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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

unwarrantable mixtures Sacramentall elements not to be changed or adulteruted We know what is said of the Word Revel 22.18 If any man shall adde unto these things God shall adde unto him the plagues written in this booke And truly of no lesse dangerous consequence is it to adde to the Sacraments whether to the number of them or to the substance of them or to the significant Ceremonies about them Herein let Christians have an eye to the first patterne and cleave as close to that as may be without either Addition or Subtraction both which Papists are eminently guilty of in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper of the one in taking away the Cup from the people and so giving them but a halfe Sacrament of the other in mingling water with their wine which whatever shew of wisdome it may carry with it as Paul saith those legall observances kept alive by some in his time did Col. 2.23 yet it is no other but a peice of that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Will-worship which God will never owne or approve There is a first Observation Sacramentall wine the same before and after Consecration Obs 2. The fruit of the Vine Such was this Sacramentall Cup before Consecration and such it was after so our Saviour here expresly calleth it That Cup which in the verses fore-going he had blessed in this verse he calleth the fruit of the vine Where then is that Transubstantiation which they of the Church of Rome dreame of who tell us that the very substance of the Elements is changed by the words of Consecration so as they remaine no longer Bread and Wine but the Body and Bloud of Christ under those formes and appearances now surely this was a mystery which our Saviour took no notice of which if he had he would not still have called the Sacramentall Cup as here he doth after Consecration as if it were purposely to prevent all misconceivings about his former figurative expressions the fruit of the vine Obs 3. Againe this Sacramentall Cup our Saviour himselfe here drinketh of Christs communion with his Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost Hom. in Mat. 26.28 An argument against Transubstantiation and Consubstantiation Manifestum argumentum contra Transubstantiatores Consubstantiatores Parae ad loc so much is here plainly intimated and implied I will not drinke hence-forth so then he had drunke of it at that time communicating with his Apostles in eating of the same Bread and drinking of the same Cup with them which Chrysostome writing upon the former verse observes and if so here is then another stone as Paraeus observes to throw at the forehead of Romes Goliah their doctrine of Transubstantiation as also the Lutherans doctrine of Consubstantiation both which are strucke dead with this one blow If Christ himselfe did eate of the Sacramentall Bread and drinke of that Sacramentall Cup with his Apostles then certainly it was not for substance his owne Body and Bloud What shall we imagine him to feed upon himselfe to eate his owne flesh to drinke his owne bloud Of all Arguments taken up and made use of against these two dangerous errours I know none more strongly concluding and clearly convincing then this which let it therefore be laid up carefully and remembred for the establishing of our hearts in the truth of God against them Q. Why Christ communicated with his Apostles in the Supper But it may be demanded wherefore did our blessed Saviour thus communicate with his Apostles Why did he eate of that Sacramentall Bread Why did he drinke of that Sacramentall Cup Had he any need of either A. Not so being himselfe the Substance he had no need of those shadowes being himselfe the thing signified he had no need of those signes Neither could he expect any benefit to himselfe from this Ordinance yet he participateth in it even as before he had submitted himselfe to the Sacrament of Baptisme to be baptised by John not that he had any need of it being the immaculate Lamb of God free from all defilement of sinne hee needed no washing or expected any benefit by it but that hee might fulfill all righteousnesse So he tels the Baptist Mat. 3.15 yeelding this as a reason of his submission to that Ordinance Thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousnesse To this end he came into the world Christ fulfilled the righteousnesse both of the Law and Gospel and this he did he fulfilled all righteousnesse the righteousnesse of the Law and thereupon it was that he submitted himselfe to these legall Ordinances the two Sacraments of the Old Testament Circumcision and the Passeover And in like manner he was to fulfill all the righteousnesse of the Gospel and thereupon he submitted to these Gospel-Ordinances the Sacraments of the New Testament Baptisme and the Supper which he did not for his owne benefit but ours Thus was he Baptized that he might confirme Johns Baptisme and sanctifie ours And thus did he partake with his Apostles in this Sacrament of the Supper that he might commend it to them and us teaching us as by his Doctrine so by this his example In the generall Christians not to slight Ordinances not to slight Ordinances not to neglect much lesse contemn them What was the Lord Christ himselfe thus made under Ordinances as under Legall so under Gospel-Ordinances and shall any that call themselves Christians set themselves above them Shall he that was the Institutor and appointer of Gospel-Ordinances as being the Lord of them submit himselfe to them and shall any who call themselves his Servants advance themselves above them trampling upon them by a meane and low estimation as if they were empty and worthlesse dispensations as to them as some of late times have not spared to call them To all such let me speake in the words of our Saviour Mat. 10.25 It is enough for the Disciple that hee be as his master and the servant as his Lord Not above him far bee this Luciferian pride this worst of prides such is spirituall pride from every of us Farre be it from us upon this or any other ground Among other not the Sacrament of the Supper to contemn any Ordinance of God In particular not this Ordinance this sealing Ordinance the Sacrament of the Lords Supper slight it not neglect it not but with care and conscience in obedience to that command Doe this attend upon it and make use of it where we may injoy it according to Christs Institution What doe we see our Lord and Master Christ sitting at Table with his Apostles eating of the Sacramentall Bread and drinking of the Sacramentall Cup as it were beginning to them and us and shall not we pledge him imitate him It is that which our Saviour telleth his Disciples when he had washed their feet Joh. 13.15 I have given you an example saith he that yee should doe as I have done And the like I may say of this his

communicating with them herein he gave them and us an example that we should doe as hee did And great reason we should doe so our blessed Saviour had no need of this Sacrament yet partakes of it to shew his subjection and obedience to Gospel-Institutions How much more then should we doe the like who if we know our selves cannot but know that we have continuall need of these Ordinances and this among the rest for the confirming and increasing of our faith and other Graces in us which if not fed with these Spirituall viands are as subject to decline and decay as our bodies through want of our ordinary repast Be excited then in the feare of God Christians excited to a conscionable attendance upon the Lords Supper you who now stand at a distance from this Ordinance and are strangers to it that you would labour to acquaint your selves with it and for you who have ingaged your selves to attend upon it that you would doe it more frequently more constantly more conscionably To set on which motion let me minde you Christ himselfe present at every Sacrament that you shall have Christs company at every Sacrament so runs the Promise Mat. 18.20 Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them A promise which however it hath a speciall eye at the administration of Ecclesiasticall Discipline yet it extendeth generally to al other religious duties Where two or three are met together to pray to heare the Word there will Christ afford his presence in the midst among them and so he will in the celebration of this Sacrament Christ will ever make one at his owne Table being alwayes present there though not corporally as he was here with his Apostles yet spiritually And that 1. As a Spectator 1 As a Spectator observing 2. The Guests which doe come an Observer cying 1 the Guests so did that King in the Parable when his Guests were set who came to celebrate the Nuptials of his Sonne himselfe cometh in to see them Matth. 22.11 Thus doth the Lord Christ the Master of this feast take a view of all those who present themselves as Guests at his Table so as if there bee but one without his Wedding Garment the Garment of imputed righteousnesse and inherent holinesse of which two this Garment is as it were woven the one being as the Woof the other as the Warp he cannot goe unspied Among the twelve there was one Judas who I am sure was at the Passeover and for ought I know might as well be at the Lords Supper also Him the Apostles suspect not when their Master told them that one of them should betray him they were every one ready rather to suspect themselves then him Is it I Master Is it I yet our Saviour espieth him and points him out to them Thus if there be a Judas an Hypocrite a close Hypocrite for such a one was he that shal dare at any time to draw nigh to this Table how closly soever he may carry it so as to deceive all those that sit at Table with him yet can he not goe undiscovered there is one that seeth him even the Master of this feast the Lord Christ who is there present eying and observing the Guests taking notice with what preparation what disposition what affection they come to his Table and how they demeane themselves being come thither And whilst he thus observeth those that come 2 Those which absent themselves hee also taketh notice of those who absent themselves So did that King in the Parable in the place forenamed He was very sensible of that dis-respect shewne to himselfe in the slighting of his invitation And so sensible is the Lord Christ of the like dis-respect offered to himselfe in slighting this Ordinance of his wherein he calleth men to have communion with himselfe he seeth who they are that answer the invitations of his Ministers with such vain and slender excuses as too many at this day doe One liketh not the company amongst whom he apprehendeth some not so approveable as they should be and upon that account hee forbeareth this feast because the hands of some of the Guests are not so cleane washed as he conceiveth some to be A second will not endure to be questioned by the Porters the Doore keepers what he is and what he cometh about I mean to submit to any examination or triall by any Church-Officers touching his qualifications and fitnesse for that Ordinance A third scruples at the manner of Administration and among all other things the gesture now used viz. sitting especially at the Table which he looketh upon as too familiar and homely though it be for substance the very same with that wherein our Saviour at first administred it and his Apostles received it which was a Table gesture the same that was then used at the Passeover and at other ordinary meals A fourth liketh not the tongue that blesseth or the hand that reacheth forth the Elements A fifth it may be is not in love and charity with some nor yet desires to be Thus doe men cast stumbling blocks in their owne way finding out some pleas and excuses to keep them from this Ordinance but whether they be such as will justifie this their refusall and neglect let them see to it knowing that they must one day give an account hereof to the Master of this feast who is thus present there as an Observer And secondly 2 Christ present as a Communicant as a Communicant communicating with those that come Such is this Sacrament a Communion betwixt Christ and the Beleever The cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the communion of the bloud of Christ The bread which wee breake is it not the communion of the Body of Christ saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 10.16 A Sacrament wherein Christians have communion as one with another so all with Christ who being there spiritually present doth as it were sup with them Rev. 3.20 and they with him he reaching forth unto them by the hands of his Ministers the outward signes and together with them the things signified by them Himselfe his owne Body his owne Bloud This he did to his Apostles at the institution of this Sacrament reaching forth the Bread and Wine to them hee gave Him-selfe with them Take eate this is my Body this is my Bloud drinke yee all of it And the like he doth still where-ever this Sacrament is duly administred Christ being there present as the Master of the Feast he offers and tenders his owne Body and Bloud to those who upon Gospel conditions will receive him All which should induce Christians to a conscientious attendance upon this Ordinance to come to it readily and to use it reverently But I promised not to dwell upon any thing We see what is here meant by this fruit of the vine and how our Saviour himselfe drank thereof communicating with his