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A61692	A short discovery of certain truths of God according as they are revealed through the manifestation of the eternal light of the Son of righteousnesse, which are, a reply against two things in an epistle, and, an answer to certain queries contained in a book, intituled Christian queries, to quaking Christians, subscribed by one J.B. : also queries propounded, to be answered by the authour of the same book, or any other / by John Story.	Story, John, d. 1681.	1664 (1664)	Wing S5753; ESTC R4917	25,813	34

perfecting of the Saints Eph. 4. 12. But as I have already said the Saints which die in the faith shall be saved though they be far short of that excellent state of perfect men in Christ who are witnesses of his fulnesse and stature For some of Gods people die or put off this earthly tabernacle soon after their conversion while they are but even young in the faith and children even babes in the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ yet through faith they are heirs of the promise and by the birth immortal they have a true title to the Kingdome of God though such who are weak in the faith may be so assaulted many times with doubts false fears and temptations of the evil one and in their departure even so strongly beset as the perfect man in Christ is not because all his spiritual enemies are conquered and put in subjection so that he is in rest being perfectly assured when the earthly house of this tabernacle shall be dissolved he hath a house not made with hands 2 Cor. 5. 1. First those Scriptures which exhort to perfection doubtlesse intends perfection it self in the heighth of it as well as in the degrees though the Saints which attains it attain it by degrees as by growing from one degree of grace and strength in Christ unto another as the Psalmist saith They go from strength to strength until every one appears before God in Sion Psal 84. 7. And the Apostle said When he was a child he spake as a child understood as a child and thought as a child but when he became a man he put away childish things 1 Cor. 13. 11. Secondly there is a perfection of sincerity and he that through the faith and power of our Lord Jesus attains this perfection of sincerity ceaseth from all sin and he that in this sincerity or any degree of it believes and walks in obedience to the Gospel is justified through the righteousnesse of our Lord Jesus of which he is an heir through faith 5. Query Whether Jesus Christ did not institute and appoint certain ordinances under the Gospel for his Churches to observe and keep until his coming 1. Did he not institute that ordinance of his Supper and enjoyn his disciples to observe it in remembrance of him Luke 22. 19 20. And 2. is it not recorded of the Primitive Church how they continued this ordinance Acts 2. 46. 3. Why doth the Apostle Paul commend the practice of it to the Church of Corinth and tells them whence he had it for saith he I have received of the Lord that which I delivered unto you and so repeats the manner how it was first instituted 1 Cor. 11. 23. 26. or 4. are these ordinances ce●sed and now out of date if so pray tell us when they first expired hath not himself told us that they should last untill his coming or is he already come and we knew it not if he be it must be onely by his spiritual presence and so he was with the Primitive Church and that in a greater measure then now adayes yet did they continue in all the ordinances of the Gospel Or 5. may we not rather understand his coming to be meant of his second coming spoken of by the Angel at his ascention when he shall come in like manner as he was seen to goe into heaven Acts 1. 10 11. Answ The matter in question is a thing about which there hath been more idolatry and evil practized by the false Christians than any other thing partaining to Christian Religion since the dark and long night of Apostacy that hath overshadowed Christendome which Apostacy was beginning to come in even in the Apostles dayes Oh! when I consider the bloud of Christians which hath been shed about this very thing it doth afflict my very heart and cause my soul to cry alas alas that ever Christians should be so far deluded misled as to shed the bloud one of another about the outward practice of Christianity which are but in comparison to the more weighty matters as the very outward Courts or Suburbs of Christian Religion Christ did institute the breaking of Bread as it is written when our Saviour with his disciples was eating the Passeover a Feast of the Jews pertaining to the ministration of the Law in which was many shadows of good things to come And as they were eating this Passover according to the Law he said unto his Disciples With desire have I desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer for I say unto you I will no more eat thereof till it be fulfilled in the Kingdome of God Luk. 22. 15 16. and as they were eating he took bread and gave thanks and break it and gave it to them saying This is my body which is given for you this doe in remembrance of me likewise he took the Cup after Supper saying This Cup is the new Testament in my bloud which is shed for you Mark 14. 20. Luke 22. 19 20. and by this sign his death who is our Passover was signified or shewed and not onely by the Bread and the Cup but by the Lamb without blemish of which a bone was not to be broken Exod. 12. 46. in which practice they continued unto his coming even so to remember him when they break the Bread and drank the Cup as that thereby they shewed forth his death till he came not eating and drinking damnation unto themselves as those who did and doth break the Bread and drink the Cup unworthily who eats to the lust and drinks to the lust even feeding themselves without fear whose table is not the table of the Lord but the table of Devils at which they are so far from discerning the Lords body and fulnesse which fills all in all that they neither break that Bread in remembrance of him nor to him but even to the lust by which he was crucified and slain but the Disciples who practized this outward sign by which his death was shewn were witnesses of his resurrection and coming again not onely unto but spiritually to dwell in them according to his promise where he saith I will not leave you comfortlesse I will come unto you John 14. 18. in which he eat with them and they with him as he said I will not henceforth drink of the fruit of the Vine untill that day I shall drink it new with you in my fathers Kingdome Mat. 26. 29. and I say unro you I will no more eat thereof untill it be fulfilled in the Kingdome of God but the inward enjoyment of the substance of this outward sign by which was signified the death or sacrifice of Christ the immaculate Lamb of God who is our spiritual Passover that is sacrificed for us is a mystery which by the vulturous eye was never seen as it is fulfilled to the true Disciples in Christ spiritual Kingdome in which our Saviour sups with them and they with him and is no other then

that spiritual Feast which is kept amongst the children of God for whom Christ their Passover is sacrificed and by his power they purge out the old leaven and keep this spiritual Feast not with the old leaven neither with the leaven of malice but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth 2 Cor. 5. 7. 8. for the bread of God which comes down from Heaven is that by which they keep this spiritual feast and the flesh and bloud of Christ is this bread which the holy people break and spiritually feed upon and the incomes of his love is that spirituall wine by which he doth wonderfully refresh their souls through which they come to grow into the endlesse life and in which they more abundantly partake of the everlasting consolation that is in Christ Jesus in which they spiritually eat and drink with him and he with them who are his lillies in his heavenly Kingdome And this is a small hint of that spiritual Passeover or feast which was and is kept by the Saints in this glorious Gospel-day through which the night is expelling and the shadowes vanishing away Glory glory be unto the Lord our God for ever But to return this practice of breaking of bread together was continued by the Apostles in the Churches as I. B. hath already instanced Acts 2. 46. And they brake bread from house to house and ate their meat with singleness of heart as is the practice of true Christians at this day and in which they ought to continue to the end that whether they eat they may eat unto the Lord or whether they drink they may do it unto him not making an idol of the creature or any Christian practice be it never so good in it self but may both eye and discern the Lord in all their practices and duties which was that good end for which the Apostle delivered unto the Church of Corinth the thing in question practised by Christ and his Apostles at the Passeover which many did soon abuse if not idolize even in his time for which he often reproved them 1 Cor. 10. 14. 1 Cor. 11. 20. where he saith When ye come together this is not to eat the Lords Supper for in eating every one takes before other his own supper and one is hungry and another drunken and tells them vers 25 26. As often as they break the bread and drink the cup they should do it in remembrance saying they that eat and drink unworthily eat and drink damnation to themselves not discerning the Lords body vers 29. Oh that all drunkards and gluttoners ignorant persons who make an idol of the creature in breaking the bread and drinking the cup unworthily Oh that they would seriously consider and lay these things to heart that they may not henceforth any more break the bread and drink the cup unworthily in the sinfull lust of the flesh the doing of which brings them to be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord in that they eat to and feed the same lusts of the world as was in them which slew him and none can be partakers of the table of the Lord while they thus feed at the table of Devils 1 Cor. 10. 21. But it may be the enemy will tell them it is no such thing for they neither are nor drank that day before they break that bread and drink that cup and call to natural memory with trembling and fear before they practice the thing before mentioned that Christs body was broken for them and his bloud shed for them the which I say all this thou maist do and yet be an idolatrous and unworthy eater in an unholy fear adoring the outward bread and the cup beyond what is meet even as there are too many that look upon it to be more then a sign and worship it as the thing signified and so in ignorance worship the bread and the cup as a God at sometime and at other times using it without that holy fear and remembrance in which Christs body is discerned and the heavenly virtues and fulnesse thereof enjoyed which fills all things and is that glorious and everlasting substance which lives and remains when all created excellencies come to an end and shadows are past away and is that eternal fountain which fills with spiritual grace and satisfaction all that in sincerity love him for ever and for evermore 6. Query Whether Christians are not bound to the performance of such religious duties as were practised by the people of God under the law and not abrogated by the Gospel 1. Whether Christians ought not to pray morning and evening as David very frequently did evening and morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud and he shall hear my voice Psa 55. 17. Or 2. Is it not lawfull for Christians to appoint and set apart a convenient time and season for the performance of religious exercises as did Daniel who not withstanding the Kings command thought himself obliged not to omit his duty once but prayed three times a day Dan. 6. 10 13. Or 3. Are we only to pray when our own spirits move us and not at the motion of Gods Spirit which bids us to pray continually or te be always in a frame and frequent in the duty of prayer 1 Thes 5. 17. Or 4. Whether it be not a duty incumbent upon all Christians to exercise family duties as the people of God in former times did whether parents ought not to instruct their children masters their servants for which God so much commended Abraham because he would command his children his houshold after him Gen. 18. 17 18 19. 5. Whether it be the duty of all Christians frequently to read over confer about the holy Scriptures both in their families with others as the Lord commanded the children of Israel thou shalt teath them diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou lyest down Deut. 6. 7. Nay 6. Whether is it not necessary for all Christians to beg Gods blessing with and return him thanks for every mercy they receive according to the practice of our blessee Saviour who when he fed so many thousands would first look up to heaven for a blessing upon what they enjoyed on earth Mat. 6. 41. And after his Resurrection he practised the same thing amongst his disciples Luke 24. 30. Whose blessed example the Apostle followed taking bread and giving thanks in the presence of them all Acts 27. 35. further recommending it to the practice of others that in every thing they would give thanks as the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning them 1 Thess 5. 18. Answ Christians are bound to the practice of many religious duties which was practised by the people of God under the Law for though the cerimonies types and shadws of the Law or first Covenant are abolished by the Gospel yet the weighty matters are