Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	holy_a	life_n	6,877	5	4.4602	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61427	The Cranmerian liturgy, or, The subtilty of the serpent in corrupting the true English liturgy, by Cranmer and a faction of Calvinists.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1696 (1696)	Wing S5425A; ESTC R222003	8,497	9

came not to unhappy ends And the present Governors of this Church have had sufficient warning to have restored the Honour of God and prevented the exposing of so much of their own Shame Sins of Omission in places of great Trust are dangerous and damnable And such is frequently the State of such as joyn with them And this undoubtedly has been a continual Gratification to the Powers of darkness to have held this Nation in such Fetters so long But because the Gratifications of those Apostate Spirits arise from their Success in their attempts upon Men to involve them in Sin and Disobedience and Indignities to God and so engage them in their own state of Apostacy they cannot be well understood unless the Wickedness of what was done in this matter be farther detected and explained than is commonly apprehended For which purpose it is to be noted that it was usual with Mankind from the beginning to perform their most Solemn Transactions with all the external Declarations of their Minds that they could that is not only with Audible but also with Visible Signs and Significations not with Words only but with the conjuction of Actions and Things and the Omission of those was interpreted to be a Slight or Contempt Accordingly it was usual to make their Addresses to God and even to Princes and Prophets with Presents in Recognition of Superiority And the chief Aliments of their Lives Bread and Wine were usually part of their Offerings even at their Sacrifices This was retained by the Jews who at all their Festivals consecrated a Cake of Bread and a Chalice of Wine with Water and over it gave Thanks to God for his Creation of the World and his special Mercies to Mankind and to themselves particularly mention'd and more largly for that Celebrated at that time This is what God foretold by the Prophet Mal. 1.11 should be done by the Gentiles and this is the import of our Saviours words as often as ye do this do it in Commemoration of me whereby he appropriates this which was used before in Commemoration of several other Divine Favours to be done always from thence forward in Commemoration of his Sacrifice upon the Cross as the Compendium of all And from this Institution the Apostles and from them the Churches founded by them receiv'd it and have ever since used it as an Antitype as effectual for them to all intents and purposes as were all the Types and Sacrifices of the Jews for them before his Passion But more particularly therein may be observed 1. A solemn Recognition of the Soveraignty of God by right of Creation in the Oblation of the chief Aliments of our Lives with Thanksgivings for it and all his Divine Favours 2. The Sanctification of those Creatures by the Descent of the Holy Spirit at the Prayers of the Church 3. The Oblation of the Creatures Sanctified in Commemoration of the Sacrifice of Christ upon the Cross the great Propitiation for the Sins of the World by which alone we have Access unto and Acceptance with the Father with Supplications Prayers and Intercessions for all Men according to the Apostles Exhortation 1 Tim. 2.1 So that the Oblation of the Memorials of his Son's Passion is a Solemn Actual Allegation of his Covenant v. Gen. 9.13.17 And therein is implyed 4. A Solemn Recognition of our Redemption by him Subjection to him and Obligation to lay down our Lives in Obedience to him as he did his for us in obedience to his Father and a Solemn Act of Confederation with him And lastly the Communion and Participation of these Sanctified Creatures for the Sanctification of our Souls and Bodies and Augmentation of Spiritual Life and Vigor and Special Application of all the Benefits of his Holy Sacrifice unto us And now what could be either more honorable for our Saviour or a more Solemn Engagement with him on the one side or more offensive and grievous to that Envious and Malicious Spirit on the other than to see that Passion which he had most maliciously procur'd to be so honour'd and applied to the Honour of the Holy Trinity and the Benefit and Advantage of Men and turned to his own Confusion and his quondam Vassals and their Posterity thus confederating and fortified against him And what could be a greater Gratification to him then to see all this which was so offensive and grievous and done weekly at least in all Churches and dayly in all great Churches to be thus Abolished and even what remained of it soon after almost every where neglected And this is what their Grandfather Cranmer or rather this wicked Spirit by him and in him was so subtle and industrious to abolish And this is what the present Cranmerians his Posterity have so obstinately opposed and refuse to restore notwithstanding the Publick Admonition raised and conducted by the hand of God undoubtedly into the very heart of the Chief City of the Nation notwithstanding the Fortifications of Humane Laws against it and although divers learned men have declared their Convictions of the truth of the Case in print but to no other effect than their own self Condemnation and Condemnation of the rest and plain Manifestation of what Spirit they are And here we may plainly perceive the Reason of what Mr. Mede hath well observ'd in fact That the Devil hath exercised and vented more Malice and Spight against this Holy Rite than against any other part of the Christian Religion except the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity And from hence alone it is abundantly manifest that it was the same Spirit or of the same party which secretly inspir'd and instigated Cranmar and which more openly disputed with Luther before against it And this I think is sufficient for Satisfaction to the First Question But we have not yet seen all the inveterate Spight and Malice of this Antichristian Spirit against this Holy Solemnity That could not satisfie it thus to have depraved and abolished it and deprived God the Father Son and Holy Spirit of the Honor and the Christian People of the Benefit of it unless he could prevail also to have a piece of Mockery set up in the place of it Such another as was heretofore introduced in France called Missa Sicca but soon exploded there as a dry empty barren thing but set up here upon some occasion taken from the first Book of Ed. 6. very formally in the latter inlarged with the Priests Rehersal of the Ten Commandments and a supplicatory Respons for the People at the end of each and commonly call'd the Second Service The Subtilty of the Serpent is remarkable enough in it having nothing but what is innocent and good and well accomodated to deceive the people and make them believe it as good as what they had before but being perform'd at the Altar and in the place of that August Venerable and as S. Chrisostome calls it Tremendous Sacrifice it was an Abominable Abuse both to God and Man As if a