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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	body_n	cup_n	eat_v	11,834	5	7.8067	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12249	The defence of a certayne poore Christen man who els shuldhaue [sic] bene condemned by the Popes lawe. Written in the hye Allmaynes tonge by a right excellent and noble prynce, and tra[n]slated into Englishe by Myles Couerdale.	Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568.	1545 (1545)	STC 5889; ESTC S114534	31,890	79

the discretion of you that be Iudges Now will we speake of the masse This name Masse / was doutlesse in the Apostles tyme nether vsed ner heardof Nether can there any certeyne occasion be shewed whence this name shuld come But certeyne it is / that all the preparacion aboute it / was institute and ordened to the intent / that the supper and death of the lorde might be had in remembraunce which maye easely be perceaued by the vestimentes and other thinges perteyning to the masse Now in the prymityue church was not the supper of the lorde kepte afore none / as now the vse is / but in the euenyng after supper as Christ himsefe kepte it Neuertheles thorow the misbehaueouae of certeyne filthie persones / which with their dronkennes dishonoured this holy supper / arose great slaunder and offence / which S. Paul to the Corinthians doth ernestly rebuke And therfore thought the holy fathers it shulde not be agaynst the ordinaunce of the lorde Yf men kepte this holy supper afo●●●oone / fasting wherby such inordi●●●e people might somwhat be withdrawē from their incōuenience Which the cōsidred / thei might well do / for asmuch as they altred nothing of the principall matter And at the first / was no more added thervnto / saue onely the Pater noster / the prayer of the lorde But afterward in proces of tyme by addyng more and more it grew tho the poynt that it is now at And besydes that with such additions they thought to garnishe the supper of the lorde peraduenture of a good intent they haue allmost vtterly lost the principall poyntes of the remēbraunce of the supper So that now the right name of it is altred / and no more called the lordes supper / but is called Messe / which name is both straunge and vnknowne in the scripture yea and that worse is / it is named a sacrifice / that maye be done for other folkes Wherof then spronge the slaunderous market of byeng and sellyng of masses in churches here of was renewed the daungerous ydolatrie / that we ranne vnto the masse as to a speciall worck / thinkyng there to fetch all saluacion / which we shulde haue loked for onely at Christes hande But let vs loke / wherfore they call it a sacrifice Euen because saie they that in the masse / Christ the sonne is offred vp vnto god his father O what a greate blasphemy is this / yea to be abhorred of al vertuous men Who wold thinke it possible / that men mortall and synfull / coulde euer haue bene so in a lapert or rather mad / as to presume with their vncleane handes / to offre Christ the lorde vnto his father yet ones agayne Christ saieth S. Paul is entred in to the very heauen / for to appeare now in the sight of god for vs not to offre himselfe offten / as the hye prest entreth in to the holy place euery yeare with straunge bloude for then must he haue offt suffred sens the world beganne And afterward it foloweth thus was Christ offred vp ones for all to take awaye the synnes of many but they will saye Christ is not so sacrificed in the masse / that he dieth agayne vpon the crosse / but it is for the remembraunce of the same sacrifice that ones was made Whi do they than call it a sacrifice / seyng it is but a remembraunce of a sacrifice And why saie they that it maye be done for other seyng that of it selfe it is no such worke / but onely a remembraunce of the supper and passion of oure lordt Iesu Christ Which saieth take and eate / this is my body And of the cuppe he saieth drynke ye all therout And as afft as ye this do / then do it to the remembraunce of me He saieth not offre my body and my bloude Wherfore let the rihht true remembraunce of the lordes Supper remayne in the congregacions / and let vs shew the lordes death vntill he come Now yf we be disposed to offre / let vs offre oure owne bodies / a quycke / holy and acceptable sacrifice vnto god / which is euen the reasonable waye to serue him We reade in the scripture / that no vyce was ponished so sore / as the abuse of gods seruyce Wherfore me thinketh all vertuous mē shulde hartely praye / that the abuse of the masse were put downe in the churches For yf we wilfully synne after the knowlege of the trueth / there remayneth no more sacrifice for synnes c. But I willet the masse go / and treate of both the kyndes in the lordes holy Supper / whiche shulde also be geuen vnto the laye people It is past all doubte by euery man / that Christ in the holy Supper gaue his disciples both the kyndes Therfore it is manifest / that their opynion is not euell / which wolde haue the chalice distributed vnto euery man And me thinketh the other do erre sore / that holde the contrary / and specially because they put such difference betwene prestes and laye people / not consideryng the prestly office that is cōmitted vnto all faithfull beleuers For in the lawe of Moses / the office of prestes was to offre and praye for the pople But now for asmuch as Christ beyng ones offred vp for vs / hath abrogate all other sacrices / and not onely permitted but also commaunded all men to praye I can not sewhat difference can be betwene prestes and laye people / excepte the gouernaunce of the church and minystracion of gods worde For. S. Peter in his Epistel saieth and ye also as lyuing stones / are made a spirituall house / an holy presthode / to offre vp spirituall sacrifices / acceptable to god thorow Iesus Christ And euen there also saieth S. Peter but ye are the chosen generacion / the royall presthode / the holy nacion etc. Here wryteth S. Peter not onely vnto bishoppes and prestes / but to the straungers that were dispersed and scatred abrode in Ponto / Galatia etc. And calleth them alltogether an holy and royall presthode S. Paul also wryting of this holy supper of the lorde to the commen congregacions at Corinthum / maketh mencion not onely of the bred / but also of the cupen Yf the cuppe then at that tyme / was commen vnto all Christen men / why is it now withdrawen from the laye people The holy fathers saieth oure aduersary haue with good cōsciēce brought the supper to this ordenyng that it now is in and that mihht they well do / as we reade that in the Apostles tyme certeyne thinges were ordyned / wher of no menciō is in the gospell Among which this is one in the Actes of the Apostles / where they commaunded to absteyne from thinges offred vnto Idolles / and from bloude and from strangled whiche commaundement the Apostles estemed necessary Whervnto I answere brefely / that the Apostles gaue no such commaundemēt for that intent that it shulde allwaye so cōtynue