Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	spirit_n	truth_n	worship_v	2,361	5	9.8392	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04482	The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop of Sarum and D. Cole vpon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Quenes Maiestie, and hir most honorable Counsel. 1560. Set forthe and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Cole, Henry, 1500?-1580. aut	1560 (1560)	STC 14613; ESTC S107807	107,547	377

and crieth vnto them Sursum corda Lift vp your heartes according to y ● doctrin of s. Paule Si vna surrexistis cum Christo ea quae sursum sunt quaerite vbi Christus est sedens ad dexteram patris If ye be risen again with Chryst seke for those thinges y ● be aboue where as Christ is sittinge at the right hand of his father And again Nostra 〈◊〉 est in coelis vnde Saluatorem expectamus Our conuersation or dwelling is in heauen from whence we loke for our 〈◊〉 Therfore S. Augustine speake the wordes y t I before alledged Nemo manducat nisi prius adoret No man eateth Chrystes fleshe but fyrste he doth worship it The eating therof the worshipynge must ioyne together But where we eate it there must we worshyp it Therfore must we worshyp it syttyng in heauen So sayth the olde doctour father s. Chrisostō Vbi cadauer ibi aquilae Cadauer do mini corpus est Aquillas autem nos appellat vt ostendat oportere illum ad alta contendere qui ad hoc corpus accedit Aquilarum enim non graculorū est haec mēsa That is to saye Where soeuer is the carcase there be the Egles The carcase is Christes bodye vs he calleth the Egles to declare that whosoeuer wil approche neare to that bodye must geat a lofte For this is a banket for Egles y ● soare a high not for Iayes y t kepe the ground Christes body is in heauen Thether therefore must we direct our hartes there must we feede there must we refrcshe our selfe there must we worship it So sayth S. Hierome Ascendamus cum eo in caenaculum magnum stratum ibi accipiamus ab eo sursum calicē noui testamenti Let vs get vp sayth S Hierom wyth him into the great dyninge chamber that is already prepared and there let vs receyue of him aboue the cup of the new testament So sayth saint Ambrose Non super terram nec in terra nec secundum terram te quaerere debemus si volumus inuenire We maye not leke for the neither vpon y e earth nor in y t earth nor about y e earth if we list to find y t. And to cōclude so sayth Eusebius Emissemus Exaltata mente adora corpus Dei tui That is lyfting vp thy minde vnto heauen there worshyp and adour the body of thy God Thus did the olde Catholike fathers worship y ● bodye of Christ. Thus may we also worship it safely and without perill But to geue Goddes honor to y ● sacrament is a thing both latelye brought into y ● churche vnknown straunge to the aunciēt doctors and as the scholemen and the greatest mainteiners of it haue them selues confessed an occasion of idolatry and full of daunger For what if the priest happen not to cōsecrate what if he leaue out of the words of consecration neuer speake thē as it is known that sum priests haue done manye yeares together Or what if the priest haue no intentiō or mynd to consecrate what case standeth the pore people thē in Or what thing is it that they worshyp Chrystes body cannot be there without cōsecration Consecration there can be none as they them selues haue taught if there misse ether pronūtiation an vtteraunce of y e words or elles purpose to cōsecrate intenton And howe can the people know w t what intentiō or mynd y priest goth to the masse Or whether he hath duly pronounced the wordes Or whether he hath cōsecrated or no And knowinge none of these things which in very dede is not possible for thē to know how can they be wel assured y t it is the body of Christ y t the priest holdeth vp wherunto they fall downe geue godly honor Thus by theyr own learnīg y e people must nedes stand stil in doubt ne●…er knowe certēli what they worship O good people think not y t I imagin these things of my self Our own aduer saries y t stand against vs in thys cause euen the famoust and best learned of them al haue sene and wrytten and confessed the same Alexander a Bishop of Rome wryting vpon the master of y e sentences taketh vp the mater on this sorte for as much as y e priests purpose his priuie 〈◊〉 about y ● consecration cannot be knowen y t therfore no man ought to worship the sacrament when it is holden vp but with this condition si ille consecrauerit That is If the Priest hath consecrated That is to say when ye se y e ●…acrament lifted vp ye must saye or thinke thus w t your self If this priesthath cōsecrated thēdo I wor ship it If he hath not consecrated thē do I not worship it This saith Alexander a Bishop of Rome But Thomas of Aquine leaueth the mater a litle more at large ▪ He saith Ista conditio non semper actu requiritur satis est habere habitū That is to say It shall not be nedefull at euery tyme to saye or to thinke thus whensoeuer ye knele down to worship but it shal be sufficient if ye haue a certein redines in your mynd to say or to thynke so Yet Holcot writynge likewyse vpon the master of the sentences saith thus Laicus adorat hostiam non consecratam ista fides sufficit illi ad saluationem tamē est erronea The lay mā saith he as it may sumtymes happen worshyppeth a wafer y ● is not consecrate This faith is sufficient vnto hym to his saluatiō and yet is it a false faith and erronious And farther he cōcludeth in this sort Homo potest mereri per fidē erroneam etiāsi cōtīgat vt adoret diabolū By these words we may se such as wil not content thē selues to be ordred by Gods wisdom how daungerously they runne headlong at the last Holcot was not the wurst learned man amongste them Yet to vpholde the erroure that he had once taken in hande to defende he was dryuen to confe●…se that a mā maye meede at Goddes hande by an erroneous and false fayth yea althoughe he worshyp the deuell This is the certē●…y of y e doctrine that y e people of God of long tyme hath ben led in In y e highest heauenliest point of religiō y t is in y e worshippinge of God they them selues know not what they do It is true of them that Chryst saith to the woman of Samaria ye worship ye know not what Alas ▪ is this the honour y t is due to Christ Is this the worshipinge of God in spirit truth Is this y ● seking of Christ inheauē But sum man will say these be 〈◊〉 and light maters and proue nothynge Such reportes I know are geuē abrode of all that is preached and taught this day that what soeuer is spokē by any of vs is light and childish and not worth y ● hearing But the reporters hereof are