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A64572	A preservative of piety in a quiet reasoning for those duties of religion, that are the means and helps appointed of God for the preserving and promoting of godliness. Namely, I. Of four Christian-duties, viz. 1. Reading the Scriptures. 2. Preparation for the Lords Supper. 3. Estimation of the ministry. 4. Sanctification of the Lords-day-Sabbath. II. Of four family-duties, viz. 1. Houshold-catechising. 2. Family-prayer. 3. Repeating of sermons. 4. Singing of Psalms. With an epistle prefixt, to inform and satisfie the Christian reader, concerning the whole treatise. By William Thomas, rector of the church at Ubley in the county of Somerset.	Thomas, William, 1593-1667.	1662 (1662)	Wing T988; ESTC R37887	203,614	274

wisely considering gives this account of it Even ignorant and profane till convicted and excommunicate not only de jure but de facto have a right for that not keeping company with fornicators covetous c. 1 Cor. 5.11 is intended no otherwise but upon a sentence and judgement fore-going afore which they might for its unreasonable a punishment should be inflicted before a judgment Thus he 3. Neither is he that hath committed a notorious act before the Sacrament excommunicate de jure for it is not just to put him under so dreadful a sentence before tryal be made whether he will obstinately persist in his sin or no which there is no time for supposing the crime to be committed but a little before the Sacrament Now if this be not justly fastened upon scandalous offenders that they are presently excommunciate de jure then so much is yielded as that some Church-members may be secluded at this or that time from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper which serves to confirm what I intended to shew which is that it is agreed upon on all hands that there may be a restraint in Sacrament-admission notwithstanding Church-membership in case of gross ignorance and notorious scandal And that 's all I aim at it being not in my thoughts to press such a strictness as will hinder access to the Sacrament in its just extent but only to repress such profuse concessions as tend to the abuse of that Ordinance and the danger and discomfort both of Receivers and Admitters I have enlarged thus far much beyond my first purpose partly to clear my way to that which followeth and partly to make tryal being necessitated thereunto by the process of this discourse whether my weak thoughts might contribute any thing to a right sense in this much-debated argument It 's high time now to mind my intended business which is to apply my self to those that are babes in Christ unto whom I shall offer in the most plain way that is in a way of Catechism some Sacrament-instructions And therein shall speak something more generally to acquaint them with the Principles of the Doctrine of Christ and then proceed to such things as do more particularly and immediately concern the Sacrament of the Lords Supper General Questions and Answers for the acquainting of the unlearned with the Foundations of Religion 1. Question What is the first thing in Religion needful to be known by every Christian and especially by every Commmunicant Answer That the holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament are the Word of God and a perfect rule of faith and life necessary to be known and believed of all that will be saved 1 Tim. 2.4 Joh. 5.39 20.31 2. Quest. What do the Scriptures principally teach us as more neerly concerning our Salvation Answ. Something concerning God and something concerning our selves 3. Quest. What are we to know concerning God Answ. That there is one only true and everliving God who hath made and doth govern all things in heaven and in earth 4. Quest. Is there nothing else necessary to be known concerning God Answ. Yes we are to know also that though there be but one God yet in this one God-head there are three distinct Persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost each of which is God and yet they are not three Gods but one God of one Substance Power and Eternity 5. Quest. What are we to know concerning our selves Answ. Something is to be known concerning our condition whilest we live in this present world and something concerning our state after death 6. Quest. Concerning our state here and namely the estate of our souls What is there more especially to be observed Answ. We should especially know and consider of our good creation miserable fall and gracious redemption 7. Quest. How was man at first created Answ. Very good for he was made after the Image of God in knowledge righteousness and true holiness 8. Quest. How comes it to pass then that men are so bad now or Whence ariseth our miserable fall Answ. From Adam's disobedience in eating the forbidden fruit whereby he cast himself and all his posterity into a state of sin and death both temporal and eternal inasmuch as in him all men sinned 9. Quest. How could they that were un-born and far from any being when Adam sinned be guilty of his sin and fall with him into so sad a state Answ. Even as Levi is said to pay Tithes in Abraham to Melchisede●k though he were not born when Abraham paid them but long after because he was in the loyns of Abraham when Melchisedeck met him so may all man-kind be said to sin in Adam because they were all in his loyns when he sinned 10. Quest. But what reason can be given why it should be so Answ. Because the Covenant which God made with Adam was made with him as a common person and so it bound not him alone but took in all his posterity who being rooted and reckoned in him did therefore fall in and with him 1 Cor. 15.21 22. with Rom. 5.12 11. Quest. Man being thus faln Shew now what is to be known concerning his Redemp●ion and restoring Answ. That when in regard of th● frailty of faln man Life could not be obtained by the righteousness of Works God did not leave him to perish but entred into a new Covenant of Grace for the restoring of him into an estate of righteousness and salvation by a Redeemer Rom. 3.23 24. 12. Quest. Who is the Redeemer Answ. The Lord Jesus Christ God and Man in one Person Isa. 59 20 21. Luk. 1.35 1 Tim. 2.5 3.16 13. Quest. Why must Christ our Redeemer and Mediator be Man Answ. That he might in the nature of man that had offended being himself without sin do and suffer whatsoever was necessary for the satisfaction of Gods justice and the salvation of sinful and lost man 14. Quest. Why must he be God Answ. That he might stand under the infinite wrath of God overcome death with all other enemies of our salvation and that he might give worth and efficacy to his satisfaction and obedience for the perfect purchasing and redeeming of us to himself 15. Quest. What is more particularly to be known concerning Jesus Christ our Redeemer Answ. We are to know that for the performance of the work of our Redemption he was in the fulness of time conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary that he dyed for our sins rose again for our justification that he ascended into heaven and there sitteth at the right hand of God to make intercession for us from whence he shall come at the day appointed of God to judge both the quick and the dead 16. Quest. Are all men made partakers of the saving

Christ himself crucified for As in our bodily nourishment we have not only sustenance by it but receive into our bodyes the substance of it And as the Graffe wholly lives the same life with the Stock to which it is united so we being united to Christ do so eat his flesh and drink his bloud and by our faith feed so upon him as to live the same life with him partaking in all his benefits for our spiritual relief because we have communion with Him first For we must have the Son before we have life 1 Joh. 5.12 14. Quest. Declare yet more fully how we can receive Christ since we are here on Earth and he is in heaven Answ. Though we receive Christ really and t●uly yet not corporally and carnally but spiritually We take not his flesh and bloud into our mouths and stomacks as we do the Bread and Wine but into our souls by faith through the Spirit of God whereby we dwell in him and he in us And thus we may receive him though he be in Heaven and we here for Faith goes as it were from Earth to Heaven and there fastens on him and the Spirit on the other side descends down from the head still to supply us with more and more of that fulness which is in Jesus Christ for us 16. Quest. Declare more particularly those benefits of the death of Christ which we receive in this Sacrament Answ. They are principally and plainly these Forgiveness of sin Strength to do God service And to overcome our spiritual Enemies the Devil the World and the flesh And nourishment for our souls to eternal life 17. Quest. How doth it appear that forgiveness of sin is to be expected and enjoyed in the holy use of this Sacrament Answ. Because I see the Wine on the Lords Table which shews that if I receive as I ought I receive the Bloud of Christ which is shed for me and for many for the remission of sins 18. Quest. What is there that sheweth that we receive strength also to do God service Answ. That both the Bread and Wine may put us in mind of for even as Bread strengthens mans heart and Wine makes it glad and both make a man fit and able for his ordinary business so doth the grace of Christ reached forth in this Ordinance strengthen the soul for the performance of every part of Gods service for his flesh is meat indeed and his blood drink indeed and therefore doth what meat and drink do in a spiritual and soul-sustaining way 19. Quest. How appeareth it that strength is received here against spiritual Enemies Answ. We may easily conceive it because we find that Bread and Wine and such ordinary food do not only enable a servant and any other man to labour but a souldier also to fight who otherwise would soon faint whence we may collect that there is such a vertue in the Body and Blood of Christ received by faith as not only to make us able to do God service but also to fight with and get victory over all the Enemies of our Salvation whom by the strength of Christ we overcome 20. Quest. How is it made plain that we receive at the Lords Table that food which nourisheth our souls to eternal life Answ. Because Bread and Wine and such ordinary food maintain the life of the body for many years together As therefore this perishing food maintains a perishing life so the meat which the Son of Man gives unto us in the Word and Sacrament nourisheth the soul to eternal life for it is not a food that perisheth but which indureth in us unto everlasting life Joh. 6.27 21. Quest. What reason have we to gather from the signs in the Sacrament that these several benefits are in it and by it as by an Ordinance of God bestowed upon us Answer Because God sets such familiar signs before our eyes for this purpose that we who are othe●wise weak to conceive of heavenly things may collect and gather what in this blessed Sacrament is done for the Soul by what we know by experience this our ordinary food doth for the Body Christ speaks and that in his Sacrament-Institutions earthly things to lead us and that in our own way to the understanding of things heavenly Joh. 3.12 22. Quest. Open this a little more fully Answ. It will be yet more clear by considering that as John the Baptist was a Prophet and more then a Prophet so the Sacraments are signs and more then signs that is they are appointed of God to be a means of conveying those heavenly things which they do represent unto us and of putting us into actual possession thereof 1 Cor. 10.16 12.13 yet not by any power in themselves but only by the working of the Holy Ghost and the blessing of Christ on his own Institution Act. 8.13 with ver 21. 23. Quest. Thus much for what we do receive in the Sacrament Declare now how we ought to receive it Answ. These five things Knowledge Desire Repentance Faith and Charity are things needful for a right and worthy receiving 24. Quest. What is that we ought to know when we come to Communicate in this Sacrament Answ. It is needful for us to know in general two things First our selves and our own estate that is that we are all by nature and in our selves vile and wretched creatures deserving nothing but death and damnation Secondly That there is no way to be saved but only by Christ and that therefore we come to the Word and Sacrament to receive him because we cannot be saved without him 25. Quest. In what manner must we know this Answ. We must know both these not sleightly but feelingly We should know our sin with such feeling and sorrow as a wounded man knows his wound who knows it as we say with a witness And we should know Christ with such feeling desi●e and joy as the wounded man knows the Surgion by whom he is to be cured whom he knows with another kind of knowledge then he doth an ordinary man In these two to wit the feeling knowledge of sin as the worst thing and of Christ as the best and only desirable thing consists the substance of saving Religion 26. Quest. Is there nothing else to be known Answ. Yes we should more particularly know in some measure the nature of a Sacrament and be able to discern what we have to do withall in the Lords Supper to wit not only with Bread and Wine but with the Body and Blood of Christ that we may not dishonour him nor indanger our selves by an unworthy medling with it 27. Quest. What is the next thing required in a worthy Receiver Answ. That which is the mark and fruit of the former knowledge and which shews the necessity of it that is Desire or an holy hungring and thirsting after that Bread and that

benefits of this Redeemer Answ. Not so because Christ and his saving benefits are applyed and received only by faith which all have not but the elect only and which they that want are condemned already because they believe not in the Name of the only begotten Son of God 17. Quest. Is there not something also to be known and believed concerning the Church Answ. Yes we are to believe that there is an holy Catholick that is Universal Church or Congregation gathered out of all quarters of the world wherein forgiveness of sin in the Name of Christ is preached communion of Saints exercised and eternal life obtained 18. Quest. Is nothing required in Christians but faith Answ. Yes we are to know also that we are bound to lead a godly life that is a life ordered according to the Word of God in righteousness and holiness without which none shall see the Lord 19. Quest. But in many things we offend all What are we therefore to mind further in regard of our sin and manifold disobedience Answ. In regard of our sinful estate naturally and our f●ilings continually we are further to know that Repentance is necessarily required for without that we must perish And is to be still renewed for in that way we must look for pardon and yet ever come to Christ for procuring life Joh. 5.40 Mat. 11.28 20. Quest. What are we to know concerning our estate after death Answ. That the souls of the faithful do immediately after death live with Christ in blessedness but the souls of the wicked go immediately into Hell-torments 21. Quest. And what shall become of the bodies of both Answ. There shall be a resurrection of the bodies of the just and the unjust at the last day at which time all shall appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ in their own persons to receive the things done in their bodies according to that they have done whether it be good or bad 22. Quest. What doth the Scripture declare concerning the last and everlasting disposal of the persons of men at that day Answ. As they are and as they die so they shall be disposed of hereafter The wicked therefore and such as would do nothing for Christ shall go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal Having spoken thus far concerning the General Doctrine of Scripture and the Main Points of Religion the knowledge whereof is more necessary to Salvation I shall now proceed to speak more particularly of the Sacraments and in special of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper of which I should have made mention and inserted them in the fore-going general Instructions but that I purposely reserved them to a peculiar and larger Explication in the now ensuing Questions and Answers An help for unlearned Christians that they may not be unworthy Receivers 1. Quest. What is mans chiefest happiness and only blessedness Answ. To approach unto God in and through Jesus Christ and to partake in a near acquaintance and fellowship with him Job 22.21 2. Quest. Why should all happiness be summ'd up in the enjoyment of God Answ. If they were blessed who continually stood before Solomon how much more they who enjoy the only wise God with Jesus Christ his Son and together with him all things also which are laid up in him which we shall have here as is needful from him and shall have for ever hereafter in all fulness with him 3. Quest. Who are they that are partakers of this blessedness Answ. They whom God is pleased to choose and to take into Covenant with himself not only as persons called but as persons chosen 4. Quest. What are the means whereby we are partakers of the benefit of the Covenant of Grace for our everlasting blessedness Answ. This is done by the Ordinance of God and more especially by the Word and the Sacraments 5. Quest. What difference is there between these two Ordinances Answ. The Word is the Writing reporting and declaring and the Sacraments are the Seals confirming and assuring the benefits of the Covenant unto us 6. Quest. Shew more fully what a Sacrament is Answ. It is a special Ordinance of God signifying and setting before our eyes sealing unto our hearts and conveying into our souls through the Spirit the singular and saving benefits of the Covenant of Grace 7. Quest. What be the parts of a Sacrament Answ. The outward sign which we see and the inward grace which we do not see unless by the eye of faith As in our bodily sustenance there is the food upon the Table which we see but the strength and life which that food gives us we see not but yet feel and find it afterward 8. Quest. How many Sacraments be there Answ. No more then Christ hath appointed for Sacraments that is to say Two only Baptism and the Lords Supper 9. Quest. What is the difference between these two Answ. By Baptism there is an ingrafting into Jesus Christ and a right solemnly manifested unto the Covenant and so the whole benefit thereof is in Gods good time enjoyed by every Infant that belongs to Him and by all them that keep the vow of their Baptism By the Sacrament of the Lords Supper the same Covenant is renewed and the good things thereof are more abundantly afforded to all that are by Baptism received into Christ and his Church for their spiritual nourishment and increasing with the increases of God 10. Quest. Since there is so much good continually coming in by the Sacrament of the Lords Supper What course is to be taken that we may enjoy it Answ. The course which God hath prescribed and which therefore shall certainly be blessed to make this Sacrament beneficial to us is this Let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup 1 Cor. 11.28 11. Quest. What are the things belonging to this Examination Answ. We are to be taught and to learn these two things especially What we are to receive and how we are to receive it And then to examine whether those things be in us that are in worthy Receivers of so great mysteries 12. Quest. What is it that we do receive in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Answ. We receive Bread and Wine as the outward signs and together with them if we receive as we ought the Body and Bloud of Christ as the thing signified 13. Quest. Since Christ's natural Body and Bloud are not to be looked for in the Sacrament shew more plainly what is meant when it is said We receive his Body and Bloud Answ. The meaning is that every worthy Communicant receiveth Jesus Christ with all his benefits He receiveth not only the benefits but