Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	aaron_n	blood_n	pharaoh_n	116	3	10.0997	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18103	The originall of idolatries: or, The birth of heresies a true, sincere, and exact description of all such sacred signes, sacrifices, and sacraments as haue been instituted and ordained of God since Adam; with the true source and liuely anatomy of the sacrifice of the Masse. First faithfully gathered out of sundry Greeke and Latine authors, as also out of diuers learned fathers; by that famous and learned Isaac Casaubon, and by him published in French, for the good of Gods Church: and now translated into English for the benefit of this monarchy; by Abraham Darcie.	Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.; Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 4747; ESTC S107577	78,965	150

that wipes out the sinnes of the world can wee herevpon induce a transubstantiation If Iesus Christ said that he was the doore of the sheepe-fold by whom we must enter to be saued And that hee is the good Pastor and wee his sheepe must we needs so straine and wrest these places of the holy Scripture as to thinke it necessary because the word est is mentioned to beleeue a transubstantiation When Iesus Christ admonished his Apostles saying that they were the salt of the earth did hee therefore transubstantiate or conuert them into Statues of Pillars of salt as he did Lots Wife If Iesus Christ said by his Apostles that we are the Temples of God in which the holy Ghost inhabits must wee therefore imagine that we are transubstantiated into a masse of stone If the holy Apostle writ that Iesus Christ is the Rocke out of whom came liuing water to wash and purge vs from our sinnes Must we wrest out of this a transmutation and transubstantiation of Iesus Christ into a Rocke or a materiall stone If the holy Apostle testifieth that we are the bodie of Christ may wee by this inferre that we are translated and now no more men but transubstantiated into an accident without substance I readily foresee O you obdurate Missalians that you will obiect all these pre-alleadged places wherein this word est is and make no mention of the Sacraments which must the more exactly bee obserued in that these be sacred mysteries ordained of God which is most true And this word est is not onely found in the holy Scriptures formerly cited but when we speake of holy Sacraments first instituted by God for his people of Israel is it written that Circumcision is Gods alliance and Couenant In the other holy Sacrament of the Communion of the Paschall Lambe was it said that the Lambe was the Passeouer which is to say the passage But shall we induce hereupon a Magicke of transubstantiation Will you not confesse O Missalian transubstantiators that in these passages of the holy Scriptures speaking of holy Sacraments that this word est can not be otherwise interpreted then to signifie some reall performance and that Circumcision was a signe and a marke of the Couenant and alliance contracted by God with Abraham The Paschall Lambe was also a sacred signe of the passage for a remembrance of their deliuerie out of Egypt The Arke of alliance for another Sacrament of which it is written that it is the truth and power of the Lord Must wee vnderstand by this that it was transubstantiated into the reall Maiestie of God Wee must wee must I say interpret the holy Scriptures with discretion and in humilitie without sophistication and without Magicke soundly to apprehend the conception of words and not sticke so close to the letter which kils but receiue the Word of God in liuely spirit If then the sacred Arke is called the Lord and nominated God because in it he exercised his omnipotent power and declared his Oracles and mysteries by exteriour signes to draw the Israelitish people to bee mindfull of God and to feare and obey him If Iesus Christ also said that hee was bread which came downe from Heauen the Bread of Life and that the Wine was his bloud that the Cup is the New Testament by the externall signes of Bread and Wine to giue vs to vnderstand that our life and sauing nutriment depended onely on Iesus Christ and that by his death bloodshed we haue assurance of eternall life euen as bread and Wine serue for corporall nourishment and that he meant and ordained these sacred signes to bee to vs for Sacraments to approue and confirme our faith Did he determin we should hereby Capernize Nicodemize to enquire or make doubt of Gods power how it is possible to eate the body or drinke the blood of Iesus Christ how we can possibly be regenerated and borne anew Seeing the promise was made vnto vs by the Word wherefore haue you O Missalians conceiued a carnall transubstantiation distrusting in the incomprehensible power of God May it not suffice you simply to beleeue that the body and blood of Iesus Christ was really and sacramentally offered to communicate thereof for our spirituall nourishment and to grant vs eternall life through the Bread and Wine consecrated with giuing of thankes the bread being truely his bodie and the Wine his Blood which we must worthily receiue by faith and puritie of conscience as sacred signes and markes of the diuine Character without searching too subtilly after the meanes other then the plaine interpretation of Iesus Christ that the flesh profits not but the Spirit quickens and that his words are spirit and life Should wee doubt whether God hath power by the symboles of Bread and Wine consecrated to make vs communicate of the bodie and blood of Iesus Christ though the bread remaine bread and the wine wine If it were otherwise this could be no Sacrament but rather called a Miracle As when Iesus Christ conuerted the Water into Wine hee then vsed the miracle of transubstantiation changing the Water into Wine But hee ordained not this for a Sacrament as he did the communion of his body blood by the sacred figures of Bread and Wine Was it not also as easie for God to change the Wine into blood or the bread into flesh as for Moses and Aaron to change the water of the Riuer into blood to confirme the hardnes of Pharaohs heart or when the clouds were turned into the flesh of Quailes that rained vpon the people of Israel Neuerthelesse God did not ordaine that these miracles should serue for ordinarie Sacraments but herein he applyed himselfe to our infirmitie exhibiting to vs sacred but not transubstantiated signes and yet are not vaine nor fantasticall but signes externall that we may behold touch eate and taste remaining still in their substance and neuerthelesse they represent sacramentally what is by them comprehended and intimated wherein consists the approbation of our faith to manifest by a sacramentall worke and ministration that wee are in the number of the regenerate and sustained by the holy Sacraments of Baptisme and the Supper CHAP. XXII Comparison betweene the two holy Sacraments IF wee may presume to make comparison of the two holy Sacraments of Baptisme and of the Supper though there bee a difference betweene it and regeneration which is not reiterated For it sufficeth that we be once regenerate and begotten anew but this spirituall nutriment is often renued according to the course of nature and other differences very amply described by the holy Apostles and Ministers of Gods Word Notwithstanding the same end the same Iesus Christ is represented as well in Baptisme as in the Supper By the blood of Iesus Christ wee are regenerated and by the same blood nourished By the blood of Iesus Christ we are renued sett and