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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	blood_n	body_n	jesus_n	12,126	5	6.1739	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41384	The fundamentals of the Protestant religion asserted by reason as well as Scriptvre written in French by the famous Monsieur de Gombaud ; made English by Sidnet Lodge ; to which is added his Letters to Monsieur de Militiere and other personages of the French-court upon the same subject.	Gombauld, Jean Ogier de, d. 1666.; Lodge, Sidney, b. 1648 or 9.	1682 (1682)	Wing G1024; ESTC R14808	82,659	180

go and whither would you have me go Can I look on those People without Pitty who know not what they say when they either pray or sing But above all Can I see so many poor miserable Women who have never done and who believe God is only pleas'd with Numbers and Repetitions Can I without Horror take Notice of their Beads and Altars dedicated to any other than the Holy of Holies where the Creature is placed in the Room of the Creator Can I see on the high Altar that which is called the Blessed Sacrament an ineffectual Object an insignificant Sign Bread which is neither broke given or receiv'd by any one that represents neither the breaking of the Body or the shedding of the Blood of Jesus Christ and which is nothing less than the Sacrament Would you have me go every day to observe sacrificing Priests that cannot tell you themselves what they sacrifice and of the Supper of the Lord make a Show only Sometimes they speak with a loud Voice and yet not to be understood and sometimes so foftly and pronounce such Mysterious and Sacred Words that 't is not permitted to those who are by tho' never so devout to hear what is said lest they prophane it They turn to the right hand and to the left in Imitation of what the Heathens called Vertigines and from whence they expect to procure some efficacious and admirable Vertue This is the highest pitch of Superstition They elevate what they hold in their hands to make it adored to which they attribute the Names of God of the Host of the Body of our Lord and of the Sacrament and all these if we may believe them are consistent together without any Contradiction Sure these Men must be of a very easie Belief to imagine that that which they make with their own hands and which they consecrate should be made the God who made them Then not considering that the Supper ought to be a common Meal and therefore must have Company at it or without having Consideration of that Passage which says Stay one for another the Priest for the most part eats alone and sometimes gives it only to some particular Person which from Abuse and Custom they forbear not to call the Communion What is yet worse the taking away of the Cup which cannot upon any Account more at one time than another be justified and that evident Reason of it's Concomitancy tacitly accuse our Saviour of not having well thought what he did do correct or rather violate his Ordinance and so add Sacriledge to Blasphemy Moreover those who have but an ordinary Tincture of Humane Learning very well know from what Invention from what Source have flow'd their Holy Waters some fix'd others running or carryed about Their Ensignes their lighted Tapers at Noon-day their Images of Saints I had almost said Gods To conclude all their Feasts their Processions their shorn crown'd Heads their pontifical Ornaments their pompous Ceremonies that make the Cross of Jesus Christ of no effect do sufficiently of themselves prove that they preserve nothing of the Plainness or Simplicity of the Gospel The principal Heads of the Church of Rome in this truly Universal have been afraid to omit any one single Act of the Religions of this World as if God needed to borrow even from his Enemies new Inventions or other Methods to procure greater Honour to himself Thus Paganism is not quite abolish'd and we may say that there are yet such Remains of Superstition and Idolatry that the Heathens even now do triumph in some Measure over the Christians Here we find nothing pure or compleat nothing that bears any Marks of the first Institution every thing is chang'd and corrupted and to use their own terms there seems to have been in all things a universal Transubstantiation But what would become of the Mystery of Iniquity that was set on Work from the time of St. Paul 2 Thess●… 7. and by what would Believers know it if it had not the Marks of Infidels All these Alterations have come to pass for the Promotion of that Kingdom or rather that King who advances himself above all others and who only use the Name of God to authorize his own Laws against those of God himself 'T is with the Head of this Church as with the Church he governs 't is but warily observing him and we may be undeceiv'd He is elected only by political Intrigues and Briberies and his Government is but a Trade for under it Sins are taxed and Pardons to be sold He sets himself up as the absolute Judge of Divine as well as Humane things of the Living as the Dead and disposes even as he pleases of our very Souls sending some to Hell and others to Paradise He bestows on some Ecclesiasticks in great Employments Titles of Vanity and Pride and canonizes only such who defend his Tyranny and Usurpation What a Successor is this of St. Peter How does he imitate Jesus Christ What a Vicar is he to subvert all the Orders of his Lord and who turns his Poverty his Humility and Sufferings into Riches Pomp and Pleasures Yet he has the Multitude on his side the Arm of Flesh and for a Time he is even impower'd to contend against the Saints and overcome ' em These are Ills scarce to be remedy'd because esteem'd Vertues and in which many find all the Conveniences imaginable With these are Hypocrites the Ambitious and Covetous pleas'd and all such who are byass'd by Interest These are agreeable to the timerous the weak the brutish the stupid and to all those who are harden'd by Custom The Antiquity of these Errors is sufficient to make 'em valu'd as Sacred Laws in the Opinion of the Vulgar Even many of the Fathers by suiting themselves too much to the present time and not fore-seeing what might come to pass have confirm'd 'em by conniving at ' em To cite their Testimony on this Account is not to defend our own Cause but accuse theirs 't is to have Recourse to Authority for want of Reason They themselves ow●… that they are not infallible and in this matter that their best Thoughts are very imperfect if not altogether consonant to the Scripture The Doctrine of the true Church is purely Canonical Divine and not to be authoriz'd by that which is not so These famous Preachers which you desire so much I should hear are Accessories to all these Abuses and deal very unfairly unless they undeceive the People There is no Religion but may be eloquently discours●… nay there are those which preach up Mo●…y admirably well but we may say of Eloquence as of Beauty that 't is a gift of Heaven bestow'd as well on the Wicked as the Good The Business of the greatest part of 'em is indeed to set forth themselves and to procure some spiritual Preferments which now exceed the Secular Is it to preach Jesus Christ to conceal the ●…ost important and chief part of his Commands