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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	bread_n	eat_v	manna_n	4,436	5	12.4770	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00003	A sermon preached at Paules-Crosse the second day of Iune, being the last Sunday in Easter terme. 1622. By Thomas Ailesbury student in diuinitie	Ailesbury, Thomas, fl. 1622-1659.	1623 (1623)	STC 1000; ESTC S101513	32,856	62

a mans dwelling in a house the house cannot bee said to goe to speake c. but the man dwelling in the house so not the body euery where but the Godhead dwelling in the body There is a being of Essence and a being of Subsistence the Essence of the Humanity is finite because a creature But the being of subsistence hauing none of it owne because it subsisteth in the person of the Sonne of God is infinit so the finite humanity doth infinitely subsist in the Godhead and in a sense may be sayd to bee euery where This with Zanchy doe I conceiue to be the mind of some of the Germane Diuines and especially that learned Chemnitius f 〈…〉 Christs body then is locally in one place but personally in al places Salua vtriusque naturae proprietate saith the great Councell g 〈…〉 of Calcedon it hath his vbi not vbique not euery where but wheresoeuer so saith my Text Vbicunque fuerit corpus c. Wheresoeuer the body is thither will the Eagles be gathered together Thus haue I now done with the absolute and Theoreticall explications of this Text passe I now vnto those more respectiue and passionate applications wherein I shall implore for Heauens assistance and your patience for the continuance thereof Obser 1 The Eagles are gathered to the dead body but for food Christ saith * 〈…〉 Comment 〈◊〉 Gorran is the prey of Eagles The Eagle saith Iob h lib 6 3● seeketh her prey her eyes behold it afarre off her young ones also sucke the blood and where the slaine is there is he The immaculate Body that was slaine the precious blood that was spilt the Eagles and the young ones the fa●thfull and the faithfull branches doe eate the one sucke the other and are refreshed In the i Io● ●6 35 sixt of Iohn I am saith Christ the bread of life he that commeth vnto me shall neuer hunger and hee that beleeueth on mee shall neuer thirst The Iewes did eate of that food the like to which no Nation did euer eate yet they loathed this spirituall Manna the like to which they neuer tasted This bread saith k Aug. tract 26. in Ioan. S. Augustine is the bread of righteousnesse and accordingly doth our Sauiour speak Blessed are those that hunger and thirst after righteousnesse and to come home to Christ this righteousnesse is Christ l 1 Cor. 1.30 who is made vnto vs righteousnesse saith the Apostle And this righteousnesse is Manna from Heauen Quam dat Deus non quam sibi facit homo Aug. which God giueth not which man doeth This bread then is Righteousnesse this Righteousnesse is Christ this Christ is the Body this Body is a dead Body on which the holy Eagles feed and are refreshed If m Ioh. 6 51. any man shall eate of this bread he shall liue for euer the bread that I will giue is my flesh which I giue for the life of the world If any man eate of it not qui premit dente but qui credit mente not orally by the body but mentally by faith the efficacy of it he shall liue for euer The woman n Ioh. 4. of Samaria when Christ told her of the water that hee would giue which should so quench her thirst that she should neuer thirst againe Lord saith she giue me of this water that I neuer thirst She had but a carnall conceit Let vs lift vp our soules our hearts our affections our all to feed on this bread of life Christ saith non in solo pane c. Mat. 4. Man liueth not by bread alone but by euery word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God Diues fared delicately but his soule was starued one drop of the water of grace would haue yeelded more comfort to his tormented soule then all the variety wherewith here he was satiated How many of vs glut the body with pompous fare and in the interim suffer the soule to perish for want of spirituall food Oh suffer not your soules your selues to perish here is refreshing Aug vt s●p●● Qui vult viuere habet vbi viuat habet vnde viuat Hee that would see and liue many good dayes he hath where he might liue wherewith he might liue Labour saith our Lord not for the meat which perisheth but for the meat which perisheth not Sic homo laboret in terra vt postea regnet in Coelo Oh man so labour in this world that thou maist liue in the world to come Behold a Creator become a Redeemer a Redeemer tooke a body that body made a dead body for the Saints to feed on and bee refreshed Obser 2 This property of resorting to the carkas ●s communicated to the Rauens and others yet none named but the Eagles The Eagle o Amb. ●● expos ●●lo al●a petit humilia de●clinquit A p ●a●●●●●us conco●● cap 123. pa● 84. Princely bird of a piercing sight a swift and lofty flight vnderstanding the Saints who are Kings ouer their affections rule their passions contemne the world and mount aloft after heauenly things Learne of the Eagle two things first to contemne the world H●●● 〈…〉 she is euer mounting vpwards and sets light by the things that are below She neuer condescendeth to any of these inferiour things but when necessity compels not when superfluity lures her Iust so is it with the Saints of God that vse this world as if they vsed it not wherewith to supply their necessary wants and no farther Such Eagles were Zacheus that left his extortion Matthew his toll-gathering Peter all Nec invtilis commutatio omnia relinquere proco qui supra omnia saith blessed q Ber. de●am super E●ce reliq●●mus c. Bernard A happy change to leaue all for him who is worth more then all for what fruit or profit is there in coueting those things that will away Quae etsi non deserant deserenda sunt saith r Leo ser 5. in Ep●p● Dom. Leo. Say they leaue not vs yet we must take our leaue of them The Eagles catch not at flyes the Saints catch not at the flies of this world that flie away and leaue nothing behinde them but remorse of conscience Quod tangit the thing that did touch them with pleasure passeth Quod angit the sting that pricks them still remayneth How much doe many that would be accounted Eagles degenerate from these celestiall Eagles that are so grafted so linked to the world so screwed so glewed to their riches When they are awake they sigh how to come by riches when they are a-sleepe they dreame how to preserue them securely And so nec vigiliae laetae nec somnus securus saith Saint ſ Hom. de mis duabus Viduts Chrysostome neither quiet when they are awake nor well at ease when they are a sleepe Contemne contemne this world If riches increase set not thy heart vpon them t Praefat. affix