Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	faith_n	teach_v	2,073	5	6.0510	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20466	The second part of a plain discourse of an unlettered Christian wherein by way of demonstration hee shevveth vvhat the reasons bee vvhich hee doth ground upon in refusing conformity to kneeling in the act of receiving the Lords Supper / by Tho. Dighton ...	Dighton, Thomas, fl. 1618-1619.	1619 (1619)	STC 6877; ESTC S1696	42,581	96

goods and comfortable conditions exposing vs to open disgrace and contempt or at worst can but take a way our liues then to offend him that can do all this then cast our bodies and souls into hell Let no maÌ„ therefore by conformity to kneeling intimate disability in the institutor or insufficiencie in the institution for either is a blasphemous sin He that is sole author of the sacrament is sole author of all the ceremonies and significant signs therein either concerning minister or people for he that is the sole author of the blessing must needs be sole author of the means and instrument wherby he wil giue it therefor seing the Lord onely giues the spiritual blessing signified represented and verily exhibited by the gestures and ceremonies therein and his word neither by precept nor example giues any warrant for any other gesture in the act of receaving then that of the Institution which on all sides is graunted to be a table gesture how dare wee by conformitie varie from Christs owne practise without Christs owne warrant It is said and that truly but how fitly and wisely let others iudge that God is the author of kneeling euen in his divine worship therefore we ought to conform vnto it in the act of receiving I answere that God is the author of images euen in his diuine worship as the Arke and Cherubims yea differing from the first institution as the brasen serpent therefore wee may conforme to the calues at Dan and Bethell which are but images and consecrated onely to his worship and diuine service but either let the Lord be God in the order of the outward ceremonies as well as in the inward substance of his worship or if you will conforme to Ball in the gesture or in the order follow him euen in all for God is the God of the order as well as the God of the substance of his worship Inward or outward let him be therfore either all in all or els not God at all By the word of God and by it onely the minister knowes what to deliuer and what not how to deliuer and how not to whom to deliuer and to whom not the guests also or communicants doe thereby vnderstand at whose hands to receaue and at whose not what to receue and what not and with what gesture to receaue and what gesture not to conforme vnto in the act of receiving for the word of God is the life or soule as I may say of the sacrament and that not onely in generall but even of euery particular of absolute necessity required therein as a gesture is so that whatsoeuer is ordained to be of holy vse therein as the gesture in the act of receauing is if it receaue no life or quickning warrant from the word of God it is absolutely dead or vncleane and defiles and therfore may not vpon any terms be conformed vnto as good and lawfull The word of institution sets forth first the precept of Christ Doe this secondly the promise of Christ This is my body Thirdly the practise of the Apostles having relation to the comandement or precept in their obedience and in their faith having reference to the word of promise now this being the type of all the true administrations of this sacrament to the end of the world doth plainly and vndeniably teach this truth that what soeuer is of absolute necessity in the sacrament as a gesture in the act of receauing is must both in minister and people haue relation to the precept of Christ that so it may be donne in obedience and also to the promise of Christ that so it may be donne in faith or els it is absolutely sin and then though kneeling which in that act manner as it is vrged hath neither precept nor promise of Christ would convert Turke and Pope too yet I hope you wil confesse we ought not to conforme thereto Is kneeling in the act of receaving the sacrament of the altar the gesture of the masse let all that abhorre the grosse Idolatry of that neuer conforme to the likenes of this vnlesse they haue dispensation from the scripture so to doe because in similitude though not in intention it holds proportion with and hath Relation to the Coporall and Reall presence locally Yea let all faithfull Christians holde themselues onely to the name and gesture and to what soeuer els in the institution and word of God is established and was therein by our blessed Lord sanctified and ordained to be of perpetuall vse unles him selfe in the word shall teach otherwise The sacraments even whatsoever is sacramentall were ordained of God not to giue any novelty or new thing by way of tran or con-substantiatioÌ„ or like humane devise but having respect to our weaknesse to bee a helpe unto us in sealing up that righteousnesse which is by faith even to increase that assurance of faith which we haue through the word in a greater measure and degree then is had by the ministery thereof let every one labour to haue the feeling of this use if then it be dangerous to add unto the doctrine of the word being the hand writing of the King even his most gracious pardon for all our sins and offences and his patent also for our liuelihood and hope of eternall life Surely it cannot in any respect be lesse dangerous seeing nothing passes by the writing alone without the seale I speake herein after the manner of men to make or conforme to any innovation in the Kings seale even in any thing which is of sacramentall institution being speciall and effectuall parts instrumentally of our spirituall Evidences or assurance which is by faith through the word But if such coÌ„formity be committed against our knowledge I leaue it to the iudgement of the godly learned whether the wilfull persisting therein doe not though not alter the outward essentiall forme yet diminish and lessen every time more and more the powerfull effect and comfortable benefit of this blessed and most holy sacrament For seeing in the institution this ceremoniall signe hath relation to that spirituall supper and most heavenly food or divine nourishment it is most apparant to all that will not winke lest they should perceiue that in the very manner of a table gesture there is by intimation a grounded expectancie and good assurance of partaking that holy and divine nourishment visibly represented unto us a thing which in the matter the Lord saw to be needful for his blessed Apostles and therefore purposely caused them to use this very manner to be a helpe herein unto them and so to every communicant though never so learned and well instructed This sacrament is called a communion sealing up unto us our holy communion with God in Christ by the holy Ghost and our fellowship with all the Saints faithfull children of God Can there bee by any possible meanes therefore any good discretion or decencie humilitie or devotion to leaue a Table gesture which

Nothing can possibly be conioyned or united further or in any other manner or measure then the nature thereof will admit As therefore you most iustly and religiously refuse conformity to the reall presence either by transubstaÌ„tiatioÌ„ or consubstantiation because the nature of the signes cannot possibly admit it and there is nothing but the bare opinions and Canons or precepts of men to warrant it euen so in the act of receaving no gesture in the world can possibly in the nature thereof hold proportion with or haue relation vnto our spirituall coniunction with Christ and Communion and fellowship with the Saints in the pertaking of this spirituall meat and drinke prepared and set on the holy table in this divine action but onely a table gesture and therfore wee also according to your example in the outward substance do iustly refuse to conforme to any other gesture in the outward Ceremonie Reason must not be our guide in matters of Religion or in ceremonies of Religious vse in the publicke worship of God for take it at the verie best without passion partialitie or preiudice yea excellently quallified with learning wisedom and experience yet is it starke blinde in these things and will verily misleade vs. In these controversies therefore concerning conformitie wee must to the law and the Testimonie and whatsoeuer hath not warrant there from by Gods owne doom hath no true light in it or divine warrant for it but black darknes abydes vpon it for euer What Angellical transformation soeuer therefore you provide for your significant kneeling you see from whence ir comes and whither it goes and therefore in that manner as it is vrged we dare not vpon any terms or with any limitation conforme vnto it The coniunction in the sacrament is not sencible but meerly misticall spirituall invisible yet as the signes and also the ceremonies therein not by nature or the ordinance and wise discretion or learned pollicie of man but by the sole institution and will of Iesus Christ haue relation to the things signified which are heavenly and spirituall and not to any deuised vnity pretended humility or manifestation of our corporall subiection to the civil magistracie yea to brand them with such carnal relations or worldly significations is the verie high way to Apostacie euen so these heavenly and spiritual things by the same law of institutioÌ„ haue Relation to those signs onely which are set apart by Christ and not to any other yea to holde that they either haue or possibly can haue relation to any other signes either deuised by man or not ordained by God for this verie end is the next way to heresie and Atheisme For the things signified and the things signifiyng either in the act of geving or in the act of receaving are verely vnited by this mutuall relation or relatiue coniunction which no mortall power can ordeine or alter he that hath power to ordeine the relatiue onely hath power to ordeine the correlatiue I meane he that hath power to giue the spirituall things signified onely hath power to ordein sings or ceremonies signifying or having relation therevnto either in the act of giuing or receving For mortall power therfore to ordaine any action or gesture of spiritual signification is spirituall adultery and most grosse abhomination Either proue then that the sign or Ceremonie you so eagerly presse vs vnto is in this verie action ordained of God and so hath a promise of a blessing from him or els wee dare not conforme vnto it though for such â—efuâ—all wee receiue nothing but Curses from you As the elementall signs bread and wine receiue their heauenly vertue and spirituall power onely from Christ and now differ from all other of the same kind being truly and verely changed into holy and diuine foode not in their nature and substance for then they could not be signs if they were changed into that which they signified but in their vse and service which is spirituall and such a change no other creature but by Christs own ordinance can possibly admit or bee capable of euen so the ceremoniall signs or gestures in the act of giving or receiving these elementâ—ll signs thus spiritually changed do differ from all other signes or gestures whatsoeuer haue from Christs institution a heavenly or spirituall power conferd vpon them which no other gesture can possibly be capable of though all the humane power in the world bestow all their craft and cunning vpon it For this power is proper onely vnto Christ and not communicable to a creature yea to intimate such a power without direct warrant from the worde of God is directly to band themselues and to assemble together against the Lord and against his Christ Either prooue then your conformitie to be warranted by Christ or els this banding disposition affâ—ights vs from giving the least approbation therevnto They that admit or would countenance any other coniunction in by with or vnder the elementall signs then a spirituall must of necessity coÌ„tend for such innovation in the ceremoniall signe in the act of receiuing as may hold due proportion with that conceited coniunction of their owne Imagination And hence it comes to passe that this carnall deuice in the ceremonie is so eagerly pressed and readily conformed vnto because not onely the ignorant and the learned who are profane and wicked but euen the godly and the learned that are holy iudge of the lawfullnes thereof by carnall sence and reason and not by the rule of the word yea I would be hartily glad to meet with one good and sincere argument which is not of this dissposition yet I doe confesse I haue heard of many burnished with the glosse of humane wisdome and accademicall learning which makes indeed the verie drosse of nature to stroute it selfe out because it glisters and so looking bigg upon the matter seems to very many like the verie golden truth But can the best quallified wisedom of the world savor the things that are of God yea are not the things which him self taught and vsed or ordained for the spirituall vses of his Church therefore onely spiritually to be discerned meere folishnes yea verie enmitie vnto nature and therefore if this ceremonie haue not a diuine warrant how dare wee conforme unto it So much in the sacrament of the Lords supper as euery one sees so much he receiues and no more they that see nothing but with bodily eies or perceiue no further then naturall sence and wise or learned Iudgment giues vnderstanding Receaue no more but earthly things euen the elementall signe not any thing that is heauenly or spirituall to make them the more holy and vertuous and any gesture or ceremonie whatsoeuer and whence soeuer it comes is comely and decent or good enough for such a peece of service but all those that see with spirituall eies yea they onely receaue spirituall things and they dare not conforme to any gesture or ceremonie but that which is

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