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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	scripture_n	true_a	word_n	7,836	5	4.4595	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00802	A most godly and very necessarie lesson to be learned of all christen men and womẽ, before they come to y[e] Communion of the the bodie & bloud of our sauiour Christe Jesus. Compiled by Richard Tracie. Anno .M.D.xlviii..	Tracy, Richard, d. 1569.	1548 (1548)	STC 24163; ESTC S101662	10,401	46

A most godly enstruction and very necessarie lesson to be learned of all christen men and womē before they come to the Communion of the bodie bloud of our sauiour Christe Iesus ☞ Compiled by Richard Tracie Anno. M.D.xlviii SAint Peter sayeth that oure aduersary the deuyl i. Peter .v. lyke a roringe lion goeth aboute sekynge whom he may deuowre So that his erneste studie and purpose is euer fixed other wyth fierce cruelty or with pleasaunte suggestiō or wyth importune hote temptacion to allure and entise man to disobeye goddes lawe whereby he myght bringe man into lyke misery and eternall peyne wherein he nowe iustly suffereth But if he can not atteyne his purpose by these meanes before declared then he transfigureth and chaungeth hymselfe into an Angell of lighte and pretendeth to setforth and maynteyne religion takyng some text and parte of holy scripture to bee hys whole authoritie principle groūd So that bringinge and allegynge for him the holye scripture no man shall mistruste any disceyte or euyl in hys procedinges and then moste craftelye he intendeth to disceyue euen as he entended to disceyue Christe coluring hys malyciouse entent with authorities of holye scripture Mat .iiii. Euen so he wyth lyke disceyte and policy and wyth no lesse malice towardes man hearinge thys promise of Christe He that eateth my fleshe drinketh my bloude dwelleth in me and I in him hath inuented the doctrin of transubstanciation of breade into Christes naturall body and of wyne into Christes naturall blude by force of certaine wordes spoken by the priest And so by the clerenes of the wordes spoken by a priste wyll perswade the Ignorant people wyth lyke fonde opinion wherewith the Caparnites wer led to beleue that they mygthe eate Christes fleshe wyth theyr teeth and dryncke and swallowe Christes bloude wyth their throtte frome the whiche grosse opinion Christ perswaded the saide Caparnites to leaue sayinge Dooe these my saynges offend you What and you shal se the son of man ascend wher he was before It is the spirite that quickeneth the fleshe profiteth not any thing The deuell not wythstanding thys doctrine of Christ wherby he taught the spirituall eatynge of his flesh and drinkinge of his bloud hath sowed this false doctrine of transsubstanciation in the hertes of greate clerkes byshopes and of other spiritual pastours and wit tye babes of the worlde that by suche teachers and highe powrs the people myght be led taught to truste that they had sufficiently eaten Christes fleshe whē they haue eaten the sacramente wyth their teth trusting to the gros eating with their teth thei shuld not enquire nor serch for anye godly and spirituall eatynge of Christes fleshe by fayeth whereby it myght be profitable to their soules for the which entent and purpose all sacramentes were instituted ordeyned that is to feede the mynde and not the mouth to comforte the soule and not the body and all thys false doctryne of transsubstanciation the deuyl hath enduced thorow the clernes of these wordes spokē by the prist saiyng this is mi bodi although that thorowe all the holye scriptures where they entreate of sacramentes they euer call sacramentes by the same name of the thinges wherof they be sacramētes as it appereth the .xvii. of Genesis where circumsicion is called goddes couenaunte whiche was but the sacramente thereof and in the .xii. of Exodi where the Easter lambe was called the passouer of the Lord which was but a sacrament therof And the Chalice is called the newe testamente which is but the sacrament therof yea Christ is called syn which was onely the sacrifice for synne And therfore Christen reader be not disceyued by the clearnes of the wordes but conferre and trie the scriptures by other places of holy scriptur diligently readyng this litel treatise folowing wherin thou shalt find I trust a spiritual eating of christs flesh drinking of his bloude taughte by the primatiue churche and the auncient holy fathers whiche dyd write of the same before the deuyll hadde corrupted the holy scripture with false gloses and wicked interpretacions And thys I commytte the gentle reader to almyghtye GOD who geue the hys spirite whereby thou mayste haue the true vnderstandynge and swete taste of his holy worde and spirituall eatinge of hys fleshe to thy spiritual comoditie and eternall healthe of thy soule Amen FIrst it is to be noted that all Sacramentes aswell of the olde lawe as also of the newe lawe were instituted and ordeyned of God to put vs in remembraunce of his most louing benefites and most mercifull kyndnes shewed and done vnto vs. Which benefites these sacramentes thorough gods worde doe offer vnto our mindes and not to our senses and we receyue the said benefites by faythe into oure soules and not wyth our senses into our bodyes Sacramētes be of such cōditions and nature that they haue in them two thinges to be considered the one is an outward visible thinge which perteyneth vnto the bodyly senses and is also receiued therby The other thing is not perceyued nor receyued with any bodily senses but as a pure and mere spiritual thing a benefite done by God vnto mā perteinyng only vnto the soule whyche spiritual benefite is geuen done by god vnto man because it shold be had reteyned in cōtinual memorye of the christiā man These outward sensible thynges were instituted and ordeined to sygnifie represent the same hauing in nature a propertie and condicion somewhat cōfirmable lyke to expres and represent the thing which thei declare and singnifie As bread hath a natural properti to fede cōfort and sustain the natural bodi so Christes bodi betraied and his bloud shed for the remission of our sinnes feadeth cōforteth and susteyneth the soule of the christian man borught into greate feare and sorowe with the ●yght of the multitude and greuosnes of his sinnes Which hungreth and ernestlie thristeth for the iustice of God and remission of hys sayed synnes And if these thynges be well noted and pondered it wyll cause to cease contencion moued about the maner of receyuyng of the sacramēt for all christean mē muste condescend and agre that euery faythfull Christian thorough Gods word in the sacramēt dulie to him exhibited and ministred doth eat and receyue bi faith in Gods promyse Christes fleshe and dryncketh his bloude So that the thing is not in contencion Whether we eate Christes flesh or dryncke hys bloude or no in the Sacramēt but the forme maner of eatyng Christes fleshe and drynkyng his bloude is in cōtēciō For some of the clergie striue stowtly and teache vngodlie that we should eate and receyue Christes naturalle-bodye wyth our teth drynke and swallowe hys bloude wyth oure mouth and throte affirming veri grossely Christes natural bodie so to be naturally reallye and bodeli present in the sacrament therof and that euerie man whych receyueth the sacrament receyueth also the natural bodie of Christ be he neuer