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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	discipline_n	doctrine_n	4,176	5	6.2312	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49323	Du Moulin's Reflections reverberated being a full answer to a pernicious pamphlet entituled Moral reflections on the number of the elect : together with several arguments against transubstantiation of the outward elements in the sacrament of the Lords Supper, transubstantiated into falshood and absurdity : to which is added a postscript in answer to some passages in Mr. Edmund Hickeringil's scurrilous piece stiled The second part of naked truth / by Edward Lone ...	Lane, Edward, 1605-1685.	1681 (1681)	Wing L331; ESTC R10768	106,099	120

prove to us to be but as a Preface to their Writ de Comburendo for their merciless burning of our Bodies But blessed be God we have hitherto been kept out of their reach and blessed for ever of God be the Government which is set over us whereby under God we are still preserved Yet neither do we sleight the words of our Lord which he spake saying This is my Body God forbid that such a Thought should ever enter into our Hearts no but taking them in the sense which he intended they are the Crown of our rejoycing His Promise herein is the greatest Blessing that we can be capable of in this World It is our Life and without it we shall ever be dead in our Sins and Trespasses whatsoever spiritual Quicknings we have in us to heavenly things it is the Body of Christ and the Blood of Christ which we have Received into our Hearts by Faith that worketh them in us for we live not as the Apostle St. Paul said but Christ liveth in us It is the Body of Christ and it is the Blood of Christ which filleth the whole inward man inlightning the Understanding Rectifying the Will ordering the Affections putting courage into the Heart to encounter any Difficulties for Christ to suffer any Torments for his sake that can be inflicted upon us by Men or Devils Nay more It is the Body of Christ and it is the Blood of Christ separated each from other which were so taken and Received in the Lords Supper and which continue to be so in the Hearts of those that worthily Received that Holy Sacrament which fully satisfieth all their Hunger and Thirst as bringing a clear Evidence of Christs Death and consequently a full Assurance of the Pardon and Remission of their sins unto them the memorial of Christs Death being the main end why the Sacrament was ordained This in short is that real Presence of Christ in this Holy Ordinance which the Church the Spouse of Christ expecteth so as to be entertained by her Lord at his holy Table and which indeed is only to be desired as being most advantageous unto her As for that Presence of Christ in this Sacrament which Papists contend for let it pass for a Dream as it is It shall even be to use the words of the Prophet As when a hungry man dreameth and behold he eateth Is 19.8 but he awaketh and his Soul is empty And as when a thirsty man dreameth and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint and his Soul hath Appetite So shall their hoc est Corpus meum I mean their Doctrine of the Transubstantiation of the outward Elements in the Lords Supper into the Body and Blood of Christ prove to be unto them but a miserable Delusion Never never O my God let my Soul enter into their Secret nor be baptised with a Baptism that they are Baptised with And with this Confidence I do shut up this whole Discourse God Almighty give a Blessing unto it FINIS POSTSCRIPT BUt now it seems to strengthen the Popish Interest Hell is broke loose seditious Pamphlets now flutter about for the discrediting our Religion and our Church which hath been acknowledged the best Reformed Church in the Christian World such Pamphlets I say as are not only against the Doctrine of the true Protestant Religion but against the best Ecclesiastical Discipline also witness that scandalous and scurrilous Piece Gratum opus Agricolis Romanis atque Atheistis Entituled the Naked Truth Second Part whereas in many parts of it I say not in all it rather deserves the Title of impudent Untruth as shall be here made manifest past all Contradiction The Author thereof whom I care not to know being he is Prava Avis in Templis nigroque simillima Spectro begins his Epistle to the Reader with a colloguing Insinuation I had almost said with much Craft and Cunning in this manner No man does more Reverence good Bishops than my self and why so But because he does it may be account himself to be one it is an ill Bird then that will defile his own Nest nor saith he does any man less dread them with a slavish fear But non obstante all his Confidence I who am a poor inconsiderable man shall here take the boldness before I go with him a foot further to expostulate with him in this case Who Sir is there that doth so dread them I know a man who is in the seventy seventh year of his Age and in the fifty third year of his Ordination to the office and order of an Evangelical Priest yet in his full strength blessed be God at which Age fears do commonly as other weaknesses take hold of a man but although he hath in his time lived under the Inspection of many Bishops yet had he never such a fear of them upon him nor have I at this day for the plain truth is there neither was nor is any the least need of it Nor is there I believe any one of our Bishops who is willing to be so dreaded for if curteous Affability fatherly Instruction brotherly Condescention tender Compassion towards the weaker sort be to be found in them and that very frequently constantly upon all emergent Occasions presented before them as I know by experience to be in some of them what do these boasting words signifie but a vain-glorious hussing If they be not a most unchristian Suggestion and slanderous Susurration sufficient to make all that followeth in the whole Tract liable to suspition among wise Men. As indeed many other of his following words do I admire them saith he at my distance which he presumeth is not very great but I do not Idolize them and God forbid that he or any man else should I Honour them but I do not fall down and Worship them as if none could kneel unto them to crave their Blessing like dutiful Sons of their Grave and Reverend Fathers and as all good Subjects do to the King being so in Duty bound because he is Pater Patriae can none I say do this but they must thereupon make Idols of them and Worship them I can say saith he my Lord and not add my God But let me ask again does any do so or say so Sure there is not such a Polytheism to be found among us here in this Nation though there be God be merciful to us much Atheisin which is like to grow up to a more prodigious Height than it hath yet attained by the means of this and the like prodigious Pamphlets that are scattered among us The man goeth on in his Apology thus You will not find in this ensuing Inquiry the least tang of Bitterness or yellow Choler no not so much as one tart or harsh Expression being so far from justly disgusting any that I shall not so much as set their Teeth on edge so insipied and simple an Humour have I cherisht all-a-long through this whole Discourse for