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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92310	The receiver undeceived, or, An Answer to the author of a late sheet entituled Of receiving the Communion in the company of such, whom we conceive not so good, holy, and rightly principled, as we wish they were with an appendix for this proposition, Vngodly persons ought not to be admitted to the Holy Supper / by Sionophilus Ecthrobabylonicus.	Ecthrobabylonicus, Sionophilus.	1651 (1651)	Wing R626; ESTC R42553	10,908	16

The Receiver undeceived OR AN ANSWER TO THE AVTHOR OF A late Sheet entituled Of Receiving the Communion in the Company of such whom we conceive not so good holy and rightly principled as we wish they were WITH An Appendix for this Proposition Vngodly Persons ought not to be admitted to the holy Supper By SIONOPHILUS ECHTHROBABYLONICUS Luk. 22.19 My body given for You. 20. Blood shed for You. Act. 20.7 When the Disciples came together to break bread 1 Cor. 10.16 The cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the Communion of the blood of Christ v. 17. We being many are one bread and one body 1 Cor. 11.29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh Damnation to himselfe c. OXFORD Printed in the yeare 1651. The Readers Admonition READER I Am not ignorant that this present age is cloy'd with publique controversies Nor that the subject I discourse of hath the weaker side as to the Vulgar approbation Mine ayme is truly tould thee in the Title how well the marke is hitt thy selfe mayst tell me in the tryall I hope thou wilt prove none of those that set ●heir Conscience in Religion by their Country not Gods Counsell T is found too true that custome is a second nature And prescription even in Christianity carries a greater stroake then Scripture doth with very many nor the meaner onely Hence are those pleas Has been the custome And by our Fathers too before us Joh. 4. Alas but did not the Samaritanes say the same And Peter A vaine conversation was received by tradition from your Fathers 1 Pet. 1. Yet more particularly Approaching to Christs table is a Case of life death It cost him deare that had not on his wedding garment at the feast Mat. 22. What pitty notwithstanding is' t to see how sinners on the grounds aforesaid rush thereto as horses to the battell upon their ruine And those most eager for it that least understand the hazard of it No marvell the Apostle chargeth to Examine not in the former formall road but as 't is elsewhere Whether ye be in the faith or not and 1 Co. 11. 2 Cor. 13.5 Know ye not that Jesus Christ dwelleth in you except ye be reprobates Sure Reader then thou hast cause to try before thou trust to be well advised ere thou adventure on businesse of eternall cōsequence However I have done my part thus to fore-warn looke thou to thine to be fore-armed else at thy perill be it To the Author of the Sheet entituled Of receiving the Communion in the company of c. YOu undertake the resolution of a Case of Conscience but if I mistake not leave it in as bad a Case as e're you found it I would without your prejudice cast in my mite to prevent abortion of such an hopefull Issue T is not the Credit but the Cause I serve which makes me though my skill be little at the weapon take up the buckler with you yet as at all would I not be your Enemy so must I to the utmost be Truthes friend herein 2 Cor. 13. you know who said We can doe nothing against the Truth but for the Truth Title exam Former part First to your Title then your Text. That former truely halts downe right but whether its a slip or subtilty I don't determine However it begins and ends alike indeed 't is current in neither The former part enquireth of receving the Communion barely Disciples ignorance Peters Cursing Swearing Judas's Treason And Proleps● and Pos 3. and 7. Sub finem as if you meant to satisfie receivers only about communicating with those they think unworthy whereas 't is * See Pos 1 2. elsewhere evident your purpose is to defend Dispensers also and that too in admitting * See Pos 1 2. any or all notwithstanding * See Pos 1 2. ignorance or prophanesse as the Custome was unto that Ordinance with reproofe of such as practise otherwise And this indeed is the White you chiefly aime at as may be seene apparently if the Reader will but trust to his owne eyes before he take your word Truely such dealing then is but a kind of dodging with us except you 'ld have us think we have cause to thanke you for that as over measure But yet there 's worse behind where it proceedeth In the Company of such whom wee conceive not so good holy and rightly principled c. Latter part Sir let me be ingenuous with you were all your following Arguments cleare demonstrations above all possibility of exception 'T were but the Conquest of a man of straw your selfe sat up Who doubteth but the least degree of goodnesse holinesse and rightly principlednesse to use your termes or saving faith as others speake more properly who doubts I say but this as it entitles to the Thing much rather to the Signe and Scale the Sacrament And as for that addition As wee wish they were That is as true if I may use that proverb as the very Gospell where is He that hath made the forward'st progresse in the way of godlinesse but yet must say Lay by the Ranters and their retinue with blessed Paul to the Philippians I am not already perfect and so may have our wishes as they had his to abound yet more and more Phil. 3.12 c. 1.9 And then what newes you tell us When the blind may see 't is of necessity to receive with such or else with none at all In this we are agreed And now good Reader perchance thou 'lt thinke the quarrell ended and it were indeed but that there is an Ambush layd which it may be is not observed by thee These are our Authour's words t is true but for his mind we must divo deeper before we fetch that up There 's no great danger in the venture Compare his place quoted in the margent of the former page with this his Title The sence is plaine He takes for granted that our English parishes are Saints Assemblies nor onely thus professedly but positively also although the generality are either dead in ignorance or buried in prophanesse or both therefore having as he supposeth some * See Title so good holy c. good degree though not so great as we could wish of goodnesse holinesse c. you know the language there is no reason to suspend them from the Communion or our selves from communicating with them But where 's the proofe of this Or must the Reader give because he begs that question of him We know what * Numb 16.13 Congregation holy every one of them Korah said and the Papists think but that won't serve the turn Nor must we trust in such like cases the word of Man unlesse Gods Word be passed for it much lesse when 't is against it yet such is the foundation of all our Authors building But that I leave with his Title too unto thy Censure