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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	father_n	holy_a	trinity_n	2,831	5	9.8465	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85542	Christians liberty to the Lords table, discovered by eight arguments, therby proving, that the Sacrament of the body and blood of our Lord, doth as well teach to grace, as strengthen and confirm grace, and so is common, as well to the outward Christian as to the inward Christian: occasioned by the contrary doctrine, taught by a strange minister in Woolchurch, on the 29th of June last. / By I.G a parishioner there. Imprimatur, James Cranford.	Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.	1645 (1645)	Wing G1589; Thomason E296_30; ESTC R200217	18,658	23

denominated the called of God they are so declared because the word of grace preaching Christ crucified had effectually wrought on them and called them And so also should from time to time call all others of all nations that are of the election of grace so that the Scripture is full and pertinent to prove the Argument as also the other Scripture Gal. 3. 1. of which he made no mention at all as my memory serves me although thereby the Apostle proves plainly to the Galatians that the truth was effectually taught to them by having Jesus Christ crucified evidently set forth before their eyes amongst them whereby the very strength of the Argument is proved that as the Word of Christ crucified spoken to the eare teacheth or is a means to work grace so also is the Sacrament of bread and wine that doth teach preach or manifest the same Christ crucified to the eye by which the heart is informed as by the eare His Answer to the third Argument To this hee answerd negatively also and as I remember found fault with the translation of the Scripture alledged by me for the proof of my Argument and said the words yee do shew the Lords death till c. is not truly translated for it should be shew yee c. My Reply to his third Answer This mans answer to this Scripture is like the answer that an Arrian made me not long ago to another Scripture I alledged against his blasphemous position of Arrianisme he maintaining that Christ was a meere man and that to affirm a Trinity in Unity of the Godhead was nonsense and ridiculous and contrary to reason nature learning and Scripture Will you be judged by Scripture said I yes said he whereupon I demanded what he thought of 1 Joh. 5. 7. There are three that beare record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one here said I the Scripture affirms the Trinity in Unity Oh Sir said he the Text it not truly translated for the word in the originall is they do agree in one I pray said I what other acceptation hath the word or how can you expresse it otherwise from the originall it is said he as truly to be translated they are one as they agree in one then said I your own mouth is witnesse for by your own words you have confirmed the Text so I say to this Linguist that in the Margin shew yee c. is the same in the Text yee do shew c. And therefore it is full for the same purpose for which I brought it and plainly proves that so often as the Supper of the Lord is celebrated the death of Christ thereby is manifested preached declared and shewed forth to the communicants the beholders and participaters of the bread and wine the signes of the Lords Body and Blood and this the Scriptures do cleerly and apparently teach and set forth to us if you consider the terms the Holy Ghost uses for that very end and purpose as that of our Lord which I alledged for the proof of my Argument Luke 22. 19 20. This is my body which was given for you this do in remembrance of me also this cup is the new Testament in my blood which is shed for you where by body we are to understand the bread that signifies his Body And so by cup signifying his Blood and in obeying his command to eat the bread and to drink of the cup the end and intent of eating and drinking is to commemorate his death and passion and so often as we do so eat and drink wee participate of that which manifesteth to us the new Covenant which is the only means that God hath ordained for salvation proved to us in these words This cup is the new Testament in my blood which was shed for you c. And by the apt lively visible signes to the eye of bread and wine is preached to us the new and living way which hee hath new made and consecrated for us through the vaile that is to say his flesh Heb. 10. 20. yea as apparently as it is preached and made known to the ears by words and as St. Luke so St. Matthew hath it thus This is my body c. this is my blood of the new Testament c. giving to the signes the very name of his body and blood that whosoever readeth or seeth the signes may be thereby taught the benefit of Christs death thereby purchasing for man-kinde repentance and remission of sins which as it is in his name preached to the ears by the word so manifested to the eyes by broken bread and powred out wine for the eye and ear are equall in-lets to the heart so that it is cleerly proved that the Sacrament of the Supper of the Lord doth as truly teach grace where it is not as it doth confirm it where it is His Answer to my fourth Argument To the fourth Argument hee saith the passage in his Sermon concerning Matth. 7. 5. was but by way of allusion to that Scripture My Reply to his fourth Answer He did so allude to that Scripture as that hee confidently affirmed that all wicked and unregenerated men were Dogs and Swine and whosoever did administer the Sacrament to such did therein cast holy things to Dogs and pearles before Swine therefore I say still that he that so teacheth directly orindirectly positively or consequently such a Preacher doth not understand the command of our Lord in Matth. 7. 5. neither did the Preacher by his seeming evasion answer the Argument but it stands still in every part of its strength against him for in the Scriptures all naturall men are not called Dogs and Swine but such as have been enlightened and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost in its common gifts and having thereby received the truth in some measure and efficacie to be outwardly cleansed from the pollution of the world through the knowledg of our Lord Jesus Christ and yet turn from the holy commandment given unto them and become insnared intangled and overcome again with the pollution from which they were washed and again lick up the filth they had vomited these and such as these are Swine that wallow in the mire again and Dogs that return to their vomit 2 Pet. 2. 22. Heb. 6. 4 5 6. who as they discover themselves the way of censure and excommunication is to be used with them His Answer to my fifth Argument Against my fifth Argument bee peremptorily affirmed that Judas was not with the twelve when the Sacrament was instituted and administred and first for the proof thereof if my memory fail me not he told the Congregation that the translators of the Bible had not placed the 21. verse of the 22. chapter of Luke in the right place but they ought to have brought in those words of that verse next after the 16. verse And who affirmed that so it was in the originall the Greek Testament