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authority_n	church_n	elder_n	pastor_n	2,080	5	9.0862	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77514	Two treatises: I. The saints communion with Jesus Christ, sacramental, spiritual, and celestial; wherein ministers and Christian are excited to a conscientious administration, and participation of that, of late-time, in many places, too much neglected ordinance, the sacrament of the Lords Supper; wherein that great controversie of a free admission is debated. II. Acquaintance with God; the nature of it opened, the practice perswaded, encouraged, directed, cautioned. / As it was lately delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel there.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing B4735; Thomason E1547_1; ESTC R209457	66,672	237

a way as those who have most right unto it may not be disheartned from partaking in it Cast ye up cast ye up prepare the way take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people so runs the Proclamation Isai 57.14 Which let it so far take place with you as that you may not by any act of yours obstruct or so much as in you lieth to remedy it suffer to be obstructed the way to the Lords Table whereby any of his people should be hindred from having Sacramental communion with him Amongst which obstructions I know none at the present more obvious then that which I have pointed at of promiscuous and mixt communions the admitting of all sorts to this Sacrament Which however happily it be not so just a ground of stumbling to others as they may make it yet in it self it cannot be denied to be an abuse and profanation of that Ordinance So it was looked upon in the last age and that by such as were free from the imputation of since so called Puritanism * Si quem indignum esse palam constiterit is ad coenam â pastore minimè est admittendus quià sine Sacramenti id profanatione fieri non potest Nowelli Catech. in quarto pro pè ad finem Im pr. Anno 1570. If any be openly known to be unworthy the Pastor ought not to admit him to the Supper because it cannot be done without profane abuse of the Sacrament As that Reverend Dean of Pauls Dr. Nowel in his approved and then Authorized Catechism hath resolved it And it is no other doctrine then what the Church then held forth in her Rubrick before the Communion where she not onely allows but enjoyns her Ministers not to admit persons scandalous or malicious to the Lords Table Not suffering them to be partakers of the Lords Table c. Rubrick before the Communion Let not this Direction and Injunction then be slighted by any of you who account it your Honor to be called the Sons of that Mother But looking upon this not onely as your liberty but your duty see that with holy care and conscience you apply your selves to the discharge of it It is that which the Lord telleth his Prophet Jeremy being then in a distracted condition in regard of the present times and not knowing well how to demean himself in the execution of his office in the midst of so many discouragements as he then met with If thou take forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth Jer. 15.19 This would he have him do in his teaching to put a difference betwixt the good and the bad Preaching Gospel to the one and Law to the other confirming and comforting the former sharply reproving and menacing of the latter And so doing the Lord tells him he should be his mouth approve himself a true and faithful Minister of his And what is there said of that part of the Ministerial Office not unfitly may it be applied to this the dispensing of this Sacrament If herein you shall separate the precious from the vile put a difference betwixt those who as to Man are worthy and unworthy reaching forth this Ordinance to all and onely such as in the judgement of a well-regulated Charity may be looked upon as meet guests for that Table now shall ye be as Gods hand owned by him in this your Ministration Thus have I briefly presented my desires to both of you To which what answer I am like to receive at some hands I cannot but foresee and therefore give me leave to meet it with a short Replication True it is the Administration of this Ordinance and that in such a way it must be acknowledged to be the Ministers duty but how shall it in these times be discharged by him What shall every Pastor then assume and exercise a sole power and jurisdiction over his flock to admit and refuse as it pleaseth him To this I will not I dare not say Amen That which Prelacy hath disclaimed let not ordinary Pastors make challenge to What remedy then it will be said is to be found and used for this mischief of mixt communions To this I shall desire an answer may be received from that forecited Author which I presume may finde better acceptance from his hand Magist Quod ergo remedium huic malo inveniendum est atque adbibendum then mine In Churches wel-ordered and wel-managed I shall give it you in his own words as I finde them translated there was ordained and kept a certain Form and Order of Governance Audit In Ecclesiis benè institutis atque moratis certa ut Pag. 92. Matth. 18.15 16 17. Acts 14.23 15.4 6. d. 22.24.20 d. 17. f. 28. 1 Cor. 6.2.1 2. 12. d. 28. 14. c. 26. g. 40. 1 Tim. 5. c. 17. Tit. 1. b. 5. anteà dixi ratio atque ordo gubernationis instituebatur atque observabatur Deligebantur Seuiores id est Magistratus Ecclesiastici qui Disciplinam Ecclesiasticam tenerent atque colerent Ad hos authoritas animadversio atque castigatio censoria pertinebant 1 Cor. 5. a. 1.4.5 11. c. 16. d. 18 c. Hi adhibito etiam Pastore si quos esse cognoverant qui vel opinionibus falsis vel turbulentis erroribus vel anilibus superstitionibus vel vitâ vitiosâ flagitiosâqve magnam publicè offensionem Ecclesiae Dei adferrent quique sine coenae Dominicae profanatione accedere non possent cos ā Communione repellebant atque rejiciebant neque rursum admittebant donec poenitentiâ publicâ Ecclesia satisfecissent Nowelli Catech. ubi supra There were chosen Elders that is Ecclesiastical Magistrates to hold and keep the Discipline of the Church To these belonged the Authority looking to and Correction like Censors These calling to them also the Pastor if they knew any that either with false opinions or troublesome errors or vain superstitions or with corrupt and wicked life brought publickly any great offence to the Church of God and which might not come without profaning the Lords Supper did put back such from the Communion and rejected them and did not admit them again till they had with publick penance satisfied the Church This was the best and onely solution which that judicious and authorized Catechist in the last age was able to hold forth And truly for my part I must profess that seeing the late Reverend Assembly could not I do despair of finding out a better All the remaining scruple then will be what shall be done in those places where such assistants are not to be found In the resolving whereof I shall humbly crave your help onely taking the boldness to leave this motion with you That where a Juridical cannot be obtained you would rather choose to act in a Precarious and Pastoral way then to suffer so great and useful an Ordinance to be laid aside as of late times in too many places it hath