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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	faith_n	grace_n	receive_v	7,604	5	5.6899	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09915	A notable sermon concerninge the ryght vse of the lordes supper and other thynges very profitable for all men to knowe preached before the Kynges most excellent Mayestye and hys most honorable counsel in hys courte at Westmynster the 14. daye of Marche, by Mayster Iohn ponet Doctor of dyuinity. 1550.	Ponet, John, 1516?-1556.	1550 (1550)	STC 20177; ESTC S115044	25,346	112

the lordes death haue not this inward belefe the same man in taking of that visible Sacrament in the face of the congregaciō maketh a lye to the holy gost because he sheweth him self outwardly as though he comforforted his soule inwardelye with Christ and yet in deed he doth not and therfor when he taketh this heuenly Sacrament his conscience cōdempneth hum and telleth him that he is not inwardly so affected and disposed as his outward receauinge of the Sacrament doth pretend Wherfore saint Paule geueth sentence of euery suche man and sayth Iudicium sibi manducat et bibit He eateth and drynketh his owne condempnacion and iudgemente whiche is an vnworthy kynde of eatinge Quia non diiudicat corpus domini Because he hath no consideracion why he eatith of that bred and drynketh of that cuppe wherof he eatith drynketh for an outwarde Sacrament and testimony before the hole congregacion that he is inwardly fed and confortith by Christus death but inwardly indeed he feleth no suche confort Wherefore thus I may conclude he that beleueth eateth And he that beleueth not eateth not although he eate the Sacrament euery day in the weeke And S. Austen beyng of the same minde saith Quid paras dentem uentrem crede manducasti Why doest thou prepare thy teeth and thy bely beleue and thou hast eaten Therfore should man proue hymself as S. Paule saieth and examen diligentlye hys owne conscience within hys breste and way with him selfe wel before he come to this holy communion whether he be indued with the spirit of god and lyuely fayth in Christe or not And if he perceaue hym selfe to be a fleshly a sensuall man without faith and without the spirit of almighty god he ought not to receaue thys holy sacrament but to withdraw him self vntil such time as almighty God shall more plentyfullye indue him wyth his most heauenly grace But if he perceaue by his faith that he is knyt holly to Christ and that he is a liuelye member of him let him then goe forward and eat of this bread drynke of this cuppe to his most heauenly comfort And lette hym say to him selfe on thys wyse when he goeth to receaue the communion I goe now to make a solempne professyon before God and his congregation of my fayeth and to receaue that comfortable Sacrament and misticall pledge that Christ hath appointed And besydes the quyeting of myne owne conscience to declare to other of the flocke of Christ that I beleue assueredlye that oure Sauyoure Christe shedde hys precyouse bloude and dyed for the remissyon of my synnes And that he and none but he hath geuen me a wysdome whereby I am returned againe into the fauor of God The lawe told me that I was not able of my selfe searchinge all the wittes that I had to returne againe to God but Christ. Factus est mihi sapientia a Deo Hath geuen me a wisedome and a knowledge howe to come with hys helpe agayne to God I was altogether wicked and vnholly and he hath made me holy in that he hath made me partaker of his holynes I was alltogether vnrightuouse and he hath made me rightuouse in that it pleaseth him to make me partaker of his rightuousnes By meanes wherof my former offenses shall not be imputed vnto me I thought that I coulde by no means haue pacified the wrath of God the father and haue made amendes for mine offences but nowe I am sure that Christe is become my redemer and hath made a quietnes an attonement betwene almighty god me So that I fele and perceaue this to be trew that Christ is god mā Factus est mihi sapiencia a Deo Iusticiaque sanctificatio redemtio Christ is become my wisdom frō God my righteousnes my holynes and my redemption In witnes wherof I wil eate of this bred and drinke of this cup that our sauiour Christ hath appointed me to eate drynk of to my most heuenly comfort and consolacion After this examinacion our conscience wil tel vs whether we bee apte or not to receaue this holycōmunion according to Christes right institucion Whiche is appoynted for vs to perpetuall memory of his death vntyl his comminge agayne in glory For this ende was the holy sacrament first instituted and not to be holden vp in the handes of the priest ouer his hed not to be hāged vp in y e church to be worshipped with a goodly honor of y e people not that the minister thereof shoulde by the ministraciō therof purchase remission of synnes for y e quicke and the dead not that he should get reyne therby or fayer wheter not y t he should clense the ayer thereby from euell infections no more y t the receyuer therof should be the better for the receuing therof that is to say for the doiynge of that worke but rather the worse if he were not a goodly beleuinge man before The right vse of this holy sa Sacramente is as often as it is taken for a heuenly meanes to putt vs in rememberanrce of the death and bludshedinge of our Sauiour Christ. Whiche right vse being once trewely and plainely perceaued of the people all vayne vses wyll fall awaye of them selfes euen as falsed fayleth when truth commeth and as darcknes geueth place when light cometh And at the last the mainteyners of these fond diuises will be ashamed of their ignorance when all the worlde shall see the truth to ther open confusion and perceaue sensibily how blynd bussardes they be what shift they make both to lyue themselfes and also to bringe vp and confyrme other in blyndnes Yt is a sport to here these ignorant blyndlynges what shiftes they make when they be dryuen to their answer either concernynge the Sacrament it selfe or elles concernynge the presence of Christes body in the Sacrament Some saye that Christ is in this Sacrament realiter et substancialiter but not naturaliter that is to saye really substancially but not naturally And of this opinion be the mooste parte of the schole Doctors Some other holde that that opynion is false and wyl in any wyse haue thys worde naturally saiynge that Christ his bodye is there naturally whiche terme I meruayle much wher they fynd seynge that it is not vsed eyther of Saint Austen saint Ambrose saint Hierom or of any other of the old aunceant doctors writers either in greek or latin old or new And yet is there one who hath of late writtē a boke called the detection of the deuels Sophistry whiche vsed this terme naturally twyse or thrise in his boke belyke he lerned this terme in that schole wheras he learned the deuels Sophistry that is to saye in the schole of lyes of whom the deuel is the chefe scholemaster Some saye that he is there Iisdem dimencionibus quibus pendebat in cruce Euen of thesame lenght breadeth and thyknes as he dyd hange vpon the crosse Some say that