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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bread_n	eat_v	show_v	5,537	5	5.6290	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10468	The boke of Barthram priest intreatinge of the bodye and bloude of Christ wryten to greate Charles the Emperoure, and set forth. vii.C. yeares a goo. and imprinted. an. d[omi]ni M.D.XLviii. Cum preuilegio, ad imprimendum solum.; De corpore et sanguine Domini. English	Ratramnus, monk of Corbie, d. ca. 868.; Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.; Hugh, William, d. 1549.	1548 (1548)	STC 20749; ESTC S115653	21,331	36

mysterye of the lord and vnto that thyng whych you your selues be you answre amē And in answryng you subscrybe therefore thou hearest the body of christ thou answrest amen Be thou a mēbre of the body of christ that that the amen may be true and wherin in breade we wyll speake nothynge or oure owne heades but heare the Apostell We beynge manye sayeth he are one breade and one bodye c. Therfore Saynte Augustyne hath taught vs that as the bodye of Christe is sygnyfyed in the breade whyche is on the alter so is the body of the people that receyueth it Also he hath euidently shewed that the proper bodye of chryste is that body in the which he was borne of the virgyn marye in the which he sucked in the whiche he suffred in the whiche he dyed and was buried in the whiche he rose and ascended into heauen in the whiche he sytteth of the ryght hand of the father and in the whiche he shall come agayne to iudgemet But this whiche is set on the lordes table conteyneth the mysterye of the very body euen as it dothe of the mysterye of the beleuyng people For the appostle sayeth We beynge maney are one breade and one bodye YOURE wysdome most excellente prynce may perceyue that I haue prouyd by the testimonies of holy scryptures and of the holy fathers that the breade whiche is called the body of chryste and the cup called his blode is a fygure because it is a mysterye And that there is no small dyfference betwene the mystycall bodye and the bodye that suffered was buryed and rose agayne For this whiche suffered is the proper body of oure sauyour Neyther in it is any fygure or signifycacion but the manifestacyon of the thying it selfe is knowen And the visyon of it shulde be desyred of the faythfull For after we shall se it youre desyre shal be accomplyshed for he and the father be all one not in the respecte of our sauyours bodye but in the respecte of the fulnes of deuinite that dwellethe in the man chryste But in this mystycall body is a fygure not onely of the proper body of chryst but also of the people beleuyng in christ For doutles it beareth the fygure both of the body of chryst that suffered rose agayne and of the people borne agayne by baptysme and made alyue from the death of sīne Let vs adde also that the breade and the wyne named the bodye and blode of chryst do represent the memorye of the lordes passyon death For he sayeth in the gospell Do this in my remembraunce the whiche paule expoundeth sayenge So oft as ye eate of this breade drynke of this wyne you shall shewe the death of the lorde tyll he come Thus we be taught both of chryst and of paule that the breade and the wyne set on the altare are set for a fygure or a memory of the lordes deathe that it maye putte vs in remembraunce in the tyme present what hath bene done in tyme past that we made myndfull of his passyon may be made also partakers of the godly rewarde by the which we ar delyuered from death Knowynge that after we shal once come to the visyon of chryste we shall haue no nide of suche instrumentes by the whiche we are put in remembraunce what chryst hath suffered for vs. For we lokynge on hym face to face shall not be admonyshed by an externe admonicion of temporall thīges but by the contemplacyon of the truth it selfe Yet we may gyue thankes to the auctor of our helth ●t you shall not thinke for all this that the body and blode of the lorde is not receyued of the faythfull in the mysterye of the sacrament sayenge that fayth receyueth not the thyng loked vppon with oure eyes but that whiche is beleued For the meate is spirituall the drynke is spirituall feadyng the soule spiritually and gyueth the lyfe of euerlastyng secrete as our sauyour sayeth The spirite is he that quyckeneth the flesshe profyteth nothynge W●●●les I haue indeuered to obey the cōmaundement of your excellencye I a man of small importancye haue presumed to dispute of no small thynges yt not folowynge the presumptyon of myne owne estimacyon or Iudgement But the auctoritie of the olde fathers yf it happen that you approue these thynges as catholyke it muste be imputed to be merytes of our fayth which was not ashamed the glorye of your regall magnificēce layed awaye for a tyme to aske a responce of the truth of a pore man but yf they please you not let it be imputed to my folyshnes it coulde not with efficacye explicate that thynge whiche you desyred FINIS ¶ Imprynted at London in saynt Andrewes paryshe in the waredropt by Thomas Raynalde and Anthony Kyngstone