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A86500	The mischeife of mixt communions, fully discussed. All maine arguments on both sides, are largely canvased. Many difficulties demonstratively cleared, as that Judas was not at the Lords Supper, &c. When, and how was the originall of parishes in England. Severall cases of conscience resolved. As in case unworthy ones thrust into the Lords Supper; what single Christians should doe, and what the congregation should doe. A discovery what is the originall, and rise of all these disputes, and how a faire end may be put to all. / By Doctor Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2569A; Thomason E607_8; ESTC R205868	24,915	24

enmity to purity So Babylon is put to signifie the same in this 18. of Revel 4. And to come out from Babylon is by the same proportion to separate from polluted worship and worshippers that hate and to their power persecute them that stand for purity And that pollution and those kinds of men are elsewhere then in Babylon You see then a separation commanded Thus we ought to Preach Jer. 15.19 If you take the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth And thus ought yee to practice else why doe you professe purity and pretend to be Gods peculiar people as Malachie 3. T is added therefore in that 15. of Jer. 19. Let them turne to thee but doe not thou turne to them If we Preach otherwise we are not Gods mouth If you practice otherwise you act not like Christs members as we shall shew you presently From the generall of separation let us come to the particular intended I shewed you before in another discourse that there is no shew or faire pretence can be held forth that the Children of Parents whereof neither can be judged to be a Beleever ought to be baptized till the Childe grows up to manifest his own Faith Gen. 17.7 8 9. Acts 2.39 40 41. Acts 16.31 32 33. 1 Cor. 7.14 Now I come to demonstrate that we ought to separate from mixt Communions where good and badd are admitted Those that have not true grace as farr as beleevers of Minister and People can discerne ought not to be admitted those that are to be admitted by the Officers and members of a Church must be as farr as they can judge true members of the true Christ and of his true Church 1 Cor. 10.16 The Cup and Bread are the communion of the body and blood of Christ For we being many are one bread and one body For we are all partakers of THAT ONE BREAD And where the Church is rightly constituted by and according to divine Gospel-institution God is specially with them to give them a spirit of discerning 1 Cor. 2.10 15. By right constitution to give you but a word now I mean A Church of a due matter and forme The matter true regenerated persons as farr Beleevers can judge a man is alive by his breathing and discerne the tree by his fruits Jam. 2.26 the Margin is Breath Mat. 7.16 Forme an agreement making known to one another their Faith and holiness that they will walk together according to the Gospel-rules and examples touching Churches in the use of Ordinances for Gods glory and mutuall edification and in order thereunto to receive none unto the Communion with them but such as are manifested to the generality of them in the judgement of charity to be truely godly Al this is couched in the inscriptions of Pauls Epistles calling the companies of godly ones in those places 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gathered or selected Congregations or Churches and Saints 1 Cor. 1.2 2 Cor. 1.1 Gal. 1.2 Ephes 1.1 Phil. 1.1 Colos 1.1 And is amplified in the patterns of Churches Acts 2.41 to the end of the Chapter Acts 4.32 And Paul chargeth it as a duty on all the Brethren of the Church of Corinth to cast out the unworthy person 1 Cor. 5. and therefore by the rule of contraries he that is received in should be so received by the approbation of all but of that more after This keeping out of gracelesse people from the Communion by the Officers and Brethren of a CHURCH is no new Doctrine or practice but ancient so that in the severall ages of the Churches as they lesse or more degenerated we have more or lesse print and footstepps of this left us The very Papists who before the Councill of Trent saith learned Polanus was a true Church though most impure had their shriftings examinations and confessions of people afore they were admitted to their Communions The Episcopall way had it in forme of a Law in their Rubrick for the Administration of the Communion in these words They that intended to partake of the holy Communion should signifie their names AFORE to the Curat and if any of those be an open and notorious evill liver so that the CONGREGATION is OFFENDED or have done any wrong to his NEIGHBOUR by Word or Deed the Curat having knowledge thereof shall call him and advertise him in any wise not to presume to the Lords Table untill he have OPENLY DECLARED himselfe to have TRULY REPENTED and AMENDED his former naughty life that the CONGREGATION may thereby be SATISFIED c And the same order shall the Curate use with those betwixt whom he perceiveth malice c. Not SUFFERING them to be partakers of the Lords Table untill he KNOVV them to be reconciled Or if one be penitent to admit him but not the other remaining obstinate As for the Presbyterial way you know that by their Directory and Laws annexed they must not receive any to the Communion that are ignorant or scandalous or prophane in their conversation The Congregational way goe higher then this viz. by conference by enquiry and by conversation to discerne what breathings and fruits of true grace appeares in a person before the Church admit him to their fellowship and Communions And this is one of the great quarrels of these times that particular Churches of the Congregational way as men think are too precise in their admissions that they must be perswaded there is some grace in a man and that all the Congregation present at his admission must be satisfied that there is nothing to the contrary known to them but that he hath grace Therefore to keep out those from the Communion of whom the contrary to true grace is known may be easily granted it being an evident truth of God You heard before twise out of the New Testament COME OUT from among them add Phil. 3.2 Beware of Doggs Who are they Evil doers and the Concision viz. were not outwardly and therefore likely not inwardly pure How beware Mat. 15.26 The doggs must not eate of the childrens bread And Revel 22.15 the doggs must be WITHOUT What doggs Sorcerers Whoremongers Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lye Accordingly t is sayd Revel 21. a Chapter that cannot be meant of Heaven as saith Brightman and others every Verse can witnesse in the 27. Vers thus INTO the New Jerusalem that is the reformed Church no uncleane thing or thing that defileth or worketh abomination or maketh a lye shall enter Which way soever we take this new Jerusalem either for a more perfect state of the Church on earth yet to be then hitherto hath been or for an absolute perfect state in the highest heavens sure we can inferr no lesse then that we should conforme to that patterne all we can strive towards perfection Add according to all these places that in the 1 Cor. 5.12 13. The Church and its members are sayd to be WITHIN all others are sayd to be WITHOUT Now conclude from all as

among the Lutherans partly in Doctrine namely that of Consubstantiation and partly in ceremonies many Christians gathered themselves into purer Churches at Geneva c. And here in England of late the Presbyterian Churches were a little refined in some things out from the Episcopal congregations So then to tell me there must not be separation upon separation and that if another discerne not the Lords body yet I doe and if another hath no right to it yet I have c. these are all contrary as well to former practice as well as rule and are impertinent to our point in hand Churches that will be called and counted Churches must be constituted as Churches and act as Churches they must be godly persons joyning together and setling their officers among them with one unanimous consent to keep out unworthy persons and upon due complaint and proceeding as aforesaid to cast out unworthy persons So the dispute is at an end Consciences shal not be troubled No danger of separation Good mens consciences shall be cherished and bad men shall be shamed till they repent the dogs shall not have opportunity to snatch the childrens bread nor the children afrayd to goe to their meals lest if they let not the dogs take share with them they bite and teare them Is he a wise governour of a Family that will say Children Servants goe to dinner let the Dogs alone to share with you though they take of your meat doe you take your meale When he may far easier by help of his Family shut the Dogs out if they be so unruly And t is at least as unwise an exhortation to stir up godly men to goe to mixt Communions as to incite them to goe thither when t is known that there are many there that have Plague-sores upon them Sure spirituall infection is worse then corporal and the soule more precious then the body But in your second Reply to our Objections you say ●…ir se●…d Re●… that that 1 Cor. 5. about Leven and that 1 Cor. 10. of one bread doth not signifie any spriritual pollution by reason of society at the Lords Supper But that in 1 Cor. 5. only signifies that the Church of Corinth might be corrupted by the incestuous persons evill example if he were not cast out And that in 1 Cor. 10. cannot signifie that either the wicked man can become a true member with me ●…r Du●… or I a false member with him by reason of fellowship at the communion To which we duply and answer thus to both places distinctly 1. To that of 1 Cor. 5. t is evident that the Apostle speaks in the past time of things past not of what in future that evill example might effect but of an evill past that 't was their sin all the churches sin that they had not been humbled for letting such a one abide a member amongst them v. 2. Secondly That he speaks in the Present tence of their present condition that the whol lump of them was now at present levened by that person being one of them though they were unlevened in their persons in regard of regeneration or else they could not be sayd to be levened but rather to be very leven yet levened in their actions in regard of polluting mixture and polluted worship 3. For future 1. The Apostle cold not imagin that by example all the church of Corinth could become incestuous persons but Paul speaks of the danger of the levening the whole lump 2. He speaks of keeping the feast purely and of not eating with a Brother walking disorderly Therefore from all its plain the Apostle drives at more then evill example namely at evil of Church-communion with unworthy persons so likewise to the 2d. place Viz. 1 Cor. 10. we say that as there is a Anti-federall unholinesse or uncleannesse in children whose Parents neither of them are beleevers though these children may be elect and in time may beleive 1 Cor. 7.14 And a matrimonial-like or a tanquam conjugal union between an Harlot and a Christian whiles that Christian by temptation c. fals into that ditch as Solomon speaks of which union see 1 Cor. 6.15.16 18. So there is a confederate onenesse unto spirituall pollution or purity according to the matter and manner of worship men joyne in If in the due partaking of the Lords Supper t is the Communion of the body and blood of Christ 1 Cor. 10.16 If in eating and drinking at the Idolatrous feasts they that did so though Christians are said to partake of the cup of Devils v. 20. And by the same proportion a compound of good and evil doth make the partners in the same to share in that evill mixture as we have heard much afore 2. Let us speak something to their arguments for mixt Communions a little will serve because former things have anticipated Ob. 1 1. They say it is certaine that there were great offenders at this time in the Church of Corinth some that made themselves drunk at their love feasts at the Sacrament chap. 11. some that even denyed the resurrection chap. 15. and sundry other greivous offenders 2 Cor. 12.20 21. yet are they still a Church though these uncast out and he no where blames for comming to the Lords Table because of them no not in that 1 Cor. 5. An ¦ swer To this our answer is ● That the Church of Corinth might farr better be called and accounted a Church then the ordinary Parochiall Churches here among us 1. Because Corinth for the generality were in matter a Church of such as were called to be Saints and sanctified in Christ Jesus chap. 1. v. 2. And they were altogether a Church in forme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 orderly gathered and united of such according to the Apostles direction 1 Cor. 11.34 and 1 Cor. 14.40 But Parochiall Churches in the matter for the generality consist of prophane and ignorant and their forme and union is onely by the Gutters and Stones and Posts of the Precincts of the Parish making them to belong to that congregation of that Parish But when they move house but over the Gutter into another Parish they are no more of that Parish Church Here is no spirituall bond relation or mutuall owning or reciprocall watching between Minister and People or between People and People So that this Objection doth nothing helpe the now Churches that are for mixt Communion least of all these defending mixt Communions which the Church of Corinth did not If they brake the commandement of God yet they did not teach men so So that in many respects it was safer to call Corinth a Church and more tolerable to communicate with it then with the Parish Churches now extant The Church of Corinth however at a time negligent yet the rule was known and own'd among them to keep out and cast out the unworthy 2. We answer That it is not true that the Corinthians are not blamed for comming because of them uncast out