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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heaven_n	offer_v	receive_a	56	3	16.1445	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14813	Twoo notable sermons made the thirde and fyfte Fridayes in Lent last past, before the Quenes highnes, concernynge the reall presence of Christes body and bloude in the blessed Sacrament: & also the Masse, which is the sacrifice of the newe Testament. / By Thomas Watson, Doctor of Diuinitie..	Watson, Thomas, 1513-1584.	1554 (1554)	STC 25115.3; ESTC S119557	86,731	390

aunswere that Christ was neuer offered to the death for our redemption but ones and yet otherwise was he offered many times both of him selfe and of his creatures We reade in the Prophete Daniel that Aungels offered him in the syght of hys father And also y t the blessed virgine his mother offered him at hir purificatiō of whych offeryng S. Bernard saith Ista oblatio fratres satis delicata uidetur ubi tantum sistitur domino redimitur auibus ilico reportatur Thys oblation brethren is very delicate where he is onely presented to our Lorde redemed with birdes and by and by brought home agayne And therfore we aunswere them that their argumente is of no strength to confute one truth by an other when bothe may be true as to reasō christ was but ones offered vpon y e crosse ergo he was not offered in the sacrament And we tell them that they do not considre howe Christe is offered three wayes of hym selfe and also three wayes of man First he offered him selfe vpō the crosse really and corporallye as Isaias sayeth oblatus est quia uoluit Thys is manifest ynoughe And here their exclamacions of ones ones hath very good place Secondly he offered hym selfe figuratyuelye in the paschall lambe For the scripture saythe the lambe was slayne from the begynninge of the worlde and the fathers in the olde lawe in all their sacrifices dyd offre Christe not in substaunce but in figure and so Christe offeryng the paschall lambe at hys supper offered him selfe in figure Thirdly Christ offereth him selfe in heauen reallye and so continually as the same chapiter which they bryng agaynst the Masse doth testifye Non in manufacta sancta Iesus intro iuit exemplaria uerorum sed in ipsum coelum ut appareat nunc uultui Dei pro nobis Iesus entered not into a temple made wyth mans hande a figure of the trueth but into heauen that he myghte appeare now to the countenaunce of God for vs. What is this appearyng in the syght of GOD for vs but an offerynge of hym selfe for vs to pacifye the angre of god with vs to represente hys woundes and all that he suffered for vs that we mighte be reconciled to God by hym Thys is the true and perpetuall oblation of Christ in cōparison of thys in heauen the bloudye oblation vpon the crosse is but an ymage as S. Ambrose sayeth Hic umbra hic imago illic ueritas umbra in lege imago in Euangelio ueritas in coelestibus antè agnus offerebatur uitulus nunc Christus of fertur sed offertur quasi homo quasi recipiens passionem offert se ipse quasi Sacerdos ut peccata nostra dimittat hic in imagine ibi in ueritate ubi apud patrem pro nobis quasi aduocatus interuenit Here in thys worlde there is a shadowe here there is an ymage there in heauen is trueth the shadowe in the law the ymage in the gospell the trueth in heauen Before a lambe and calfe were offered nowe Christ is offered but he is offered as manne and receauynge passion and he offereth hym selfe as being a priest to take our synnes away here in ymage there in truethe where wyth the father as an aduocate he maketh intercession for vs The same thynge he wryteth also vpon the .38 Psalme So that it is verye playne wythout all controuersy that Christe dothe offre hym selfe nowe moste perfectly in heauen for vs beynge our aduocate to the father face to face and as S. Iohn sayeth Ipse est propitiatio pro peccatis nostris He is a sacrifice propitiatorye for our synnes he sayth not he was but is and after the most perfytest maner that can be in respecte whereof the verye true and reall oblation for oure redemption vpon the crosse is an ymage So that by thys we see by the playne Scrypture that Christe offered hym selfe thre wayes besyde the oblation of hym selfe in hys supper which is the poynte we be aboute to declare And euen so is he offered of manne three wayes lykewyse Fyrste fyguratiuelye in the oblation of the olde Testament When Abraham beynge aboute to offre hys owne deare sonne and by GODS prouision offered in hys stede a ramme and when Melchisedech offered breade and wine and the Iewes the Paschall lambe and their burnte offerynges what dyd they offre but Christe in fygure whose passion those offerynges dyd sygnifye Whyche offerynges dydde of them selfe worke nothynge inwardlye and therfore were called Iustitia carnis the ryghtewesnes of the flesh ▪ but by them they dydde proteste their synne and declared their fayth of whome they looked to haue remission Secondly we offre Christe mysticallye in oure daylye sacrifice of the Masse where Christe is by hys omnipotent power presented to vs in the Sacramente and of vs agayne represented to his and our father and his passion renewed not by sufferynge of death agayne but after an vnbloudye maner not for thys ende that we shoulde thereby deserue remission of oure synnes but that by our fayth deuotion and thys representation of hys passion we moste humblye praye almyghtye GOD to applye vnto vs by Christe that remission whych was purchased and deserued by his passion before The hoste of these two sacrifices vpon the crosse and vpon the aultare is all one in substaunce but the maner is diuers and the ende is diuerse that by this meanes as christe him selfe hathe instituted we myght celebrate and make commemoration of his passion This is onely the sacrifice of the prieste by publycke ministracion but verely and in affection it is the sacrifice of the whole churche whiche euery membre of the Churche dothe vse and frequente and no man dothe impugne it but he that professeth open warre agaynste the churche Thirdely christe is offered by man spiritually onely by y e meditation of our mynde when we thynke and remembre his passion and in our deuoute prayer beseche god to showe vs mercy for it Thus euerye Christen manne and womanne in all places and tymes vpon the aultare of hys owne hearte oughte to offre Christe too the father after whiche sorte of spirituall oblation we be all both menne and women Priestes and kinges beinge as Saynte Peter sayeth Sacerdotium sanctum offerentes spirituales hostias acceptabiles Deo per Iesum Christum An holye Priesthoode offerynge spirituall Sacryfices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ. Nowe considerynge these thre wayes shal it be a good argument to inculcate one waye and to reiecte the rest To alledge one membre of a diuision to the reiection of the other This is the peculiar maner of the heritikes the enemies of Christ as thei dyd in the matter of the Sacrament by the spiritual eatynge of Christ to confute reiect the reall and corporall eatynge of christes bodye in the Sacrament Suche shiftes and fonde argumentes they haue to seduce the vnlearned wythall whiche when they be espied and detected they appeare as they be