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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	body_n	bread_n	transubstantiation_n	1,791	5	11.1891	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39238	Queen Elizabeth's opinion concerning transubstantiation, or the real presence of Christ in the Blessed sacrament; with some prayers and thanksgivings composed by her in imminent dangers	Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I)	1688 (1688)	Wing E532; ESTC R215516	4,551	1

QUEEN ELIZABETH's Opinion concerning TRANSUBSTANTIATION Or the Real Presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament with some Prayers and Thanksgivings composed by Her in Imminent Dangers DURING the Reign of Q. Mary the Lady Elizabeth being a Prisoner at Woodstock a Popish Priest came to visit her and after some Discourse prest hard upon her to declare her Opinion of the Real Presence of Christ in the Sacrament to whom she truly and warily answered in these following verses 'T was God the Word that spake it He took the Bread and brake it And what that Word did make it That I believe and take it The sense of which is more fully explained in the following POEM A MEDITATION how to discern the Lords Body in the Blessed Sacrament AND if Mens Fingers cannot make the Wheat Which makes the Sacramental Bread we eat What Art of Transubstantiation can Make God of Wafere who of Dust made Man When we are by th' Apostle truly told The God-head is not like Silver or Gold Or any thing Corruptions Power can waste For He to all Eternity must last And if the Art of Man can make his Maker The Smith may do as well as do's the Baker Bread was the substance which our Saviour gave And Bread it was the Apostles did receive His Real Body was but in the Sign He gave his Flesh and Blood in Bread and Wine For if his Body he did then divide He must have eat himself before he dy'd His humane Body which for us was given Is given to us of Bread which came from Heaven The which if we unworthily Receive We eat our Judgments and our selves deceive In not discerning what his Body is Our Souls are rob'd of everlasting Bliss We must believe the Words of him who said This is my Body when he gave the Bread And sure that Blood which curdl'd in each Vein Did in His Sacred Body still remain Till he was Crucify'd and Slain However there 's great Influence therein Which expiates and cleanseth us from Sin We are made One with him in Holy Union When we in Faith receive the Blest Communion In Commemoration of his bitter Passion Who shed his Blood to purchase our Salvation We on his Merits must depend alone Sufficient 't is that Merit we have none Nor can there any other Name be given To save us but by him who sits in Heaven His Body here on Earth need not appear When Angels to the Women say He is not here He 's not i' th' Press or Cup-board as some say For then the Mice might carry him away The Primitive Christians never were so blind To think he could be blown away with wind Or that some Thieves or Robbers might devour Him who created Heaven by his Power We are not sav'd by Sense but by our Faith And ought to credit what our Master saith He call'd himself a Vine and yet we see He was a perfect Man and not a Tree He call'd himself a Door 't is understood We enter Heaven through Him and not thro Wood. He call'd himself a Way the which doth lead Our Steps to Heaven yet none doth on him tread His blessed Words were oft-times Mystical And are not rightly understood by all Save such on whom he doth that Gift bestow Who to the Ignorant the Truth may shew His Blessed Body Heaven must contain Where He a King eternally doth Reign Until the Restitution of all Then we with him and Angels ever shall Sing Allelujahs in their Hierarchie For where He is there must his Servants be A PRAYER of Queen Elizabeth upon her escape from being burnt in her Bed by a Fire flaming through the Boards of her Chamber during her Imprisonment at Woodstock in Oxfordshire O Gracious Lord God I humbly prostrate my self upon the bended Knees of my Heart before thee intreating thee for thy Sons sake to be now and ever merciful unto me I am thy work the work of thine own Hands even of those Hands which were nailed to the Cross for my Sins Look upon the Wounds of thy Hands and despise not the work of thy hands Thou hast written me down in thy Book of Preservation read thine own hand-writing and save me Spare me that speak unto thee pardon me that pray unto thee The Griefs I endure enforce me to speak the Calamities I suffer compel me to complain If my hopes were in this life only then were I of all People most miserable It must needs be that there is another life for here those live many times longest who are not worthy to live at all Here the Israelites make Bricks and the Egyptians dwell in the Houses David is in want and Nabal abounds Sion is Babylons Captive Hast thou nothing in store for Joseph but the stocks for Esay but a Saw Will not Elias adorn the Chariot as well as the Juniper Tree Will not John Baptists Head become a Crown as well as a Platter Surely there is great Retribution for the Just there is Fruit for the Righteous Thou hast Palms for their Hands white Robes for their Bodies Thou wilt wipe away all Tears from their Eyes and shew thy goodness in the Land of the Living How good and desirable is the shadow of thy wings Oh Lord Jesus That is a safe Sanctuary to flie unto a comfortable refreshing from all sin and sorrow Whatsoever Cup of Affliction this Life makes me drink of it is yet nothing to those bitter Draughts that thou hast already drank for me Help me Oh thou my strength and thereby I shall be raised up Come thou my Light and thereby I shall be illuminated appear thou Glory to which I shall be exalted Hasten thou Life by which I shall be hereafter glorified Amen Amen When Q. Mary was dead and the News thereof came to Q. Elizabeth she removed from Hatfeild to the Charter-house from whence she was Royally Attended to the Tower of London and Nov. 24. 1558. She set forward from the Tower to pass through the City to Westminster But the Queen considering that she was now exalted from Misery to Majesty from a Prisoner to a Princess She very devoutly and religiously lifted up her Hands to Heaven before she would suffer her self to be mounted in her Chariot and made the following Prayer O Lord Almighty and ever living God I give thee most humble and hearty thanks that thou hast been so merciful unto me as to spare me to see this joyful and blessed day and I acknowledge thou hast dealt as graciously and wonderfully with me as thou didst with thy true and faithful Servant Daniel thy Prophet whom thou deliveredst out of the Lions Den from the cruelty of the greedy and raging Lions even so was I overwhelmed and by thee delivered To thee therefore only be Thanks and Honour and Praise for evermore Amen In 1588 The Spanish Armado invaded the Kingdom the Design being no less than the Conquest of England at which time Q. Elizabeth having raised a considerable Army of