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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58941	Sacramentorum encomium: or The praise of the sacraments in a letter written in the year 1654 to the preacher then at Barham in the county of Kent, with-holding the holy sacraments from a great number of godly souls, unless they would subject themselves against laws and good conscience to a rigid Presbyterian government. Wherein the said government is plainly and undeniably proved to be (of all other) the most injurious to the magistrate, most oppressive to the subject, &c. Published by a member of the parish of Barham, for the satisfaction of all wel-affected subjects, and good Christians.	Member of the parish of Barnham.	1661 (1661)	Wing S223B; ESTC R219820	25,942	69

on the truth of his heavenly promise doubteth not but from creatures despicable in their own condition and substance to obtain grace of inestimable value or rather not from them but from him yet by them as by his appointed means and howsoever he by the secret wayes of his own incomprehensible mercy may be thought to save without Baptism this cleareth not the Church from guiltiness of blood if through her superfluous scrupulositie le ts and impediments of less regard should cause a grace of so great moment to be witheld wherein our merciless strictness may be our own harm although not theirs towards whom we shew it and we for the hardness of our hearts may perish albeit they through Gods unspeakable mercy may live God which did not afflict that innocent whose circumcision Moses had overlong deferred was about to have killed a Exod. 4.24 Moses himself for the injury which was done through so great neglect giving us thereby to understand that they whom Gods own mercy saveth without us are on our parts notwithstanding and as much as in us lyeth even destroyed when under unsufficient pretences we defraud them of such ordinary outward helps as we should exhibit Not that we hereby make Baptism a cause of grace but say that the grace wh ch is given with baptism doth so far forth depend on the outward Sacrament that God will have it embraced not only as a sign or token what we receive but also as an instrument or mean whereby we receive Grace And as concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper we say that he which hath said of the one Sacrament wash and be clean hath said concerning the other Eate and live Life being therefore proposed unto all men as their end they which by Baptism have laid their foundation and attained the first beginning of a new life have here their nourishment and food prescribed for the continuance of life in them Such as will live the life of God must eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of man because this is a part of that diet which if we want we cannot live whereas therefore in our infancy we are incorporated into Christ and by Baptisme receive the grace of his Spirit without any sence or feeling of the gift which God bestoweth in the Eucharist we so receive the gift of God that we know by grace what the grace is which God giveth us the decrees of our increase in holiness and vertue we see and can judge of them we understand that the strength of our life began in Christ is Christ that his flesh is meat and his blood is drink not by surmized imagination but truly even so-truly that through Faith we perceive in the signs of the Body and Blood Sacramentally presented the very taste of Eternal Life The grace of the Sacrament is here as the food which we eat and drink The Sacrament is a true and real participation of Christ who thereby imparteth himself even his whole intire person as a mystical head into every soul that receiveth him and every such receiver doth thereby incorporate or unite himself unto Christ as a Mystical member of him yea of them also whom he acknowledgeth to be his own And to whom the person of Christ is thus communicated to them he giveth by the same Sacrament his Holy Spirit to sanctifie them as it sanctifieth him which is their head and what merit force or vertue soever there is in his sacrificed body and bloud we freely fully and wholy have it by this Sacrament the effect whereof in us is a real transmutation of our Souls and Bodies from sin to righteousness from death and corruption to immortality and life and though the Sacrament it self be but a corruptible and earthly creature yet he by the strength of his glorious power will bring to pass that the Bread and Cup which he giveth us shall be truly the thing he promiseth This Sacrament keepeth Christians in a continual remembrance of that propitiatory sacrifice which Christ once for all offered by his death upon the Cross to reconcile us to God He was himself once really offered and as oft as this Sacrament is celebrated so oft is he spiritually offered by the faithfull This Sacrament confirmeth our Faith for God by it doth signifie and seal unto us from Heaven that according to the promise and new Covenant which he hath made in Christ he will truly receive into his grace and mercy all penitent believers who duly receive this holy Sacrament and that for the merit of the death and passion of Christ he will as verily forgive them all their sins as they are made partakers of this Sacrament It is also a pledg and Symbole of the most neer and effectual communion which Christians have with their Head from which communion there followeth to the faithfull many inestimable benefits as his taking by imputation all their sins and guiltiness upon him to satisfie Gods justice for them and he freely gives by imputation unto us all his righteousness in this life and all his right unto eternal life when this is ended and counteth all the good or ill that is done unto us as done to his own person there likewise floweth from Christ nature into our nature united unto him the lively spirit and breath of Grace which reneweth us unto a spiritual life and so sanctifieth our minds wills and affections that we dayly grow more and more conformable to the Image of Christ he also bestoweth upon us all saving graces necessary to attain eternal life as the sence of Gods love the assurance of our election with regeneration sanctification and grace to do good works This Sacrament also feeds the Souls of the faithfull in the assured hope of life everlasting and withal doth seal unto them the assurance of the injoyment of that life Manna Angels food fed the Israelites forty years in the wilderness but behold a better food is prepared for them even the body and blood of our most blessed Saviour the bread of life on which whosoever by a sincere and stedfast faith do feed it will nourish their souls for ever unto a blessed life without end in order to which it is an assured pledg of the spiritual resurrection of our souls from the death of sin here and of the corporal resurrection of our bodies at the last day of the first resurrection our Saviour hath said a John 6.57 He that eateth me even he shall live by me of the second He himself hath also said b 57. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life and I will raise him at the last day for this Sacrament signifieth and sealeth unto us that Christ died and rose again for us and that His flesh quickeneth and nourisheth unto eternal life and that therefore our bodies shall surely be then raised unto that life for seeing our Head is risen all the members of the body shall likewise surely rise

again for how can those bodies fed and nourished with the body and blood of the Lord of life but be raised up with him again at that day unto life it being given by Him for their eternal salvation It was neither Saint nor Angel but the Son of God himself who ordained this holy Mystery and is the chiefest memorial left by Him of our Redemption our Redemption which was the chiefest benefit that ever man needed from God or that God ever bestowed up on man and there fore every Christian should account this holy supper the chiefest and most joyful feast in this world and come unto it with praise and thanksgiving the sinner laying aside his sins must come to this feast the envious man his enmitie and come he that hath variety of secular imployments must lay aside his secular imployments and and come and converse with God He that is well grounded in grace must come because he is excellently disposed to so holy a feast but he that is but in the infancy of his piety had need to come that so he may grow in grace the strong must come least they become weak and the weak that they may become strong the sick must come to be cured the healthful to be preserved they that have leasure must come because they have no excuse they that have no leasure must come hither that by so excellent Religion they may sanctifie their business The penitent sinners must come that they may be justified and they that are justified that they may be justified still they that have fears and great reverence to these mysteries and think no preparation to be sufficient must receive that they may learn to receive the more worthily and they that have a less degree of reverence must come often to have it hightned Here are remedies for all sick and sorrowful sinners the very letter of the word of Christ giveth plain security that these mysteries do as nails fasten us unto his very Cross that by him we draw out as touching efficacy force and vertue even the blood of his gored side in the wounds of out Redeemer we there dip our tongues we are dyed red both within and without our hunger is satisfied and our thirst for ever quenched they are things wonderful which he feeleth great which he seeth and unheard of which he uttereth whose souls is possest of this Paschal Lamb and made joyful in the strength of this new wine this Bread hath in it more then the substance which our eyes behold this Cup hallowed with solemn benediction availeth to the endless life and welfare both of soul and body in that it serveth as well for a medicine to heal our infirmities and purge our sins as for a sacrifice of thanksgiving which touching it sanctifieth it enlightneth with belief it truly conformeth us unto the Image of Jesus Christ who by vertue of his divine benediction with hands and eyes lifted up to heaven first blessed and consecrated those chosen elements of bread wine made them for ever instruments of life for the endless good of all generations O how inexpressibly comfortable are the benefits devolved upon us hereby O how infinite are the joyes such as eye hath not seen nor eare heard nor can enter into the heart of man prepared for the worthy receivers to such belongs life life indeed life everlasting with those is the Tabernacle of God and God himself shall be their God and He will wipe away all tears from their eyes no more death no more sorrow no more crying no more pain shall trouble them He that is Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end will be their God and they shall be his Sons they shall inhabit the great City the holy Jerusalem enlightned with the glory of God and walled with a great and high wall founded upon twelve foundations garnished with all manner of precious stones and the names of the Lambs twelve Apostles the gates belonging to this City being no less in number then twelve and every one of them made of Pearl Rev. 21.21 and the pavement of it of pure Gold a City having no need of Sun or Moon to shine in it having the glory of God to light it and the law to be the light of it to this City all the Kings of the Earth shall bring honor and glory and all those who religiously hunger and thurst after the body and blood of this Lamb and worthily partake of it shall walk in the light of it And shall any hunger and thirst after this soul-saving heavenly banquet Shall some be set apart on purpose by an Almighty gracious and liberal inviter freely to deliver it unto them And are all these mentioned benefits and priviledges yea Heaven it self promised to them that hunger and thirst and partake of it and yet shall there be any who will not only wilfully neglect but also peremptorily deny to minister at this holy feast and thereby suffer the hunger and thirst of poor souls to remain unsatisfyed Shall any in like manner whom our most mercifull Saviour Jesus Christ hath commanded to Suffer little children to come unto him for to such belongs the Kingdom of Heaven be so wickedly hard-hearted so maliciously bent so without all natural compassion as to shut the door against those poor little infants deny them a little water Sacramentally to wash away their sins with keep back from them the sign and seal of Gods promise and as much as in them lieth put them out of the Covenant of Grace and thrust them into the wofull pit of everlasting Perdition Certainly if we had not seen such creatures with our eyes wee should hardly have believed our ears at any mens mentioning of them such there are amongst us and our children after us will declare the mighty work of division they have wrought in our days which they first prepared under colour of Religion to accomplish their own crooked ends thereby And these people do separate themselves from others desiring to be thought more holy then they These the Apostles long since foretold should come to deceive in the latter times they have thrust out pious and learned men out of their seats and exalted Dunces and themselves in the room of them they have caused Schismes and Heresies amongst the people which happen by reason of our sins through the just judgment of our God wherewith from on high he hath visited us by permitting those false lights to shine in these times of darkness to lead our feet out of the way of peace and deny us the Holy Sacraments which were ordeined for the remission of our sins such strange lights there are now and what makes them such Semblably it is to be feared ignorant obstinacy and self-seeking ends for who can imagine it to be other then ignorant obstinacy in these crabbed Doctors who alledge no other then unsatisfactory reasons for their omission of holy and necessary duties as because forsooth the

our own vileness makes us afraid at heart that we our selves are the greatest of sinners such as when we consider our own deservings we cannot but tremble with terror and amazement at the just and dreadful punishment due unto us for sin and hereby have learned to pity others as fellow sinners not think our selves too good to accompany them in civil or religious duties Wee do withgreif and shameconfess that we have erred willingly and strayed willingly from the wayes of our Almighty and most merciful Father and that more like untamed Buls then lost and wandring sheep we have followed too much even altogether the absurd devices and brutish desires of our own hearts we have been offended against nay been offended at his holy most holy laws we have left undone not lone at all those things which we ought to have done but insteed thereof done those things which we should not have done insomuch as there is no health no hope of health in us miserable most miserable and the greatest of sinners all which when we seriously lay to our guilty consciences how can we possibly preferr our own wicked and abominable selves whom we certainly know to be thus polluted and defiled before others whose hearts we are no way so able to search and dive into as we may into our own And being in so great a measure sinful from the crown of our heads to the soles of our feet all over contaminated and infected in so much as no part of us remaineth sound we know no certain cure for our sick and wounded souls laden with so many and so grevious sins but to cast our selves into the arms of our most blessed Redeemer and by a lively faith though we cannot as Saints yet lay claim unto him as sinners as wounded and penitent sinners whom he came to save and his coming being to save such he will certainly afford the seals of his Grace to such and having appointed the Ministers of his Gospel to deliver them to such we look upon you Mr. Barton if you be a Minister of Jesus Christ as bound in duty having thrust your self upon us and thereby kept off those who might otherwise have done it to perform your office according to the dispensation of God Col. 1.25 which is given to his Ministers to us ward to fulfil the word of God And we also say to you as the Apostle commands the Church of God to say to Archippus Col. 4.17 Take heed to the Ministry that thou hast received in the Lord that thou fulful it a part whereof is the Communication of the Sacraments of the Lord Jesus Christ which we wish we had no cause to say so to our greif and your own shame you have hitherto omitted And therefore give us leave to tell you that the Ministers total omission of administring the Sacraments to the generality of the people under his charge because there may perhaps some wicked persons not known to be scandalous creep in amongst the Godly is as an erroneous so an upstart way never used in the Church from the time of the first planting of it till of latter dayes the wild Boar of the forest hath rushed into Christs vineyard to the danger of the rooting out of the hearts of men the zeal to the frequent practise of applying the seals of Grace to their souls and insteed thereof to the planting of a peculiar and superstitious holiness in the Ordinances thereby quite to invert the charitable use of them and to bereave them of the great Legacy which the Saviour of the world hath left to his people And we do wonder there can be any person so obstinate and selfish as thereby to have the eyes of his understanding so blinded to force himself to believe that an upstart unused way should be the right way when God himself hath said Ask for the old way and with all told us that it is the good way given us a charge that we should walk in that way with a promise that in so doing we should find rest to our souls He hath also said by his Scripture for our instruction Call to remembrance the dayes of old ask thy Fathers and they will shew thee ask thy Elders and they will tell thee And now can any man who is not utterly void of reason think that He for whom it is impossible to lie hath promised rest unto our souls by our walking in the old way and hath promised to guide his Church all wayes in the right way should notwithstanding break his word and suffer it to wander out of the way and that for above 16 hundred years together even till these times these very latter and perrillous times in which the spirit speaketh evidently that there should come divers Hypocrites men having their consciences seared with a hot iron who should depart from the faith giving heed to the spirit of error 1 Tim. 4.1 2. Tim. 3.1 Jude 19. And shall that spirit of error have so much power as contrary to Gods direction to intice us into new wayes by perswading us to imbrace novel opinions or unwarrantable practices in Religion schismes or heresies shall any under any plausible pretence whatsoever go about to make us believe that the Sacraments are not necessary to Salvation or that the Celebration of them doth not belong to the Ministerial Office we shall boldly aver such to be of Yesterday and not to be yet come to their understanding And we shall not be ashamed to say they are altogether out of the old right way and have made to themselves crooked pathes wherein they grope as blind men without eyes and stumble at noon-day as in the twi-light their feet treading the pavements of desolation and destruction run to evil far off from the way of peace and equity which it should seem they never would be enduced to follow which is the reason why judgment is so far from them and justice comes not neer them And we do here for our selves profess that if an Angel should come from heaven and preach to us any doctrine in order to the putting us out of the right way we would neither follow nor believe him For as it hath been hitherto so shall it be ever far from us of the Parish of Barham in these licentious times in which some would have the golden reines of discipline and government let loose in the Church in so much that single Ministers and private persons might take up what forme of divine worship they pleased to follow so dangerous an example far be it from us to be led by wandring stars new but false lights bold but blind guides far be it from us to make small or no account of the pretious Ordinances of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by neglecting the holy Sacrament of Baptism and by counting the blood of the Testament as an unholy thing far be it from us to exchange the truth which we have received for falshood which