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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	blood_n	bread_n	cup_n	12,142	5	9.7026	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91955	Episcopal government instituted by Christ, and confirmed by cleere evidence of Scripture, and invincible reason. / Collected by the pains of R.R. Preacher of the Gospell.	Rollock, Robert, 1555?-1599.	1641 (1641)	Wing R1885; Thomason E238_6; ESTC R4045	29,352	39

manner He took the Cup saying this Cup is the new Testament and Covenant in my bloud drinke yee all hereof and as oft as you eat of this Bread and drink of this Cup you shew the Lords death till he come saith the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 11. Moreover Christ chose twelve Apostles in Analogie to the twelve Patriarchs that like as the whole people of God under the Law did proceed out of the loynes of the twelve Patriarchs so also Gods children under the Gospel should be begotten by the Ministery of the twelve Apostles and their Successors Hee chose also seventy Disciples in Analogie to the seventy Elders of the Iews whom Moses elected to govern the people of Israel under himselfe so our Saviour would have those seventy Disciples and their Successours to be spirituall Governours of the people of God under the Gospell Moreover Christ fasted forty days in the wildernesse in reference to Moses fasting forty days upon Mount Sinai Christ entred into his Ministery in the thirtieth yeare of his age in similitude of the Priests and Levits entring in their severall Functions So that there is nothing more probable in the Scriptures then that as Christ by way of Analogie did imitate the Iews in many things so also would hee have as many degrees of Church Governours under the Gospell as there was under the Law and that he would be chief Governour himself of both Churches But that ye may believe the truth of these things the better I will let you see that the Apostles also followed the example of their Master in the imitation of the Iews in many things As in the use of Lots conforme to the ancient custome of the Iews Matthias is chosen to be an Apostle so also they continued the use of an holy Kisse at their meetings yet if they had been as precise as many people now adays they would have abolished that Ceremony because Judas betrayed his Master with a Kisse and gave it in Commandement Greet one another with an holy Kisse saith the Apostle Paul so also the use of Love-feasts proceeded from the Jews for as after their Sacrifices they feasted one another so after the celebration of the Lords Supper they had their Agapae and Love-feasts which the Apostle Paul did not discharge but forbad them in publike and licentiates them in their own private families Have yee not Houses to eat and drinke in or despise yee the Church of God saith he The day of Celebration of the Sacrament of the Supper was ever a Festivall day to them but not a day of fasting as it is with many now So also the Custome of laying on of Hands was borrowed from the Jews Numb 8. in these and some other formes and Ceremonies the Apostle did imitate the Nation of the Iews but let these serve for an example The Primitive Church also followed the example of Christ and his Apostles in this Analogizing and in particular as in the Consecration of Priests some pieces of the Sacrifices were put in the Priests hands Exod. 29.9 Even so they put the Bible in the hands of the Minister at his Ordination this was done both by the Jewish Church and the Christian to teach both That no man taketh this honour unto himselfe but hee that is called of God so also they erected a Mother-church wherever there was a Bishop even as the Iews had but one Mother-church the Temple of Ierusalem because they had but one High Priest and therefore in respect that Bishops succeeded in the room of the High Priest in the government of the Church where ever there was a Bishop there they built a Mother-church and all the rest of the Churches of the Diocesse were but pendicles of her as the Jewish Synagogues were to the Temple of Ierusalem yea these Mother-churches they built them according to the similitude of the Temple of Jerusalem for as the Temple had the Most holy Place Holy place and atrium called the Court of the Temple or Sal. porch this for the people the Holy place for the Priests and the Most holy place for the Lord of Hosts to be as it were the place of his habitation to dwell between the wings of the two Cherubims there to give his Oracle even so in the Christian Churches there was a place appointed for the people another for Churchmen the third as the most holy place where the Sacrament of the Supper was celebrated as the onely memoriall of his presence left by himselfe under the new Testament as the Arke of the Covenant was under the Old So then since both the Apostles and the Churches of Christ in the Primitive Times did imitate the Iewish formes by way of Analogie it seemes to mee that in so doing they followed the example of Christ who kept an Analogie himselfe with the Iewish Church in many things but in speciall in the number and degrees of Church Governours Now I would ask my Authour by what reason hee thinks Christ should have diminished the number of Church Governours was the number of three Typicall or was the Church Government Typicall truly neither the number of three is mysticall indeed but not Typicall neither was the Government Typicall but as necessary now under the Gospel as it was under the Law for as Christ did not governe his Church immediatly by his spirit under the Law so no more doth he governe his Church immediatly by his spirit under the Gospel but as he committed the government to certain Governours under the Law so hath he committed it to certain Governours under the Gospel But it may be answered that he hath not committed it to so many degrees of Church Governours now under the Gospel as he did under the Law I perswade my self that my opponent shall never be able to prove that Christ behoved to doe this de jure or shew mee a reason why it behoved to be so yes hee will say of necessity the first degree behoved to be taken away because the High Priest was a type and figure of Christ and all types and figures were abolished by Christs comming Reply I grant all types and figures were abolished by Christs comming but I deny that the High Priest was a type and figure of Christ as he was chiefe Governour of the Church and that for these reasons First because then all Church Government should have beene abrogated by Christs comming for if Aarons Government was a type and figure of Christs Government then it will follow that Christ now under the Gospel should governe his Church immediately by himself without any subordinate Governours for if Church Government under the Law was typicall and all types abrogate it follows necessarily that there should be no Church Government now but Christs only Secondly If Aaron as hee was chiefe Governour under the Law was a type and figure of Christ then it will follow that Christ was not Supreame Governour of his Church under the Law for Types are of things to come