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A60170	A new naked truth, or, The sandy foundation of the Sacramental test shaken, by a warning-piece discharged from heaven against all sorts of persecutors wherein you may hold Christ crucified mystically and sacramentally, upon the cross of the sacramental penal test, with all the rest of the penal laws and tests attending thereon, and contributing thereunto / by Giles Shute ...	Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3709; ESTC R11222	67,483	56

Lord's body And therefore it is that we are commanded to Examine our selves before we partake of it to see whether we be born of God and so are in a converted Spiritual state of Grace and also to try our selves whether we be in a Spiritual frame of heart that we may know whether Grace be in Act and Exercise in us or not But to Return to the words of Institution After the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supped saying This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood this do ye as oft as ye drink it in Remembrance of me for as often as ye eat this Bread and Drink this Cup ye do shew the Lord's Death till he come Here is not one word of making this Sacred Ordinance a Test to accommodate the Civil State withall but on the contrary as you shall hear by and by For the Apostle bringeth it in Argumentatively with a Wherefore Whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord That is instead of commemorating Christ's Death and Sufferings and all the Benefits that floweth unto us from that Fountain of his precious Blood They do eat and drink their own Damnation without unfeigned Repentance and God's Infinite Mercy for they do crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame whosoever shall eat thus unworthily whether Lord or Commoner let them look to it for God is no respecter of Persons for he that feareth God and worketh Righteousness and none but such are or shall be accepted with him O that all they that are thus Guilty may tremble to think what is a coming upon them for this great Abomination of profaning the Lord's holy Supper by a Law which I had almost said is a National sin because the major part of the Governing Party have been thus Guilty Though I do hope and also believe That there was many in both Houses of Parliament both of Lords and Commoners when this Snare was made that had neither heart nor hand in it But yet notwithstanding the major part of them must be for it or it could not have been made therefore I would not be found to grieve any of the Generation of the Righteous without a cause by condemning the Innocent with the guilty But as the Apostle saith Let every Man examine himself whether he be guilty or not But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. And here the holy Apostle is bringing it in again argumentatively by way of precaution for said he He that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth drinketh damnation or condemnation to himself not discerning the Lord's Body for this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep that is die For what cause was it why for profaning the Ordinance of the Lord's Supper And who was it the holy Apostle charged this Guilt upon why even upon some of the Corinthians that believed in Christ for he said some among you They were converted as to their Spiritual state they were in a state of Grace But yet notwithstanding that they were in a very carnal loose frame of heart They did eat and drink worthily as to their Spiritual state but yet nevertheless they did eat and drink unworthily as to their frame of heart and therefore God punished them with corporal sicknesses and death though they were free from Eternal Death and Condemnation by vertue of their Union with Christ and so in a state of Grace which can never be broken Rom. 8.1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus that respects the Spiritual state of the Believer who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit The former that respects the State and this later respects the frame of heart in the former they are alive to God and in the later they walk with God The holy Apostle Peter was in a very carnal frame of heart when he would have disswaded our blessed Saviour from suffering Matt. 16.22 23. Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him saying Be it far from thee Lord this shall not come unto thee But ne turned and said unto Peter Get thee behind me Satan thou art an offence unto me for thou savourest not the things that be of God but those that be of men That is he was in a carnal frame of heart in a sudden passion of misguided Love and Zeal he was carnally minded and our Saviour Christ said unto Peter in another place of Scripture When thou art converted streng then thy Brethren this could not be meant of his first conversion into a state of Grace for so he was converted long before that time But it is meant of his after-conversion unto a more Spiritual frame of heart which he should be in after he had denied Christ And the Apostle Paul said Are ye not carnal and walk as men when one saith I am of Paul and another of Apollos and another of Cephas That is walk as men walketh in a carnal unregenerate state not that they were so but they were even like such And the two Disciples were in a very carnal unbelieving frame of heart even on that very Day that our Redeemer rose from the Dead Luke 24.21 25 26. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel and beside all this to day is the third day since these things were done They looked upon themselves to be deceived in effect but mind what our Saviour said unto them and also to us in them Then he said unto them O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory As if he should have said Did not all the Prophets prophesie of my coming in the flesh and dying in the flesh and rising again in the flesh and did you not see it with your own eyes or might have done it and did not I tell ye so my self that am the great Prophet the head of all the Prophets and will you not believe me nor my Prophets nor your own eyes neither as if Christ should have said This was a very carnal frame of heart indeed and it is said To be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace Now there is a great deal of difference between being carnally minded and a carnal mind as much as there is between Light and Darkness or as there is between hardness of heart and a hard heart for the carnal mindedness in the believer brings a death upon all his Graces and spiritual Comforts he is as if he was in a carnal State with a respect to the comforting Evidence of it that all lieth dead and all the Graces of the Spirit lieth covered over with these Ashes of Carnality and that fills the Soul of the

make such a Heaven-Daring Law as this And that which encreaseth the wonder is this That there should be so many Pillars of their Church which are called Spiritual Lords and that ever they should consent to it that ought to have told those Gentlemen that promoted it the Danger and Evil of it for had they had any Honour for God and Value and Esteem for Christ and his Ordinance and Pity for Men's Souls they would never have made their Church Door so much wider then our Saviour Christ and his Apostles made it or then their own 19th Article made it to make the Church of God not only a Den of Robbers in his sight but also to make it a Herd of Swine And is this to separate the Precious from the Vile I think the Church of England ought not to value her self upon such Laws as these are above their Neighbours and truly she hath little cause to make her boast of these Laws and Tests which should rather be matter of shame unto them indeed Jer. 23.14 I have seen also in the Prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing they commit Adultery and walk in Lies they streng then also the Hands of evil doers that none doth return from his wickedness they are all unto me as Sodom and the Inhabitants as Gomorah Therefore the same Judgments that God brought upon these Prophets that was so guilty then may be expected to come upon those Prophets among us now or an Equivalent who are guilty of the same sins if not worse for if the Body of Sin and Iniquity now be of the same shape and bigness as it was then why then a Garment of Wrath and Vengeance of the same size now will fit it as did then therefore look for it and expect it without a speedy Repentance there will be a speedy Riddance Jer. 6.13 14. For from the least of them to the greatest of them every one is given to Covetousness and from the Prophet even unto the Priest every one dealeth falsly They have healed also the Hurt of the Daughter of my People slightly saying Peace Peace when there is no Peace Were they ashamed when they had committed Abomination Nay they were not at all ashamed neither could they Blush Therefore They shall fall among them that fall at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down saith the Lord. Thus you see what a dreadful Condition all they are in that are thus guilty now among us they are nothing of Kin to their own 19th Article Seventhly This informs us also that all those that do thus come into the Government Invested with these God-provoking most abominable Qualifications do Treasure up Wrath against the day of Wrath and Revelation of God's Righteous Judgments without a speedy and unfained Repentance and turning to God They do eat and drink their own Spiritual Bane and poyson and destroy their own Souls And What shall it profit a Man to gain the whole World and lose his own Soul Or What shall be given in Exchange for his Soul Saith our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Pray Gentlemen try your selves by these things Again Eighthly Is it so that all those that come into the Government Qualified according to the Sacramental Law Do Eat and Drink their own Damnation then this informs us that this Law is against the Statute standing unalterable Law of Heaven And our own Fundamental Law of the Land saith That whatsoever Laws are made against the Law of God are ipso facto void and null in themselves and therefore not to be regarded nor taken notice of no further than to loath it and to abhor it and destroy it And those Spiritual Gentlemen that had their Hands and Hearts engaged in the making of these Laws are the most to blame of all and the Blood of their Souls that have perished upon this Account will be required at their Hands Ezek. 3.20 Again when a Righteous Man doth turn from his Righteousness and commit Iniquity and I lay a stumbling Block before him he shall die in his Sin and his Righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembred But his Blood will I require at thine Hand But some will Object That no Man is forc'd to come into the Government and so no man is forc'd to receive the Sacrament on this Account But if they will come into the Government they must receive it You say no body is forc'd to come into the Government though if I mistake not as I am confident I do not there is a Law in being to force all Adult Persons to the Sacrament once a year at least at their Parish-Church or else Pray Why do they receive Three pence a Head for every Adult Person in your Family and have put Persons in the Exchequer for not paying of it But that by the By. Pray tell me Is there not an absolute necessity of Government Why yes no Man denies that for it is an Ordinance of God why if so then it follows that there is as absolute a necessity for Persons to come into the Government Here you do own that there is an absolute Necessity of Government and that from the most solid Ground and Reason that can be namely because it is an Ordinance of God and therefore it follows that there is an absolute Necessity of Persons to govern well What then Can it ever be imagined that God hath Ordained that any Man should Damn his Soul to partake of this Ordinance of God namely the Civil Government For you see clearly as this old way of governing by Penal Laws and Tests now stands no Man can come into it nor be rightly qualified for it before he hath been and Crucified to himself the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame And also Eat and Drink Damnation to himself not discerning the Lord's Body so that this is the necessary Consequence of that Argument viz. That whosoever will partake of God's Ordinance of the Civil Government must first Murder our Saviour Christ Sacramentally and also Murder his own Soul Hypocritically And also it follows That there is an absolute Necessity of it too by the former Assertion namely the Laws and Ordinance of God and the Laws of Men or else Persons must sin against God by not obeying that Ordinance of his Appointment And then the Consequence that would follow must be this That there must be no Government at all So that it is brought to this Point either they must Crucifie Christ and Eat and Drink their own Damnation or else there must be no Government among us at all And what would the World be without Government It would be a meer Shambles For there is a great deal of Difficulty to keep People to rights where there is good Government and how much more difficult would it be to keep themselves within bounds if there was no Government Who should keep them Or say to him that is stronger than himself What dost thou

in a Carnal Unconverted Dead State you came away with the Guilt of all your Sins faster bound and sealed up than they were before you came there and instead of diminishing and weakning your Sins you went away with your Sins increased and strengthened Now Pray Examine your selves Do you know what these things meaneth Or Are you wholly ignorant of them as old Nicodemus was when our Blessed Saviour Preached unto him the Mysterious Doctrine of Regeneration when he thought he must Re-enter into his Mothers Womb and be born again Joh. 3.4 Are all these things Riddles and Fancies unto ye Do you know nothing of this Matter Are you a stranger to it And are you wholly ignorant of it If you are I tell you plainly that you are no fit Subjects of this Blessed Ordinance but you did come unto it and partake of it unworthily therefore I will refer you to the Apostle Paul's Censure in this Case 1 Cor. 11. If you had not your Mind savingly Enlightned nor your Will Renewed and Changed nor your Affection Rectified and set upon right Objects viz. upon God in Christ And if you had not sanctifying saving Faith fixt upon Christ the only Mediator and Redeemer of Mankind 1 Tim. 2.5 And if you did not come with your Hearts broken for Sin and from Sin and behold a Crucified Saviour with all your Sins Crucified not one spared or Indulged And if you did not come there with a New Spiritual Understanding nor the whole Man sanctified throughout in Body Soul and Spirit But if you came to the Lord's Table ignorant of all this and in all your Sins then instead of receiving any Benefit by or from this Ordinance you do Eat and Drink Judgment or Condemnation to your selves not discerning the Lord's Body But it may be some will be so bold and hardy as to say This is very severe harsh Doctrine Why this is nothing but what I looked for and expected for it is what carnal Hypocrites and proud Persecuters do always judge of God's Holy Word and Righteous Laws and Pure Ordinances Institutions and Worship They judge that to be too strict and his Holy People to be too precise But if you will quarrel at the Severity and Strictness of this Doctrine you must quarrel with the Apostle Paul and the rest of the Apostles and Prophets Nay let me tell ye if you will quarrel with this Doctrine you must dispute the Cause with our Saviour Christ himself if you dare What dare not they do that dare to Crucifie their Maker that should be their Redeemer For the Apostle Paul delivered nothing of this severe harsh Doctrine but what he received first from the Lord 1 Cor. 11.23 There is his Mission and the Prophets spake as they were inspired by the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1.21 For the Prophecy came not in Old time by the Will of Man But Holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost You do find fault with the Severity of God's Laws against Sinners but you do not find fault with the Severity of your own Laws against his Saints and Servants and against your selves also For there the Severity of it will center at last for you have Laws in being which you are now contending for to have continued with us which are to force men to break and violate all these severe Laws of God as you count them and thereby to incur all the Penalties of them And who is severest the God of Mercy or you that are Men of this Cruelty There are very severe Laws made against any that should even dare to Counterfeit the King's Broad-Seal or to fix the Impress of it unto any thing which they have not His Majesty's Command and Authority for so doing it is punishable with Death by the Law for it is High Treason or if they should fix it to Blank Papers whereby Enemies might write what they please and so abuse and betray the King's Authority Why This Ordinance of the Lord's Supper is the Broad-Seal of Heaven it belongeth to the King of Kings and must not be affixed to or impressed upon any thing but what they have God's Authority for so doing Now for any Persons to take this Sacred Broad-Seal of Heaven and make it a common Seal namely to affix it to the civil State to Seal Men Commissions and Warrants for Places and Offices in the Government Civil Military and Ecclesiastical this is to make this Blessed Ordinance a common Seal 2. It is a making this Sacred Broad-Seal of Heaven a common Seal when they Seal a Licence to sell Ale with it by And Thirdly and Lastly They make this Blessed Ordinance of the Lord's Supper which is the Broad-Seal of Heaven a common Seal when at Festival Times as Christmas and Easter when whole Showles of poor ignorant Creatures comes to the Lord's Table that know not their Right-Hand from their Left in spiritual Things and have no saving Work of God wrought in their Souls by the powerful Operation of his Holy Spirit but are all it may be as ignorant as the very Parson that Exhibits it unto them These are all Blanks so they impress the Broad-Seal of Heaven upon Multitudes of Blanks so that the Evil One may come and write what he pleases after them O sad deplorable Condition for any poor Souls to be in And although you count this Doctrine severe and harsh yet no man can be ignorant of it because it is written in the Great Charter of Heaven 1 Cor. 11. He that Eateth and Drinketh unworthily Eateth and Drinketh Condemnation or Judgment to himself God hath threatned to execute severe Judgments and Punishments upon all Prophaners and Abusers of this Holy Ordinance And God hath Four Gracious Ends in threatning these Transgressions 1. It is to Deter and and Affright Sinners from violating these severe Laws as they call them that Persons should not be ignorant of them 2. God threatens because that Sinners might repent and prevent the Execution of those severe Laws 3. God threatens because he will leave the Sinner wholly without Excuse or Plea Every Mouth shall be stop'd And 4. and Lastly God threatens because the Glory of his Attribute of Justice shall appear to all the World when he Executes his Threatning upon the Guilty Impenitent Sinner every Mouth will be stop'd and all shall justifie God and say Righteous art thou O Lord and Just and Holy in all thy Ways Thus you see what a dangerous thing it is for poor ignorant carnal unconverted dead Sinners to rush upon this Ordinance Hand over Head without due Consideration of what they are going about to do But Secondly My Second and last Exhortation and Counsel shall be unto all sober Protestants both of Dissenters and others that are still hankering after the Onions and Garlick and Flesh-Pots of Egypt that are yet staying upon them that smote us And my first Exhortation unto all you shall be this namely Be not afraid to part with