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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	sacrament_n	22,235	5	7.4969	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17574	An epistle of a Christian brother exhorting an other to keepe himselfe vndefiled from the present corruptions brought in to the ministration of the Lords Supper.	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1624 (1624)	STC 4357; ESTC S116316	12,873	30

hands and afterward by oversight negligence to possesse the minds of them that were about him with careful remembrance of the truth he was by the continuall neernesse pains of them that were cōtrarie minded changed to an other course yet our most high wise gracious Emperour when his majestie shall see that wee are tied by such affection to our harmles profession that wee choose rather patientlie to suffer then rashlie to change as his highnes royal clemencie hath refreshed manie and rid others out of thrall will bee pleased to be our Physitian with his own hand cure the distempered body of this poore kirke restoring to Christs spouse in the land of his highnes happie birth her priviledges and servants for her Lords emploiments that everie one of them receiving that favour may enjoy one another for edification of the kirke his maiesties better service and their mutuall comfort For your owne confirmation and the credite of your cause in whole and everie part of it you haue a sufficient store of strong reasons in your own hand yet because you haue adoe with humbled Christians who as they are taguht of God so they would be faine followers of him and for their vse loue better the pure fountaines of the scripture then the dark compositions and subtile distinctions of Philosophicall Schoole-men you shall not doe amisse to set before your owne eyes for your present use the following Articles of the Lords Supper as straight rules to rectifie the uncomely eye-lasts required to be introduced upon the sound work of this Sacrament 1 Christs practise in the first Supper qualified with his commandement Doe this in remembrance of me and with Pauls precept Bee yee followers of me even as I am of Christ together with the common maxime rightly understood Every action of Christ is our instruction should be the perfect patterne of our practise 2 The command Doe this being grounded upon Christs practise and hauing respect therto cannot be understood but by the understanding of the particulars practised by him For as practise and custome obserued in any matter before a law be made are the best exponers of the law and not the customes and practises that creepe in afterward so in this Sacrament the things done by Christ and his Disciples expone the institution better then the practises customes in the dayes of Dionysius Areopagita of Iustinus Martyr of Tertullian and of the practises of kirkes in these or other ages 3 The example and institution of Christ are fully set downe by Matthew Marke and Luke Euangelists and by Paul the Apostle conioyntly 4 In the night that the Lord was betrayed for the eating of the Lords Supper Christ and his Disciples came together in one place prepared for the eating of the Paschall Lambe and that holy banket 5 In that place where Christ and his Disciples met there was a Table prepared both for the service of the Lambe and for this Sacrament 6 For the reverent eating of this Supper Christ by choyce and no otherwise sate at that Table with his Disciples in the most comely and convenient forme of sitting 7 For visible Elements he vsed both bread and wine such as were at hand for the time and onely these two without any mixture 8 To the bread by way of preparation Christ did foure things he did take it he blessed it he brake it he gaue it and for the right vsing of it he spake three things to the Disciples a commandement Take ye eate yee a declaration This is my body which is given or broken for you a second commandement Doe this in remembrance of me 9 When he had supped for preparation of the cup he did three things he did take it hee blessed it he gaue it them and for right vsing of it hee spake three things a commandement Drinke ye all of it a declaration This is my blood in the new Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins a second commandement Doe this as oft as yee drink it in remembrance of me 10 This service is recōmended to be continued in the kirke and frequently used For as often as yee shall eate this bread and drinke this cuppe yee shew the Lords death till hee come 11 A warning of a fearful danger Whosoever shal eate this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall bee guiltie of the body and blood of the Lord. 12 A soueraigne remedy against this danger Let every man therefore examine himselfe and so let him eate of this bread and drink of this cup. 13 This is the truth of this holy sacrament and in the most fauourable times this kirke sought this truth and by the testimonie and commendation of other reformed kirkes found it and not onely the mind of Iesus Christ anent this sacrament but in all the particular heads of religion aboue rehearsed 14 If either the sacrament it selfe the ministers and receiuers thereof were priviledged from mens corruptions there were no feare of craft negligence or compulsion to receiue this sacrament neither necessity to examine what were agreeable or dissonant to the measure of their faith that receiued 15 It is an infallible observation that whosoever after the truth once found seeketh farther then truth shall finde errors and lies 16 Of these Fathers who in Christ Iesus begot you and brought you up through the Gospell delivered to you as they receiued it from the scriptures and from this kirke being reformed yee receiued the sound doctrine and right use of this sacrament and other heads of religion not as a meere doctrine and meere rites but as the annointing of the holy spirit which dwelleth in you If yee shal receiue divers teachers divers doctrines and sacraments you must quite the spirit that dwelleth in you and seek another As the Cotinthians by the distemper of their members and corruptions marked among them by the Apostle transgressed against the first article aboue written so if yee come together in a mixture of nick-named Puritans and conforme people standing under contention expressed there by the Apostle and vnremoved from among you your comming together cannot bee with profite but with great hurt The first maine difference and cause of dissention betwixt you and them ariseth from the fifth article anent a Table and the necessarie vse of it For the sacrament yee holding that it is necessarie for the eating and drinking the sacramentall elements both for the exercise of your faith toward God charitie among your selues is necessarily required in that sacramentall and heavenly banquet and they thinking it onely commodious for the people to kneele at in reverence of the sacrament and others neither necesry nor commodious but a meere Metaphore But you doe well that beleeue that there was a Table at Christs supper as certainly as the hand of him that betrayed him was with him at the Table and as truly for vse as the Apostle Paul tearmeth the