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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	fear_n	fear_v	servile_a	2,946	5	12.3591	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52184	The liturgical-discourse of the holy sacrifice of the masse by omission of controversial questions; abridged and accommodated to the pious use of devout Christians in hearing masse, by A.F. the authour of the same at the instance of some devout friends.	Angelus à Sancto Francisco, 1601-1678.	1675 (1675)	Wing M938; ESTC R217659	145,436	447

it another obligation for it ordains the Sanctification of the Sunday which is Holy and with sanctity of prayer and praise to be observed whence St. Gregory sayes we ought to rest from all earthly labour and insist in prayer that if we have negligently spent the Six days it may be expiated by prayer on the Sunday St. Clement avers that we can have no excuse before God if we do not come on Sundays to hear Sermons Sacrifice of the Masse and Communion And the Counsel of Forejuliense sayes that we ought first to abstain from all Sin and from all Terrene work and to give our selves to nothing but prayer and have recourse to the Church with great Devotion of mind with charity and love to bless God the Father and with all our hearts to praise him whence the Church willing to provide for the good of Souls hath determined this Act of hearing Masse as being most proper for such days and most profitable for our Souls for we can do nothing more pleasing to God nor wherein God is more delighted and our prayers more assuredly heard Q. Is it good to hear Masse daily A. Yes surely for it is a manifest sign of great indevotion to do only those things which are commanded precepts indeed were made to prevent Sin and may be performed out of a servile fear but good Christians must observe them out of a filial fear which is an effect of love The Child who only fears the Rod is seldome pleasing to his Parents at least deserves not their love and not to hear Masse but on days of Obligation argues great defect of the love of God and want of true Devotion Moreover if we did reflect on the good we lose in not hearing Masse or on our spiritual necessities we would be at least as careful and solicitous to crave help in them as in our corporal necessities nay of superfluities If we feel any Ach Dolour Infirmity or Sickness we are careful to have Plaisters Purgations Section of veins or whatever remedy is requisite no labour no industry no diligence is spared no procrastination or delay is grateful and is not our Soul which is infinitely more to be esteemed in need of help at all times not only on Sundays and Holy days but in each day of the week For though they were Saints yet they have an Emulation of greater vertue and progress in perfection But alas we are sinners and feel the burthen of our Sins our Souls are sick and infirm through the Corruption of out Nature not only prone to sin but are actually infected therewith none are without sin and consequently we stand in need of help daily and hourly have we not then great reason to go more frequently to this health-giving Sacrifice whereby as is said before we may be purged cleansed and spiritually cured Again if there were great Treasures and Riches to be had in any place for all those who should come and take them would any forbear to run to that place sure they would make no delays spare no labour take no rest nothing could hinder them Now in the Masse there is a Treasure of spiritual Riches or Heavenly Benedictions and Celestial gifts more to be valued than the whole World and all its Gold and Silver what stupidity then is it to neglect what we may so easily by the mercy of God obtain In fine do we not daily want mercy and grace or the encrease thereof let us hear Masse daily both are there to be had are we grateful to God as we receive benefits daily so let us thank God daily and we cannot do it in a better place Do we want any thing either in Spirit or in body the Masse is the sure means to obtain it our wants are quotidian it is convenient to seek a quotidian help and remedy Although our Holy Mother the Church doth not command it yet she plainly and piously invites us thereto ordaining that Masse should be said daily that all good Christians might be present thereat and praise God with the Priests the Church doors are open the Priests attend you at the appointed hour the Bells ring to awaken and call us thereto Honorius well said the Church reiterates the Sacrament or Sacrifice daily that those who labour in the Vineyard may be refreshed daily The Holy Council of Trent Sess 13. cap. 2. sayes before Christ was to depart out of this World to his Father he made this Supper wherein he poured forth the Riches of his Divine love towards us which St. Bernard termeth love of loves love which is truly love love drawing love love exceeding all love and our St. Bernardine Furnace of love and in another place he cries out O how viscerous is the charity of Christ O ardent love of his heart O admirable immensitie of so great love O incomprehensible latitude of so great a favour he would be inflamed with so great ardour of love towards our littleness as to bestow on us so abundantly his flesh for meat and his blood for drink as if it did not suffice our amorous Jesus for the shewing of his inebrited love that he did once really shed his sacred blood on the Cross unless he should pour it out for us in the Sacrament Now I believe there is no good Christian so tepid and cold but would with all his heart he had been present there and doth not our faith teach us that the Masse is the same with Christ's Supper which Christ himself continues in the Church and so will do to the end of the World he himself is present he himself is the principal cause of the Holy action and here he gives the same which he gave then there is no difference but in the visibility of the one and the invisibility in the other Faith which ought to command and rule both sense and reason tells us it is so Good God! how is it possible that any Christian can neglect to correspond in some way to this great love which is actually every where offered and presented unto us in the Sacrifice of the Masse he comes daily to seek us and shall we think much to go to him daily Q. My Soul is much comforted in what you have said and I will endeavour to apply my mind to this consideration henceforward but if you please have we no other cause of Devotion A. We read in the Evangelists that many Women did follow Jesus to see his passion and all his acquaintance stood by his Mother and two Maryes and St. John out of their tender love to their Master Our Faith also teaches that this Holy Sacrifice is a renewing of Christ's passion in our memory nay as hath been said before it is the same with the Sacrifice of the Cross and is made in the remembrance of Christ's death and passion shall then our senses be more prevalent than our understanding enlightned by Faith which teaches us that the Masse is a continuation of the same

a better time to invocate him than when he is so near descending to our imbecility and frailty more willing to be with us than we to be with him O can we doubt but that if we truly invocate his name with fervent Devotion he will give us his grace his justice and his mercy yea whatsoever good we desire for as he hath given himself so with him all things We may also contemplate the great Devotion of the Apostles when they were to receive the holy Eucharist from the hands of our Saviour and imitate them therein believing that invisibly we are to receive the same from our Saviour by the Ministery of the Priests 6. Of Domine non sum dignus Q. What means Domine non sum dignus A. The Priest Devoutly bowing with eyes fixed on the Host saith Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my Roof but only say the word and my Soul shall be healed repeating the same three times and at each time he strikes his breast the words are of the Centurion who desired Christ to cure his servant of a Palsey and when Christ said I will come and cure him he with a lively faith answered Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter into my house neither is it necessary that thou come in person for by thy word alone thou canst cure him thy word therefore will suffice St. Chrysostome in his Liturgie makes here a large discourse saying O Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under this sordid Roof of my Soul but even as thou hast vouchsafed to be in the Cottage and Manger and hast been received in the house of Simon the Leper and didst receive even a Harlot like unto me coming unto thee so also vouchsafe to enter into the Cribb of my house void of reason and into my defiled dead and leprous body and as thou didst not abhor the foul mouth of the strumpet kissing thy feet So O Lord do not despise me a sinner but as good and clement vouchsafe to make me partaker of thy most holy Body and blood Q. Why does the Latin Church make use of the Centurion's words A. Our holy Mother the Church for the most part makes use of the sentences and words of holy Scripture and in this place applyes these words as much conducing to her purpose for although the words were then spoken on another occasion yet for their piety wherein they abound she appropriates to the sence of this present act of Communion for the words have great energy and force For first Lord is a name of fear and dread in him that invocates it the Prophet saying in the person of God If I be the Lord where is my fear with fear therefore and trembling we ought to come to this dreadful Sacrament This name Lord also is a name of Power and Majesty and therefore challenges all Reverence and Honour correspondent and therefore we may justly say we are not worthy And with St. Peter on our knees before the blessed Sacrament say Go forth from me because I am a sinful man for he thought himself unworthy of his presence because he was a sinner The sacred Text gives a reason why Peter thus humbled himself saying for he was astonished at so great a miracle have we not before our eyes the most wonderful work of Christ who Transports and Transforms himself in this stupendious manner to be our food That astonishment caused in Peter fear reverence and an humble acknowledgment of his own unworthiness what shall this immense love of Christ cause in us Secondly we are not worthy that Christ should enter into the Roof of our house which Palasius explicates thus Our body is worthily called a Roof most unworthy of Christ's entrance for as the Roof and covering of the house hinders us from seeing Heaven so the body aggravates the Soul that it may not see the light of Heaven nor be carried to supernal things or openly to see the things which are near us making our unbridled senses to domineer and rule over the faculties of the Soul and hinders the motives of the holy Ghost whence it is manifest that the body is not worthy of Christ's entrance into it for the body without all doubt is the root and fountain of all vice yea a Dunghil and a sink of sins where the Devils have left their ordure and filth and as it were exonerated their Bellies how loathsome a house is this for Christ truly Hell it self were a more fitting place for God if sin were not there than the house or Roof of a Sinner Q. Being he hath been at Confession before Masse why is it so fearful here A. St. Paul advises us To work our Salvation with fear and trembling for divers reasons First for the uncertainty of grace for we know not whether we be in grace the Ecclesiastes sayes No man knows whether he be worthy of love or hatred And Job Although I shall be simple the self-same my Soul shall be ignorant of St. Bernardine said Although my Conscience do not accuse me yet it does not secure me nay the Wise man adds if sins forgiven be not without fear for we do not see the depth of our heart not knowing whether some secret vice lies hid there or whether our good works were depraved by some perverse intention Secondly Because the judgments of God are secret whence Job said If I will justifie my self mine own mouth will condemn me If I will shew my self innocent he God shall prove me wicked Hence St. Augustine Woe even to the laudable life of Men if God withdrawing his mercy examins it And St. Hierome All the World stands in need of Gods mercy none can go securely to the Judge without it And therefore Job sayes again Although I have any just thing I will not answer but will beseech my Judge Thirdly Because man by his corrupted inclinations is in a manner necessitated to sin which by his frailty proneness and inconstancy he cannot avoid which as St. Leo sayes is the cause that holy men do fear and tremble lest puffed up even with works of piety they lose the help of grace and remain in Natures infirmity Fourthly Because we have cruel and strong Enemies who cruelly and secretly use all means imaginable to circumvent and intrap us So we read that when the Sons of God were come to assist before our Lord Satan was present among them amongst other his malicious attempts he is then most busied when men are imployed in Gods Service even in their most pious actions Lastly Because our perseverance in grace is altogether uncertain for although one be just and fervent in Devotion yet indulging to his appetite by little and little he may wax tepid frail and fall which even St. Paul did apprehend when he said I chastise my body and bring it into servitude lest perhaps when I have Preached to others my self become a Reprobate Well said St. Chrysostome if St.