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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	holy_a	receive_v	spirit_n	3,955	5	5.1071	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23645	A brief history of transubstantiation shewing the time when, and the occasion how it first begun, the growth, encrease, and present state of it, the grounds and reasons, absurdities and follies of it : written for satisfaction of those that are, and shall be called to subscribe the declaration in the late act against popish recusants, for quieting the minds of His Majesties good subjects / by R.A., Pastor of the church at Henfield in Sussex.	R. A. (Richard Allen)	1674 (1674)	Wing A1042; ESTC R22423	7,065	22

an answer But indeed we can never expect any reason from them who reject Scriptures Fathers practice of Primitive Times yea and the Institution of Christ himself to set up their own monstrous Fancies as the Council of Constance doth Sess 13. where it is said That although Christ administred the Sacrament in both kinds and Primitive Christians received it in both kinds yet Hoc non obstante notwithstanding all this they think fit to take away the Cup from the Laity to avoid some perils and scandals no man knows what nor themselves neither CHAP. V. Observations concerning the FATHERS BEcause our Adversaries make boast so much of Antiquity and of all the Fathers on their side as Campian doth and so with great swelling words of Vanity deceive the hearts of the simple To all their vain Brags I oppose that one Speech of the Noble King James who said That all the Jesuites in the World shall never be able to produce the unanimous consent of the Fathers against us or for themselves in any substantial point of Faith And to Duraeus his Nullam refugio antiquitatem I oppose that of the Learned Whitaker Si vel unum potes proferre c. Produce but one testimony of pure Antiquity for Transubstantiation and we will yield the cause The same famous Prince also at a Conference with some Learned men shews out of Vincentius Lirinensis and others how the Fathers in flourish of Exornation and in heat of Opposition may overstrain And Jesuites themselves confess That some of the Fathers in heat of opposition against one Heresie have given occasion to another The shameful work they have made with the Fathers as their own Books bear witness is sufficient to stop the mouths of all that are not past shame There is not one Father that is not of their own spurious brood in whom they can find any ground for Transubstantiation but onely some words and phrases mistaken CHAP. VI. Absurdities that follow this opinion of Transubstantiation THE falshood of Transubstantiation appears most clearly by the Absurdities that follow it As First If this Opinion be true then Christ eat his own Flesh and gave to his Disciples his own dead Body before he was dead Secondly If this Opinion be true then there were two Christs one giving another given one sitting at Table another in the hands or mouths of his Disciples Thirdly If this Opinion be true then there are many Christs for according to this Doctrine the Body of Christ is in every part and particle of the Sacrament as the Bread then is divided Christ is multiplied Fourthly If this Opinion be true then the Apostle did not speak true to call it Bread after Consecration 1 Cor. 10. and 11. Fifthly If this Opinion be true then the Body of Christ is in many places at one time in a place possessing no place whole Christ in a crum of Bread or Wafer all contrary to the nature of a true Body that possesseth as much place as is proportionable to its magnitude Sixthly If this Opinion be true then the Body of Christ may putrifie breed Worms be eaten of Mice go into the Draught c. most unworthy to be spoken of him of whom it is said Thou wilt not suffer thine Holy One to see Corruption CHAP. VII The true Doctrine held by the Church of ENGLAND THE same that is taught in the Twenty eighth Article First To them which receive it worthily the Bread which we break is the Communion of the Body of Christ c. Secondly It is given taken and eaten in the Lords Supper only after an heavenly and spiritual manner Thirdly The mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Lords Supper is Faith 1. Against bare Signe and Figure we teach That the Body of Christ is given taken and eaten in the Lords Supper 2. Against Transubstantiation we teach That the Body of Christ is given taken and eaten only after an heavenly and spiritual manner by the mean of Faith There must be some great and wonderful change of the Elements or else the common Bread made of Corn could never become an instrument of heavenly grace and life to feed quicken and strengthen the Soul to life eternal And this change of the Elements cannot be in their substance First Because that would overthrow the nature of a true Body as hath been said Secondly It overthrows the nature of a Sacrament But the change we acknowledge is in their use virtue power and operation so that whereas before Consecration the Elements were only instruments to feed and strengthen the Body after Consecration they are holy instruments to feed and nourish the Soul to life eternal For if the Woman that had the bloody issue Matth. 9. drew Virtue out of Christ to heal her disease onely by touching the hem of his garment or cloaths in faith Why should it seem strange that in receiving those holy Mysteries that Christ himself hath ordained we may and do receive Virtue from him and are truly made partakers of his precious body and blood by faith Distance of place cannot hinder the work of faith Eph. 3.17 Christ dwells in our hearts by faith When our Saviour sayes This is my Body he intends not to shew what the Bread is but what his Body is Not that the Bread is turned into his Flesh but that his Body is Food for our Soul as Bread is for our Body It shews not any conversion of one substance into another but onely the relation that is between them He which before called his Body Bread now calls the Bread his Body that by this change of names we might understand and believe the change that is made by grace and not so much heed the things we see as mind the things we see not Theod. We confess then that the Body and Blood of Christ is given and received we agree about the matter all the question is about the manner They say it is corporally and carnally we grant really if by really ye understand truly and indeed but yet that it is spiritual heavenly and divine The Truth is present with the Signe the Holy Spirit with the Sacrament feeding our Souls with the truth of Christs Body and Blood but the invisible working of that divine Spirit herein is unsearchable the natural man cannot perceive it because it is spiritual To conclude Let us firmly believe what we cannot conceive and rest assured in this truth That we receive in this Holy Sacrament the Body and Blood of Christ by Faith though we cannot conceive it by Sense and Reason FINIS