Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	blood_n	body_n	holy_a	11,079	5	5.1892	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13855	A bryef [and] short declaracyon made, wherbye euerye chrysten man maye knowe, what is a sacrament Of what partes a sacramente consysteth and is made, for what intent sacramentes were instituted, and what is the pryncypall effect of sacramentes, [and] finally of the abuse of the sacrament of chrystes body and bloud.	Tracy, Richard, d. 1569.	1548 (1548)	STC 24162; ESTC S118530	10,151	32

of the bodye Chryste and membres your mysterye is see vpon the boorde of the lorde / you receyue the mystery of the lord vnto that you be ye Answere Amen And so answerynge you subscrybe or affyrme also the same doctours wrytynge vpon the holye feaste of Easter saythe because Chryste hath suffred for vs he hath commended to vs ī thys sacramente hys bodye and bloude whych also he hath made vs our selues for we be made his body and through his mercy we be the same whych we receyue Thus the holy doctors in the prymatiue Church cauled the sacramente a sacrifice wherin we offer owre selues a lyuynge Sacryfyce from all synnes mortyfyed and deade not meanynge that the pryests shulde offre a Sacryfyce to GOD for synne whych oblacyons should defyne remyssyon of Synne euer for the workes sake as folysh Sophysters wryte contrary to the holy scryptures What lyuynge Creatures hearynge Sayncte Augustyne wrytting in thys maner of the sacrament wyl not Iudg it the speache a Mystycall speache and not to be taken as the woordes sounde Also oure clargye offerynge vs the Sacramēte geue it to GOD as a Sacryfyce for Synne whyche we be commaunded of Chryste to receaue as a memoryall of a benefytte geuen by hym vnto vs to nourysshe and confyrme oure faythe thereby and not to be geuen by vs vnto hym Thus they declare them selues to be ryghte Antychrystes whyche manyfestlye chaunge CHRISTES or denaunces and vse them cleane contrary turnyng receauyng to geuing thys is not to do these thynges in the remembraunce of Christ but rather to put al Christes doynges out of remembraunce They sell the same to vs for moneye whych Christ hath geuen vs frely wherfore they make vs very fooles to bye with our money that thynge whych is our oune most surely alreadye by goddes gyfte And thus by byenge of oure owne we not only lo●se our monye but also commit Simony byeng the spyrytuall gyfte of God for temporall rewarde The clergy also robbe not onelye the poore wyddowes but manye other also takyng money for the applyenge of a sacrament as a sacrifyce for the dead which cānot eate it nor do it in the remēbraunce of Chryste nor geue thankes for it which is required of euery faythfull receauer therof to do For as the wordes of God profyteth no man but only such as hereth it beleueth it that so in lyke maner the sacrament profyteth not any man except he receue it and beleue the promyses therto annexed thys is the moost wycked crafte subtilty of the deuel that all such thing whych be moost Godly so proffitable to all men that by theyr craft or subtilty they can not cause such thinges to be had in hatred then seke they out newe pellices craftes wherby the vse of such godly thīges way be kept secret or els vnknowen or not regarded or els so altered chaunged that the proffytable effect therof be not perceyued yet whyle they permyt and let the name of the thing continue in a graet admyration and estimacyon but not profytable to men And thus oftentymes it is come to passe that such thinges which we reinstituted and ordeyned very proffytable to men nowe through the vse or more truly sayde abuse of them they be bee ● me very vnpoffytable hurtfull and also wycked The onely cause of thys is that we followe not Chryste in doctryne and exāple but with great gredynes folow the fond opynyon of men where God by hys prophet reproueth vs saying my people haue done twoo euelles Esaye●● they haue forsaken me the fountayne of lyfe and dygged thē sesternes euen such as can not holde waters also Cypryane that blessed Martyr and auncyent wryter Sypryane to Sesyliū sayth Iesus christ our lord he is the hygh Pryst by god the father and he fyrste offred Sacryfyce to god the father and commaunded that to be done in the remembraunce of hym Verelye that pryste occupyeth trulye the Roume / and stede of chryst whych foloweth that whych chryste dyd and then offreth a true sacryfyceful in the church to god the father when he Begynnythe euen so to offer as he seeth and parceyueth chryste to haue offred But otherwyse all the Lernyng of relygyon and of the trueth is conuerted and ouerthrowē yf that whych is spyrytually commaunded be not faythfully obserued and kept Therfore the cleargye ought to be reformed by the kynge and hys honorable coūsell that from Henceforthe they shulde not make any sacryfyce for quycke and dead of the sacramente whych sacryfyce for the workes sake shulde deserue remyssion of synnes for ther is no thyng more contrarye to remyssyon of synnes / frely gyuen by grace also it is playne contrary to Christes fyrst institucyon of the sacrament which ordeyned it to be a memory all of Chrystes onely sacryfyce wherin we receaue remyssyon of Sinnes And yf the pryestes sacramente be a sacryfyce for the synnes of the quick and of the deade why than is not the sacrament whych the lay men receyue as well a sacryfyce for the quyck and the dead or els let our clergy shewe by the scrypturs howe theyr sacrament is of more value befor God then ours of the layety And yet I doubt not but yf a laye man shuld dayly receaue the sacrament and take money therfore sayinge that he dyd make a sacryfyce for the remissyon of the synnes of the quyck and the dead that our clergy wold not sease vntyl they wyth fyer had made hym dead and not lyuing and quicke Thus it is come to pas that the vse of the sacrament onely serueth the couetouse appetyte Dronkennes whordome and iust of the wycked pryests And not one ministre therof administre it duely as Chryste instytuted it that is for the spyrytuall comforte and for the confyrmacyon of the faythe of the receyuer of the sacrament because the word of Christes Instytucyon is not declared in the admynystracyon of the Sacrament chryste is not Receyued whyche onelye by faythe muste be receyued thorough the hearynge of hys woorde declared And because in the admynystracyon of the Sacrament the cleargye doo not declare the woordes of chrystes Instytucyon whych woordes by Goddes promysse of remyssyon of Synnes through Chrystes Bodye betrayed and hys bloud shedde The receyuers of the Sacrament receyue it wyth out Fayth to they re Dampnacyon for Faythe commeth by herynge of goddes woorde whyche they here not declared wherfore they can not beleue Note well Chrystē Reader whether our clargy be not most detestable sacramētaryes which take awaye chrystes woordes of Instytucyō of the sacramēte of hys body and bloude in the admynystracyon there of wherby the materyal substaūce of bred and wine shuld be made a sacrament to the receyuers therof marke well also whether they doo not contrarye to Goddes comaundement adde and put to wordes of theyr oun faynt imagynacyon tātas● whych nother chryste nor hys Apostles nor the prymatyue church dyd other practysse or commaunde Thyrdely consydere gentell reader that oure cleargye do not declare any benyfytes of god shewed to vs in Iesu Chryst nor they ●omforte not vs whych be oppressed wythsynne nor confyrme owre fayth through chrystes bodye be trayed And hys bloude shed for the remyssyon of oure synnes thus depriue they vs both of the sacrament and of all chrystes benefytes and of all consolacyon and yoye which we shulde receyue therby so that bothe the cause porpose and effecte wherfore chryst instytuted thys sacrament of hys bodye and Bloud be vtterly obscured and taken awaye from vs And yet when we other preache or wryte agaynst these theyr errours by them practyssed contrary to the hosy scryptures and all the auncyent doctours they call vs sacramentaryes and when we desyre to haue the ryght sacramentes practysed by Chryste and hys apostles to be restored vnto hys Churche than they crye a fagot a fyre for these heretykes But nowe Chrysten Reader by the authorytyes before alleged Iudge that who be both heritikes and sacramentaryes And thus I commytte the Chrysten Reader to God who sende true and faythfull administratours of his sacramēt and true preachers of hys woord Amen Compyled by Rychard Tracye Finis Anno .1548 the .10 of Nouembre