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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	conscience_n	faith_n	purify_v	2,262	5	11.5171	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38514	An epistle of a Catholique to his friend a Protestant touching the doctrine of reall presence. Or, the answer to a question propounded in these tearms What should move you, contrary to the plain testimony of your senses, to believe, that after consecration the bread and wine in the sacrament is become really Christs very body and blood.		1659 (1659)	Wing E3164AA; ESTC R222634	19,912	20

bare Bread But now Malachy prophesieth that under the new Law should that more excellent Sacrifice be He prophesieth that God would reject and cast away the Priesthood and Sacrifices of the Jews and instead of them would have anther more pure and more excellent Sacrifice and that not offered in Jerusalem onely or in any one place or city of the world but all the world over from the rising of the Sun to the going down thereof Mal. 1.11 Neither can this be any other but the Body of our Lord offered upon the Altar which upon the rejection of Moses daily Sacrifice was to come in place and to be accepted of God according to that of the Psalmist speaking in the person of Christ Burnt-offering and sacrifice for sin thou wouldest not have but a Body thou hast fitted me Psal 40.6 according to the Translation of the Septuagint which St. Paul likewise followeth leaving the Hebrew Hebr. 10.5 Doubtless by vertue of the word of God in the Priests mouth this Body is fitted both for a Sacrament and also a Sacrifice after the order of Melchisedech who being the first-born of a great and honorable family in Salem was according to the custom of that age both Prince and Priest there as Jethro was in Midian Exod. 18.1 And so likewise our Lord being the first-born among many Brethren Rom. 8.29 and the first-born of every creature as he is called Colos 1.15 is therefore by God the Father and that by an oath ordained a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech whose sacrifice as the learned affirm was Bread and Wine first offered in sacrifice to God and afterwards eaten by such as participated of the sacrifices as appears Gen. 14. where it is not improbably thought that with part of the Bread and Wine which Melchisedech brought forth as a Priest of the most high God he refreshed Abraham returning from the slaughter of the four Kings So that as the Aaronical or Mosaical sacrifices of Beasts were types and figures of our Lords Bloudy sacrifice of himself upon the Cross for the sins of the world so in like manner was Melchisedechs sacrifice in Bread and Wine a figure of our Lords unbloudy sacrificing of himself upon the Altar for the Church Which unbloudy Sacrifice our Lord did institute and ordain at his last Supper when he said to his Apostles Do this Luke 22.19 and which Action of our Saviour was by the Apostles who were eye-witnesses thereof celebrated in like manner throughout the world to wit in all parts and in all places where they preached the Gospel and hath been ever since continued in the universal Church to this day The word which our Translation reads ministring Acts 13.2 as the learned affirm signifies in the Greek properly sacrificing and so 't is translated by Erasmus As they were sacrificing to the Lord and fasting the Holy Ghost said Separate unto me Saul and Barnabas The Sacrifice of the Cross was a bloudy and general Sacrifice for the sins of the whole world but this of the Altar is unbloudy and more particular for the Church but most especially for those members of the Church for whom in particular it is offered The Jews had their Meat-offerings and Drink-offerings and Bloudy Sacrifices to which Christ answereth Upon the Cross he was that Bloudy Sacrifice which fulfilleth that which was typified by those bloudy Sacrifices of the Beasts that were killed upon the Altar he is the unbloudy Sacrifice and fulfilleth the Types of those Sacrifices wherein there was no shedding of bloud such as were the Meat-offerings and Drink-offerings and the like The Paschal Lamb was in a diverse respect both a bloudy Sacrifice and also an unbloudy and therefore our Saviour answers the Type of it in both respects As it was a Lamb taken out of the flock and killed and the bloud sprinkled upon the door-posts so it was a bloudy Sacrifice and so our Saviour fulfils the Type of it by the offering of himself up to death upon the Cross but as it was to be rosted afterward with fire and the flesh eaten within the house Exod. 12.7 8. it is unbloudy and a Type of the Sacrifice of the Altar which is eaten within the House that is to say within the Church by the Members of the Church onely Jews and Gentiles with all Excommunicated persons Heretiques Schismatiques and the like being excluded and not permitted to partake thereof Also to the great comfort of all Catholique Christians the general Sacrifice of the Cross is applied particularly in the Sacrifice of the Altar to the Church and to the true members thereof for whom in special it is offered This I say is a great and unspeakable comfort and benefit here doth our Lord meet with us God commanding the Jews to offer the Sacrifices of Beasts at the door of the Tabernacle said that he would there meet with them Exod. 29.43 Certainly this was a great comfort to the Jew but hath not the Christian as great yes certainly and far greater If he come as he ought well prepared to the Altar of God if his hands be cleansed in innocency and his heart purified from the conscience of sin through faith and true repentance he comes as the Apostle Paul saith Heb 4.16 and that with boldness or great confidence unto the throne of grace and findeth help in time of need There doth our Lord vouchsafe to meet with us Cathol●que Christians not by vertue of the bloud of Bulls and of Beasts in which the Father said he had no pleasure but by vertue of his own bloud in which Sacrifice the Father testifieth that he was well pleased Burnt offerings and Sacrifices saith the Psalmist thou hadst no pleasure in but then saith the Son Lo I come to do thy will O God as it followeth in the Psalm last cited O thou Christian come thou then to this Altar in faith come in innocency come in charity come prepared come reverently serve the Lord with trembling and rejoyce with fear for our God is a consuming fire We have an Altar saith the Apostle Heb. 13.10 of which they have no right to eat which serve the Tabernacle meaning the Jew among whom though the Priests might eat of some offerings yet they might not eat of the Sin-offering that was to be burnt without the gate Lev. 4.12 6.30 But the Christian Law offereth more Grace Our Lord who was made an offering for sin Esay 53. saith to all both Priests and People that except they eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his bloud they cannot have life yet he was an offering for sin and also suffered without the gate of Jerusalem as the Sin-offering was commanded to be burnt without the gate of which the Priests of Moses might not eat but the Christian may eat of the Sin-offering of Christs Body yea he must eat of it if he will have life and benefit by it Therefore it is that the Apostle saith of