Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	lord_n	show_v	supper_n	4,170	5	9.3436	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15864	The art or skil, well and fruitfullie to heare the holy sermons of the church written first in Latin, by a godly minister named Gulielmus Zepperus ; and now truly translated into English by T.W. ...	Zepper, Wilhelm, 1550-1607.; T. W.	1599 (1599)	STC 26124.5; ESTC S5001	76,549	165

do enioy and liue thereby speaking with thee and offering vnto thee not onely the continuance of his former fauour but more bountifull and plentifull benefits thou after this his most gracious speech were ended shouldest either stand before him without all motion of body or mind like vnto a dumbe and dead image or presently turne thy backe vpon him The re●●●tion that I may not speake more hardly But how much more grieuously and filthily do they sin who not staying for the Churches publike praiers vnto God and not ioyning their owne praiers with the same gadde and trudge out of the holy assemblies doe wee thinke that we haue not receiued any benefits from God which deserue praise and thankesgiuig Interrogations full of force and might Are we ignorant of this that God for those his diuers innumerable yea truly infinite benefits towards vs doth require and demaund nothing at our hands but praise and thankesgiuing Or do we not know that thankesgiuing is a prouoking of God to bestow more and on the other side that he is not worthie to receiue more fauors that hath not yeelded thankes for such as he hath alreadie receiued what do we not feele out selues subiect to any miseries wretchednesses or necessities both of soule and bodie against which we haue need of Gods grace and aide Are we ignorant of this that we are men and that no humane thing is or ought to be straunge vnto vs Or know we not that Herodo lib. 1 which that rich king Cresus said to Cyrus sometimes the Persian monarch as Herodotus witnesseth that there was a round place for men matters which turning about as a wheele did not suffer the same people alwaies to be fortunate Or are we so farre separated from the communion of saints yea from the fellowship of him that is their and our heard to wit Christ himselfe that in our praiers we will nothing at all communicate with their necessities Rom. 12.13 Amos. 6.6 Rom. 12.15 that we will nothing morne for the affliction and sorrow of Ioseph that no pitie shall touch vs and cause vs to weepe with them that weepe which thing also the holy Ghost doth so often vrge and presse vpon vs euen in so many words Are we ignorant what great efficacie there is of the publike prayers of the Church See for this purpose Act. 12.5 c. in which so many faithfull soules doe in a certaine holy agreement consent and as it were conspire together Tertul. Apolo cap. 39. and that they are as Tertullian speaketh a certaine violence acceptable to God if some certaine assemblie and congregation as if it were made with one hand come vnto God and humblie sue vnto him by prayer And as concerning the administration of Baptisme many perswade themselues Why they should be present at the administration of Baptisme that it is in vaine for them to be present thereat and that they haue no profit by it But besides that God himselfe will at no hand haue the Sacraments of his Church to be taken as certaine ceremonies appointed for that heathen idoll Ceres which were done in corners closely and as it were by stealth but hath appoynted for them the publike and solemne assemblies of his people as we may perceiue by many places in the new Testament Matth. 3.5 Iohn 3.23 Act. 20.7 and particularly those that are quoted in the margine we must know that God requireth euen the praiers of the Church for those infants 1. Cor. 11.20 which by baptisme are presented and offered to Christ which praiers indeed neither the zeale of Christes house or of the Church nor Christian charitie will suffer vs to detaine or withhold from them And because the vertue and efficacie of our baptisme or rather indeed of the spirit of Christ by it is not so vnconstant and momentarie but that the outward action of it is spread abroad ouer the whole life of a Christian man Rom. 6.3.4 c. that euen to his graue so often as it is ministred in the Church we haue therein a manifest occasion offered vs to call to our remebrance that heauenly couenant by which God hath promised and that as it were by an oth interposed that he will be our God for euer yea euen of that couenant that is to be renued with vs the heauenly both signe and seale whereof is our baptisme and that both for the strengthening of our faith in vs touching the fauour of God towards vs in Christ who is as true in the signes of his grace as in the word of his grace as also for the refreshing and stirring vp of our memories Two ends of our baptisme The vse of the former speech in that mutuall couenant on our part with the same our God which is made with vs by the solemne testimonie of our baptisme Which thing will notably stirre vs vp to the acknowledging faith and obedience of God and strengthen vs through his grace more and more to renounce Sathan the world and our own flesh altogether bid them farewel 2. Sam. 17.26 No doubt Dauid when he was yet but a weake youth might promisse vnto himselfe victory against that huge terrible giāt Goliah that God would stand on his side against him because he himselfe was circumcised and the other not How much more assured hope that euē from the baptisme which we haue receiued may we conceiue that we shall triumph against this infernall Goliah the diuell I meane and be assured of Gods grace toward vs So farre of is it that wee are present at the publike administration of baptisme eyther vnprofitablie or with the losse and mispending of our time And as touching the Lords supper if it were rightly and as it should be vsed in the Church no man so often as it is administred should withdraw himselfe from the participation thereof Why they should be present at the celebration of the holy supper much lesse should any that were come to the yeares of discretion depart out of the temple whilest it is administred For sith Christ himselfe in the institution of his supper so often repeateth this Matth. 26.26.27 Luke 22.19 1. Cor. 11.26 Take yee eate yee drinke yee all of this doe yee this in remembrance of me shew out the Lords death c. And the minister according to the dutie of his message doth in Christs name inuite and call the whole Church with what face or forehead can any man of the Church both heare these things in it and yet abstaine from the same For is there not great reproach and contumely cast vpon Christ whilest we repell so many excellent commaundements of his and reiect him that so earnestlie inuiteth vs And what is it to neglect contemne and skorne Christs Testament if this be not What is this else I pray you but to turne our backs to God to Christ to the Church to the