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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	command_v	servant_n	unprofitable_a	1,244	5	10.6349	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72940	A declaration of the recantation of Iohn Nichols (for the space almost of two yeeres the Popes scholer in the English Seminarie or Colledge at Rome) which desireth to be reconciled and receiued as a member into the true Church of Christ in England.	Nicholls, John, 1555-1584?	1581 (1581)	STC 18533; STC 18533.5; ESTC S113205	57,669	199

mee saith Iob Iob. 20. for if I woulde bee perfect mine owne mouth shall condemne me we haue bene all as an vncleane thing sayth Esay all our righteousnes is as filthy cloutes Esa 64.6 When yee haue done all those thinges which are commanded saith our Sauiour say thē We are vnprofitable seruants wee haue done but that which was our duetie to doe And there is none righteous Rom. 3.10 no not one by the workes of the lawe shall no flesh be iustified in his sight and all these words come from the mouth of God But seeing ye wil hardly admit the testimonie of Gods worde without the witnesse of men go to let vs see what say the fathers in this behalfe I doe scarcely saith Origen beleeue that there can be any worke Origen lib. 44. cap. 4. that may of duetie require a reward Basil In Psal 32. Basill saith that hee trusteth not in his owne good deedes nor hopeth to be iustified by his works he hath the onely hope of his saluation in the mercies of GOD. And Saint Hierome Hierom in Esai cap. 64. If we behold our owne merits we must be driuen to desperation The time will not serue to handle this matter at large therefore I ende this part beseeching al those that loue the Gospell vnfeinedly to take diligent heede to such false Prophetes as come vnto them in sheepes clothing faining them selues holy and by their holines thinke them selues iustified The thirde part Sed intrinsecùs sunt lupi rapaces But inwardly they are rauening wolues Although our English popish Priestes that come from Rome or else from Rheimes in France to this our natiue soyle tell vs that they haue taken great labor passed many daungers yea and hazarded their owne lyues to saue our soules frō eternall damnation and endles miserie they are not to be beleeued for all these their brags They are rauening wolues they seeke the euerlasting confusion both of our bodies and soules What doe they teach but false doctrine doe they not seeke to persuade vs to worship stocks and stones yea which is worst to worship that idole in the Sacrament They teache more then they are well able to performe Howe can they proue that Christ is really transsubstantially in the sacrament of the altar This is the effect and force of all their arguments Christ spake it whē he sayde Hoc est corpus meum This is my body They will haue no Tropicall figure herein to be expressed for that Christ sayde and promised that he woulde speake no more in parables This argument is nought if you saye that Hoc est corpus meum be a parable If you saye that Christ promised to vse no more figuratiue speaches you are farre deceyued For hee vsed a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this phrase Hic est calix noui Testamēti quem si biberit quispiam c. This is the cup of the newe Testament which whosoeuer shall drinke c. You knowe no man can drinke the cuppe wherefore here is Continens pro contento the thing conteyning for the thing conteined If Christ vsed a figure in this phrase Hic est calix c. Why shoulde he not in like wise vse a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this phrase Hoc est corpus meum Fe The death of Christ is not really present in the Sacrament ri But the blood of Christ is present in the Sacrament as his death is present Amb. de sac 4. cap. 4. o Therefore the precious blood of Christ is not really present in the Sacrament The Minor proposition is proued out of Ambrose in his fourth booke of the Sacramentes and fourth chapter Vt recepisti suae mortis similitudinem sic bibis similitudinem sui preciosi sanguinis As thou hast receyued the similitude of his death so doest thou drinke the similitude of his blood Dis The true naturall bodie of Christ is placed in heauen am But the true natural body of man can bee but in one place is Therefore the true naturall body of Christ can be but in one place and at one time in heauen Luk. 24.51 Act. 1.9 The Maior is proued thus Iesus receptus est in coelos sedet ad dexteram Dei c. Iesus was receiued vp into heauen and sitteth at the right hande of GOD the Father Matt. 26.11 Pauperes semper habetis vobiscum me verò non semper habebitis The poore haue you alwayes with you but me shall yee not haue alwayes Ioh. 12. Desero mundum eo ad patrem I forsake the worlde and goe to my Father Multi dicent in eo die Ecce Matt. 24.23 Mar. 13.21 hic est Christus ecce ibi Many wil say in that day Lo here is Christ and lo there he is Whatsoeuer is in many diuers places at once is God The body of Christ is not God but a certaine creature Therefore the body of Christ can not be in many places at once Da Euery quantitie that is euery body that hath lēgth breadth and thicknes is conteined in one peculiar place ri Christes bodye hath length breadth and thicknes and is a quantitie o Therefore Christes body is contained in one peculiar place The Maior is prooued out of Cyrill in his thirde booke of the Trinitie pag. 245. Quic quid intelligitur habere corpus hoc indubiè est in loco in magnitudine in quantitate Et si sit in quantitate euitare non potest circumscriptionem hoc est habere suum locum What thing soeuer is vnderstoode to haue a body that without doubt is in a place in magnitude and in quantitie And if it be in quantitie then it must needes be in some peculiar place Fe No naturall body can at one and the same time haue contrarie and diuers qualities ri But to be in one place local in another not locall in one place with quantitie in another without quātitie in one place finite in another infinite is to admit contrary qualities to a natural body o Therefore the body of Christ can not be in one place locall in another place not locall in one place with quatitie in another place without quantitie We must so defend the humanitie of Christ that we destroye not his diuinitie If we assigne to Christes body plurality of places wee destroye his diuinitie wherefore we must not assigne to Christes body pluralitie of places The mysticall signification that you haue imagined of your shewes and accidents that the formes of breade and wine outwardly represent the spirituall nourishing of the soule is vaine and fantastical without the witnes of any auncient Doctour or father is confirmed only by the authority of the Pope himselfe For what maner of feeding is there in these accidents and holy formes or howe can that thing that feedeth not the body represent vnto vs the spiritual feeding of the soule The matter is plaine ynough of it selfe and needeth