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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	blood_n	sacrifice_n	shed_v	848	5	10.4950	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85485	The progresse of divine providence, set out in a sermon preached in the Abbey Church of Westminster before the house of Peers, on the 24th of September, 1645. being the day of their monethly fast. / By William Gouge, one of the members of the Assembly.	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing G1393; Thomason E302_25; ESTC R200284	30,328	48

Christ and the glorie that should follow Certainly the putting off the great blessing of the exhibition of Christ to the later times made it to be the more desired and the better esteemed When he was exhibited the Angel that brought the first tidings thereof thus expresseth it Behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people And the blessed Virgin so soon as she conceived him in her womb thus breaks out My soul doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour And good old Zacharie when the fore-runner of Christ was born thus in great joy breaks out Blessed be the Lord God of Israel c. And another good old man having embraced Christ when he was but a little infant sweetly sings forth this Swan-like song Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seen thy salvation Their long expectation of Christ thus affected them when at length their longing was satisfied 3. God put off his best things to the last times because in his unsearchable wisdom he ordained that his Sonne should be sent into the world in the later age thereof that thereby he might be known to be the best of Gods gifts and to excell all other gifts that were before conferred upon the Church He is said to be sent forth when the fullnesse of time was come The Church had been as a breeding woman She began first to conceive when God made the promise of the womans seed She grew bigger and bigger through many other promises prophecies types and figures whereby her hope in the Messiah was nourished At the fullnesse of time she travelled and brought forth this long expected man-childe The better things which were now brought to passe in this fullnesse of time added much to the honour of him that was then born then was the fulnesse of Gods grace and goodnesse manifested so as this God thus ordered even for the honour of his Son Hitherto of the Doctrinall part of my Text It is time to come to the Application thereof The Uses of Gods providence in reserving better things to the later times are of manifold and singular Use For 1. It affords a Demonstration of the detestablenesse of the Romish religion which hath directly perverted the fore-mentioned course of Gods providence to his Church For where God provides better for the later times they make these later times to be farre the worse As they handle the matter their Church under the Gospel is many waies in a worse case then the state of the Church was under the Law Among many other instances I will note only four 1. Their publike reading of Gods Word administring the Sacraments praying and performing other divine services in an unknown tongue make the mysteries of the Gospel lesse intelligible more obscure and every way lesse edifying then all the rites types and shadows under the Law did Except ye utter by the tongue words easie to be understood how shall it be known what is spoken for ye shall speak into the air saith the Apostle And again If I know not the meaning of the voice I shall be unto him that speaketh a Barbarian and he that speaketh shall be a Barbarian unto me 2. Their unbloudy Sacrifice as they stile it of a feigned transubstantiated body is farre worse then if they had such Sacrifices of beasts and fowls as were under the Law Those sacrifices at that time did set out the vertue of Christs death and nourish their faith and hope in the benefits thereof But the fore-said Popish sacrifice would take away the vertue and efficacy of Christs sacrifice if it could be taken away For I demand whether the sacrifice that they pretend to offer up be the very same that Christ himself offered upon the crosse If they say the same what need is there that it should be offered up again Was not Christs once offering of it up sufficient The Apostle doth assuredly intend as much by his frequent mention of this word once which is exclusively to be taken once for all and not to be reiterated If it be another sacrifice then the sacrifice of Christ was not perfect For hereby the Apostle proveth the Priesthood of the Law to be unperfect because another was to succeed in the room of it Whereas some say that their offering up of the body of Christ is but by way of application that seems to contradict their own position for they teach that the fore-mentioned transubstantiated body offered up by a Priest is a true reall propitiatory sacrifice for the quick and dead Besides the end of Christs intercession and the vertue thereof is made void by that which is avouched of the applicatory vertue of their sacrifice For the continuall application of Christs own sacrifice is the end of Christs intercession They think to evade all these absurdities by a distinction betwixt a bloody and unbloody sacrifice saying that the sacrifice which Christ himself offered up was a bloudy sacrifice but that which they offer up unbloody To this distinction I answer 1. It 's without any warrant or ground from Scripture 2. It being applied according to their position to one and the same thing for they say that the body of Christ which their Priest offereth up is the very same that Christ offered upon the crosse it implieth contradictory terms namely that the same thing should be bloody and unbloody 3. According to their own position their sacrifice cannot be unbloody for they hold that the wine is transubstantiated into blood as well as the bread into a body and both make one sacrifice How can that be unbloody which consists of bloud Yea of blood poured out as their wine is into the chalice and out of the chalice into the Priests mouth 4. If it be unbloody it hath no vertue for the taking away of sin For without shedding of blood is no remission 3. The third instance of their making the state of the Christian Church worse then of the Jewish is their unwarrantable and inhumane penance which oft they enjoyn to their penitents for satisfaction and other barbarous courses whereunto they perswademen upon pretence of merit and perfection They have in these cases some whom they stile Eremites who live in remote places from all society and feed upon such fruit roots and other things that the earth bringeth forth lodging in Caves Dens or Cellars digged out of the ground Others they call Anchorites who live enclosed betwixt walls and on the Sabbath receive their sustenance for the whole week Others they either enjoy or perswade to whip their naked backs with scourges of cords wyers and sharp rundals till the blood run down and skin and flesh be torn from their backs Others must lie in shirts of hair cloth Others go bare foot and bare legged to such and such shrines Others undertake long pilgrimages to