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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
opinion_n	body_n	bread_n	consecration_n	586	5	10.7324	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16485	An exposition vpon the prophet Ionah Contained in certaine sermons, preached in S. Maries church in Oxford. By George Abbot professor of diuinitie, and maister of Vniuersitie Colledge.	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1600 (1600)	STC 34; ESTC S100521	556,062	652

three nor fortie and yet both three and fortie yet fortie three dayes saith he 17 This worthie man as it seemeth would haue a way by himselfe but by moderating two sides he hath drawne them both vpon him In which his case may not vnfitly be compared to that of Martin Luther which is so famous For he knowing that the Papists in the matter of the Sacrament held a Transubstantiation as the Septuagint hold three in Ionas both of these opinions both concerning three and the transubstantiating hauing continued a long time but not from the beginning and that Zuinglius held that the bread remained after Consecration but yet representing the body of Christ which agreeth with the Scripture as fortie here doth with the Hebrew would needes like to Iustinus Martyr bring both these sides after a sort together that there should be bread with Zuinglius and the body too with the Romanists not by turning the bread into Christs bodie but by a Consubstantiation or ioyning each with other And in holding this opinion being driuen to those extremities as to maintaine that the flesh of Christ is in the bread and with the bread and vnder the bread yea euery where in the earth and ayre and heauen he drew both sides vpon him and is oppugned by both with bitternesse and great egernesse Whereout I do make this vse that Gods acts are miraculous and his ordinances wonderfull when he suffereth the best to fall that none in this world may be perfect but only the Godhead which is immaculate and vndefiled and so by this meanes all glorie may be his Moses shall haue his spots although in another kind and Peter shall deserue to be reprooued by Paule So many Martyrs and Fathers in the old and Primitiue Church had their spots and noted spots and yet were Gods noble seruants In like sort that renowmed man the great instrument of the Lords glorie who so cleared that point of iustification the very ground of saluation against all the Rabbines and schoolemen and so purged out other superstitions that all Europe at this day doth shine the brighter for him and therefore as his memorie shall be blessed to the end in despite of all that gaine-say it so his soule doth rest with the Highest had his lapsum humanum his errour incident to a man that we might euermore remember that he was a man although an excellent man and not more dote vpon him then we should vpon a creature Yet there wanteth not good testimonie that himself before he died did dislike that opinion and thought that he had gone too farre I haue named this by occasion of that in Iustinus Martyr in whom that about three and fortie dayes was an errour although I put a great difference betweene the mistaking of a number and this higher point of religion 18 But to preuent in our selues the like slips which befell to them writing concerning Ionas the best and readiest way is to haue recourse to the wel-springs wherin the word was written which Saint Austen himselfe doth confesse although he were nothing seene in the Hebrew and but little in the Greeke In which toungs the greater knowledge is the greater gift of God which although he do not graunt in abundant sort to all as to one he giueth this thing to another that to the end that all may stand in need one of another yet it is good for a Diuine to know something in them that when great doubts arise he be not quite to seeke albeit he be not so well furnished as to reade a Lecture of a toung in an Vniuersitie In that little wherof I haue taken notice which I confesse is not much I do find in some of the Auncient ouersights which are greater then ordinarie for want of vnderstanding in the originall of the Hebrew and this hath fallen out in the greatest controuersies I will name one for all but such a one as then the which nothing is more euident nothing is more materiall He who hath read the old Councels or the Ecclesiasticall storie or the writings of such Fathers as succeeded the time of Constantine within one or two hundred yeares may sufficiently see and surfet how Arius and his companie oppugned the Godhead of Christ and his equalitie with his Father What more maine question was there euer concerning the grounds of Christianitie or what could possibly strike deeper In the reading of those forenamed writers we find that at the first Athanasius was the onely man for writing and disputing to oppugne them as was euident in the Nicene Councell and otherwise afterward And he suffered so much for his labour that he well deserued to be called a ring-leader and bel-wether of the flocke a pillar of the faith that inuincible Athanasius a champion for Christ Iesus and whatsoeuer else is honorable Yet it is maruell to see how in all his disputations he is troubled with that place in the eighth chapter of the Prouerbs where wisedome saith of her selfe which he cannot chuse but interpret to be the Sonne of God the Lord made me or created me the beginning of his wayes whereout the Arrians vrged that Iesus Christ in the Godhead was made or created and consequently was a creature and so of another substance And this they had from the Septuagint who translated it in that manner The Lord made me or the Lord created me It is strange to see how in answere of that place the good Father is driuen as elsewhere so in Decretis Nicenae synodi to expound and distinguish this creature and to shew how Gods Sonne in the Deity may be so called Truth it is that he holdeth the ground as an Orthodoxe Catholike man but he is put to hard shifts Now if his skill had bene such as to haue repaired to the Hebrew text the matter had bene soone answered and he had found that which Hierome quickly afterward did discouer that it is there in the place Dominus possedit me or Dominus acquisiuit me as Arias Montanus hath it the Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way which maketh not for the Arrian Iehouah Canani which doth not come of Canan nidificare for then the former Nun should haue Daghes in the middle but of Canah acquirere possidere with the Affixe in the end And so it had bene better translated by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some of whose tenses do signifie possideo then by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 creo And this being so answered to the enemie had razed the greatest fort wherein he trusted most Let this place out of the Prouerbes in so renowmed a man as Athanasius was and the other out of Ionas which was mistaken by so many shew what a helpe it is to be able vpon occasion to looke to the originall where finding as we do Yet fortie dayes and Niniue shall be destroyed I will not farther dispute it But hauing now made this way to the doctrine of