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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	blood_n	body_n	sacrament_n	7,094	5	7.4356	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13994	Concerning the Holy Eucharist, and the popish breaden-god to the men of Rome, as well laiqves as cleriqves, by Thomas Tuke.	Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.	1625 (1625)	STC 24305; ESTC S111514	13,017	28

carry by sea or land Now in thy mouth and by and by i th' maw o th' Altar now then in some solemne shaw Riding about i th' streets to grace that man Who dares do that which justly no man can Yet more This God ye seeme so to adore Ye basely prostitute to knaue and Whore Teaching that the Wicked his flesh may eat Whereas Christ Iesus is to such no meat For he that eats his fles h and drinks his blood Shall liue and therefore sure he must be good Yea he that eats Christs flesh in Christ doeth dwell But they in him do dwell that 's kept for hell He must be of Christs flesh that eats his flesh And onely those with it he does refresh Indeed the Sacrament thereof ill men May eat but bane it is vnto them then But it it selfe Whosoever does eat To him it is no bane but wholesome meat Able to nourish preserue the spirit And to do that which no man can by 's merit He that eats of this bread that eats of mee Shall liue by me sayth Christ eternallie And he eats Christ that does aright belieue And being knit unto him does receiue And draw forth of him that by fayth which may Sustaine preserue and feed him night and day Whereas your Christ ye say ye take and eat With hand and mouth both good and bad as meat I ween ye say not now ye teare and grinde Him with your teeth in pieces as I finde But that ye mouth him that ye all professe All all of you alike both more and lesse O the great stupidity In absolute foolery And sencelesse impietie What 's become of all those Christs Priests haue made Doe all those hostes of wonder bide or fade Doe they stay below Or ascend on high Or turne they back to bread and wine Or die Or are any by digestion wrought And into mens spirits or bodies brought Or is not he that yet in heauen does stay Able to feed and keep vs every way But that there must be still a new creation Of him after your strange imagination One Christ bides but all those fly One Christ liues but all those dy One is true the rest a ly When ye haue eat them ye may say as of yore The eye that hath seen them shall see them no more He abides that is aboue Him we feare and him we loue These below doe nothing proue Alas alas there needs no fabrication Of him still by Priests for mans sustentation Iesus Christ both yesterday and to day Is our food and rock the Selfe-same for ay Great need we haue all to take him And feare least we should forsake him But can not nor need not make him Hony we read found in a Lyon dead But not of Wormes in God incarnate bred Yet in this thing for Christ ye doe adore And whose almightie ayd ye do implore Euen in this very thing a worme hath bred Euen on this very thing a worme hath fed The silly Ientles may in these things breed Plain cralling Magots may on these things feed For shame then forsake this toy Which the Church does so annoy And in truth delight and joy Ye shew vs clothes which ye say Saints haue worne As ye would perswade vs which are not torne As yet with time but uncorrupt as were Th'Izraelites in their walk of fourty yere And yet many an age is come and gon Since the Saints did last put them off or on Whereof I finde your reason to be such Forsooth their sacred bodyes did them touch Why then should putrefaction at all These Accidents ye talk so off befall How is 't that vermine are in them ingendred Seeing Christs blessed body's in them tendred How is 't that filthines is there discouer'd Where Iesus Christ our Lord God-Man lyes cover'd Is 't because his body can not them touch Or for that of vertue it has not much Or is 't because theirs his did farre exceed Or els for that no other Wonders need Yet such a Wonder showen vnto the eye Would with men be of no small potencye Being voyd of fraud and no forged tale Whereas your so much talk'd of Wonders fayle Things which neyther sense nor Scriptuees doe teach But which euen ye your selues do feigne preach Indeed we would confesse you made If sense or Scriptures lent you aid But by both them ye are gainsayd Saint Austin writes euen what himself belieued That the Disciples Iesus Christ receiued That they that heauen-come bread of life did eat Which is to true Belieuers drinck and meat Yet Iudas who to avarice was wed Ate not the Lord but onely ate his bread But by your learning seeing that the bread Is turn'd into Christs flesh on 's flesh he fed For seeing Christ vnder those showes doth lye Eate Christ he must which Austin does denye Saying that he ate the bread of the Lord Against the Lord A thing to be abhorr'd Neither are bare shewes of bread bread in kinde And therefore Austin was not of your minde For he held the Traytor on bread did feed Whereas yee say There 's nought but shewes indeed Yet one word more Because ye doe from hence Send packing with disdaigne all humane sense Far be it from vs sayes the selfe-same Father That we should be at all in doubt or waver But rest assured that what senses pure And vncorrupt doe teach vs that is sure And true the very selfe-same things they seem No other things then those we do them deem I pray you shew then why we should not trust Our senses here as if they were accurst Sith that in other precepts of the Lord They stand us in great stead to keepe his word For by our sense we can put difference Twixt man and man and so doe reverence By sense twixt man and beast discerne we can Betweene a father and an other man By sense we may perceiue they are but stocks Which fools adore who are themselues but blocks By sense men are let see how for to keep Their fingers from their neighbours oxe sheep And finallie by sense men learne much good And avoide the shedding of guiltlesse blood Now tell me Why should sense be trusted here And yet so vtterly denyed there For tho to sense it does appeare That bread and wine are truely there Yet ye say Nay and nothing feare We are not certayn that Christs Disciples did Receiue the Eucharist whiles he lay hid In 's sepulcher starke-dead but yet they might Haue boldly took it then and done but right And say they had if that ye hold were good Then had they eate and drunke him flesh and blood Hot and aliue when as in trueth he lay Not quick but dead as doe the Scriptures say Or will ye say the Sacrament did lack Its vertue as being for a time kept back Or quite extinct vntill he rose againe Or that his body as

voyd of life as paine Was really and substantially Presented in that sacred Mystery Eyther of which ye shall as soone make cleere As make the Sunne at midnight to shine here Whereas to fayth Christ absent present is And dead might liue to fayth w' are sure of this Whilst here he was he present was to sence But absent from it now he is gone hence His blessed body present was from dayes Of old to true belieuers fayth alwayes He ever with them was by the power of fayth By which he dwelleth in them th' Apostle sayth Not come in flesh yet was he come to fayth Slayne from the beginning as Scripture sayth And hence it is that they of old by Paul Are sayed the verie same spirituall Both meat to eat and drink to drink which we Our selues receiue by fayth not carnallie For meat and drink which are spirituall Are not to be eaten and drunck as carnall This food they fed on is that Promiss'd Seed Which they receiu'd by fayth and so did feed And still by fayth if true is to be ta'en And not with hand or mouth as ye would faine For fayth can see things a farre off with ease And on them as vpon things present seize Faith for the soule is as much as the eye Hand mouth throat and mawe are for the body But some of you stick not to say The Lord Deceiu'd you if deceiu'd ye be with 's word Forsooth because he sayes This is my body A bold conceipt it is both blinde and frothy For if it please you to weigh this Scripture With other Scriptures or in peace endure To see it for you done in loue by others Who are if ye be Christes in truth your Brothers Ye may cleerely see if ye will permit Your will to be directed by your wit That these same words do beare an other sense Then that ye go about to fetch from thence View well the places ye see quoted here And ye may plainly see what IS meanes there To putte IS for SIGNIFIES is not rare As he soone may see that to see does care Neyther is this exposition new But old no youth as that that 's brought by you For herein your Mothers wit Neither sense nor holy Writ Nor antiquitie does fit As for that Offering of Christ ye hold I wonder much wherefore ye are so bold Search the Scriptures ye can not finde it there Or look to reason and y' are ne'er the neare His owne One's ynough all-able and good Nor is sin pardon'd without shedding blood And therefore yours without such effusion Is nought els at all but mere delusion Yours eyther is the same with his or not If it be not the same then haue ye got An other Gospell besides that he tought But if it be the same with that he wrought Then doe ye offer him in blood and slayen Which ye can not would ye never so faine Christ is no more on earth but is aboue He sayes as much and that doth you reproue I say again that must haue consecration Which vnto God is made a right oblation And who dare say that 's not a divels limme That Iesus Christ is consecrate by him By one offring hath he consecrated For ever them that are sanctified He consecrates vs and his act is stable To consecrate him we are all vnable See then the straits whereinto ye are brought Whiles yee forsake the wayes inth ' Scriptures tought To the Scriptures then giue eare And what God speaks in them heare Holding fast the truth in feare Now do I speak to all you men of fire Who hotter are then reason does require There 's one thing I would gladly haue you show Wherefore your choler should so strangely flow That nothing will suffice you but the blood Of such as think your doctrine is not good But new and naught concerning your Oblation Of Christ and of your Transsubstantiation And yet both yee and wee agree in this That Iesus Christ our life in heauen now is We both belieue he died vpon the Tree And offer'd up himselfe most willinglie We both acknowledge his owne one oblation Made on the Crosse is our propitiation We neither of vs doubt but hold he is A true and perfit man God Lord of blisse More Both of vs affirme and not deceived That hee 's giuen i th' Eucharist and receiued Giuen of God and receiu'd of the godly Which come fitted for that sacred Myst'ry And yet forsooth this will not serue our turne But that as Heretiques we needs must burne And why as Heretiques Because we say There 's no such offring of him day by day Yet confesse we that a Representation Is in the Sacrament of his oblation Who Once offer up himselfe for sin But since that Once hath never offer'd bin Not properly but in a type or figure Whereof we certain are of yours not sure And for because we say as sense does teach And as both Scriptures and old Doctors preach That bread and wine doe truly there remaine And not in shew onely as ye do faigne Teaching men to belieue vnder a curse That their substance is gone and which is worse Turn'd into the flesh and blood of our Lord Which ye presse vpon men with word and sword Now for because we do not hold this turning Ye hold vs as heretiques worthy burning Well what 's past let that suffice Wake and learne for to be wise Hate not men for hating lies The great and mightie God that hath made all Christians and others both great and small Allowes you not to take away mans life Through bitter zeale and vnadvised strife Allowes you not his creatures blood to spill For crossing of your priuate thoughts and will Foule shame it is that mens owne fonde opinions In Christendome should cause so great divisions A shame it is such Boasters of Antiquitie Should be so faultie in devising Novitie O that all humane vnderstanding might Once become subject to the Scriptures light That all would truly yeeld and nothing grudge To make them their Sole Rule of fayth and Iudge O that charitie so much talk'd off might Once among Christians obteyne her right O that God whose Great Name we all confesse Were better serued and offended lesse If filthie Lucre Pride and base Ambition Which are the Workers of so great confusion Were once abandon'd and that men would go Roundly to work the naked trueth to know Preferring it to all things els beside Then should our Lord be better glorified Then factions soone would cease They that vex would seek to please And Christs kingdome would increase Then they that now the holy Church do rend Would all their wits and labors for it spend Then factious Nick-names soone would all be left Neyther should men of peace be so bereft The trueth that now is banish'd True loue which now is vanish'd Would both be better cherish'd Now to the plaine and