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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	apostle_n	holy_a	scripture_n	6,970	5	5.7262	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18103	The originall of idolatries: or, The birth of heresies a true, sincere, and exact description of all such sacred signes, sacrifices, and sacraments as haue been instituted and ordained of God since Adam; with the true source and liuely anatomy of the sacrifice of the Masse. First faithfully gathered out of sundry Greeke and Latine authors, as also out of diuers learned fathers; by that famous and learned Isaac Casaubon, and by him published in French, for the good of Gods Church: and now translated into English for the benefit of this monarchy; by Abraham Darcie.	Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.; Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 4747; ESTC S107577	78,965	150

engraffed and by the same blood we are entertained and preserued from hungring or thirsting for euer By the blood of Iesus Christ wee cast off our old corrupt skin and put on his body from which likewise wee receiue nourishment and eternall life By the blood of Iesus Christ we haue accesse and entry into the Kingdome of Heauen And by the same blood we haue fruition of the same kingdome In this sense the holy Apostle testifieth that wee were all baptized by the vertue of the holy Spirit and we are likewise drunke of the same spirituall drinke giuen vnto vs by Iesus Christ Be not these comparisons drawne out of the holy Scriptures to witnesse that Iesus Christ is the onely aime and scope whereto we must tend both in Baptisme and the holy Supper If therefore that the signes of sacramentall water in Baptisme and of Bread and Wine in the Supper of Iesus Christ are sacred Signes Earnests Gages Hostages Symboles Seales and Sacraments instituted by God for an assurance and approbation of our faith Wherefore O Missalians seeing you haue inuented a Magicke of transubstantiation for the Sacrament of the Supper why did you not likewise with the same Magicke sophisticate the Sacrament of Baptisme Why haue you not constituted that sacramentall water after it is by you exorcis'd and coniur'd with salt to repell diuels to be transubstantiated into the blood of Iesus Christ the water being no more water but an accident without substance as you haue forged by the Bread and Wine What difference doe you assigne but Sophistries Sophismes and Missalian subtilties If you perseuere in your heresie by reason of this word est this word is also vsed in the water of Baptisme which is termed renouation and regeneration it is named the holy Spirit and the Vestment by and with which wee are reuested renued and regenerated in the blood of Iesus Christ Seeing therefore you acknowledge O Missalians that you could neuer yet meet with a second Berengarius to institute another Decree of a Palinody for the extending of your Magicall transubstantiation to the sacred water of Baptisme and by the same meanes likewise to transubstantiate your lustrall Plegme Spittle your Oyle your Creames your Salt other Drugges wherewith you haue corrupted the holy Sacrament of Baptisme why are you so inueterate and obdurate in your Pompilian Religion as to hale Iesus Christ from the right hand of his Father to make him in body and blood to descend by your muttered Magick like another Iupiter Elicius before the day preordained for his second comming I may well propound vnto you the similitude of the Sunne called by some Apostles the Sunne of Righteousnes Iesus Christ because light comes from Heauen by this luminous and glorious sphericall Planet and so spirituall light is exhibited to vs by Iesus Christ who out of the night and darknesse of sinne hath brought vs into the brightnesse and cleare sun-shine of his grace You may now therefore vnderstand carnall grosse Capernaites this sufficient and euident comparison to intimate that the infinite power of God is much more compleat and perfect then your abominable inuention of Transubstantiation Will you not acknowledge except your eyes be blinded and obfu●cated with the palpable darknes of obstinacie that the Sunne giues vs his light his force his heat and vigour and yet neuerthelesse the body it self of the planetall Sunne remaines and continues in his sphericall Orbe Doe you not vse to say ordinarily in common language when the window of an house is open on that part where the Sunne shines that the Sunne is come into the house although the Sunne remaines still in the Firmament Must wee therefore violently hale and pull the body of the Sun to make it descend and bee transubstantiated into this earthly substance before it can affoord its heat beames light and nourishment to Plants Trees Herbes and Beasts of the earth Are you so brutish O Capernaits as not to recognize that the true Sunne of Righteousnes Iesus Christ hath more power then this Astrall Sunne being but mortall and created If then a mortall creature hath this power to infuse into vs the vertue and efficacie of his body by his beames light and heate extended really and effectually ouer the whole earth the body remaining still in its heauen and shall wee not beleeue that God an immortall Creator hath much more power to grant vs the true Sunne of Righteousnesse Iesus Christ to giue vs the vertue and power of his body and bloodshed for vs by the beames light and heate of his holy Spirit except hee be by your Magicke pluckt from the right hand of God and his body drawne out of heauen to be transubstantiated vpon earth Why should not Iesus Christ haue this power to affoord vs his light and to offer his body and blood to enter into vs if by faith and a pure conscience wee be ready to receiue him by the efficacy of his holy Spirit as well and better then the sphericall Sunne can enter into our houses with his force and power and neuer be drawne out of his heauen to bee transubstantiated The Sunne is an entire body created residing in heauen the cause of the generation of Plants Trees and Herbes which by his force and calidity giues sustentation to whatsoeuer liues vpon the earth and in one and the same moment hath power to quicken heat and nourish an infinit number of Plants Trees Herbes and beasts of the earth and yet his body is neuer separated diuided drawne out of his spheare nor transubstantiated The body also of Iesus Christ which he assumed vp into heauen set at the right hand of God hath not that more force more vertue more power to regenerate nourish and sustaine vs to giue vs his vertue light and beames to inspire quicken illuminate and nourish vs and in a moment to make vs all by faith partakers of his body and bloud to make vs members of his members vnited in and by him through his true promise comprehended vnder the symboles sacred signes commended vnto vs till the second cōming of his humanity be reuealed vpon earth Wherefore then O Missalians haue you deuised this Magicke of transubstantiation to blaspheme against God to impaire his omnipotency and disable his vertue more then you do that of the sphericall Sun but his creature Why should you hale the body of Iesus Christ out of heauen before the preordained time to transubstantiate it into your little round azimall hosts printed with image●y which you cause to bee ador●d seeing Christ as God there assists his Church perpetually and hath the power to regenerate feed and sustaine vs yea with an eternall life and nourishment by his most assured promise testified by the holy Sacraments of Baptisme and the sacred Supper For other more familiar and domesticall comparisons consider O Missalians how earthly and mo●tall Princes are reputed

reuerenced and honoured by such sacred signes as they ordaine I will onely propound vnto you two which is to say waxe and mettals of one the Princes seale is composed with which grants pardons and remissions are sealed charters and priuiledges by the Prince conferred He that falsifies this seale is he not punisht as in case of high treason euen as if hee had outraged the person of the Prince Does not this seale represent his owne person euen as if himselfe were present Neuerthelesse the seale though it bee called the seale of the Prince is not transubstantiated but still remaines waxe but otherwise hauing receiued the sacred character of the Prince being then no more called waxe but the Princes seale Also the mettals of gold or siluer coyned with the Princes stampe doe serue for mony although they are no more called gold nor siluer but hauing once exchanged their names at the Princes wil they are either crownes Angels or Pistols or else shillings groats or penies or other such like names they are yet notwithstanding mettals of the very substance as they were before there is but that difference that they haue the Princes impression vpon them by and in which hee is represented really so that whosoeuer clips or falsifies that money is sorely punisht by death as a fellon and a Traitor his Prince for it is in a manner as bad and as if he had offended and conspired against the Princes owne person by farre greater reason the bread and the wine consecrated and ordained to bee Sacraments of the pretious body and blood of Christ Iesus represents them really and not by picture Wherefore whosoeuer receiues it vnworthily commits a haynous crime against the supreame and Diuine Maiesty of him to his eternall damnation but t is not to conclude a transubstantiation by a most abhominable coniuration or witchcraft But if you Massalians or Masse-Priests Nicholaits and transubstantiators be not sufficiently satisfied with Iesus Christ his Apostles interpretations as likewise with those similitudes and familiar comparisons to reduce and bring you to the sincere way and certaine forme ordained of God for to celebrate his holy Sacraments in abolishing your Pompilian and Missafique Idolatries eiecting from you your abhominable witchcraft of transubstantiation At the least will ye not beleeue at all the interpretations of the anci●et authors of the Church hearken but to the sayings of St. Augustin against Adamantine that notable hereticke Euen as the blood saith hee in many parts and places of the holy Scripture is said to be the water the Stone also to bee Christ euen so the bread is said to be his body which three places must be vnderstood and interpreted to bee sacred signes and figures then when this very author said Christ Iesus vttered these words Hoc est corpus meum this is my body in presenting and breaking bread to his Disciples hee gaue them the signe of his body for otherwise it should seeme to bee a thing both inhumane and vnlawfull to deuoure the pretious flesh and blood of Iesus Christ if there were not the figure of the bread and wine for to keepe in memory his flesh and blood the body of Christ hauing beene sacrificed to God his Father for our life and eternal nourishment Againe the same author vseth this interpretation The Sacrament visible is the new Testament that is to say the sacred signe of the inuisible sacrifice the like interpretations are described by Tertullian against that hereticke Marcion Christus acceptum panem corpus suum fecit dicendo hoc est corpus meum id est figura corporis mei Wherefore then O Missalians haue you not followed the authority of these holy Doctors of the Church which would not blasphem against God by the magick of transubstantiation but haue freely and vertuously acknowledged the Sacrament to be a visible signe or sacred figure signifying by faith spirit that which is inuisible wherefore do you prepare the mouth and the belly for to deuoure the body and blood of Christ corporally really and carnally why offer you not your selues by true liuely faith for to eate worthily Christ Iesus Why haue you not vnderstood the manducation of the body of Christ by the notable distinction of that learned Doctor S. Ierome saying the flesh of Christ Iesus is to be vnderstood carnally when it is spoken of the shedding his blood and crucifying of his body for our saluation but spiritually when it is said that his flesh is the true meat for vs to eate For another proofe I will alledge that learned Prelate Gelase Bishop of Rome the which disputing against the Heretickes Eutichines and Nestorians doth affirme the bread wine consecrated and made Sacraments are neuerthelesse in substance bread and wine but to be signes of the body and blood of Christ Iesus by the mystery of the Sacrament And if ye desire larger testimonies Saint Ambrosius vpon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians hath explicated and made manifest that the eating of the bread and the drinking of the wine doth signifie the flesh and the blood of Christ Iesus offered for vs. Origen likewise in his Homilies teacheth the Sacraments to be figures which we ought to examine really and not carnally because saith he that those words Hoc est corpus meum not vnderstood spiritually kils the soule when he writes to eate the flesh of Christ Wherefore S. Chrysostome admonished the people to honour that holy Sacrament in offring himselfe his soule to God for the which Christ Iesus was crucified that by that holy Sacament of bread wine is signified to vs the similitude of the body and blood of Iesus Christ For resolution we must follow and be ruled according to the instruction and interpretation of our holy Sauiour Christ Iesus and his Apostles to honor and reuerence his holy Sacraments instituted of him by exterior signes to lift vp our hearts and raise our spirits and minds to heauen for to comprehend that which by those signes is represented to vs and not to esteeme hold account them as vaine pictures or apparitions but endeuour to receiue them worthily by liuely faith and vertue of the holy Ghost to the end to be fed and nourished with celestiall bread to the saluation of our soules thereby to attaine life eternall Let vs then be assured in Christ Iesus as members of his body that we may be reduced and brought all into one vnity for to communicate and eate the same bread and drink the same wine compounded of many graines vnited together to the end that wee may say with the holy Apostle All wee faithfull are the body of Christ Iesus saued and redeemed by his holy body crucified and pretious blood shed for vs and so remaining permanent in faith in Christ Iesus in eating his body and drinking his blood to beleeue firmely to haue beene crucified and