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A plain discourse shewing how we are to walk after the Lord's Supper necessary for every communicant. From I Col. 10. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing. Being the substance of several sermons preached to a congregation in Hatton-Garden. By John Horsman, an unworthy servant of Jesus Christ.
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Horsman, John, fl. 1698.
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with God God a fresh making over himself and his all to the Believer giving him a fresh sense and seal of his love and the pardon of his Sins when Christ with all his Benefits and Purchases and Merit Christ in all his Offices Christ in all his Grace and fulness hath been afresh made over to him His Blood in all the virtue and efficacy of it sealed and applyed to the Believers The new Testament with all its Promises and Priviledges and Benefits thereof this is all ratified and confirmed in the Blood of Christ to the Believer and assured to him in this Supper-Ordinance They who have been entertained at this Gospel Feast who have been feeding upon the Provision of God's Grace and have received fresh Tokens and Pledges of his Love for such to walk dejectedly and Mournfully reflects great dishonour and highly affronts the Master of the Feast and greatly disparageth the Matter of it too it is a great undervaluing of Christ and his Blood as if the guilt or filth of thy sin did exceed the Merit of his Blood or was too great for his Blood to remove and cleanse After this Ordinance we are to walk more joyfully and chearfully rejoycing in the Lord and joying in the God of our Salvation We should go home to our Houses and Habitations Rejoycing and go on our way through this Pilgrimage with Joy as the Eunuch when Baptised did it is said He went on his way rejoycing Acts 8.39 So should we after we have been at this Supper go on our way through this World Rejoycing saying to our Souls as David did to his Return to thy rest O my Soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee 12. With more earnest Breathings and Longings of Soul after fresh Communion with the Lord Jesus Christ It is not a little of the World that will satisfy a Covetous Man nor a little Pleasure that will satisfy a Carnal Voluptuous Mind Nor a little Honour and Preferment that will satisfy an Ambitious Aspiring Mind Nor is it a little of Christ that will satisfy a Gracious Renewed Heart See how David thirsted after God Psal 63.1 2. O God thou art my God early will I seek thee my Soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth for thee in a dry land where no water is to see thy power and thy glory as I have seen thee in the Sanctuary David had tasted of the Sweet of Enjoyment and Communion with God and this sets his Soul a longing and thirsting and breathing after more of God Psal 42.1 2. As the Hart panteth after the Water-brooks so panteth my Soul after God my Soul thirsteth for the living God when shall I come and appear before thee The like breathings of soul we find after Communion with God in Psal 84.1 10. How amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord of Hosts my Soul longeth yea even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh cryeth out for the living God For a day in thy Courts is better than a thousand I had rather be a door-keeper in the House of my God than to dwell in the Tents of Wickedness Such breathings and longings of Soul after Communion with Christ should be kept up and maintained in our Souls after every time we partake of this blessed Ordinance Have we this day sat down under the shadow of Christ and hath his fruit been sweet and pleasant to our taste Have we had any taste of the Grace and Fullness of Christ at his Table Have our Souls been filled as with marrow and fatness delighted and solaced with Communion with Christ Have we met this day with any fresh assurances of the love of God in Christ to our Souls of the pardon of our sins in the precious blood of Christ Hath there been any fresh life and vigour and grace communicated from Christ our everlasting head to our Souls this day Have we been fed with hidden Manna with the Bread and Water of Life Have we seen any thing of the Power and Glory of Christ at his own Table O then how should we be breathing and longing after the returns of such seasons and opportunities as these are O when will this Supper return When shall I come and appear before thee O that I might still be feasting my Soul upon these dainties Thus we should be walking with more earnest breathings of Soul after fresh Communion with Christ not only in this Ordinance but in all other Ordinances of Divine Worship and not only so but long to be for ever with him after compleat enjoyment of him in Heaven above If it be so sweet to enjoy him in Ordinances here O what will it be nay How far sweeter will it be to enjoy him in Heaven where we shall enjoy him freely fully familiarly and eternally without any interruption or intermission Thus we have seen how we are to walk after this Supper Ordinance and that we may thus walk it is necessary that we be strengthned with all might according to the glorious power of God The Devil to be sure will be opposing with all his might such a walk as this and our own wicked base deceitful treacherous hearts will be too ready to side and comply with him Therefore that such a walk may be kept up and maintained that we may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing it is necessary that we be strengthned with all might according to his glorious power 1 Col. 11. Let us therefore be often dispatching a cry to Heaven for that strength and assistance whereby we may be enabled to maintain such a walk and daily depend upon Christ for strength in whom we have not only Righteousness but strength too That through daily Communications of Grace and Strength from him we may be enabled so to live and act and walk whilst we are here that we may finish our Course with joy and at last an entrance yea an abundant entrance an entrance with joy and triumph may be administred to us into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ that from his Kingdom of Grace we may be received into his Kingdom of Glory and from the provisions of Grace we may be taken to the provisions of Glory and sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob at an Eternal Feast eat and drink at Christ's Table in Christ's Kingdom Now whoso is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the Loving-kindness of the Lord They shall go from strength to strength their Souls shall be fat and flourishing and made to encrease with the encreases of God FINIS
us Others passed by us and took no notice of us but he looked upon us and behold it was a time of Love with us He threw his Skirt over us and covered our Nakedness and poured Water upon us to wash away our filthiness He Swear unto us and entred into Covenant with us to be ours and we to be his he to be our God and we to be his Peculiar People He hath given Himself his Son his spirit to us Himself to be our God and Portion Jer. 31.31 32 33. But this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the House of Israel after those days saith the Lord I will put my Law into their hearts and write it in their inward parts and will be their God and they shall be my People And what Tongue can express What Pen can describe the happiness of that People who have God to be their God David in the 144 Psalm v. 15. says Happy are the People whose God is the Lord. He doth not say how happy for it is beyond express But this we may truly say that all our happiness and felicity and comfort lies in this in having God to be our God If there be no want to them that fear God I am sure there can be none to them that enjoy God who is a Soul-comforting Soul-refreshing Soul-satisfying Object It matters not what our Circumstances and Conditions are here in this World be they never so low and inconsiderable if we have but God for our God we are happy Happy is that People whose God is the Lord. He hath given us not only himself but his Son too John 3.16 God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Given him for us To obey and suffer to bleed and dye and suffer and satisfy for us to rescue and redeem us from those evils and miseries under which we lay viz. the Wrath of God the Curse of the Law by laying down his life for us a life more precious than the lives of all the Angels in Heaven or Men upon Earth Not only given him for us but given him to us to be believed in and rested upon for Life and Salvation to dwell in us and be united to us to be made of God Wisdom and Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption to be to us and do for us all that God hath appointed and designed him to be Again he hath not only given us himself and Son but his Spirit also to us To open our Eyes to enlighten our Minds to incline our Wills to change our Hearts to Turn and Convert us to himself To convince of Sin to lead to Christ to be the guid of our ways to be the death of our sins to quicken and enliven and strengthen our Graces To witness with our spirits that we are the Children of God To comfort us in all our Troubles to succour us in all our Temptations to resolve us in all our Doubts to help us against all our Infirmities To conduct us safe through this evil World and to seal us up to the day of Redemption But yet farther he gives us liberty to wait upon him in the solemn Dutys of his Worship He gives us Praying seasons and Hearing seasons and Communicating seasons for the carrying on begun Grace in our Souls Thus richly doth he furnish our Table in this howling Desart and bountifully provides for us in a strange Land We have not only Food for our Bodies but Food for our Souls not only the Bread that perisheth but that which endures to Everlasting Life The Lamb is slain and behold all things are ready The Marriage Supper is prepared and a welcome ready for all that come to it This is Christ's language to all his guests O friends drink ye eat â—e drink and eat abundantly O beloved And what do you think is the matter of this Feast Why it is Christ with all his saving Benefits even Peace and Pardon and Comfort This is the Gospel Feast unto which poor Sinners are invited The Lord Jesus Christ is both the master and the matter of this Feast This is that Bread which came down from Heaven which is othergates Food than that Manna was which fell in the Wilderness of which it is said Our Fathers did eat and they are dead but whosoever eateth of this Bread lives for ever John 6.48 49 50. This is the Lamb that was slain from the Foundations of the World whose Flesh is Meat indeed and whose Blood is Drink indeed Thus bountifully hath God provided for our Souls we have not only the sincere Milk of the Word that we may grow thereby but more substantial Food even that sealing strengthening confirming Ordinance of the Lords Supper where Christ and all his Benefits are represented sealed and applied to Belivers who was not only offered up upon the Cross for the Satisfaction of Divine Justice and the expiation of our Sins but offered upon the Table for the satisfying our guilty minds and for the Food and Nourishment of our Souls Here it is that we may take a view of Christ's dying love Here we see him Bruised and Broken and Bleeding for our sakes and for our Sins Here we may see him broken and bruised by his Father in the day of his great Wrath when his Body was torn his Soul in a dreadful Agony his side pierced his Blood shed these are in a most lively manner represented by the breakof the Bread and pouring out of the Wine Here is a Wounded Broken Bleeding Jesus represented to us The Elements in this Sacrament signifie and set forth the unconceivable Sufferings of our blessed Lord both in his â—ody and in his Soul The Bread signifies the Sufferings of his Body And the Wine which is a representation of his Blood the Agonvs of his Soul because the Spirits whereby the Soul acts are in the Blood All the Sacraments that ever were instituted since Adams fall to this very day both ordinary and extraordinary both Old Testament and New Testament Sacraments they all of them principally represent and point at Jesus and him Crucified Adams Sacrifices were Types of Christ the true Sacrifice Circumcision a pledge of our Hearts Circumcision thro' Christs Blood Col. 2.11 In whom also ye are Circumcised with the Circumcision made without hands in putting off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh by the Circumcision of Christ The Passover was a token and Type of Christ our Passover Sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5.7 Baptism this doth point at the Death of Christ we are said by Baptism to be Baptised into Christ and into his Death Rom. 6.3 4 5. And the Lords Supper is a most lively representation of the Death of Christ 1 Cor. 11.26 As often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye shew the Lords death till he come This is a standing memorial and a lasting monument of our blessed Lords love in bleeding