Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	covenant_n	sacrament_n	seal_v	3,518	5	10.1195	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15779	A treatise, shewing the possibilitie, and conueniencie of the reall presence of our Sauiour in the blessed Sacrament the former is declared by similitudes and examples: the latter by the causes of the same.	Wright, Thomas, d. 1624.	1596 (1596)	STC 26043.5; ESTC S111546	105,764	270

disdain to view these fading floures these roses with thornes these bees with stings these golden aples of Sodoms loue these Syrens sugered songs conuert thy eies to this blessed Eucharist view in thy Lord a paradise of pleasure beutie without corruption profit without displeasure ioyes without deceit continual delight without satiety and then I know thou wilt breake forth and cry Deus meus omnia my God Psal 72. and al nam gustato spiritu deficit omnis caro for the spirit tasted al flesh faileth Thē I know thou canst not but direct al thy actions vse all the creatures of God for no other end then his glory for this hart will becom like a flame of fire that burneth al it incountreth conuerteth thē into fire so thy loue wil thinke speake and worke al for God and in God and consequently loath what the world loueth not for God The thirty seuenth cause to be a confirmation of his testament IT hath bin an vsuall custome with God to confirme and seale his pacts and promises with some sensible sign that by such palpable obiects men might better conceiue remember them For if he promise Noe his posteritie neuer after to ouer flowe the vniuersall earth with a deluge he imprintes his seale in the clouds ●ehes ● for his armes leaueth the rainbow If he promise Abraham to multiply his seed as the stars of heauen and to giue him the land of Canaan he causes him to deuide his sacrifices in two partes and in confirmation Genes 15. of his pacte he sendes a lampe of fire which passeth through the midest of thē If Moses sent from God giue the law writtē in tables of stone if he promise to accept them into his peculiar people hee Exod. 24. confirmeth his couenant with a bowell of bloud wherwith he sprinkleth all the people If GOD vsed such stately seales to ratifie his promises to his people in the lawe of Nature and the lawe written questionlesse hee will not omitte them in the lawe of grace where the couenaunt concerneth a greater benefit wherein are comprehended in a more iminent degree al these fauors of God promised in times past the which he sealed so solemnly and therefore in confirmation of this newe testament he instituted this blessed Sacrament and sacrifice Hic est ealix noni testamenti this is the challice of the new testament affirme the three proclaimers of Christs law Mathew Marke and Luke with the Apostle S. Paul But what couenant maketh Christ with his people that he ratifieth with the seale of his owne body and bloud Here Hieremy speaking Hier. 31. by himselfe and by S. Paul or rather God by them both Ecce dies venient dicit dominus Hebr. 8. consummabo super domum Israell super domum Iuda testamentum nouum Behold the daies shall come saith our Lord and I will consummate vppon the house of Israel vpon the house of Iuda a new testament c. see the place In these wordes God promiseth fiue things to his church first that hee wil forgiue al them which enter into it all their offences the which he effecteth by Baptisme and this Sacrament Secondly that they should know God euery one little and great the which he performeth by powring of faith into their soules thirdly that he will write this law not in stone tables as Moses did but in fleshie heartes and consequently they shal be more mollified and pliable to obserue them and not so indurated as the Iewes the which he fulfilleth by induing thē with charitie Fourthly that he would be their God and they should be his people that he would haue a fatherly prouidence ouer them the which he accomplisheth with his owne presence Ecce ego vobiscum sum vsque ad consummationem Matth. 28. seculi behold I am with ye all dayes euen to the consummation of the world and by sending the holyghost which docebit illam omnē veritatem he shall Actes 2. 5 Iohn 16. teach her all trueth Finally that he will neuer forsake nor abandon his Church as he did the Iewes Sinagog the which we haue prooued by the continuance of the catholike church from Christs time euen till these our dayes although persecuted by emperours impugned by heretikes troubled by so many euill Catholikes Matth. 16 yet the gates of hell could nothing preuail against it the propagation also of his church was promised by God sealed with his sacrament that this vine tree planted by Christs own hands should delate the branches from sea to sea and to the worlds end the extremities thereof in Psal 79. such sort that rather lande shall faile to propagate this Church then her amplification shall finish Wherefore God shall not be knowne onely in Iudea or Siria but in all the prouinces of the world since we Psal 75. see depriued of these promises the protestants Churches eclipsed for fifteene hundred yeares and concluded in corners of the world in some few Cities of Germany in Geneua and England it is no maruaile if they haue broken the seale of the blessed sacrament where with by infallible assurance the maiestie of God confirmed them But the Catholike Church possessing all holdeth the sacred Eucharist as a perpetuall confirmation the which as 〈◊〉 it was sayde comprehendeth both the significations and signes of all the other promises made and confirmed by God in passed ages For God promised to Noe not to drowne the worlde anie more with water and Christ promiseth heere his Church shall neuer whollie bee ouerflowne with sinne hee tooke for a signe the Rainbow the which the sunne causeth by reflection of beames in watrie cloudes O what a goodly rainbowe the sunne of neuer-fading light effecteth heere what glistering beames of glorie powreth his diuinitie into that sacred humanitie what beautifull raies spring from that glorious soule and adorne with brightnesse and most liuely colours that immortall bodie if it were not for merite of our fayth wee might see through those cloudes of bread and Wine another sorte of Rainbovv then Nature in her most stately circle euer behelde God promised to Abraham to multiplie his seede as the stars of heauen and where are they multiplied but in the Catholike Church hee allotted vnto him the lande of Canaan and heere the kingdome of heauen hee commaunded Abraham to diuide his sacrifice in two partes and sent a Lampe of fire from heauen to passe betvvixt them and what coulde more expresly figure this sacrifice Are not heere diuided by vertue of Consecration the soule from the bodie and the bloud from them both and doth not both the diuinity and soule of Christ not passe but firmely stande in middest of these parts God gaue the law by Moses and promised the people to defēd protect accept thē for his but here with a more careful prouidence with a more forcible meanes with more plēty of grace with more abundance of