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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	blood_n	body_n	wine_n	4,504	5	8.0226	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58808	Practical discourses concerning obedience and the love of God. Vol. II by John Scott ...	Scott, John, 1639-1695.; Zouch, Humphrey.	1698 (1698)	Wing S2062; ESTC R32130	213,666	480

his divine Prerogatives and clothe his Creatures in them before his Face But against this black Charge Bellarmin hath a very quaint Salvo When we say says he St. Peter have mercy upon me or so we supply the Sense with this mental Construction procure Mercy for me by thy Prayers or Merits which is a plain Confession that the Words are unwholsome in themselves and cannot be safely used without being corrected by a more honest meaning and that if the Votaries of that Church do not take Care to mend their Publick Prayesr with their private Meanings they incur the Guilt or at least the Danger of Idolatry For we cannot address more immediately in any Form of Words to God for any Mercy than they do in these to the Saints and Angels and therefore if they do not actually address to them as Gods 't is because they construe those Forms into a different Sense from their most obvious meaning For when they say Lord have mercy upon me they may mean with as little Force to the Words Procure me Mercy O Lord from St. Peter by thy Prayers and Merits as they do when they say St. Peter have Mercy upon me Procure me Mercy from God O St. Peter by thy Prayers and Merits And what a dreadful Prophanation is it of the divine Majesty to use such Forms of Address to God and St. Peter as do leave our Minds indifferent either to pray to St. Peter to pray to God for us or to pray to God to pray to St. Peter for us Again 't is a common Doctrin of Christianity that our Saviour hath instituted the holy Eucharist to be a Memorial of his Sufferings and a Seal of that everlasting Covenant which he purchased by them upon which the Roman Church hath superstructed that monstrous Doctrin of Transubstantiation which besides the disgrace it doth to our holy Religion by Reason of those ridiculous Absurdities and gross Contradictions it fastens upon it it puts such an extravagant sense upon the first Institution of this holy mystery that if our Saviour had really meant it 't would have been enough to expose him to the general Scorn and Derision of Mankind For if when he first instituted it he had really pretended to convert the Sacramental Elements into the Substance of his own Body and Blood this must have been the Sense of his Words and Actions these outward Elements which but just now were made Bread and Wine are now by my Almighty Benediction converted into the Substance of my Body and Blood this very Body which sits here at the upper End of the Table lies there under those Species of Bread and Wine which you see upon it My Head and Feet and every Part of me are all intirely within every Crumb of that unleavened Bread and yet those several Crumbs which do each contain my whole Body contain not several Bodies and if you divide them into ten thousand Crumbs and distribute them into ten thousand different Places yet in all those different Places I am the same intire and undivided Body And though as I sit here you see I am at least a Foot broad and five or six Foot long yet in those little Crumbs that lie before you I am no bigger than a Pin's Head and yet upon my honest Word I am in all my Parts and Dimensions under the outward Species of every one of them and so am every whit as broad and thick and long in them as I do now appear in this visible Body And as for my Blood which is at least two Gallons though it is all contained within the Veins and Vessels of this Body yet it is all at the same Time within that Cup which I confess is hardly large enough to contain the eighth Part of it And though you Twelve shall every one drink his share of it yet every one shall drink it all that is out of this one Cup of my Blood which at most contains but a Quart each Man of you Twelve shall drink the whole two Gallons But let not these Things astonish you for now I am doing yet stranger Things than these and first I take my self it being supposed both by Papists and Protestants that Christ himself first eat and drank those sacred Elements that is I take my Hands into my own Hands and put my Mouth into my own Mouth and swallow down my Hands and Mouth and Throat and Stomach through my own Throat into my own Stomach so that now my whole Body is intirely within my Stomach though the whole you see except my Stomach is still intirely without it And having thus eaten and drank up my self in the next Place I give my self to be eat and drank by every one of you And now while I am wholly buried within each of your Stomachs and my own I shall begin a sacred Hymn and conclude with my Farewel Sermon This supposing our Saviour had intended a real Transubstantiation had been the natural Sense or rather Nonsense of his Words and Actions in the first Institution of this sacred Mystery And what a most shameful Disgrace is it to the most righteous Religion that ever was to fasten such wild Extravagancies upon its great and blessed Author Certainly had Men set their Wits at work to burlesque the most sacred Thing and dress it up for Laughter and Derision they could never have invented a more ridiculous Disguise for it than this of Transubstantiation Besides all which it introduces two notorious Pieces of Unrighteousness the first of which is a most gross and barbarous Piece of Idolatry viz. their adoring the consecrated Bread with the highest Species of divine Worship which if it be not Transubstantiated into the Body of Christ as we are sure it is not unless our Senses lie and Contradictions be true they themselves confess is as gross Idoatry as the Laplander's worshiping a red Cloth hung upon the Top of a Spear Now what monstrous Unrighteousness is this for Men to rob God of his Honour and vest a senseless Piece of Bread with it to advance the Workmanship of a Baker into an Equality with God and then adore and then devour it The second Piece of Unrighteousness which this monstrous Figment introduces is the Half-Communion in which the Christian World is most unjustly robbed of one half of that Legacy which Christ bequeathed to us in his last Will and Testament which as Bellarmin tells us was done out of Reverence to the Transubstantiated Wine lest any Drop of it sticking upon Lay-mens Beards should be spilt and prophaned But this Inconvenience by the Cardinal's Leave might have otherwise been easily prevented by prohibiting all Lay-men as they do their Priests to receive the Sacrament with their Beards on For I am apt to think there is no good Christian but would have been better contented to lose all his Beard than half the Sacrament So that this Doctrin of Transubstantiation you see hath a most unrighteous Tendency both as it