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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bread_n	eat_v	wilderness_n	2,114	5	11.1229	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26478	A testimony of antiquity shewing the ancient faith in the Church of England, touching the sacrament of the body and blood of the Lord here publickly preached, and also received in the Saxons time, above 600 years agoe.; Sermo de sacrificio in die Pascae. English	Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham.; Joscelyn, John, 1529-1603.; Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.	1675 (1675)	Wing A677; ESTC R38168	20,773	42

from heaven not so as your forefathers eat that heavenly bread in the wilderness and afterward died He that eateth this bread he liveth for ever He blessed bread before his suffering and divided it to his Disciples thus saying Eat this bread it is my body and do this in my remembrance Also he blessed wine in one cup and said Drink ye all of this This is my blood that is shed for many in forgiveness of sins The Apostles did as Christ commanded that is they blessed bread and wine to housell again afterward in his remembrance Even so also their successors and all Priests by Christs commandment do bless bread and wine to housell in his name with the Apostolick blessing Now some men have often searched and do yet often search how bread that is gathered of corn and through fires heat baked may be turned to Christs body and how wine that is pressed out of many grapes is turned through one blessing to the Lords blood Now say we to such men That some things be spoken of Christ by signification some thing by thing certain True thing is and certain that Christ was born of a Maid and suffered death of his own accord and was buried and on this day rose from death He is said bread by signifition and a Lamb and a Lyon and some where otherwise He is called Bread because he is our life and Angells life He is said to be a Lamb for his innocency A Lyon for strength wherewith he overcame the strong Devil But Christ is not so notwithstanding after true nature neither Bread nor a Lamb nor a Lyon Why is then the holy housell called Christs body or his blood if it be not truely that it is called Truely the bread and wine which by the Mass of the Priest is hallowed shew one thing without to humane understanding and an other thing they call within to believing minds Without they be seen bread and wine both in figure and in tast and they be truely after their hallowing Christs body and his blood through ghostly mystery An heathen child is christened yet he altereth not his shape without though he be changed within He is brought to the font-stone sinful through Adams disobedience Howbeit he is washed from all sin within though he hath not changed his shape without Even so the holy Font water that is called the well-spring of life is like in shape to other waters and is subject to corruption but the holy ghosts might cometh to the corruptible water through the Priests blessing and it may after wash the body and soul from all sin through ghostly might Behold now we see two things in this one creature After true nature that water is corruptible water and after ghostlie mystery hath hollowing might So also if we behold that holy housell after bodily understanding then see we that it is a creature corruptible and mutable if we acknowledge therein ghostly might then understand we that life is therein and that it giveth immortality to them that eat it with belief Much is betwixt the invisible might of the holy housell and the visible shape of his proper nature It is naturally corruptible bread and corruptible wine and is by might of Gods word truly Christs body and his blood not so notwithstanding bodily but ghostly Much is betwixt the 𝄁 body Christ suffered in and the body that is hallowed to housell The body truly that Christ suffered in was born of the flesh of Mary with blood and with bone with skin and with sinewes in humane limbs with a reasonable soul living and his ghostly body which we call the housell is gathered of many cornes without blood and bone without limb without soul and therefore nothing is to be understood therein bodily but all is ghostly to be understood Whatsoever is in that housell which giveth substance of life that is of the ghostly might and invisible doing Therefore is that holy housell called a mysterie because there is one thing in it seen an other thing understanded That which is there seen hath bodilie shape and that we do there understand hath ghostlie might Certainly Christs bodie which suffered death and rose from death never dieth henceforth but is Eternal and unpassible That housell is Temporal not Eternal Corruptible and dealed into sundry parts Chewed between the teeth and sent into the belly howbeit nevertheless after ghostly might it is all in every part Many receive that holy bodie and yet notwithstanding it is so all in every part after ghostly mysterie Though some chew less deal yet is there no more might notwithstanding in the more part then in the less because it is whole in all men after the invisible might This mysterie is a pledg and a figure Christs bodie is truth it self This pledge we do keep mysticallie untill we be come to the truth it self and then is this pledg ended Truly it is so as we before have said Christs body and his blood not bodilie but ghostlie And ye should not search how it is done but hold it in your belief that it is so done We read in an other book called Vita patrum that two Monkes desired of God some demonstration touching the holy housell and after their request as they stood to hear Mass they saw a child lying on the altar where the Priest said Mass and Gods Angel stood with a sword and abode looking untill the Priest brake the housel Then the Angel divided that child upon the dish and sbed his blood into the Chalice But when they did go to the housel then was it turned to bread and wine and they did eat it giving God thanks for that shewing Also S. Gregory desired of Christ that he would shew to a certain woman doubting about his mysterie some great affirmation She went to housell with doubting mind and Gregory forthwith obtained of God that to them both was shewed that part of the housel which the woman should receive as if there lay in a dish a joynt of a finger all beblooded and so the womans doubting was then forthwith healed But now hear the Apostles words about this mystery Paul the Apostle speaketh of the old Israelites thus writing in his Epistle to faithful men All our fore-fathers were baptised in the cloud in the sea and all they eat the same ghostlie meat and drank the fame ghostly drink They drank truly of the Stone that followed them and that Stone was Christ Neither was that Stone then from which the water ran bodily Christ but it signified Christ that calleth thus to all believing and Faithful men Whosoever thirsteth let him come to me and drink And from his bowels floweth lively water This he said of the Holy Ghost whom he receiveth which believeth on him The Apostle Paul saith That the Israelites did eat the same ghostly meat

and after Arch-bishop of York who made Aelfrick Abbot of St. Albons Wulfsine Bishop of Scyrburn unto whom Aelfrick writeth the first of the Epistles we here speak of Elfleda a Nun of Romesey and Wulhilda Abbess of Barking lived in the daies of King Edgar And last of all Wulfritha King Edgar's Concubine All these I say with some other more be Canonized for Saints of this Age in which Aelfrick himself lived in great fame and credit Also Leofrick and Wulfsine whom we have shewed to have been the givers of those anon-books wherein be seen Aelfricks Epistles be reverenced for most holy Men and Saints of their Churches And these two lived Bishops in the coming in of the Conqueror Thus do some men now-a-daies not only dissent in doctrine from their own Church but also from that Age of their Church which they have thought most holy and judged a most excellent pattern to be followed Wherefore what may we now think of that great consent whereof the Romanists have long made vaunt to wit Their Doctrine to have continued many hundred years as it were linked together with a continual chain whereof hath been no breach at any time Truly this their so great affirmation hath uttered unto us no truth as good Christian Reader thou mayest well judge by duly weighing of this which hath been spoken and by the reading also of that which here followeth whereunto I now leave thee Trusting that after thou hast well weighed this matter of such manner of the being of Christs Body in the Sacrament as sheweth this Testimony no untruth or dishonour shall need to be attributed to Christ's loving words pronounced at his last Supper among his Apostles no derogation to his most Sacred Institution no diminishing of any comfort to Christian mens souls in the use of his reverend Sacrament but all things to stand right up most agreeably both to the verity of Christs infallible words and to the right nature congruence and efficacies of so holy a Sacrament and finally most comfortable to the conscience of man for his spiritual uniting and incorporation with Christ's blessed Body and Bloud to immortality and for the sure Gage of his Resurrection Amen A SERMON Of the PASCHAL LAMB And of the Sacramental body and bloud of CHRIST our Saviour Written in the old Saxon tongue before the Conquest and appointed in the Reign of the Saxons to be spoken to the people at Easter before they should receive the Communion MEN beloved it hath been often said unto you about our Saviours Resurrection how he on this present day after his suffering mightily rose from death Now will we open unto you through Gods grace of the holy housell which ye should now go unto and instruct your understanding about this mystery both after the old Covenant and also after the new that no doubting may trouble you about this lively food The Almighty God bad Moses his Captain in the land of Aegypt to command the people of Israel for to take for every family a Lamb of one year old the night they departed out of the country to the land of promise and to offer that Lamb to God and after to cut it and to make the sign of the Cross with the Lambs blood upon the side posts and the upper posts of their door and afterward to eat the Lambs flesh rosted and unleavened bread with wild lettice God saith unto Moses Eat of the Lamb nothing raw or sodden in water but rosted with fire Eate the head the feet and the inwards and let nothing of it be left until the morning if any thing thereof remain that shall you burn with fire Eat it in this wise Gird your loins and doe your shoes on your seet have you staves in your hands and eat it in hast This time is the Lords Passover And then was slain on that night in every house throughout Pharoahs raign the first born child and Gods people of Israel were delivered from that suddain death through the Lambs offering and his bloods marking Then said God unto Moses Keep this day in your remembrance and hold it a great feast in your kinreds with a perpetual observation and eat unleavened bread alwaies seven daies at this feast After this deed God led the people of Israel over the red sea with dry foot and drowned therein Pharaoh and all his army together with their possessions and fed afterward the Israelites forty years with heavenly food and gave them water out of the hard rock until they came to the promised land Part of this story we have treated of in another place part we shall now declare to wit that which belongeth to the holy housell Christian men may not now keep that old law bodily but it behoveth them to know what it ghostly signifieth That innocent Lamb which the old Israelites did then kill had signification after ghostly understanding of Christs suffering who unguilty shed his holy blood for our Redemption Hereof sing Gods servants at every Mass Agnus dei qui tollis peccata mundi miserere nobis That is in our speech Thou Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us Those Israelites were delivered from that suddain death and from Pharaohs bondage by the Lambs offering which signified Christs suffering through which we be delivered from everlasting death and from the Devils cruel raign if we rightly believe in the true Redeemer of the whole world Christ the Saviour That Lamb was offered in the evening and our Saviour suffered in the sixt age of this world This age of this corruptible world is reckoned unto the evening They marked with the Lambs blood upon the doors and the upper posts Tau that is the sign of the Cross and were so defended from the Angel that killed the Aegyptians first born child And we ought to mark our foreheads and our bodies with the token of Christs rood that we may be also delivered from destruction when we shall be marked both on forehead and also in heart with the blood of our Lords suffering Those Israelites eat the Lambs flesh at their Easter time when they were delivered and we receive ghostly Christs body and drink his blood when we receive with true belief that holy housell That time they kept with them at Easter seven daies with great worship when they were delivered from Pharaoh and went from that land So also Christian men keep Christs resurrection at the time of Easter these seven daies because through his suffering and rising we be delivered and be made clean by going to this holy housell as Christ faith in his Gospel Verily verily I say unto you ye have no life in you except ye eat my flesh and drink my bloud He that cateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me and I in him and hath that everlasting life and I shall raise him up at the last day I am the lively bread that came down