Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	grant_v	king_n	manor_n	2,135	5	9.7649	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29341	The Christian sacrament and sacrifice by way of discourse, meditation, & prayer upon the nature, parts, and blessings of the holy communion / by Dan. Brevint.	Brevint, Daniel, 1616-1695.	1673 (1673)	Wing B4417; ESTC R23806	53,735	149

in this inferior part of the kingdom where this Patriarck was faithfull it it a sufficient assurance that in time He will also make them sit in that other Palace where this holy Man is now happy and whosoever are admitted to the Dinner of the Lamb slain Matth. 22.4 unless they be wanting to themselves must not doubt of being admitted to that wedding Supper of the same Lamb who once was dead but now is Living for ever Luk. 14.16 Revel 19.9 4. The consequence and connexion that these two Festivals have one with the other was most sweetly alluded to by our Savior when he asked the Disciples who talked of sitting at his Right hand in his Glory whether they could pass to it throught the same Baptism and the same Cup. Mark 10.37.38 And S. Paul meant as much when he said that by the holy Eucharist we set forth the Lords death til he come 1. Cor. 11.26 Both referring and continuing this holy Mystery to the second Coming of Christ not only as to the End where it must cease but chiefly as to the Scope that it looks to and to that happiness at his coming where it must be fullfilled And truly since our Savior scarce ever speaks of his own death but as a forerunner and Preparative to his Resurrection and often joines in one Clause and delivers as it were with one breath both his Crucifiction and his Glory Mark 10.34 it it very fit unless we put asunder these two Things which Christ commonly did put together that the Sacrament which he instituted purposely to represent the one which is already accomplished should at the least cast an Eye towards the other which we look for 5. Nay it must look and lead that way upon another and much stronger necessity Our Savior hath given us three kinds of life by his Passion and He promises to nourish and maintain us in every one of them by these tokens of Bread and Wine which he hath made his Sacrament This Sacrament affords help and improvement for two as t is said before but there is a third more that we are not yet come to This is that eternal Life for which this present world is too vile an Element and we our selves as yet too vile vessells Till we acquire by Grace and pious Endeavors a greater Perfection and till we grow to that stature as may fit us to bear up that weight of Eternal Glory we are neither of age to enjoy our Inheritance nor of ability to manage well that great Estate and wear those noble Ornaments that attend it and therefore it lyes hidden from us with Christ in God and as it were under his Custody I Know whom I have believed and I am perswaded he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that Day 2. Tim. 1.12 that is by Faith we deposit this great Treasure in the hands of God to keep and God by this Sacrament assures us and engages himself that he will both keep it safe for us and restore it to us whensoever we are fit for it 6. This third use is the Crown and the Accomplishment of the two other And tho the Sacrament hath three Faces and looks three several waies the Past the present and the future yet as to the main end these three aim at one and the same Glory The first use of this Sacrament is to set out as new and fresh the great and holy Sufferings which have purchased our Title to Everlasting Happiness the second is both to represent the quality and to afford us the help of all necessary Graces true Effluxes of these Sufferings to capacitate us towards it and the third is to assure us that when we are capacitated by these Graces God and his Christ will faithfully surrender to us the Purchace it self that is eternal Happiness And these three Parts put together make up the proper and true sense of these words Take and eat this is my Body for the consecrated Bread is not said to be the Lords Body only because it represents the Lords Body but because also as to our present use on Earth it doth as good as exhibit it and as to our Happiness in Heaven bought with the price of this Body it is the most solemn Instrument to assure our Title to it 7. Thus the consecrated Elements are no more the Body and Blood of Christ in that sense that Pictures and Maps set about Rooms are commonly called Kings and Countries only because they represent them but as Patents also granted by Kings or other Deeds and Evidences left in our houses by our Ancestors are called Lands Estates and Manors because they convey over to us most really both the Title and Possession of all the goods which they mention Represent to your mind Jacob dividing among his Children every Parcel of his Estate and withal surrendring the Titles that belong to each Division take thou this Joseph this is the Field which my Grand Father Abraham bought of Hephron and you Manasehs come you hither this is the Land which I got from the Amorite It is most certain that the surrendring such Instruments altho in themselves but Papers or Parchments is in very deed nothing less then giving away the very Lands And Deeds and lands may very well go together under one Name since by giving whether Deeds or Lands whether Patents or Priviledges Fathers and other Benefactors do both intend and effect the same Thing If it happen somtimes among men that Right and Possession take not one way that our best Titles are laid aside and that we cannot enjoy those Estates whereof either our Kings or Fathers have left us most clear Evidences this falls out so by unhappy Rencounters of either weakness or injustice or ignorance which are not to be found in Christ Here then Christ our blessed Savior being desirous before his death as by a Deed of his last will to settle upon his true Disciples both such a measure of his Grace in this life as might in part make them Holy and after this life such a fullness of all Blessings as might make them eternally happy He delivers into their hands by way of Instrument and Conveyance the blessed Sacrament of his Body and Blood the true Root and stem of all Blessings in the same manner as to his Intention but in a surer way as to the Event and effect as Kings use to bestow Dignities by the bestowing of a staff or sword and Fathers pass as much as they please of their Estates on their Children by giving them some few writings 8. The true reason of all this is because the Giver is not able to transfer into his Friends hands Houses and Lands because they are of an immoveable Nature and therefore this must be supplyed by substituting in stead of Lands some Ceremonies forms or tokens which may visibly pass from hand to hand and shew to all ends and purposes both the Intention that the one hath to