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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34877	A supplement to Knowledge and practice wherein the main things necessary to be known and believed in order to salvation are more fully explained, and several new directions given for the promoting of real holiness both of heart and life : to which is added a serious disswasive from some of the reigning and customary sins of the times, viz. swearing, lying, pride, gluttony, drunkenness, uncleanness, discontent, covetousness and earthly-mindedness, anger and malice, idleness / by Samuel Cradock ... useful for the instruction of private families.	Cradock, Samuel, 1621?-1706.	1679 (1679)	Wing C6756; ESTC R15332	329,893	408

unto Christ they should address themselves unto it as one of the solemnest works in the world They should do it with due preparation reverence and seriousness as beseemeth those that are transacting a business of such unspeakable importance 4. They should ingage to bring up their children in the principles of the Christian Faith They should imagine God said to them as the daughter of Pharoah said to Moses's Mother Exod. 2.19 Bring up this Child for me Bring up this Child in my fear and for my service 5. They should be very earnest in prayer to God for their children O that Ismael might live in thy sight sayes holy Abraham Gen. 17.18 So should pious Parents pray for their children O that this child of mine may be a real member of Christ O that he may have the Image of God stamped upon his Soul O that he may honour God here and be for ever happy with him in his Kingdom hereafter 6. They should be early instilling good and wholsome principles and documents into them precept upon precept line upon line here a little and there a little as they are able to bear it Isa 28.10 And the Mother as well as the Father should make conscience to do this We read that Bathsheba the mother of Solomon did so Prov. 31. which chapter contains her wise instructions to him * And if it be the duty of Parents thus carefully to instruct their Children then surely 't is the duty of Children carefully to observe and lay to heart and practice the instructions of their Parents 7. They should check the first appearings and buddings forth of sin in them endeavouring to make them sensible of the great evil and danger of it 8. They should labour to make them in love with the beauty and excellency of Holiness and Vertue 9. They should bring them to the ordinances of God expecting the spirit of God will move upon those waters 10. They must be sure to set them a good example Children are more led by example than precept * Exemplum concionatoris concionibus validius Et exempl●m Parentis praeceptis validiu● 11. They must encourage all good beginnings of vertue or ingenuity they see in them 12. And lastly they must labour to give them a good education and put them into a good way of living in the World and make such provisions for them as God in his Providence shall inable them And those Parents that do these things whatever the success be will have comfort in so doing Of the Lords Supper I Come now to treat of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper In the handling of which I shall 1. Indeavor rightly to inform your Judgments concerning the true nature use intent and benefit of this holy ordinance 2. Direct your practice that you may know how to receive it in a right manner and to your spiritual benefit That you may therefore be rightly informed concerning the nature of this Sacrament you must know that the Jews had two ordinary standing Sacraments viz. 1. Circumcision to which Our Baptism do answer 2. The Passover to which The Lords Supper do answer Theirs were bloody Sacraments for the blood of Christ was to be shed Ours unbloody for the blood of Christ is shed Now that I may speak more distinctly and plainly concening the Sacrament of the Lords Supper it will be requisite that I speak something 1. concerning the Jewish Passover which we shall consider either as it was first instituted or as it was afterwards celebrated wherein divers rites of the first Aegyptian Passover were not exactly observed The first institution of the Passover we find Exod. 12. When Israel after long servitude and bondage was to go out of Egypt God commanded them in their several families to kill a Lamb to roast it whole to eat it within doors that night to sprinkle the side and upper door-posts with the blood thereof and so doing they should be safe from the destroying Angel that rode circuit that night to destroy all Egypts first born but he was to pass by all the houses of Israel sprinkled with blood And hence the name Passover Exod. 12.27 This was to be greatly observed on the fourteenth day of the first moneth at Even In the treating therefore of this Passover we shall first consider the things that were proper to the Jewish Passover in Egypt and then shew how they prefigured Christ our Passover 1. They were commanded to take a Lamb. A Lamb the emblem of innocency So our Saviour was stiled John 1.19 The Lamb of God being of a Lamb-like humility and meekness John his beloved Disciple often stiles him so as being exceedingly delighted with this similitude 2. A Lamb without blemish So was our Saviour 1 Pet. 1.19 3. One of their own flocks and folds Christ was of the Jewish Nation Rom. 9.4 5. Like in all things to his brethren sin only excepted 4. It must be slain So Christ was put to death on the Cross 5. Not a bone of it must be broken which was verified in Christ John 19.33 36. 6. It must be roasted So our Saviour suffered the scorching heat of his Fathers wrath sweating drops of blood for our sakes Luke 22.44 O Sinner how little art thou sensible of what thy Saviour hath suffered to redeem thee 7. The blood of the Lamb must be sprinkled on the side and upper door-posts of their houses if they intended to be preserved from the destroying Angel So must the blood of Christ be sprinkled by Faith on our hearts if we intend to be delivered from the wrath to come See 1 Pet. 1.2 and Heb. 12.24 There is no escaping the wrath of God but by the sprinkling of Christs blood on our consciences 8. They were to eat this Paschal Lamb with sower herbs and unlevened bread 1. With sower herbs to mind them of what affliction and bondage they were in in Egypt We must have contrition and remorse wrought in us for our sins and be in bitterness of soul for them ere we can reasonably expect relief by Christ 2. With unlevened bread The succeeding Jews that they might shew their exactness in observing this precept did at this Passover-time use great diligence to rid their houses of all leven yea they were so strict about it that they searched with candles to see if there were any remaining in any corner or hole And lest after all their diligence any should remain with them yet unfound out they passed a solemn execration upon it in these or the like words All the leven that is within my possession which I have seen or which I have not seen which I have cast out or not cast out be it accursed be it as the dust of the earth The Apostle shews us that by leven is meant malice and wickedness by unlevened bread sincerity and truth He intimates what manner of persons they must be that intend to feed upon Christ by Faith They must not think to eat of

this Lamb except they rid themselves of their Leven Leven it swells the mass and sours it Pride makes the heart swell and malice soures it search therefore O Sinner to find out thy leven when thou thinkest of approaching to this holy Table Search every corner of thy heart as with a candle and when thou hast found out thy sins manifest thy hatred and loathing of them Never think to be pardoned except thou part with thy sins Never think to be saved except thou be sanctified 9. They were to eat it with their loins girt and staves in their hands and shooes on their feet shewing themselves thereby to be in a posture of readiness to be gone out of Egypt and to seek the promised Land Which may intimate to us that we must receive this blessed Sacrament with intention to leave the dominions of Pharaoh the Kingdom Service and bondage of sin and Satan and to march on towards our heavenly Canaan People would fain escape damnation yet are loath to leave their pleasing and profitable sins No coming to Canaan except you leave Egypt 10. When they had eaten of the roasted Lamb if any thing thereof remained it was to be burnt with fire and not left till the morning This may shew us that Sacramental elements are not Sacramental * Nihil habet ratione Sacramenti extra usum legitimum Sacramentalem but in their use only and while they are used As Bread and Wine in this Sacrament and Water in Baptism after the Sacramental use are no longer Sacramental A stone is boundary in its use and place Remove it 't is a meer stone no boundary 11. Two sorts of persons were barred from eating the Passover 1. The uncircumcised the stranger and foreigner Exod. 12.43 48. Such as are not initiated into Christs Family the Church by the first Sacrament of Baptism cannot regularly be admitted to the Lords Table 2. unclean persons though circumcised or such as were in a journey were to be put off to the Passover of the second moneth being not cleansed for the present according to the purification of the Sanctuary 2 Chron. 30.18 19. Numb 9.10.11 This shews us that some persons who are within the communion of the Church may be unfit at some particular times to come to the Lords Table yea though believers may at such times eat and drink unworthily 12. After the Paschal Lamb was eaten on the next day viz. on the fifteetnh day of the first moneth began the Feast of the Passover or feast of unlevened bread It continued seven dayes and no levened bread was to be eaten during that time and of those seven dayes the first and last only were holy Convocations or Sabbaths wherein they might do no servile work Exod. 12.15 16. Levit. 23.5 6 7. Numb 28.16 17 18. The Apostle alludes hereunto 1 Cor. 5.7 Christ our Passover is Sacrificed therefore let us keep the feast As if he should have said those for whom Christ our Passover is Sacrificed on wh●s● consciences his blood is sprinkled ought to be a holy people not levened with sin and wickedness and to walk before God in sincerity and truth living all their dayes in a holy rejoycing and thanksgiving Thus much of the first Passover as instituted and observed in Egypt some of the Ceremonies whereof were proper to that Passover and not intended for any other following And accordingly in after times they were not observed As particularly 1. The Paschal Lamb was afterwards to be slain and eaten only at Je●usalem Deut. 16.5 6. The place which God had chosen for his publick worship 2. They did not observe the taking up of the Lamb four dayes before 3. Nor the sprinkling the door posts with blood 4. Nor staying within and not going out of the house that night For our Saviour and his Disciples did go out after Supper 5. Nor eating it in a travelling posture For we find our Saviour and his disciples eating it in a posture of discubiture or leaning on beds From whence we may take notice that we are not bound to observe all occasional or local circumstances or customs belonging to a Sacrament nor to follow our Saviour and his Apostles in those particular circumstances of eating the Lords Supper late at night or in a leaning posture or in an upper Chamber no woman being present c. Let us look to the substance end and intent of the Sacrament and chiefly mind that Having spoken thus much of the Passover I think it will not be amiss for the clearer understanding of the original institution of this Sacrament of the Lords Supper to insert a short description of the method and order of the Paschal Supper with the principal rites thereunto belonging which were then either all or most of them as it seems in use among the Jews as they are delivered to us by their own writers much after this manner consisting in several Cups or drinkings of Wine and two breakings of bread Some of which rites we shall shew that our Saviour took and ordained them to a new Evangelical use and mystical signification 1. When all things appertaining to the Feast were prepared and all persons belonging to that Company that were to eat together were ready the chief man of the company who was as it were the Priest among them takes a cup of Wine and blesses it in some such words as these Blessed be thou Lord who hast created the fruit of the vine and blessed be thou for this good day and this holy convocation c. Compare with this custome our Saviours words Luke 22.17 He took the Cup and gave thanks and said take this and divide it among you 2. Then the Table was furnished with provisions of several sorts viz. bitter herbs the unlevened bread the body of the Paschal Lamb roasted whole and so brought up 3. The chief man of the company takes the sower herbs and blesses them in some such words as these Blessed art thou O Lord who createst the fruits of the earth c. and then eats of them the quantity of an Olive at least and distributes to the rest uttering some such sentence as this These bitter herbs we eat in token that the Egyptians made the lives of our Fathers bitter in Egypt 4. Then he takes the dish or Charger which held the unleavened bread or Cakes and laying by a piece thereof to be eaten afterwards with the Paschal Lamb at the close of the Supper he blessed the bread in some such words as these blessed art thou O Lord who bringest forth bread out of the earth c. Then he breaks it and eats of it 5. When this is finished he begins the second Cup of Wine and the rest follow him Then their Children brought in were made to ask what is the reason that this night differs so much from other nights instancing in many particulars of the festival solemnities Then the master of the feast begins a a narrative how