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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	life_n	soul_n	spirit_n	4,592	5	5.4327	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16604	A preparation to the receiving of the Sacrament, of Christs Body and Bloud Directing weake Christians how they may worthily receiue the same. By W. Bradshavv. With a profitable treatise of the same argument, written by another.; Direction for the weaker sort of Christians	Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618.; Hildersam, Arthur, 1563-1632. aut	1617 (1617)	STC 3511; ESTC S116327	84,852	387

of this bread and the drinking of this wine as you ought to do you shall spiritually eat and drink my Body Bloud That is the merits of my Passion shall by meanes therof be so effectually applied vnto you that thereby as it were by daily food you shall liue euerlastingly So that that which you eat and drinke in this Sacrament is not onely bread and wine but after a sort my Body and bloud which was sacrificed for you Is not then this Sacrament a mystery to bee trembled at Is it not a brutish sin without any preparation to rush vpon the same If wee did but eat and drinke ordinarily for bodily necessitie or pleasure it were brutish to runne vnto the same as a horse to the maunger or a swine to the trough not lifting our hearts at the least to God in thankfulnesse for them How much more brutish is it to eat this bread and drinke this wine without due reuerence and regard of so high and heauenly a mystery It were an indignitie offered to the great worke of our Redemption but occasionally to thinke or speake thereof without reuerence But to be irreuerently affected then when by such a special ordinance it is so effectually represented applyed vnto vs must needs be a dreadfull and damnable sinne For the further confirmation whereof let vs consider some speciall instructions from the particulars in regard of the speciall analogy betweene the signes and the things signified 1 In that our Sauiour represents his Body in this Sacrament by bread he teacheth vs thereby that his Body is to the soule of man as bread is to the body Bread is the very staffe of a mans bodily life the most generall food of poore and rich that which of all other food can least bee spared that which in hunger men first and principally desire that the scarcitie whereof makes famine that which if it be plentifully vsuall makes all other necessaries of this life plentifull that which we daily feed vpon that which men generally take greatest paines for Hence our Sauiour in the Lords Praier teaching to craue all the needfull cōforts in this life comprehends all vnder daily bread And therefore by like proportion his Body in that manner that it is heere meant and propounded is the very staffe and stay of a Christian life That without which neither poore nor rich high nor low shall liue eternally That which without all other meanes can feed nourish a man to euerlasting life and which of all other meanes cannot be spared That which uery true christian soule first and principally hungreth after That the want whereof only famisheth and starues the soule That which they will take the greatest paines and toyle to get and which without the greatest paine and trauel cannot be gotten That which they will desire to feed vpon euery day and euery meale rellishing nothing else without it 2 In that the bread is broken to signifie his Body broken for vs it teacheth vs that it is not simply the Body of Christ by which we are to be fed but his Body broken that is That which Christ did suffered for vs especially vpon the Crosse For to speake properly his Body was not broken It is not therefore properly Christ glorified in heauen or Christ simply God or God and man which is the bread that a Christian soule humbled for sinne can digest or relish but Christ crucified Christ hanging vpon the Crosse It is Christs death that is indeed the life of a Christian It is Christ and his Crosse both together that is the bread of life yea not the Crosse only but the Thornes also wherewith he was crowned the whippes wherewith hee was scourged the nailes with which he was fastned the vineger and gall which he tasted yea and Iudas who betraied him Pilate that condemned him and the Scribes Pharisees that prosecuted against him and all the people which cried crucifie him Christ considered with al these is that spirituall bread that is typed by the materiall And without these hee cannot bee the bread of life to a sinfull soule So that if there be any Transubstantiation in this Sacrament either the bread is turned into all these or all these into the bread 3 The vse of wine is well knowne it doth not onely as water quench the thirst but also exceedingly comfort the heart and refresh the spirits Seeing then it is the pleasure of our Sauiour in this Sacrament to make wine the type of his bloud It teacheth vs what effects Christs bloud and the shedding thereof shall haue in the soules of all true Christians and worthy Communicants Their spirituall thirst after righteousnesse and saluation shall be quenched In the midst of all the horrors and terrors of death and hell they shal by meanes thereof bee solaced and comforted This bloud streaming from the sides of Christ shall in the midst of their sorrowes griefes and troubles and vexations bee as a cup of the excellentest wine to cheere them reuiue their spirits and to inflame their zeale This wine hath that efficasie and force in it that it will turne all the bitter potions that Gods children vse to drinke into wine The Apostles of our Sauior when they were drinking deepely of the whippe this wine mingled with that bitter potion turned it also into wine insomuch as they reioyced that they were counted worthy to suffer that which they did for Christs sake That Religion therefore which lockes from the people the wine in this Sacrament doth therein also as much as lies in it keep from them also that wine which is typed and shaddowed thereby euen the precious bloud of Iesus Christ the onely wine that can refresh and comfort the soule of an afflicted sinner which is enough to argue the same to be Antichristian if there were nothing else And the more Antichristian the more it maintaineth that the wine in this Sacrament is the very reall bloud of Christ What is this but to teach that the true bloud of Christ belongs not to them that if they wil be saued they must bee saued by some other meanes or onely by gazing vpon and adoring the painted bloud of some painted or carued Crucifix 4 This consecrated bread and wine must also by the precept of our Sauiour bee eaten and drunken thereby we are taught That those onely shal liue eternally by the vertue of Christs Body and Bloud which feed vpon the same as mens bodies feed vpon bread and wine For as bread and wine if they be onely looked vpon not taken and receiued into the stomacke can-feed nourish or refresh the body of man or preserue life in the same No more shall the Body bloud of Christ comfort and refresh the soule of a sinner or be a means of spirituall and euerlasting life vnto him except they bee receiued spiritually applied to the soule as bread and wine are to the body when they are eaten and drunken