe of the Lord reched vnto me More ouer that my soule is aswell fed vnto euerlastyng lyfe with his body which was crucified for vs and with his bloud which was shed for vs as I receyue with the mouth of my body the bread and the wyne which are tokens of the body bloud of our Lord at the hāds of my sheppard or elder of the chyrch QV. What is it to eate the body that was crucified to drinke the bloud that was shed AN * It is not onely to embrace and receyue the hole Passion and death of christ with a sure trust of minde and to get by it forgeuenes of sinnes and lyfe euerlastyng but also to bée so ioyned vnto his holy body more more through the Holy gost which dwelleth in christ and in vs that although he be in heauen we in earth yet for al that we are flesh of his fleshe and bones of his bones and as all the members or limmes of a manes body ar quickned or haue life of one soule so are we quickned gouerned haue lyfe with one spirite QV. ¶ In what place promysed Christe that he would as surely geue his body and bloud to be eaten dronken to thē that beleue as they doo eat the bread that is broken an● drinke the wyne out of the cup AN. * In the place where he dyd fyrst o●dayne his supper in these words Our Lor● Iesus Christ in that night that he was betrayed tooke the bread after he had geue● thankes he brake it sayd take eate th●● is my body which is broken for you do th●● in the remembrāce of me And so lykewis● after supper he toke the cup sayinge thi● cup is the new testament in my bloud do●● this as oft as ye shal drinke in my remembrance For as ofte as ye shal eat this brea● and drinke of this cup ye shal shew the deat● of the Lord tyl he come .j Cor. xj This promise is rehersed again by S. Paule .j. Cor x. where he sayeth The cup of thāksgeuīg wherwith we geue thanks is it not the pe●taking of Christs bloud is not the bread that w● breke the partaking of the body of Christ Because we beinge many are one bread o●● body for we are al partakers of one bread QV. ¶ Are then bread and wyne made very body and bloud of Christ AN. * No but as the water of baptism● is not turned into the bloud of Christ neyther is the washinge awaye of sinne bu● onely a token and pleadge of those thinge● that are sealed into vs in Baptisme euen so is not the Breade of the Lordes Supper the very body of Christ Notwithstanding after the manner of speakinge of Sacraments and the accusstumed fashion of speakyng of the Holy gost of these thinges bread is called the body of Christ QV. ¶ Why then doth christ cal bread his and the cup his bloud or the new testamēt through his bloud And Paule calleth the bread and wyne the communion or partaking of his body and bloud ANSVVERE Christ speaketh so not without great consideration to wite that he maye not onely teach vs that euen as bread and wyne hold vp and kéepe in the lyfe of the body so his crucified body and his bloud that wer shed are the very trewe meate and drinke of our soule wherby it is nourished in to euerlasting lyfe but also much more he speaketh so to assure and sicker vs with this sée able token and pleadge that we are as truly pertakers of his bodye and blood by the workyng of the Holy goste as we haue receued these holy Tokens in the remembrance of him with the mouth of our body and also that his passion or suffring and his obedience or kéepynge of the whole lawe are as surelye owers as though we had suffered our owne selues for our sinnes and had made amēds to god for them QV. ¶ What diffrence is there betwen the supper of the Lord and the popysh Mes● AN. * The supper of the Lorde witnesseth that al our sins ar forgeuen vs throg● that onely one sacrifice that he once mad● on the crosse and that we are also throug● the holy gost grafted into christ who afte● his mans nature is onely in heauen at th● right hand of the Father and wyll be worshipped ther of vs But in the Messe it i● denyed that the quicke and dead haue forgeuenesse of sinnes through the passion o● Christ alone excepte Christ be offred euer● day for them by the sacrificyng mess prées● Moreouer it is taughte in the Messe tha● Christ is bodely present vnder the likeness● of bread and wyne is therefore to be worshypped in them And so the foundacion o● the Mess is nothyng els but a denyall of 〈◊〉 one onely sacrifice passion of Iesus chris● and cursed Iolatrie maumetry and worshippyng of by gods beside the lyuīg God. QV. ¶ Who ought to come to the supper of the Lorde AN. * Onely they that repent and are very sory that they haue angred God with their sinnes and yet trust that they are forgeuen them for Christs sake that the rest of their weaknes vnperfitnes is couered whith his death and passion who also desyre to go forward and grow more more in honest lyfe and conuersation But hypocrites false feigners of holynes they that repent not and wyl not amend their liues eat and drinke their owne damnation QV. ¶ Ought we also to allowe them to this supper which shew them selues to bée faithlesse and vngodly both in their owne confession and noughty lyfe AN. * No for so is the couenaunt of god vnhallowed the wrath of God is styrred agaynst the hole church Wherfore the church of God accordyng to the appoyntment of Christ and his Apostles vsing the keyes of the kyngdome of heauen ought to hold backe such from

QV. ¶ What beleuest thou when thou sayest he suffred AN. ¶ That he all the time of his lyf● while he was here vpon earth but special● at his last time dyd suffer the wrath of go● against the sin of all mankynd that with his passion as one Sacrifice once for all should purchace mercy and should deliue● both our bodies and our soules from euerlastyng damnation and get vs the grace o● God and rightuusnes euerlasting lyfe QVE ¶ For what cause dyd he suffer vnder iudge Pilate ANS ¶ That he being innocent yet condempned before a ciuyll iudge might deliuer vs from the straight iudgement of God which we had deserued should haue suffred yf Christ had not suffred this sharp iudgement for vs. QV. ¶ Is there any other cause besyde way that he shuld rather suffer on the crosse then dye any other death AN. ¶ Yes there is one in déede for by this thing I am assured that he toke vpon himself the curse which was dew vnto me For the death of the Crosse was cursed of God. QV. * Why must Christ humble himselfe euen vnto the death AN. * Because that the iustice truth of God could not be contented swaged for our sinnes by ani other meanes but by the death of the son of God. QV. ¶ Why was he also berried AN. ¶ That therby he should haue sure witnesse that he was truely dead and not feynedly QVE But when as Christ dyed for vs why must we also dye ANS ¶ Our death is not a makynge of amendes for our sinnes but dyinge from Sinne and a goynge into euerlastynge lyfe QV. What profit doo we further receiue by the sacrifice and death of Christ AN. * That by the vertue of his death our old man is crucified kylled and berried with him that the euyl desires and lustes of the flesh should not afterward rayne in vs but that we shoulde offer our selues vnto him an offring of thanksgeueing QV. * Why is it further said he went downe into Hell AN. * That in my greuous temptations and assaltes I might stay● and make sur● my selfe by this comforte that my Lord● Iesus Christ by vnspeakable veracious griefes painful troubles feares of mind into the which both before and most of all when he hanged on the crosse he was cas● into hath deliuered me from the sorowfull griefe and paynes of Hell. QV. ¶ What profite haue we by the rysyng agayne of Christ AN. * Firste that by his rysinge agayne he ouercame death that he might make vs partakers of his rightuusnes which he had purchased vnto vs by his death Moreouer we are also styrred vp by his power vnto a new lyfe And the thyrde profite is that the resurrection of our head Christ is a Pleadge and a perfite assurance vnto vs that we shall ryse agayne in glory QVE How vnderstaundest thou this that he is gone vp into heauen AN. ‡ That Christ the Apostles lookyng on was taken vp from the earth into heauen yet styll is there for our sakes and wyl be vntyl he shall com againe to iudge the quicke and the dead QV. ¶ Shal Christ not then be with vs vntyll the end of the worlde as he hath promised AN. * Christ is true God and true man and so according vnto his mans nature he is not nowe vpon the Earth but after his Godly nature maiesty grace and Spirit he is neuer away from vs. QV. ¶ But whether by this meanes ar the .ij. natures of Christ pulled in sunder or no if Christes man hed be not where soeuer his Godhed is AN. ‡ Nay for when as the Godhead of Christ cannot be inclosed nor holden within any certaine compasse and is present in euery place it must néedes be a good argument that his Godhead is without the nature of his manhead which he hath taken vpon hym and reacheth farther and yet for all that it is fast in the same and abydeth personally ioyned therevnto QV. ¶ What fruite haue we by the goyng vp of Christ into Heauen AN. Fyrst that he maketh intercessiō for vs in heauen vnto the father Then that wee haue our flesh in heauen that therby we may be surely assured as by a sure pledge that hereafter he wil take vs that are his mēbers vnto him which is our head Thirdly that he sēdeth vnto vs his spirit ī the stede of a pledge betwene him and vs by whose strong workyng we seeke not earthly things that are aboue where he is sitting at the right hand of God. QV. ¶ Why is it further sayd that he is sitting at the right hand of God AN. * Because Christ therefore is gone vp in to heauen to shew that he is the head of the church by whome the father gouerneth all thynges QV. ¶ What profit is this glory of our head Christ vnto vs AN. * Fyrst that through his holy spirite he powreth into vs his members heauēly gyftes the next is that he shildeth and defendeth vs by his might agaynst all our enemies QV. ¶ What comfort hast thou by the commyng agayne of Christ to iudge the quicke and the dead AN. * That in all my persecutions and troubles I doo looke vp to heauen holdynge my head cherefully vp for the self same iudg which purposedly before dyd delyuer himselfe to the iudgement of God for me and hath taken away all curse from me which shall cast all his and my ennemies into euerlastyng payne shal bryng me with al other chosen persons into the heauēly ioys and euerlastyng glory ¶ Of the Holy ghost QVESTION WHat doest thou beleue of the holy gost AN * Firste that he is true and euerlastyng God with the euerlastyng father and the sonne Secondly that he is geuen vnto me that by true faith he maketh mée partaker of Christ and all his good déedes And thirdly comforteth mée and abydeth with me for euer QV. ¶ What is thy beléefe concernyng the holy and catholyke Church of Christ AN. * I beleue that the son of God doth gather from the beginnynge of the world vnto the end out of hole mankynd a chosē company by the spirit and the word agréeing together in a true faith and ▪ that h● defendeth and saueth the same and that I am one liuely member of that company shal so abyde for euer QV. ¶ What meanest thou by the communion and felowshyp of saints AN. * Firste that all and euery one that beleueth ar in cōmon partakers of Christ and of all his good déedes as his members and partes of his body then that euery one man ought willyngly redely and chearefully to bestowe the gyftes which he hath receyued to the common profit and health of all men QV. ¶ What beleuest thou of the forgeuenes of sinnes AN. * That God for the satisfaction or mendes that Christ hath made he hath put out the remembrance that my sinnes and also of that my crooked wickednesse wherw t I must fight al