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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	body_n	bread_n	wine_n	4,141	5	8.0622	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06744	The displaying of the Popish masse vvherein thou shalt see, what a wicked idoll the masse is, and what great difference there is between the Lords Supper and the Popes Masse: againe, what Popes brought in every part of the masse, and counted it together in such monstrous sort, as it is now used in the Popes kingdome. Written by Thomas Becon; and published in the dayes of Queene Mary.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1637 (1637)	STC 1719; ESTC S115076	56,616	332

natural bodie of Christ God and man therefore may we all justly worship it I aske you how prove ye it to be the naturall bodie of Christ Yee answer By the vertue of these words Hoc est enim corpus meum I reply CHRIST spake these words of the bread as the holy Scriptures and all ancient Writers doe witnesse and so then followeth it that bread is Christs body and Christs bodie is bread And by this meanes it must needs be granted that Christ hath two bodies one made of bread and another of flesh which he received of Mary the Virgin But yee answer Christs calling is making Christ called the bread his body therefore is it made his bodie I answer againe Christ called himselfe a Vine a Doore a Shepheard and called his Heavenly Father a Plough-man is Christ therefore made a naturall vine a materiall doore a rusticall shepheard and his Father an husband-man of the country Christ called Iohn Baptist Elias Is Iohn therefore made that Elias the Thesbite which preached in the time of wicked King Achab Christ called Iohn the Evangelist Maries son and called Mary his mother is Iohn therefore made the naturall son of Mary the Virgin Christs mother And is Mary made the very true and naturall mother of Iohn Evangelist I am sure yee will not so say No more is the Sacramentall Bread Christs naturall body although Christ called it his bodie but his bodie in a mystery and in a figure as the old writers testifie Tertullian that most ancient Doctor saith Iesus taking bread and distributing it among his disciples made it his bodie saying This is my bodie that is to say a figure of my body Hereto agreeth the saying of Saint Augustine Christ did not sticke to say This is my body when he gave the signe of his bodie And Saint Hierome saith that Christ did represent the truth of his body and bloud by the bread and wine An infinite number of like sentences concerning this matter are found in the ancient Authors which prove evidently that this saying of Christ Hoc est corpus meum This is my body is a figurative speech Signes or Sacraments in the holy Scripture are called by the names of the things whereof they bee Sacraments and signes as we reade of the Arke of Circumcision of the Paschal Lambe of the Sacrifices of the old Law of Baptisme which Saint Paul calleth the Laver or fountaine of regeneration and the receiving of the Holy Ghost And after this sort is the sacramental bread called by the name of Christs body because it is the Sacrament signe and figure of his bodie Those things which doe signifie saith Saint Cyprian and those things which be signified by them may bee both called by one name And Saint Augustine rehearsing divers sentences which were spoken figuratively numbreth among thē these words of Christ Hoc est corpus meum This is my body whereby he declareth plainly that Christ spake these words figuratively not meaning that the bread was his body by substance but by signification Moreover it is directly against the veritie and truth of Christs naturall body to bee at more places at once than in one as hee must be in an hundred thousand places at once if your doctrine bee true A stinking Sodomite or a wicked whoremonger being dressed in his fooles coat and standing at an altar with a little thinne round cake in his hand shall with these five words Hoc est corpus meum and with blowing and breathing upon the bread make Christ the king of glory to come from the right hand of his father and to touch himselfe in the Accidents of the little cake untill yee have eaten him and then trudge up againe to heaven till Hoc est enim corpus meum fetch him down again if your doctrine bee true O proud Lucifers And oh poore wretched Christ who at every filthy Masse-mongers commandement art compelled to come down from the glorious throne of thy Majestie and to bee handled as the Papish please either to bee torne asunder with their teeth or else to be hanged up with an halter in their popish Pixe But know yee O ye vile and blasphemous Papists that though yee whisper your five words never so oft at your Idolatrous altars and breath blast and blow till yee be windlesse yee shall never plucke the Son of God from the right hand of his Father nor make that thinne cake of yours Christs naturall Body The article of our faith is that Christ is gone up into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty and from thence hee shall come to judge the quicke and the dead Our Saviour Christ told his Disciples full oft a little before his passion that hee should leave the world and goe up againe unto his Father Saint Mark saith that Christ was taken up into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God Saint Luke saith that Christ went away from his Disciples and was carried up into heaven The Angell of God said to the Apostles when Christ did ascend up into heaven yee men of Galile why stand ye gazing up into heaven This Iesus which is taken up from you into heaven so shall hee come as ye have seen him going into heaven Of these words of the Angells wee learne that as Christ went up visibly and was seene with the corporall eyes of men but never man saw him yet comming downe with his corporall eyes therefore never came he downe corporally since his ascension S. Stephen indeed saw Christ even with his bodily eyes as wee reade in the Acts of the Apostles But where Heere on the earth between the Priests hands Nay but in heaven standing on the right hand of God Saint Paul heard Christ speake but from whence from the popish pixe yea rather from heaven Saint Peter saith as blessed Luke testifyeth that Iesus Christ must receive heaven till the time that all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world beganne bee restored againe This time is till the day of judgement If ye will have Christ therefore bodily at your Masses yee must tarry till the day of Iudgement For till that time saith blessed Peter hee must keepe heaven Alasse where is your Hoc est enim corpus meum after your grosse understanding become Moreover S. Paul in divers places of his Epistles declareth that Christ is ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God and maketh intercession for us to God his father So likewise doe the other Apostles in their writings Iesus Christ saith Saint Peter is on the right hand of God and is gone into heaven We have an Advocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous saith Saint Iohn All these Authorities of the holy Scripture with many other doe testifie that

Christ as concerning his corporall presence is no more in the earth but in heaven only Christ hath in him two natures the nature of God and the nature of man As concerning his divine nature hee is in heaven in earth and in every place But as touching his humane nature hee is in heaven onely and there shall remaine untill the Day of Iudgement as Saint Augustine saith as concerning the presence of his Majestie wee have Christ alwayes but as touching the presence of his flesh it was truely sayd to his Disciples Mee shall yee not alwayes have with you For the Church had him a few dayes after th● presence of his flesh but now it holdeth him by faith and seeth him not with the eyes Againe he saith God and man is one person and both is one Christ Iesus in every place in that he is God but in heaven in that he is man Also in another place Where and in what manner Christ is in heaven it is a vaine and superfluous thing to aske or demand but wee must surely beleeve that hee is onely in heaven If hee be onely in heaven as concerning his corporall presence as both the Scriptures and Saint Augustine affirme how then is hee either in your round cake at Masse or else hanging up in your popish Pixe over the Altar with an halter But let us heare what the ancient Doctour Virgilius writeth concerning this matter The Sonne of God saith he as concerning his Humanitie is gone away from us but as touching his Divinity hee saith unto us Behold I am with you alwayes unto the end of the world Againe forasmuch as the word is every where and his flesh is not every where it appeareth that one and the same CHRIST is of both natures and that hee is in every place as concerning the nature of his Godhead Againe that hee is contayned in a place as touching the nature of his manhood Of these Authorities doth it manifestly appeare that Christ inasmuch as he is God is in every place but having respect to that hee is a man he is only in one place that is to say in heaven If he bee only in heaven inasmuch as he is man then consider yee what is to be thought of the doctrine of the Papists which teach that Christs naturall body is in every place wheresoever his Godhead is O Antichrists If this be not to play the Hereticke Marcions part and utterly to destroy the verity of Christs humane nature or of his naturall body what is it But Saint Augustine saith very well in this behalfe wee must take heed saith hee that we doe not so set forth maintaine or affirme the Godhead of the Man Christ that wee take away or destroy the truth of his body For it doth not follow that that which is in God should be every where as God Christ inasmuch as he is God is every where but being man hee is onely in heaven But yee will object according to your old wont the omnipotencie or almighty power of God and say that forasmuch as he is omnipotent and almighty he may both make the bread his body and also bee in as many places concerning the corporall presence as he list that is to say in infinite places at once I answer God is not called Almighty because he can doe all things but because he is able to doe whatsoever his Godly pleasure is to doe For there are certaine things which God cannot doe as for example hee cannot denie himselfe hee cannot lye hee cannot save such as die in infidelity hee cannot make another of like power with himselfe hee cannot save the reprobate nor condemne the Elect which have their names written in the Booke of life c. Whatsoever is contrary to his Word that cannot God doe But it is contrary to the Word of God for Christs body to bee in more places at once than in one yea to bee both in heaven sitting at the right hand of God the Father and heere also in earth at your popish Masses in a thousand places at once therefore is not God able to make his body to bee in so many places at once as ye faine forasmuch as the nature of God onely is infinite and the nature of all creatures is contained in some certaine one place at once But here againe yee will bring forth these promises of CHRIST Wheresoever two or three be gathered together in my Name there am I in the middest of them Againe I am with you alwayes unto the end of the world These promises and such like are to bee understood not of the corporall presence here on earth but of his Grace as the Doctors themselves doe declare It is to bee noted marked and considered saith Cyril that although Christ hath taken away the presence of his body from hence yet by the Majesty of his God-head hee is alwayes present as hee at his departure promised his Disciples Behold saith he I am with you alwayes unto the very end of the world The like saying of Saint Augustine heard wee before Of all these things heretofore spoken it is evident that the naturall body of Christ is not here in earth as yee Masse-mongers would gladly make us beleeve but in heaven onely and there shall remaine untill the day of Iudgement Christ in the mean season being here present with us by his Spirit and Grace Seeing then that the Sacramentall bread is not the naturall body of Christ God and man but a figure Sacrament and holy signe of his body with what forehead dare you either affirme that your little thinne round cake after five words pronounced over it and you breathing blasting and blowing upon it to be the true naturall reall corporeall and substantiall body of Christ God and Man as hee was borne of the Virgine Marie and suffered for us on the Altar of the crosse or worship it your selves or yet provoke others so to doe according to Pope Honorius decree and not after Christs institution What is Idolatrie if this bee not Idolatrie To worship a piece of bread for God what heathen Idolater ever so doted If good king Ezekias lived in these our dayes hee would rather play with the Sacrament of Christs body and bloud as he did with the Brasen Serpent than hee would suffer such abomiable Idolatry to be committed at the ministration of it to the great dishonour of God the utter defacing of Christs passion and bloud and death and to the dreadfull damnation of innumerable souls O England England teares yea teares of bloud mayest thou well weepe which in the prosperous time of that most godly King Edward the Sixt wert blessedly purged of all superstition Idolatry and popish doctrine and hadst restored unto thee the true Gospel of thy salvation and the right ministration of the Lords Sacraments But now for thine unthankfulnesse toward the Lord thy God all these heavenly treasures are