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A04164	The raging tempest stilled The historie of Christ his passage, with his disciples, over the Sea of Galilee, and the memorable and miraculous occurrents therein. Opened and explaned in weekly lectures (and the doctrines and vses fitly applied to these times, for the direction and comfort of all such as feare Gods iudgements) in the cathedrall and metropoliticall Church of Christ, Canterb.	Jackson, Thomas, d. 1646.	1623 (1623)	STC 14305; ESTC S107445	230,620	359

the hemme of Christs garment and shall not we much more from this holy Sacrament of his owne ordinance and institution Oh let me eat and it sufficeth Dispute thou of the manner I will beleeve But these outward signes and Elements being consecrated by the word and prayer are of most wonderfull spirituall use and efficacie to every beleeving and worthy receiver which to expresse and that they may not be basely esteemed of as common and ordinary things the Scriptures doe commonly ennoble as others so this Sacrament with giving to the signe the name it selfe of the grace signified This is my bodie And This is my bloud of the New Testament And the Apostle saith The bread which we breake is it not the Communion of the bodie of Christ And the cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the Communion of the bloud of Christ The Ancient Fathers also have exceedingly magnified this Sacrament As that Christ dieth againe in this mysterie the Priest holdeth Christ betwixt his hands the bread over which thankes is given is the bodie of the Lord Which figurative speeches are warrantable by the Word And they gave hyperbolical and excessive praise to this Sacrament in most thankful and godly minds to stirre up godly care and devotion in the Receivers but did not fore-see how thereby they occasioned many hereticall Conclusions and Idolatrous adoration whereof wee having lamentable experience it behoveth us warily to use their phrases not thinking it sufficient that from Scriptures and Fathers such phrases may be used for truth but cautelously and with exposition lest we harden the wilfull Heretike or scandalize the weake beleever For as we must take heed that we make them not idle signes wee must also take heed wee make them not Idoll signes they are but signes still and though grace be conueyed by them yet it may be separated from them so as all that receive the grace of Sacraments doe not receive grace by the Sacraments Though they be holy honorable glorious vessels for the conveyance of Christ and all his blessings and graces yet they are not physicall vessels and instruments as a nutritive power and vertue is in bread and drinke or tied to them by inevitable necessitie as if God were tied to give Christ and eternall life to all such as doe the work and receive the outward Element They are only morall instruments and vessels to the fruitfull use whereof is required something also in the Receiver For as the Word profiteth not them in whom it is not mixed by faith no more doth this Sacrament profit such as receive it not by faith yea many do eat and drinke unworthily to their owne condemnation but God is tied by covenant and promise to convey and exhibite the invisible grace to all that doe faithfully duely and devoutly receive the visible and holy Sacrament Oh then prepare your selves to the receiving of this holy Sacrament prepare not the teeth and belly but the heart for it is not the food for teeth but minde and let Faith worke When you see but the least graine of mustard-seed cast into the ground though there it seeme to rot yet you beleeve it will become a great tree for birds to build in If you see a cunning work-man take though a rugged and crooked tree in hand you beleeve he will doe some exquisite and curious worke Will you thus rely on Art and Nature and not rely on God the Author of both You will not beleeve how your soules can be fed and nourished by bread and wine unlesse he acquaint you with his waies and lay open the secret of his skill before you Where God doth speake such things as are for height and sublimitie of matter or promise such graces by such meanes as for secrecie of performance we are not able to reach unto it behoveth Gods children to submit themselves in the simplicitie of faith and not curiously dispute which commonly chilleth the warmth of zeale and devotion and so distracteth the minds of men that they know not what to beleeve Examine your selves therefore whether yee be in the faith Examine your selves whether you have unfainedly repented of your sinnes which appeareth by a perfect hatred and detestation of them and all of the meanes and occasions leading unto them with a resolute purpose of minde for ever to avoid them to become obedient unto God The people of God were commanded to eat the Passeover with bitter herbes which word I finde elsewhere used to expresse the bitter sorrow of heart and verily hee shall never worthily eat of our Passeover Christ in the Sacrament whose soule is not filled with bitter sorrow for his sinnes for which Christ Jesus suffered the torments of death and shed his precious bloud whereof that Sacrament putteth him in remembrance What is it but even a despising of the bloud of Christ and the accounting of it as an unholy thing for a man to receive having a purpose to continue in his sinne and at the most but hanging downe his head like a bulrush for a day Wherefore purge your hearts yee sinners and cleanse your hands Wash them in innocencie and then come to his Table As the Pharesies would not eat before they had washed eat not before thy conscience be purged from dead workes to serve the living God Examine your selves whether yee be in love and charitie and whether where offenses have beene given there bee a free forgivenesse and all good meanes of reconciliation used that so it may be indeed as it is called a Communion whereby all the members being knit together in the bond of love may partake in one Sacrament and have a sweet fellowship one with another and with Christ their Head This Sacrament must be eaten with the unleavened bread of sinceritie and charitie 1 Cor. 5. 8. If by examination you finde your selves thus in some measure but truly prepared then Wisdome calleth to you as to her guests Come eat of my bread and drinke of my wine and also sendeth forth her servants calling and inviting All things are readie come to the Supper and beware of idle excuses left thou also heare the same doome denounced against thee Not one of those that were bid shall taste of my Supper Oh come come whilst you may these if ever any are the happie daies of the Sonne of Man wherein Christ in his Word truly preached and Sacraments sincerely administred is even crucified in our sight Oh happie daies when wee may so safely feast together at Gods Table and our owne but let us feare lest Christ beholding our negligence and offended with our frivolous excuses say as sometimes he did to his owne people for the like faults The daies come in which you shall desire to see one of the daies of the Sonne of Man

and shall not see it Come then come I say whilest yee may and thanke God that ye may come and goe safely and pray for them that faine would and cannot Come but come not alone bring your companie say one to another Come let us goe up to the Mountaine the house of the Lord say with Ioshuah I and mine house will serve the Lord Bring those with thee to Gods House who are with thee in thine owne house Your owne good Example who have charge of families is full of power and the more eminent yee are in state and degree the more inducing is your good Example The Reason why the Lord hath prepared his table spred his servants invite so few guests come is because so few of the chiefe come and they come alone neither care they whether wives children or servants come at all or no. Oh come bring yours with you and come often yea the oftner the more welcome to Gods Table This the Apostle intended when he said As often as yee eat this bread and drinke this cup Enjoyning all such as live in a visible Church so often as the custome of the Church is to administer it and hee hath no lawfull impediment to hinder him as absence from home sicknesse so often to receive it if hee doe not it is a great neglect if not contempt of the holy Ordinance of God And how just were it in time of sicknesse and adversity such an one should be weak in faith and void of comfort seeing he neglected the meanes when he might have enjoyed them Give me leave then to reprove a common fault even in this renowmed Mother Church where the holy Sacrament at least every month is religiously and reverendly administred how few are there that come for all our calling As if to receive the Sacrament were but a thing arbitrarie once a yeare at Easter may suffice thrice a yeare a largis to what purpose oftner Thus in Paradise with eating of the forbidden fruit wee surfetted have quite lost our appetite and loath heavenly food as the Israelites did the Manna But let me tell you the only way to recover our appetite is to come and eat none have lesse stomack than such as eat least none more than they that eat most They that make their meat their God the more they eat the lesse appetite but they that make God their meat the more they eat the more they hunger This appeareth from the worthy examples of the Saints in Ancient times It appeareth from Saint Augustine That some faithfull did receive every day and make the Lords Supper their daily bread which though he neither reprehend nor commend yet he earnestly exhorted all to receive every Lords day and our Church hath godly appointed a speciall exhortation to be read when people are negligent in this kinde But me thinketh I heare some say Indeed my departure and seldome comming doth not proceed from neglect and contempt but the reverend respect I have to that heavenly and holy Sacrament fearing that if I should so often receive I should not receive it with that care conscience and preparation that is meet I answer If thine owne heart condemne thee not neither doe I Goe in peace The reverend respect that the Centurion had to Christ made him refuse to entertaine him I am not worthy thou shouldst come under my roofe But Zacheus his reverend respect of Christ made him come downe hastily and receive him ioyfully See the contrary effects of the same affect and both approved of Christ Some out of reverence come to every Sacrament and some out of reverence come seldome Charitie hopeth the best of all But take heed Sathan tempt you not and take heed that your owne consciences condemne you not if they doe God is greater than they and he is not mocked But now Communicants being prepared and come to the Lords Table what is more to be done Our Church godly prescribeth in a very short rule Lift up your hearts though knee be on ground let the heart be in heaven and the minde intently exercised in comparing the signes and spirituall things together When we see bread and wine which are for full refection of our bodies let us thinke what a perfect Saviour we have When we see them set apart for this use let us thinke how Christ the Sonne of God became man for our sakes and salvation When we see the bread and wine blessed and consecrated and as it were made fit for so holy and heavenly an use let us thinke how Christ his humanitie being united personally to the Word received all fulnesse of grace for the worke of Redemption When we see the bread broken and wine powred out let us thinke of the bitter passion of Christ the renting of his holy bodie and shedding of his most precious bloud for our sinnes When the Minister offreth these let us thinke how lovingly God offreth his Sonne to be our Saviour And as the Receiver taketh eateth and drinketh the bread and wine and it turneth into his substance so by the hand of faith we must receive and apply Christ unto us to dwell in our hearts who hath given himselfe for us Lastly let God have most hearty thanks and praise for all his mercies represented and exhibited to us in his holy Ordinances in regard whereof the Greekes call it an Eucharist Thus from a marvelling Text I have taken occasion to provoke you to marvell at the institution of this day and at the service of this day I desire that God may have the glory of all and that ye would say one to another Doubtlesse we have heard and seene and received strange things to day and the Lord make us thankfull Amen His Passiō most marvellous to say nothing of his hunger thirst wearisomnesse dangers persecution derision his whole life being a continuall passion yet can you reade and heare of his Agonie how without any violent exercise or bodily paine in an open Garden in a fresh aire in the moist dew and prostrate on the cold earth yet was in such an Agonie that his sweat was like drops of bloud trickling downe to the ground And doe yee not marvell Himselfe did marvell Is there any sorrow like my sorrow wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger Doe you reade and heare of the desperate and insolent behaviour of wicked men preferring a notorious murtherer before the innocent Sonne of God crying out to have him crucified and let his bloud be on them and their children crowning that head with thornes which is higher than the heavens spitting in that face which the Angels doe delight to behold nailing those hands to the Crosse which made heaven and earth piercing those feet which have walked on the sea but never stood in the way of