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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89597	The Kings censure upon recusants that refuse the sacrament of the Lords Supper. Delivered in three sermons, containing a refutation of some dangerous common errors, and a remonstration of the duties of administration and participation of that holy sacrament. Proving the necessity of receiving it. Reproving the neglect and contempt of it. Disproving the exceptions and excuses alleged against either the giving or taking of it. Set forth to publick view for the hungry and thirsty souls sake that desire to be satisfyed. By Thomas Marshal minister of the doctrin [sic] and sacraments of the Gospel.	Marshall, Thomas, 1621-1685.	1654 (1654)	Wing M808; Thomason E732_24; ESTC R206892	44,049	52

this end that they all might be damned which believed not the Truth but had pleasure in Unrighteousness Whether the thoughts of Mens hearts be the dictates of God's Spirit they must prove by comparing them with what the Spirit of Truth writes in holy Scriptures And if the Spirit that speaks in thee contradicts the Spirit that writes in that 't is not of God neither are they his Servants that obey that his Servants hear his voyce that is the Master of the Feast And so from him now we come to them He said unto his Servants And they are mentioned before 3 Quibus to his Servants verse 3. the Men he sent out to call the Guests to the VVedding They ran not before they were sent as did the false Prophets but staid for their Mission and that was their Commission 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the verb the same from whence the name Apostle springs And again Luk. 10. Mat. 28. in the 9 verse he saies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Go a word of Authority wherewith Christ sent out his Apostles in other places Observation Without Letters of Orders to take the Ministerial Office upon us is in the Church but disorder None ought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to call the Guests by preaching of the Word or wait on the Table of the Lord but whom he appoints to that Service And here the Servants are not to be taken in the common and largest sense for all that worship him and serve him as the People do but in a stricter and more peculiar way for them that officiate in his service as the Priests and Ministers do Kings make a difference in their Servants some wait more nearly upon their Persons some in Offices further off So doth God the King here who makes a distinction betwixt his Ministers and his People though all serve him together yet they in a nearer way Num. 16.9 God hath separated them to be near himself in the service of the Tabernacle and to stand before the Congregation to minister unto him They are his Stewards the People his Houshold they his Embassadours but those their Auditors they his Servitors those his Guests The Guests are sent for the Servants sent the Guests called the Servants call them Vers 3. He sent out his Servants to call them that were bidden A distinction then sure must be betwixt these two Vse 1. of Instruction Priest and People Clergy and Laity God hath ordained it so and gives no license to private men to take upon them the publick Ministring without a Lawfull yea and an External Calling To do so upon presumption of Gifts and Abilities is as great disorder in the Church as for the Common Souldier upon pretence of his skill and valour to usurp his Captains or chief Commanders place in the Camp or for the Common Lawyer upon pretence of his Learning and Judgement to set him down in the Judges place in the Court This to do without Commission brings all in all the three into confusion But for private men to officiate in the Priests room 2 Of Con● So 〈◊〉 though a Heathen yet a Wise Man so abhorred that he counted it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a deed deserving many deaths He it may be you will think was severe But God who is gentle and mercifull censured it worthy a foul Disease when he for offering Incense in the Priests office punished Vzziah the King with the Leprosie VVorthy of deprivation in King Saul 1 Sam. 13.11 12 13 14. who but once played the Sacrificer in case of necessity yet for this was cast out of the Throne both he and his Posterity Nay more than so worthy of death and that a strange death too Numb 16.40 in the 250 Princes of the Congregation that for offering Incense were consumed with strange Fire that came out from the Lord. And that for a memorandum That no Stranger which is not of the Seed of Aaron come near to offer Incense before the Lord that he be not as Corah and his Company And these all had the natural gift sufficient abilities to act those parts of the Priests Office they enterprised But God that was not therewithall pleased severely punished it as a prophanation for want of lawfull Calling and Consecration If private men for their practice of unlicensed preaching pretend there is more liberty under the Gospel to take on them the publick Ministry they are deceived there is no such warrant from the Word of God Not from the Prophecy of those times by Joel Ioel 2.28 which St. Peter saies was fulfilled in the Apostles speaking with Tongues those Magnalia Dei upon the day of Pentecost Act. 2.16 17. This is that saies he which was spoken by the Prophet Joel that in the last daies meaning the daies of the Gospel at the beginning of them not the last daies before the end of the World God will pour out his Spirit upon all Flesh and your Sons and Daughters shall prophecy as did the Daughters of Philip the Evangelist for this was a prediction of the holy Spirits emanation at the first plantation of the Gospel Act. 21.9 not of phanatique spirits eruption towards the end of the World when false Christs and false Prophets shall arise Mat. 24. and Mockers be in the last times which walk after their own lusts And these are they saies St. Jude which separate themselves Iude 18 19 and are sensual having not the Spirit Nor have they precept as they pretend for their practice That of St. Paul That all may prophecy one by one 1 Cor. 13.31 will not patronize them in it That is not to be understood of all the People private Men and Women which he forbids elswhere to speak in the Church 1 Cor. 14.34 but of all the Prophets or Preachers lawfully called to instruct the Church of God as appears by the Context 'T is great boldness then without an external Calling from Men to assume that high Calling under God and to be as St. Basil tearms it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Mans self-ordainer Yea a madness Lib. 4. Instit cap. 3. sect 14. saies Calvin Vt ab hominibus designetur Episcopus omninò ex ordine legitimae vocationis esse nemo sobrius inficiabitur That a Bishop or Minister should be designed of Men none but a mad Man will deny to be a lawfull Ordination Heb. 5.4 Exod. 29.1 St. Paul saith No man assumed the honour of the Priesthood unless he was called of God as Aaron was who was consecrated by Moses with a great deal of Ceremony But that none should upon a conceit of an internal Calling or Gift of the Spirit go out to preach without the external Consecration by Imposition of Hands the Holy Ghost hath given us a plain direction Act. 13.3 saying Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them Called they were to the work of the