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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	commandment_n	john_n	love_v	9,696	5	7.3869	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27625	A sermon of the true, spiritual transubstantiation, oppos'd to the gross, carnal, imaginary transubstantiation wherein the true meaning of the Lord's Supper is opened, in order to a constant, habitual and actual preparation to it / by Beverley.	Beverley, Thomas.	1687 (1687)	Wing B2175; ESTC R18401	43,861	64

draw us to him by Faith and Repentance to apply his Blood and to Trust in his Redemption to move Christians to the same Mind in every thing that we see was in Christ it hath even a Constraining Power of love to live to him that dyed for us to purifie our selves as he is Pure to be in the World as he was in the World to Walk Heb. 13. 12 13. as he Walked to go out to him without the Camp of all False Religions out of the Camp of Sensuality and Worldly-mindedness bearing his Reproach to Crucifie the Flesh with the Lusts to be Crucified to the World and the World to us to set our Affections on things Above Whither His Humane Nature removed in regard of Place But by the Preaching and Manifestation of the Gospel it is every where as thus Represented as thus set forth This is a sense of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ being every where where his Gospel and Word come that cannot be denied and as therein it is so receiv'd as to become an Argument and powerful motive of uniting our selves to Him of being like Him It may be most significantly express'd by the Metaphor of Eating and Drinking like Ezekiel's Eating the Roll and filling his Bowels with it This is a hearing Christ's Voice which strongly Rev. 3. 20. knocks or persuades to open the Door to him that he may as he will come in to Sup with us and we with Him This is a Sense so proper and natural that it is chosen by that Learned Interpreter Grotius to expound that great Discourse John 6. of eating the Flesh and drinking the Blood Grot. in Evangel John viz. such a Receiving his Word and Sayings as to be every way confirm'd in a way of Holy Rational Intellectual Spiritual Obedience to Him And as there is so particular a Representation of Jesus Christ in the Lord's Supper as a Sacrament summing up the whole Doctrine of the Gospel or of Jesus Christ Crucified so a particular Approbation of our selves to it and for it and the danger of an unworthy an unbecoming Eating and Drinking is so earnestly and vehemently press'd upon us by the Apostle as to infold us in the Guilt of his Body and Blood as if we had Crucified the Son of God afresh and put him to open Shame and because in the Apostolical Times the Lord's Supper and the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the only two such words in the New Testament Lord's Day the only Institutions so inscribed were undivided It was a Constant Habitual Uniform Preparation that was required Now that this is Eating and Drinking Christ in a mystical Sense agreeable to the Mystery of the Doctrine and Supper of Jesus Christ is very easie to be Apprehended seeing Christ Jesus is not to be lov'd nor receiv'd in any Fleshly Figure He is no such kind of Object to our Souls even a virtuous Law-giver or Philosopher is not to be lov'd in his Flesh and Blood as Gross and Carnal but as in his Laws his Doctrine his Virtue how much more Christ If ye Love me keep my Commandments Pretend to no carnal Love to no Love to me by looking on and kissing my Pictures or Figures of fleshly Representations For he that hath my Commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me and he that thus loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will John 14. 15. 21. 23 24. come to him and manifest my self to him If a Man love me he will keep my Sayings and my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our Abode with him Words equal in Sense to these He that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood dwelleth in me and I in him On the other side He that loveth me not keepeth not my Sayings and therefore Whoever keepeth not my Sayings loveth me not All others attempt to do that which cannot be done to know and to love Christ after the Flesh whereas now there is no loving Christ but in the New Creation All old things are pass'd away Behold mark it well all Things are become new All outward Representations Images Pictures Gestures Geniculations Adorations if not commanded by him are not the least signs of Love but rejected and refus'd by Christ as a knowing him after the Flesh even the Ordinance 1 Cor. 5. 16. of the Lord's Supper had been a false Love of Christ if it had not been receiv'd from him and specially by himself commanded and yet even as it is without that spiritual Approbation or approving our selves which we translate by the Word Examine our selves It is so far from Acceptance 1 Cor. 11. 28. c. that it is eating and drinking Judgment to our selves And all this is most rational if we consider That we are our selves not truly our selves but as we are thus intellectually spiritually in a way of vertuous Conformity mov'd to things by the great efficacy of Christ and his Spirit in our Hearts and move effectually by inward rational Apprehension and Affection according to the Arguments and Motives in the Word of God without which we can under any Pretensions Professions Confessions of Faith Forms of Worship Prayers outward Rites Postures and Observations be no more Christians than the Statues and Images of the Apostles or Saints are Christians because they are inscrib'd with such Names and vouch'd to be such or such Representations But when there is a single Eye and Design to this Conformity to the Word and Sayings and Commandments of Christ there is then a far more real Presence of Christ in his Word than in any of the Writings or Lives of the most excellent Men that ever were in the World for the Sense and Reason they wrote are indeed here their Actions and Vertues are drawn into History and may be preserv'd from Copy to Copy but the Soul the Spirit that wrote them is gone from them but now Christ yesterday to day the same for ever is present by that Spirit that Divinity by which he preach'd of old even in Noah's Time to the disobedient Spirits now in Prison 1 Pet. 3. 20. While his Truth operates after the manner of rational Truth his Spirit works much higher even divinely His Table therefore in the Gospel and in his Supper is a Psal 28. 5. Table richly spread a Cup running over with spiritual Efficacies of which whoever is indeed Partaker cannot be a Partaker of the Table of Devils whoever truly drinks his Cup cannot drink of the Cup of Devils either in an Idolatrous Religion or an unholy Life He cannot eat of the Sinners Dainties of Folly's Bread or of the stollen Waters she hath Prov. 9. 17. provided For by one Offering he hath for ever perfected them that are sanctified of which the Holy Ghost is witness even of that Covenant of which he is the Mediator it being establish'd upon the best Promises of writing the Laws of God in their hearts