Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	bread_n	jesus_n	wine_n	12,878	5	7.8448	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29662	The durable legacy by H.B. ...	Brooke, Humphrey, 1617-1693.	1681 (1681)	Wing B4904; ESTC R7036	134,765	256

are notwithstanding nothing less concern'd in this duty than the learned it hath rendred intricate what was easy and obvious to the most unlearned It is therefore not to be us'd but relinquished as introduced by artificial men who have troubled the waters and rendred obscure what our good Saviour made easily intelligible Of the same Nature are the Learned names of Eucharist Host Transubstantiation and many more together with the introduction of other Services and Sacraments not of our Saviours or his Apostles making but brought in by crafty and designing men for the advance of their own Honour and profit by which the people are captivated deluded and impoverished The unworthy receiving this Supper consists chiefly in two Particulars The one is receiving it out of custome without consideration and observance of the end of its Institution not considering the Lords body as the Scripture expresses it but eating it as a common meal as many of the Primitive Christians greedily and disorderly did not communicating to others what they brought themselves which the Apostle blames them for in 11. c. of the 1 ep to the Corinthians asking them whether they had not houses where they might eat their fills at home and not upbraid them who were not so furnished In so doing they eat their own condemnation not considering the end of the Institution The other unworthy receiving it is not having found resolutions to amend our lives when they did not beforehand examine themselves and consider wherein they were faulty with purpose of amendment For what a gross absurdity is it that men should come to such a Service wherein they were to remember that Christ is their Saviour that he came into the World and offered himself a Sacrifice for their Sins and that yet they should without any gratitude of mind persist in those crimes for which he suffered Which is what the Apostle elsewhere condemns namely To Sin or to continue sinning because Grace hath abounded The first usage of this was at the Passover or rather at the end or after the same although for its excellency it may bear the name of Supper Hereupon a command of our Saviour followed that they should so do in remembrance of his death where by the way the word consecration is unduly brought in here making it still more mysterious than our Saviour intended it In the Gospel of St. Luke it is said that both in taking the bread and taking the Cup he gave thanks and so it is said of the Cup both in St. Matthew and St. Mark And though as to the bread in those two Evangelists it is said he blest it which is supposed to imply consecration and upon which the custome of Consecrating is introduced yet is it much more probable that no more is meant thereby than what is exprest by St. Luke that he gave thanks for the bread as he did for the wine And therefore the translators of the Bible in King James's time say upon the words in St. Matthew c. 26. v. 26. Jesus took bread and blessed it That many Greek copies have it and gave thanks and therefore say they blessing is not a Consecrating with a conjuring kind of murmuring and force of words The bread and wine are as they were before no more but signs of Christs body crucified and his blood shed for our Sins That many learned men do make it a Sacrifice is but an effect of their learning giving improper names to plain things in which they do the World great injury and as well in other particulars as in this the unhappy effect of their skill is to be lamented A Sacrifice is properly an offering of thanksgiving for benefits received or of satisfaction and attonement for evils committed or else performed upon hopes of some blessing expected But in none of these senses can the eating of bread and drinking of wine be properly called a Sacrifice In a figurative sense it may be implyed in the first of those acceptations because we not only receive the Bread and Wine in remembrance of Christs death but express our thanks to God both for the Institution and for what we are thereby to remember But then this is no otherwise a Sacrifice than all the acts of praise and thanksgiving are The offering of Christs Body and his being slain for the sins of the World is indeed a Sacrifice he being Sacrificed to attone the wrath of God but our eating and drinking the Bread and Wine in remembrance thereof has no resemblance thereunto it is an action of a quite different nature It may be called the remembrance of a Sacrifice but it is very improper to call the remembrance of a Sacrifice a Sacrifice there being no analogy between the one and the other This I say may be reckoned amongst the bewailed effects of the great abilities of learned men who in confidence of out-speaking others with gloss of words and subtlety of argumentation do nodum in scirpo facere make knots in a Bulrush make difficult matter of what is most obvious and easy to be understood A design certainly of exceeding contrariety to the deportment and precepts of our ever blessed Saviour The last remark upon this shall be to take notice to what degree of cruelty the pride and insolence of bad men supported by power will extend it an instance whereof we have in the dealing of bloody Statesmen and hellish Priests in Queen Maryes daies against good and pious men who would not against Conscience and even to the contradiction of their senses acknowledge and adore the Bread and Wine as the very body of Christ really and carnally present even the body that was crucified at Jerusalem and had ascended into Heaven and was sitting at the right hand of God It is to admiration that men should have the easiness to believe so notorious a falsity or have the impudence to force it upon others with severities hardly less than what the Devils themselves would inflict were they amongst us But as the propagation of truth which is of God and by God is commended fairly to the World upon the convincing beauty of its own excellency mildly sweetly with reliance only upon the power of its own intrinsick worth So error and falshood Satans offspring wanting in it self what should give it esteem must be supported by glosing art political stratagems 〈…〉 compulsion and cruelty arguments sufficient a man would think to good men who will not purposely shut their eyes or give up their understandings to an implicite belief I thought fit to use this excursion as judging it meet that upon all occasions notice should be taken and a brand of infamy stuck upon those horrid practices and the gross abuse of so plainly intelligible and significant an institution See Mr. Hales's Tract of the Lords Supper Printed 1677. Who hath written excellently well thereupon as also toward the latter end he has beyond all other men that I know explained the true meaning of the phrase the