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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	deed_n	flesh_n	live_v	6,029	5	6.2666	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01372	A briefe treatise against the priesthood & sacrifice of the Church of Rome wherein the simple may perceiue their intollerable impietie, usurping that office and action, which euer appertaine to Christ onely / by G.G.	G. G.	1584 (1584)	STC 11493.5; ESTC S2680	22,365	64

principalities and powers Such a Priest as this must bring vs that are base and sinful wretches vnto God in him we must be sanctified in him we must obtaine fauour in him we must be heard that is so high in fauour that no request can be denied him In him wee must be saued who hath receiued all power and authoritie both in heauen and earth and liueth for euer What fouler beastlines then can there be than this that sinfull vnholy and base wormes of the earth shoulde challenge vnto themselues to be Priestes of the Newe Testament yea that such sillie Asses as are scarce fit to kéepe swine will yet haue that office that the glorie honor and power of is aboue the Angels let all men iudge nowe of this conclusion The Priest of the New Testament is pure and holie separated from sinners made higher than the heauens The Pope all his broode are sinfull whoremongers théeues and murtherers base and vile wretches of the earth farre off frō being higher than the heauens Therefore their priesthood is not the priesthood of the Newe Testament There is also another notable difference betwéene the olde priesthood and the newe that those former did minister in earth in a Tabernacle made with handes which had no enduring substance This latter is entred into the Sanctuarie of heauen and there doth execute the Priests office hee doeth not any thing in an earthly sanctuarie For why this priesthood is heauenly and eternall his Tabernacle must be agreeable vnto the same And it is saide that if he were on earth he could not be a Priest while those Priestes did stande which were after the law Hebr. 8. 4. For although our Lord were a Priest in deede when he was vpon earth and did offer the sacrifice of his body yet ye see there was no outward thing that the Priests vppon earth do His bodie was slaine vppon earth but was it carried into the Temple and slaine at the Altar Was the bloud sprinkled before the Arke of the couenant No all things were heauenly and spirituall in this sacrifice If we regard the substance of his bodie it was the same that ours is But yet all the vertue efficacie of the same when it was a slaine sacrifice was frō aboue And so though he were in earth yet the whole fruite of his worke was in heauen For he being both God and man was a Priest euen then in heauen whē he was slaine vpon earth The vertue and power of the sacrifice to purge away sinne was not of the manhood frō it selfe but the manhood had it from the Godhead in that the manhood was so vnited vnto the godhead that they made one person In this sense he sayth Iohn 6. ver 63. It is the spirite that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing Howsoeuer the flesh of Christ hath power in it forgiue life as in déede it is the bread of life and whosoeuer doeth eate of it shall liue for euer yet it hath not this life of it selfe but from the Godhead Likewise the bloud is able to purge away sinne because it is the bloud of a man which is also God It is also said 1. Cor. 15. The first man was of the earth earthly The seconde man was the Lord frō heauen heauenly Wherefore is he called a man from heauen heauenly was it because his flesh was from heauen cursed be he which so holdeth No it was because all the vertue and efficacie which was in his manhood to redéeme the worlde was from heauen We sée then that he being sacrificed in earth the efficacie of his Priesthood was in heauen There is nothing in his Priesthood nor in the execution thereof which is earthly But these priestes are altogether earth and what can they do without earthe A temple they must haue on earth an Altar of earth manie other things of earth which prooue that all their ministerie function is earthie Then to conclude the mediatour of the New Testament is not a Priest vpon earth nor executeth not the Priestes office but in the heauenly Tabernacle The Romanes are Priests vpon earth they minister with earthly things in earthly Tabernacles and vpon Altares concecrate to that purpose Who doth not sée therefore that they haue no affinitie at all with Christ Moreouer if it may be demaunded is sir Iohn a King Surely then haue there béene manie lousie Kings Euery one which is a Priest after the order of Melchisedech is a King for those two are ioyned together in his order the kingdome and the Priesthood Is there any man so foolish as to take these to be kings They may be taken for priests but not after the order of Melchisedech so long as they haue but shauen crownes and not crownes of golde nor after the order of Aaron which is ceased but after the order of the priests of Baal If they obiect that the Pope hath both swordes the spirituall and the ciuil and therefore he is a King and a Priest I aunswere that therein he is more vnlike Christ whose kingdome is not of this world The kingdome of Christ is spirituall he medled not with the ciuil sworde but left it to the Magistrate The Pope chalenging it is not of that order which Christ is Seing then as we haue prooued none can be partakers with Christ in the most high dignitie and honour of the Priesthoode seeing euerie Priest is a mediatour of a Testament and of the Newe Testament there is but one seeing none can haue that honour to be Priest but they which are called of God and the Papistes can shewe no calling nor cōsecrating of Priestes in the Newe Testament Seeing in the order of Melchisedech all things are spirituall and full of endlesse power in the order of Poperie all things carnall Melchisedech continueth for euer these 〈◊〉 Séeing also the Priest of the New Testament must be perfectly holie pure without spot of sinne and higher than the heauens the Popish Priestes are abominable sinners Christ is a Priest in heauen they vpon earth He is both a King and a Priest sir Iohn is not a king It doth followe that their order of Priesthood is not of God but they be the idolatrous priestes of Antichrist They can not by their ministerie and Priesthood bring men vnto God but contrariwise they carrie headlong vnto the diuel Such therefore as will saue their soules must not be blind and wilfull but open their eyes and behold the cléere and manifest trueth of God which he hath taught in his worde As we haue proued this one part so let vs now come to the other that is to shew that the sacrifice which they offer is not the sonne of God but a wicked abhomination no more pleasing vnto God than if men should offer a dogge in sacrifice vnto him It might suffice to satisfie a modest minde that al which they doe is naught because they doe make themselues Priests after the order of Melchisedech and so do