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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30904	Truth cleared of calumnies wherein a book intituled, A dialogue betwixt a Quaker and a stable Christian (printed at Aberdeen, and upon good ground judged to be writ by William Mitchell ...) is examined, and the disingenuity of the author, in his representing the Quakers is discovered : here is also their case truly stated, cleared, demonstrated, and the objections of their opposers answered according to truth, Scripture, and right reason / by Robert Barclay.	Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.	1670 (1670)	Wing B738; ESTC R22049	63,242	72

singlenes of heart so that this was a daily eating from house to house and not at all such an eating as years is which you have but once or tvvice or thrice in a year or at such set tyms as you appoint to your selves whereas theirs was an eating from house to house wherein they received food sufficient to their bodily nourishment your eating is not so You vvil not have your Sacramental Bread and Wine so called to be used in private Houses or Familiies and your eating is rather a mock-eating vvherein you doe not eat that which is sufficient to the Bodily nourishment as these did Act. 2. 42. 46. every one of you taking a little bread about the quantity of a Beane vvherein you have no example from the Saints but rather from the Papists vvho have their vvafers Againe this eating mentioned Acts. 2. ver 42. 46. is conjoined with this that they sold their possessions and had all things in com●on and so they did eat together daily in common which is not like your eating Now if you would make their example and and practise your Rule why doe y●e not sell your possessions as th●y did and have things in com●on also why doe yee not abstaine from eating blood and things strangled as they did and why doe yee not wish one anothers feet which they were as solemnly commanded to doe as to take and eat c Ioh. 13. 14. 15. If you say these things were but to continue for a time what ground have yee to affirme that these were not alwayes to continue and those of Water-Baptisme and breaking bread were to be alwayes continued For a Fourth Reason thou sayest Paul recommended the practise of this to the Church of Corinth Cor. 11. 23. Answ. that hee recommended it unto them by way of command wee deny for hee delivered unto them no command to practise it but that which hee delivered unto them was the Relation of the matter of fact as what the Lord did in the night wherein hee vvas betrayed Thou sayest The Apostle doth not only here relate the matter of fact but like wise warrants the frequent use of this ordinance it is one thing to warrant the use of it and farre another to command the use of it wee doe not deny but the use of it vvas lavvfull and vvarrantable at that tyme but vvee say it vvas not commanded unto them but left or permitted to them as these vvords import as often as yee eat c. and againe let a man examine himselfe and so let him eat the vvords imply no command but only that they vvere in the use or practise of it and being therein hee gives them direction hovv they might use it so as not to receive hurt there by Now that the Corinthians were weak in many things and did many things by permission is clear by the whole straine of that Epistle to them For a Fifth Reason thou sayest thou readest not in Scripture where Christ and his Apostles did abolish it Answ if it were so that then there was no absolute need for the very institution intimats the abolishing thereof at Christ his coming as to any necessity by way of command though afterwards it might have beene used by permission being gradually to passe away as did other things for Circumcision was abolished by the coming of Christ yet it was used after his coming together with divers other Ievvish coremonies But as concerning the abolishing or ending of it see 1. Cor. 10. 15. 16. 17. I speake as unto vvise men judge yee vvhat I say the cup of blessing vvhich vvee blesse is it not the communion of the blood of Christ the bread vvhich vvee breake is it not the communion of the body of Christ And then hee proceeds to shew what that bread was for saith hee vvee being many are one bread Now what is that one bread is it the outvvard or is it the invvard and spiritual if it be the outward then there is no inward and Spirituall bread Or if it be the inward and Spirituall which is that one bread then that outward bread as being but a figure is ceased from being of use as to any necessity and this hee spoke unto the wise who saw beyond the shaddovv and figure unto the substance the end of it which was that heavenly bread and refreshment which Christ himselfe giveth unto these souls to feed upon who know the mistery of his indwelling in them which bread is indeed his body So that now the bread being one which is the body of Christ the outward bread hath no place in the supper of the Lord for then there should be not one bread but tvvo for the outward bread and the inward are tvvo and not one bread and if any say the outward bread though it be not properly the body of Christ and thing signified yet it may be said to be one vvith it because of that agreement betwixt the signe and the thing signified I ansvver that is not sufficient vvhy the outvvard bread should be called the one bread or one vvith the thing signified othervvise by the same evasion one might plead for the continuance of all the Sacrifices and offerings of Ra●●s and Bulls and Goats and say they are one vvith that one offering of Christ mentioned Hebr. 10. 14. becaus they signified that one offering Now were not this an abominable vvresting of the Apostles words to say all these outvvard offerings vvere the one offering becaus they did signify it For indeed hee does contradistinguish them from this one offering that becaus of its being come hee inferrs they were to passe away And so it is as plaine that the Apostle contradistinguished betwixt that one bread and the outward bread together with the other Figures and shadowes according to which writing to the Colossians he saith Coloss. 2. 16. 17. let no man condemne you in meat or drink or holy day or New moone or Sabbath days which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ. And hee bids them seeke the things above and not the things which the Apostle said did perish in the using saying touch not ta●t not handle not Coloss. 2. 10. 21. 22. Compared with Coloss. 3. 1. 2. which hee spoke becaus they began to lay too great a weight upon these things and to hold them up as perpetuall which we● to passe away for a Sixth Reason thou sayest the Apostles and Primitive Christians who did partake of the Spirit in a large measure did use it Ans. that they used it for some tyme is granted but that they used it as of necessity or command is denyed nor did they use it for themselves but for the sake of the weake who could not be suddenly weaned from it Thy Seventh Reason is that it is the mind and will of God that this ordinance should be continued in his Church until the second coming of Christ to judgement By which Second coming thou and you understand