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A04377	Directions for the vvorthy receiuing of the Lords Supper with some few questions to the same purpose. By Robert Iension, Batchelor in Diuinity, and Minister of Gods Word, at New-Castle vpon Tine.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1624 (1624)	STC 14490; ESTC S119429	15,511	55

deede of gift whereby thou giuest and sealest vnto all beleeuers eternall life O Lord now I may see and that without doubting that indeed my name is written in the Lambs booke of life When wee take and apply the Bread and Wine to our selues then must wee stir vp our selues to take hold on Christ Esa 64.7 and be put in minde of the speciall act of faith which is to apply and bring Christ home to the inmost closet of our hearts relying our selues and putting our whole affiance wholly and onely on him for saluation stirring vp our faith and by it féeding on our Sauiour more and more crying also Lord I beleeue helpe my vnbeleefe When we eat and drinke then also must we meditate first on our strait vnion with Christ whereby we become one with him and he with vs euen as the Bread and Wine turne to our nourishment and become one substance with vs one flesh and one bone and what straighter vnion can there bee then this Then rouze vp thy spirit say O my blessed Sauiour be thou vnto mee Bread and water of life for euermore let this vnion once made by thy Spirit my faith neuer again be dissolued but fasten me vnto thée by the bond of my faith and fasten and vnite thy selfe vnto me by the bond of thy Spirit and that for euermore Let nothing dissolue this knot let not my sinnes euer hereafter separate betweene thee and me Esa 59.2 But O Lord let thy most precious and pure and holy body and blood clense and sanctifie my body and my soule and either keepe them that they sinne not against thee at any time presumptuously or if they sinne that by thy precious bloud they may be forthwith purged from sin 1. Ioh. 1.7 Yea O Lord let me walke on in the strength of this spirituall foode this liuing Bread and Water of life euen to eternall life according to thy gracious promise and Word whereby thou hast said Whosoeuer eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Bloud hath eternall life and if any man eat of this Bread he shall liue for euer Ioh. 6.51 54. Let mee therefore hence be assured that neither death nor life nor any thing else shall bee able to seperate me from this loue of thy Father which is in thee his sonne my Sauiour Iesus Christ Rom. 8.38 39. Heere also must we thinke of our participation of all the benefits of Christ both by imputation concerning our iustification and also by infusion concerning our sanctification seeing Christ neuer comes alone but as the married wise though she marry with the man himselfe and not with his lands or goods yet being partaker of him she partakes of them too Why then O Lord need I distrust thy goodnesse for any blessing spirituall or temporall seeing thou hast giuen me thy Sonne Christ and in him interest in all things 1. Cor. 3.22 23. If thou sparedst not thy Sonne but gauest him for me to death and now giuest and appliest him spiritually vnto me how shalt thou not with him giue mee all things also Rom. 8.32 I will henceforth therefore neuer distrust thy goodnesse Lastly when thou seest in this holy action others also rich and poore of all sorts without difference eat of the same Bread and drinke of the fame Cup bee put in minde of loue and charity to all wee see where men familiarly conuerse one with another and liue together in one house sitting and feeding at the same table there is mutuall loue knowledge and familiarity else it is very vnusuall and vnnaturall yea very beasts by drawing together in the same Yoke grow familiar one with another and shew loue in their kinde what louing respect therefore owe I euen to the meanest of my fellowes and brethren and to the least of the Saints of God seeing wee all that are many are one bread and one body because we all are partakers of one Bread 1. Cor. 10.17 and wee all haue beene made to drinke into one Spirit 1. Cor. 12.13 Surely then because I see there is one body and but one one Spirit one Lord one Faith one Baptisme yea one onely communion of Saints one God and Father of all I will therefore endeuour to keepe the vnity of the Spirit in the bond of peace and with all humblenesse of minde and meeknesse with long suffering support others through loue as the Apostle exhorts me Ephesians 4.1 2 3 4 5. And because I here see my Sauiour makes no difference and hath no respect of persons so they feare God Act. 10.34 35. but alike admits all to his Table of all sorts rich and poore noble and ignoble c. and communicates himselfe to all I will henceforth despise none of GODS Saints not the least member of Gods Church whom God and Christ so loues and hath done so much for 1. Cor. 11.22 Mat. 18.10 With these or such like meditations should our thoughts be taken vp during the time of the celebration of the blessed Sacrament at which time especially wee are to make conscience of our thoughts CHAP. 9. Of duties to be performed after this action is ended AS before we should presume to this Table we must set our selues and our thoughts by meditations a part by times some two or thrée daies that we may come prepared after the example of the Passeouer Exod. 12.3 6. So after this Sacrament is solemnly celebrated in the Church each man and woman particularly should doe well to set apart some fit and conuenient time to consider well what is done what God hath done for them and what they haue promised and ought to doe for God And here First each one for himselfe must in particular be thankfull for the high fauour vouchsafed him that God would admit him to his Table being in himselfe vnworthy so much as to gather vp the crums that fall from it The forme of thanks may either be performed as it shall please God by his Spirit to helpe our infirmities Rom 8.26 or helpe may be had from the order of the Church and from diuers good bookes of deuotion in this kinde Now to this end each for himselfe must well remember what he hath made promise and profession of Here we haue renued our promise and vow made in Baptisme to forsake the deuill and haue taken the Sacrament vpon it and receiued as it were presse-money from God to fight valiantly constantly and faithfully vnder his banner against all his and our enemies after which it is high treason against his Maiestie to reuolt or giue ouer resolue therefore now of constancie to hold out to the end whatsoeuer come of it whatsoeuer opposition wée finde from our traiterous and rebellious flesh from the scoffes of the world from the assaults and slie suggestions of Satan And as thou lookest that God should make good what he in his word hath promised and in this Sacrament hath sealed vnto thée so looke that thou performe all thy vowes to God else this

in grace thus differing from Baptisme which is the Sacrament of our first birth or regeneration as bread therefore is for the sustenance of man and preseruation of naturall life in him so is Christs body and bloud spiritually for the encrease and nourishing of our faith and of Gods graces in vs. For thus in decay of grace we come to get assurance and féeling of it againe Christ is therefore called the bread of life Iohn 6.35.51 herein differing from common bread that it onely preserues life where life is once begun but Christ begins life in vs being set before vs in the preaching of the Gospel called the childrēs bread Mat. 15.26 And he is eaten by faith spiritually Ioh. 6.56 He also continues and preserues life in vs as bread eaten by the same faith sacramentally Consider bread and wine are also for our comfort and to make glad the heart of man Psalm 104.14 15. so also this Sacrament and therefore in our faintings and in our afflictions we are to haue recourse hither this bread being like that meale which Elisha cast into the pot to make the pottage wholesome whereof it was said before death is in the pot 2. Kings 4.40 and 41. When we sée both bread and wine consider that Christ is our perfect Sauiour and Redéemer both bread and water of life vnto vs so that we néed not saluation in whole or in part of any other 4 Consider hence also the necessitie of this Sacrament especially of the thing signified by this bread and wine for as without bread and wine or other moysture we could not possibly liue whereas we may well spare many vnnecessary dainties so without this body and blood of Christ and the merits thereon depending it is impossible for any either to liue the life of grace here or of glory hereafter When we sée the Minister set apart by prayer and consecration these Elements from a common to an holy vse which signifies Gods eternall decrée in sealing Christ to the worke of our redemption and saluation Iohn 6.27 Then further consider and meditate on God the Fathers excéeding great loue Who so loued the world that he gaue his only begotten Sonne Christ to redeeme it Ioh. 3.16 Which loue God setteth forth séeing that first of himselfe vnsought to Secondly he the partie offended should prouide a Sauiour and giue thirdly his onely beloued Sonne for vs Fourthly before we were Fifthly whom he foresaw to be vnable to helpe our selues yea Sixtly to be enemies vnto him Rom. 5.8 Oh wonderfull loue of God! how did Abraham loue God when for his sake he was ready to offer in sacrifice his onely sonne Isaak yet that was his duty God so requiring it How much more doth God loue vs that fréely yea contrary to our deseruings giues to death his onely Sonne Christ one ten thousand times better then Isaack And thinke if God so loued me how ought I to loue him againe how ought I for his sake to part with my dearest and darling sinnes c. When we sée the bread broken and the wine powred out then thinke on the death and passion of Christ and on those intolerable paines which he suffered both in body and also much more in soule not for himselfe but for vs and here also more specially meditate First on Christs speciall Loue to vs who would so willingly become our suretie and pay our debt to God which is death which we were neuer able to haue endured For greater loue then this hath no man when any man bestowes his life on his friends Ioh. 15.13 But Christ is that good shepheard who giueth his life for vs his sheepe Ioh. 10.11 How then must I meditate should this inflame my heart with the loue of this my Sauiour c. And how may I now rest assured that I shall be vndoubtedly saued for if when I was a sinner Christ died for me much more then being now iustified by his blood shal I be saued from wrath throgh him c. Rom. 5.8.9.10 Secondly considering his grieuous suffering and pangs for vs his hands and his féet boared his side pearced with a speare himselfe mocked and now sustaining in soule the wrath of his Father due to our sinnes meditate Didst thou swéet Sauiour suffer such torments for me and shall not I endure an euill word for thée and for the profession of thy Name Diddest thou on the Crosse taste Vineger and Gall for me and shall I liue in pleasure and delicacies faring deliciously euery day and so please my palate with excesse in delicious meates and wines Diddest thou die for me and shall not I die to sinne and thus shew forth in my selfe thy death Yea diddest thou die for me and shall not I be ready to lay downe my life for thy Names sake c. Thirdly consider also the cause of all this his suffering which was not any sinne of his but our sinne 2. Cor. 5.21 and thinke and say Lord when I looke vpon thée whom my sinnes haue pierced how should I lament for thée as one that mourneth for his onely Sonne and bee sorry for thée as one is sorry for his first borne Zach. 12.10 Nay how should I rather mourne for mine owne sinnes and hate them with a deadly hatred whereby I crucifie thée againe so louing a Sauiour my sinnes being the speare that pierced thee and the nailes that lastened thée to the Crosse How weighty are my sinnes and how great the desert thereof which could not be borne by me nor satisfied for by any thing I am able either to doe or suffer but onely by thy precious death and bloud-shed of thée my deare Sauiour and my God blessed for euer Shall I now henceforth account any sinne light or little which deserued such infinite punishment Oh my Sauiour possesse my heart with thy loue teach mee to loue thee perfectly and to hate all sinne which cost thee so deare c. When the Minister representing the person of God the Father comes towards thée to offer and giue to each the signes this Bread and Wine then first meditate and pray and say with the Centurion Lord I am not worthy thou shouldest come vnder my roofe and as Elizabeth said to Mary whence commeth this to me that not the mother of the Lord but the Lord himselfe should come to me Luk. 1.14 And with the blessed Virgin Luk. 1.38 Behold the seruant of the Lord be it vnto thee according to thy word and here secondly assure thy selfe of Gods especiall loue to thée in particular and take these signes as speciall seales and pledges of Gods speciall loue towards thee and here raise vp thy thoughts with this or the like meditation Lord whereas in thy Word thou offerest Christ to all beleeuers though thou namest none now I see thou meanest euen me poore sinner as well as any thou appliest and assurest vnto me thy generall promise as if my name were recorded in thy Word and written in that