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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	brother_n	father_n	sister_n	2,882	5	9.8000	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10135	The table of the Lord whereof, 1. The vvhole seruice, is the liuing bread. 2. The guests, any man. 3. The mouth to eate, faith onely. By Gilbert Primerose, Doctour of Divinitie, one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinary, and pastour of the French church at London.	Primrose, Gilbert, ca. 1580-1642.	1626 (1626)	STC 20392; ESTC S114083	64,701	238

some aske why Iesus Christ did vse such Metaphoricall words of bread of eating seeing he might haue said in proper cleare tearmes that h Heb. 5.9 he is the author of eternall salvation vnto all them that obey him as the Apostle calleth him in the Epistle to the Hebrewes I answere first O man wilt thou teach the Word and Wisdome of God to speake i Exod. 4.11 Who hath made mans mouth Or who maketh the dumbe or deafe the seeing or the blind Is it not I saith the Lord And wilt thou to render him like for like make his mouth Secondly I say that of all words those are most cleare and easie to be vnderstood which haue greatest conformitie with our affections desires For which cause God framing his stile to our capacity by similitudes of worldly things which are most esteemed and affected of vs leadeth vs from the lower parts of the earth far aboue all the visible heavens from carnall and sensuall imaginations to spirituall and godly meditations from the vaine cōceit which we haue of our owne worthinesse to bungring and thirsting after his righteousnesse Neither did he fetch such similitudes from a farre off but e re natâ as his servants did light on such or such things he maketh allusion vnto them and by them instructeth his people in the knowledge of the mysteries of the Kingdome of Heaven Because men prise gold aboue all mettall and value precious stones at an high rate he saith that he k Efa 54.11 Rev. 21.18 will lay the foundations of his Church with precious stones make her gates of pearles her wals of iasper her streets of pure gold Because the Iewes were much given to bodily exercise and to renting their clothes in the dayes of their fasting he speaketh vnto them of a spirituall fasting which he calleth l Esa 58.6 the loosing of the bands of wickednesse c. and m Ioel. 2.11 the renting their hearts Because also they were ever bragging that they were Iewes and had the Circumcision the Apostle teacheth them that the true Iew n Rom. 2.28.29 whose praise is not of men but of God is one inwardly that the true Circumcision is that of the heart in the Spirit that all true Christians o Phil. 3.3 are the Circumcision CHRIST by whose Spirit the Prophets and Apostles spake did delight in such similitudes He exhorteth those which are addicted to gathering of perishable and momentarie treasures p Mat. 6.22 to lay vp for themselues treasures in heaven To them which told him when he was preaching that q Mat. 10.47.50 his mother and brethren desired to speake with him he answered whosoever shall doe the will of my Father which is in heaven the same is my brother and sister and mother When the woman of Samaria which was drawing water had said vnto him r Ioh. 4.9.10.14 How is it that thou being a Iew askest drinke of me which am a woman of Samaria He tooke occasion of her speech to call his doctrine his grace his owne selfe the living water whereof whosoever drinketh shall never thirst and by such speeches he brought her to the spirituall drinking of the water of grace whereof the well-spring is in heaven When his Disciples prayed him to take some meate he refused saying ſ Ioh. 4.34 My meate is to doe the will of him that seni me and to finish his worke In the last day of the feast of Tabernacles seeing the people very busie about drawing of water and powring of it out before the Lord as if that had beene the principall part of Gods seruice he stood and cryed t Ioh 7.37.38.39 If any man thirst let him come to me and drinke He that beleeveth in me as the Scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water This spake he of the Spirit which they that beleeue in him should receiue AFTER the same manner perceiving that those fiue thousand men which he had miraculously fed and filled with fiue loaues and two small fishes were come to make him a King not for any true loue vnto him but onely because they had bin fed by him and had conceived a new hope that following such a wonderfull King meate should never be wanting to their bellies yea that he would make bread to raine downe vpon them as Moses did vpon their fathers in the Wildernesse he by diversion speaketh to them of a farre more excellent bread which he would giue them even of the true bread which came downe from heaven and endureth vnto everlasting life exhorteth them to labour for it Shewing in all the Chapter and particularly in this verse that he is that bread and that the onely meane to labour for it is to beleeue in him If he had clothed them miraculously as miraculously he had fed them and if they had followed him thervpon to make him King he would vndoubtedly advised them to labour for the raiments which wax never old and said that he is that raiment As indeed the holy Apostle will haue vs to beleeue that Christ is our garment when he saith that u Gal. 3.27 as many as haue beene baptized into Christ haue put on Christ and exhorteth vs x Rō 13 14 to put on the Lord Iesus Christ Which no man that is not witlesse or besides himselfe will take literally neither also any of the other similitudes whereof there is great plentie in the Scripture and I haue related some few Let then Papists tell vs Why the words of this Chapter should be taken in a literall sence which they shall never be able to doe BVT to leaue Papists let vs who are to communicate this morning to the blessed seales of this doctrine weigh in our minds how Christ per allegoriam necessariorum pabulorum by the allegory of necessary food as y Tertull. de Resurrect Carnis cap. 37. Tertullian speaketh withdraweth the thoughts of his followers from the outward to the inward man from the flesh to the Spirit from the food of the body to the food of the soule a Aug. in Ioh. tract 25. Ille post miraculi Sacramentum sermonem infert vt si fieripotest qui pasti sunt pascantur quorum satiauit panibus ventres satiet sermonibus mentes sed si capiunt Et si non capiunt sumatur quod non capiunt ne fragmenta percant that if it be possible those which are fed may be fed againe and as he had filled their bellies with bread he may also fill their minds with his speeches But if they take them And if they take them not as indeed they tooke them not i.e. they vnderstood them not let vs take them least the fragments perish as we are exhorted by S. Austin Let vs I say now even now ponder with our selues that although we doe eate and drinke to maintaine this mortall and ever-dying life and that this is the