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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
A18567	The exaltation of the kingdome and priesthood of Christ In certaine sermons vpon the 110. Psalme: preached in the Cathedrall Church and city of Worcester, in the time of Christmasse: anno Domini: 1596. By Rob. Abbot, doctor of Diuinitie, sometime felow of Baliol Colledge in Oxford.	Abbot, Robert, 1560-1618.	1601 (1601)	STC 51; ESTC S115231	83,503	102

with you my peace I giue vnto you whose p Eph. 2 17. preaching was peace both to far and neere q Col 1.20 by whom the father hath reconciled all things to himselfe and set at peace both the things in heauen and the things in earth by the bloud of his crosse So that vnder the regiment of this king we may boldly say a Eth. 2.14 He is our peace b R●m 5.1 being iustified by faith we haue peace towards God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Furthermore as Melchisedec so Iesus Christ is the priest of the most highest God And this on the one part the holy ghost mentioneth indefinitely that Melchisedec was the priest of the most high God but what was the ceremonie of his priesthood or what sacrifice he offered he expresseth not and therefore for vs to determine any thing thereof is but rashnesse neither may we straine the comparison further then the word of God giueth vs way and warrant so to do The papists falsly resolue of the sacrifice of Melchisedec 18 The papists take vpon them to resolue out of the storie of Moses what the sacrifice of Melchisedec was and by a corrupt and false translation auouch that c Gen. 14.18 hee offered bread and wine which they say was a figure of their masse and woulde thereby prooue that in their masse is a verie reall and actuall sacrifice done of the verie body and bloud of Iesus Christ seruing to purchase forgiuenesse of sinnes both for quicke and dead But the premisses are to short to inferre a conclusion so large and it is no argument to say Melchisedec offered bread and wine therefore Christ hath appointed vs to offer a sacrifice of his very body and bloud in the likenesse and forme of bread and wine For to yeeld them their owne translation what gaine they thereby if wee say that Melchisedec offered these things to Abraham by way of curtesie not to God by way of mysterie And heereunto in part S. Ambrose leadeth vs saying that d Ambrose de sacram li. 4. c. 3. Abraham came from the sight a conquerour and Melchisedec the priest mette him and offered vnto him bread and wine To offer bread and wine to Abraham was no matter of sacrifice vnto God But indeed the translation is false and their collection woorse neither is the Hebrew worde anie where in the Scriptures founde to signifie the offering of a sacrifice The true reading is Melchisedec brought foorth bread and wine And so c Mieron in quest Hebraicis in Genesim epist. ad Fuagrium Saint Ierome translateth and giueth the reason of bringing foorth bread and wine namely for the refreshing both of Abraham himselfe and also of his men of warre So saith f Ambros in epist●ad Heb. cap. 7. Saint Ambrose also in the very same wordes So other of the fathers reade the wordes and the verie euident truth thereof made Pagnine and Arias Montanus to translate the place as we doe though they were papists and earnestlie deuoted vnto the Church of Rome yea they vary heerein from the vulgar Latine translation which by the Councell of Trent they haue decreed to be onely authenticall and of authoritie in the Church It appeereth therefore that this place yeeldeth little helpe or life to their sacrifice of the masse and weake is that building that hath no better a foundation to rest vpon And surely woonder it were that the Apostle to the Hebrewes professing to drawe them forward from the a Heb. 6.1 first principles of Christian doctrine to the perfection thereof to that purpose treating precisely of the priesthood of Melchisedec and applying the same vnto Christ shoulde omit this matter of sacrifice if there were any matter in it and not so much as intimate any thing thereof which the papists woulde make vs beleeue is the chiefest and most important matter of all other But the silence of the holie Ghost condemneth their sentence of wilfulnesse and presumption The fathers make Melchisedecs bread and wine an allusion to the Lords supper but no proofe of the popish masse 19 Neither are they any whit benefited by that which the auncient fathers haue spoken of this matter who from this story of Melchisedec gathered indeed an allusion vnto the sacrament of the Lords supper but to no other purpose saue onely to shew that Melchisedec bringing foorth bread and wine did betoken that Christ should institute a sacrament in bread wine for a signe and remembrance of his body and bloud This Saint Hierom declareth when handling Christes institution of the sacrament he saith b Hieron in Mat. cap. 6. Christ taketh bread and goeth to the true sacrament of the passeouer that as Melchisedec the priest of the high God in presiguring of him offering bread and wine had done so he himselfe also might represent the trueth of his body and bloud No more did they conceiue done either before by Melchisedec or afterward by Christ but onely by bread and wine to represent the veritie and truth of his body and bloud But of the turning of the bread and wine into the verie body and bloud of Christ and offering the same really and substantially in sacrifice vnto GOD neither did Melchisedec prefigure any thing neither haue they affirmed any thing neither doeth the Scripture teach vs any thing that wee shoulde beleeue the same To bee short let vs not bee wise beyond that that God hath taught vs let it suffice vs for this point to beleeue that Melchisedec king of Salem was also the priest of the most high God and so both king and priest and therein aboue all other a most Iiuely figure of Iesus Christ If we go further we go in the dark and it is not likely that we should keepe the way 20 It is further to be added that as Melchisedec to Abraham so Christ to his hath pronounced a Mat. 5.3 Iu● 6.20 c. bleshing and b Eph. 1.3 in him God the father hath blessed vs with all spirituall blessings in heauenly things As Abraham paied tithes of all to Melchisedec the priest so we must pay and yeeld all to the high priest of our profession Iesus the sonne of God Melchisedec and Christ how vnderstood to be without father without mother c. Melchisedec is described without father without mother without beginning of daies or end of life which is not simply to be vnderstood but according to that maner as the scripture setteth him foorth vnto vs which so dainly bringeth him in as the priest of the high God meeting Abraham and blessing him and neither before nor after mentioneth him any more as if he were a man sodainly come from heauen and sodainely returned thither againe and not to be counted in the genealogie of the fathers For if we vnderstand it simplie and barely as it soundeth we cannot fit it vnto Iesus Christ who is not altogither without father or mother