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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	faith_n	scripture_n	6,364	5	6.0991	4	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

the begetting of grace as bread is not given to beget but to sustain a man Seventhly hee that comes to the Lords Table being unregenerate is that fathers son Mat. 21. 30. saying Go and went not His Uses following did aggravate his Doctrine and Reasons as it follows also he did affirm that the damned shall cry out of hell to such Ministers as have delivered the Sacrament to such naturall men here in their life-time and shall say Thou gavest me my damnation in giving me the Sacrament for I was blind and saw it not dead and discern'd it not and therefore wo be to you that have given mee my eternall confusion and destruction with many more of these and the like strange and fond expressions of his own vision invented by his own brain contrary to Gods truth hee concluding these vanities with such a seeming confidence as no man could contradict or gainsay but assured himself that every one that heard him were satisfied with the cleere truth of this dark light urging it on the Congregation again and again with these or the like words Now I hope there is none but who are fully satisfied whose importunities for mistakings where no lesse then an engagement to mee which understood their falsenesse to make these opposing Grounds presently turning them into eight Arguments proving thereby that the Sacrament of the body and blood of our Lord ought not to be denyed to any that receive the common faith and outward Baptisme except in the case of excommunication and in that respect the spirituall as well as the carnall may be excluded 1. He that preacheth that the Sacrament of the Lords Table doth not as well teach to the begetting of grace as the confirming of grace hee is ignorant of the nature of the Sacrament and of the Word of God but so it was preached at Woolchurch on the 29th of June 1645. Ergo 2. If by the preaching the Word Christ crucified be the means to beget grace then the visible manifestation to the eye as well as to the eare of the signes if his death are the means of begetting of grace also But by the preaching of the Word to the eare Christ crucified is manifested or set forth for the begetting of grace Gal. 3. 1. 1 Cor. 1. 23 24. Therefore the visible manifestation of the signes of Christs death are for the bagetting of grace also 1 Cor. 11. 26. Matth. 26. 28. 3. If Gods Word say So often as you eat this bread and drink this cup yee do shew the Lords death till he come then the Sacrament doth teach grace to be received by Christ as well as confirm the grace already received but the Apostle so saith 1 Cor. 11. 26. therefore hee that teacheth otherwise is ignorant of the Scripture and of the nature of the Sacrament as also it is proved Luke 22. 19 20. Matth. 26. 28. 4. He that teacheth that whosoever giveth the Sacrament of bread and wine to a naturall man although hee believe the Scriptures and be baptized doth hereby cast holy things to Dogs and pearles before Swine such a Preacher doth not understand the command of our Lord in that place Matth. 7. 6. But so it was taught in the place and time above said Ergo 5. Whosoever so teacheth as aforesaid doth either willingly or ignorantly or both testifie that Christs practice was against his commandment which is blasphemy so to affirm but so it was affirmed in Woolchurch in the time and place above said Ergo For hee gave the bread and cup to Judas amongst the rest of the twelve Matth. 26. 20. to the 30th verse Luke 22. 14. to the 22. verse John 13. Mark 14. 17. to the 25. verse and in so doing hee did not cast holy things to Dogs nor pearles before Swine 6. If the Scripture shew to us that all that had the common or historicall faith to believe Jesus Christ come in the flesh had admission after baptisme to the Lords Supper and so by and through the common gifts of Gods Spirit might examine themselves and discerne the Lords body according to the Apostles meaning 1 Cor. 11. 28. then he that restrains it to the spirituall Christian only presumes above what is written but at Woolchurch the place and time above said the restraint was affirmed Ergo 7. If the Paschall Lamb to the Jewes were the same that the Supper of the Lord is to Christians then all Christians are to have the same liberty as the Jewes both outward and inward carnall and spirituall Exod. 12. 47. But the Supper of the Lord is the same in effect as the Passeover 1 Cor. 5. 7. Heb. 11. 28. of the which the carnall Jewes were to communicate as well as the spirituall Ergo carnall Christians may communicate as well as spirituall Christians 8. He that teacheth that whosoever delivereth the Sacrament to a wicked unregenerated man delivers to him his damnation preacheth a devillish doctrine for therein he condemneth the Lord of life for the Word and Sacraments are not properly the causes of mens damnations in themselves but casually and accidentally But so it was affirmed in the place and time abovesaid that whosoever delivereth the Sacrament to a wicked unregenerate man delivers to him his damnation Ergo he that so teacheth preacheth a damnable and devillish doctrine These Arguments were delivered to the Preacher by the Clerk some two days after his Sermon and the next Lords day after Prayer in the Pulpit he did declare to the Congregation that hee had received divers Arguments against the doctrine hee had taught them the Lords day before and that they may the more cleerly be answered saith hee I will make repetition of what I delivered before unto you verbatim and accordingly did repeat two thirds of his Sermon or thereabouts some of the said particulars hee in repeating delivered with more caution then before other things hee wholly omitted and when he had finished his repetition then he drew forth the Arguments with Answers written to every one as he affirmed although indeed and in truth not any one of them were answered And notwithstanding his publike notice in the Pulpit that whosoever would might have copies yet my importunitie these nine or ten dayes together cannot procure his Answers that I might make my Replication thereby to open the Scriptures that prove my Arguments As also to shew the weaknesse and invalidity of his Answers although I have promised money for the writing thereof and as yet hee will not avouch them notwithstanding his publike vaunting at the first yea my importunity was such as that he passed his faithfull promise to me before a friend in private that within two dayes after I should have them but I understood he was prevented by some parishioners that in affection towards me are dissented wherfore I am forst to call them to mind by my memory which he read written to the auditory His Answer to my first Argument To the first saith hee I answer that the