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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	blood_n	flesh_n	meat_n	9,640	5	9.2298	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02398	The demonstration of Antichrist. By Edmund Gurnay, Bach. Theol. p. of Harpley Norfolke	Gurnay, Edmund, d. 1648.	1631 (1631)	STC 12529; ESTC S120940	7,082	36

else if it constantly affirmes that to bee a morsell of bread which indeed is the perfit Body of a man Is not therein the Word of God blasphemed And as for his Reuealed Word both His Originall Word the Scriptures and also His deriued Word the Fathers are not they also contradicted and blasphemed by this position For first concerning the Scripture does not that euery where tell vs That our Sauiour was in euery point like a man That He had the face limbs and properties of a man That Hee did eat drinke and speake like a man Also doe not the Scriptures expresly say That the Heauens must containe him till all things bee restored Acts 3.20 And that He shall so descend from heauen as Hee first ascended vp into heauen Whereas by this position Hee hath for these 1600. yeeres continually descended bodily from heauen not once in such a manner descend as Hee first ascended Yea the Scripture euery where tells vs that now Hee is in the state of Glory whereas this position contriues Him into a more vile forme than euer man had and tyes Him to a more base condition than euer any man or indeed any liuing creature did vndergoe For though they seeme to doe Him great honour while they carry Him about in those breaden formes in their pompous processions yer when withall they professe that in the end he is to be eaten vnder those breaden formes all the honour they bestow on him is no better honour vnto him then the guilding the Buls hornes when hee is led to be baited is an honour vnto the Bull. Finally the Bread which our Sauiour termed His Body does not the Scripture every where call it still bread notwithstanding He tooke brake blessed and gaue Bread say all the Euangelists sometime also saying as much of the cup as of the wine Paul also calling it bread both in the blessing and in the eating and also after the eating and the Acts of the Apostles terming these Communions Chap. 2.42 a continuance in breaking bread and Chap. 20.7 a comming together to break bread And all the Fathers for many hundred yeeres together immediately following the first Institution when at any time they made mention of it as securely calling it bread as if they neuer imagined that any would euer make question thereof And for proofe hereof wee haue thought good to close vp this point with a border of citation● out of them leauing the force of their sayings to the applicati●●● of the Reader for breuity sake Clemens Romanus to cite them according to the times wherein they liued saith thus of it We offer vnto thee our King and our God this bread and this wine giuing thee thankes Concil Tom. 2. Ignatius thus There is one flesh of our Lord Iesus and one Bloud one bread and one cup. Epist 2. Iustine Martyr thus When prayers are finished Bread and Wine is offered And elsewhere thus Christ hath giuen the bread to the end wee should remember that He was made a body for such as should beleeue In Dial. contra Tryphon and Apolog. 2. Irenaeus Martyr thus As the Eucharist consisting of two natures the earthly and the heauenly so our Bodies c. Tertullian thus Calling the bread His body to the end you may vnderstand that He hath giuen bread to bee a figure of His body Contra Marcion 3.19 Clemens Alexandrinus thus The Wine signifies the Bloud allegorically Lib. de paedagog 10.6 Origen thus If you take this saying Except ye eat the flesh of the sonne of man c. according to the Letter the Letter killeth Hom. 7. in Leuit. elswhere thus After we haue giuen thankes we eat the Loues presented Contra Celsun 8. Cyprian thus Our Lord gaue with His owne hands bread and wine which He called His Body De vnct Chris and elswhere thus This bread is conuerted into our flesh and bloud and serueth for our life Epist 2. Eusebius Caesariensis thus Christ and His Ministers doe represent the mysteries of His Body and Bloud by bread and wine De Demonst Euangel 5.3 Athanasius thus How few would his Body haue sufficed that it should be meat for all the world In illud quicunque c. Concilium Nicenum thus Wee must not basely humiliter be intent vpon the bread and the eup but lifting vp our mindes by faith c. Concil 1. Macarius Egypt thus In the Church bread and wine is offered being the figure of his flesh and bloud Homil. 27. Epiphanius thus Christ speaking of a loafe which is round in figure and cannot see heare nor feele saith of it This is my Body In Anchor Ambrose thus Thou sawest the Sacraments vpon the Altar and wondredst at the creature yet is it a solemne and knowne creature De Sacram. 4.3 And elsewhere thus In the Law was a shadow in the Gospell an image in Heauen the truth Lib. 10. ex offic C. 48. Gregory Nissen thus Whose hath abundantly drunke of the Apostles springs hath already receiued whole Christ In vi● Mos Chrysostome thus If it be dangerous to transferre sanctified vessels vnto priuate vses where in not the true Body of Christ but onely a mysterie of that body is contained how much les● ought wee to giue the vessels of our owne bodies to the deuil● which God hath prepared for himselfe to inhabit In Matth. 5. Homil. 11. and elsewhere thus It is counted worthy to be called the Lords Body though the nature of bread remaineth there still Ad Caesar Monach. citat à ●arijs Author And againe thus Wooll when it is died is called no longer wooll but Purple or Scarlet though the nature of wooll stil remaineth In Psal 22. Gregory Nazianzen thus We ●ow partake the Passeouer ●hough in a figure yet much more cleare than in the old Law De Pasch Orat. 2. Hierome thus Christ is not corporally in the Church In Prou 1. ● and elsewhere thus Christ left bread and wine as he that goes ●voyage leaues a gage In prim ●d Corinth 11. and againe thus I take the Gospel to be the body of Christ and that more truly than the Sacrament In Psal 147. Austine thus If we looke to the visible signes by which the Sacraments are performed who can bee ignorant that they are corruptible De Bapt. Lib. 3. Cap. 10. And elsewhere thus By reason of the resemblance betwixt the Sacraments and the things the Sacraments often times take the name of the things Epist 23. And elsewhere thus this is a perfit rule to vnderstand whether a speech be figuratiue that whatsoeuer in Scripture cannot bee referred vnto integrity o● faith or verity of manners that resolue thy selfe is figuratiue D● doctr Chr. Lib. 3. Chap. 10. Where upon hee inferres our Sauiour speech of eating his flesh to be figuratiue because according to the Letter it is a sinfull act calling it a carnall sense to take figuratiue speeches properly and a