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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bread_n	life_n	manna_n	4,497	5	12.2368	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60584	A sermon about frequent communion preached before the University of Oxford, August the 17th, 1679 / by Tho. Smith ...	Smith, Thomas, 1638-1710.	1685 (1685)	Wing S4248; ESTC R39556	22,930	42

us and baffle our purposes and resolutions This drives us upon our knees again and we pray God not to leave us to our selves and by degrees we gain greater measures of strength and in some sort get the mastery over the inclinations of corrupted nature This holds much more in the Sacrament when we go to it with fresh desires and more vigorous resolutions of living a holy and truly Christian life and when we reflect upon our failings and miscarriages since our last receiving with deep humiliation and sorrow Thou O Lord God art full of compassion and mercy long suffering plenteous in goodness and truth O turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me give thy strength unto thy servant and help the son of thy hand-maid We need no invitations to satisfie the natural desires of the body which is nourished and cherished and oftentimes pampered by us Nature has laid upon us a necessity of daily food for the preservation of life to repair those decays which we daily suffer without this we consume and dye Now if we believe the blessed Sacrament to be the food of the Soul that we grow and are strengthened in grace by this bread of life the true spiritual manna that comes down from heaven that is designed by God for this purpose and conveys his blessing and sanctifying graces to all worthy receivers that by virtue of this nourishment we either retain or recover our vigour and healthfulness of mind and that without it we languish and decay in the inward man there would be no keeping us from this heavenly banquet at the Lord's table where there can be no fear of a furfeit where we eat and drink health and salvation and where Christ himself is the entertainer and the entertainment 100. For thou O Christ as the Greek Priest prays in the Liturgy of St. Chrysostome just before the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when they carry the gifts from the Prothesis to the Altar where he consecrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thou offerest and yet art offered up thou receivedst the Elements into thy holy hands and yet at the same time thy body and bloud are distributed thou O Christ makest this bread in the Sacrament to be thy flesh mystically which thou still givest for the life of the World Can we eat too much or too often of this bread of life whereby we are nourished to immortality the holy Elements being the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for so St. Clement in his former Epistle to the Corinthians must be understood that is not of the doctrine of our blessed Saviour for that is mentioned in the following clause 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 much less of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or things pertaining to our bodily sustinance and things of this life as Junius thought fit to explain but of the divine viaticum of the Sacrament that we may not faint in the journey which we are taking to the other world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for it immediately follows 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to which there can be no other relative but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which express testimony of this Apostolical writer for the Divinity of our blessed Saviour I could not but observe by the bye to help to confound the arrogance and blasphemy of that profest Arian Sandius so that these words seem clearly to relate to the Sacrament where the sufferings of Christ are so livelily represented to our sight 3. By frequent receiving of the Sacrament we are more and more made partakers of the benefits and blessings and merits of Christ's holy passion and death It is the great artifice of the Roman Church to keep up the credit of their private Masses to which antiquity is a mere stranger to make the people believe that the Priest hath a power of applying the efficacy and merit of Christ's sacrifice to their particular benefit for whom he intends it so they contribute somewhat in the way of charity or gift and are but present in the time of the celebration But 't is certain that before superstition and corruption of Doctrine had overspread that Church and before they had perverted this most solemn part of the Christian worship into a mere piece of pageantry and theatrical shew all that was anciently designed by the mentioning the names of the living to say nothing at present of the commemoration of the dead at that time as is clear from the Canon of the Mass still in use was onely by way of intercession that God would be pleased for the merits of his Son's death which they were then commemorating to have mercy on them to forgive them their sins and to pour down of his grace abundantly upon them and not onely upon them but upon the whole number of Christian people throughout the world But this cannot yield such peace and quiet and satisfaction to my conscience as my own particular application of the merits of Christ's sufferings to my self what another does for me cannot be my act when I am obliged to do it in my own person and not by my representative I am to eat his flesh in the Sacrament and drink his bloud if I would live in him and by him Now Christ by his death hath satisfied the divine Justice and reconciled us to the Father who no longer imputes our sins to our charge and condemnation the bloud that he spilt upon the cross is the seal of an everlasting covenant for this cause he is the mediatour of a new covenant that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant they which were called might receive the promise of an everlasting inheritance Heb. 9.15 So that now heaven and salvation are made over by God by virtue of this expiatory Sacrifice to all that truly believe in his Son's name This Sacrifice was made once for all upon the Altar of the Cross but the merit reaches backward to the first being and original of things and looks forward to the end of the world and to eternal ages It is as to the fruit and efficacy of it as present to God as if Christ were born every day into the world again and really every day offered up or as if it were but yesterdy or but just now offered it being all-sufficient and of infinite value and fully accepted by God as a just price and ransome Now that he suffered this bitter and cursed death upon the cross for me and that I may apply all the saving benefits of his passion to my self he assures me by giving me his body and bloud Every time we receive the Sacrament worthily there is a new confirmation of our pardon the spirit of God beareth witness with our spirit that we are his children and reinstated in his grace and favour 'T is an infallible pledge of our immortality and that he will raise us up at the last day as much as if his natural flesh and