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A77514	Two treatises: I. The saints communion with Jesus Christ, sacramental, spiritual, and celestial; wherein ministers and Christian are excited to a conscientious administration, and participation of that, of late-time, in many places, too much neglected ordinance, the sacrament of the Lords Supper; wherein that great controversie of a free admission is debated. II. Acquaintance with God; the nature of it opened, the practice perswaded, encouraged, directed, cautioned. / As it was lately delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel there.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing B4735; Thomason E1547_1; ESTC R209457	66,672	237

a pledge of their heavenly communion Sacramental communion Such is this Sacramental communion in the Supper First A sign representing it So it doth A sign representing the heavenly communion and that most lively specially as that Ordinance is now administred unto you and received by you in this Congregation where your sitting at the Table and there eating and drinking of the Sacramental Bread and Wine together Sitting at the Table a Mystical ceremony representing the communion of the Saints in Heaven carrieth with it a more lively representation and resemblance of that heavenly communion which one day you hope to have with Jesus Christ and with his Saints and Angels then any other form or manner of Administration doth or can do So much is not obscurely insinuated unto us in those expressions which our blessed Saviour is pleased to make use of in describing and setting forth that heavenly communion which he doth by sitting Matth. 8.11 Many shall come from the East and from the West and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Accumbent sit down A metaphor taken from feasts or banquets where men of different conditions sit down together so having a civil communion one with another So do the guests whilest the servitors stand by as the story tell us Martha did while Lazarus with the rest sate at table with our Saviour Joh. 12.2 And so again by eating and drinking at the Table Luke 22.30 I appoint unto you a Kingdom c. That ye may eat and drink at my Table 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 At my Table An expression questionless derived from his last Supper which he had then administred where his Apostles sate down with him eating and drinking at his table Thus they then celebrated the Passover not standing which gesture was appropriated unto that first Passover in Egypt because they were to eat it in haste as Moses tells them Exod. 12.11 but sitting their ordinary table gesture as the Evangelists Matthew and Mark both express it Matth. 26.20 Mark 14.18 And in the same posture they celebrated the Eucharistical Supper sitting and eating and drinking at the Table Which was to them a representation of that heavenly communion which there he promiseth they should have with him in Heaven shadowing it out not onely in the actions of eating and drinking but also in the posture of sitting and eating and drinking at the table A gesture not subject to any just exception Which I desire it may be the rather taken notice of for the satisfying of such as make a scruple of the like manner of administration at this day Which being so conform and agreeable to the Primitive pattern cannot I am sure upon any just ground be quarrelled with Secondly As this Sacramental communion is a sign Sacramental communion a pledge of celestial so a pledge of the heavenly communion As a sign representing it so a pledge sealing assuring it to all the worthy receivers of that Sacrament And upon this double account amongst others it ought not to be neglected but conscientiously attended upon where it is according to Christs Institution held forth But Christians may not rest here External communion not to be rested in in such an external communion This Judas had he followed his Master in an outward profession as well as the rest of the Apostles he heard his word he participated with him in the Passover and for ought I know in the Supper also Yet had he nothing to do with this promise being first a Traytor to his Master and after his own executioner he went 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to his own place as St. Luke tells us Acts 1.25 that is to that Hell which was a place more fit for him then that wherein he was among the Apostles and a place to which for his treachery and perfidiousness he was by God justly designed as that Text is commonly and I think properly expounded See then that we go further that we have an inward spiritual Inward spiritual communion to be sought after Rom. 6.5 invisible mystical communion with the Lord Jesus That being ingrafted into him not onely Sacramentally as all persons baptized are but really and truly united to him by faith and love we be made partakers of his Spirit which may transform us into his Image Eph. 3.17 That Christ may dwell in our hearts being present in us by the influence of his Grace and Spirit communicating to us the vertue of his death and resurrection Phil. 3.10 whereby we may be inabled to die unto sin and to live unto righteousness shewing forth his vertues expressing his life imitating his obedience in doing and suffering the will of our heavenly Father not onely hearing but receiving his words as the Apostles are said to do John 17.8 not onely eating of his bread and drinking of his cup in the Sacrament which many do upon earth who shall never eat or drink at his table in Heaven but that we eat his flesh and drink his blood applying the merits of his death unto our selves unto our justification looking up to him and by faith hanging upon him for a continual supply of his Spirit whereby we may be strengthned in the inward man Eph. 3.16 2 Cor. 3.18 and changed from glory to glory growing from grace to grace until we shall all come in the unity of the Faith and knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ as the Apostle speaketh Ephes 4.13 Having such a communion with this our blessed Lord and Saviour here in his Kingdom of grace upon earth we shall have a blessed Communion with him in his Kingdom of glory in Heaven where we shall drink of this fruit of the Vine new with him to all eternity Which honor and happiness may he vouchsafe to every of us To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be praise and thanks giving now and for ever Amen FINIS Acquaintance WITH GOD THE Nature of it opened The Practice Perswaded Incouraged Directed Cautioned As it was lately delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth By John Brinsley Minister of the Gospell there London Printed by R. I. for Tho. Newbery at the three golden Lyons in Cornhil To the right Worshipfull the Lady ANNE WENTWORTH at her house in Somerleyton in the County of Suffolk Madam I Can not I may not forget those respects which my selfe some years since found from your late honoured Husband and your selfe how during my exile in the late difficult times from the * Great Yarmouth place to which God first called and hath since returned me you were pleased to provide me a residence and subsistance in your neighboring * The Island of Lovingland Patmos where for some time I exercised my Ministery first as a Teacher in a * Lownde Village near you and

been More I have not save onely to apologize for one other Branch of the Treatise wherein I have freely declared my apprehensions concerning the gesture which is in this Congregation used viz. Of sitting at the Table in the act of receiving This I have commended and must commend as conceiving it most agreeable to the first pattern and to the subsequent practise of the Proto-primitive Churches in the Apostolical times as also suiting best with the nature of the duty and consequently freest from all just exceptions But not with any intent to censure all other different forms of administration as well knowing that all places of publick meeting cannot with conveniency admit of this Which having presented unto you I shall now leave you where I found you under the gracious protection and guidance of him who holdeth the seven Stars in his right hand and walketh in the midst of the seven golden Candlesticks Humbly subscribing my self The unworthiest of your fellow servants Joh. Brinsley Great Yarmouth Jan. 31. 1652. TO THE Christian Reader Christian WHen I first took up this Text it was far from my thoughts that my MEDITATIONS thereon should have been made any further publick then as the Pulpit rendred them But since that sadly laying to heart the long and yet continued disuse of that Sacred Ordinance the Sacrament of the Lords Supper in many places with the slighting and neglecting of it in some others where it is held forth in a regular way according to the Primitive Patterne I have been induced to cast abroad this spark which Providence had put into my hand Which I have done not with a desire of kindling any fire of contention in the Church which being already broken forth into such open flames calls for water not for oyl but of a holy zeal and fervor in the hearts and spirits both of Ministers and People that both may be excited in the fear of God and in obedience to the command of their blessed Lord and Saviour speedily to set upon some effectual course whereby this Sealing Ordinance being of so great concernment to the Church may be restored to Liberty with Purity May the success herein in any degree answer my Intentions I shall bless God for it and rest Thine in all Christian services John Brinsley YARMOUTH Jan. 31. 1653. The Saints Communion with Jesus Christ Mat. 26.29 But I say unto you I will not henceforth drink of this fruit of the vine untill that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my father HAving had occasion in the morning in the Celebration of the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper to open unto some of you the three verses foregoing wherein we have set forth unto us the primitive institution of that Ordinance I now take hold of these words following which Saint Luke annexeth to the Passeover Luk. 22.18 but Saint Matthew and Marke to the Lords Supper not improbably as Paraeus conjectures they might be twice repeated Nihil impedit quin his idem repetiverit de utroque poculo Paraeus ad loc Vide Fulk Cartwright Annot. ad loc Parts Prediction Promise as an Appendix to both I shall here looke upon them as I meet with them in reference to the latter as relating to the Eucharisticall Cup which the Demonstrative particle in the Text This this fruit of the Vine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 plainly pointeth at as being the next Antecedent to it So looking upon the words I shal take notice in them of two things a Prediction and a Promise or a Valediction and a Consolation The Prediction or Valediction in the former part where our Saviour taketh his farewell of his Apostles of ever having any more such communion with them upon earth and fore-warneth them of his death being then at hand I say unto you I will not henceforth drinke of this fruit of the vine The Promise or Consolation in the latter where hee comforteth them with the hope and assurance of a better Communion untill that day when I shall drinke it new c. Part 1. The Prediction or Valediction These are the two maine parts of the text which I shall handle severally and briefly rather glossing upon every thing then dwelling upon any thing I begin with the former the Prediction or Valediction I will not hence-forth drinke of the fruit of the Vine Where the first inquiry must be The fruit of the vine what what we shal here understand by this fruit of the Vine this some have made a question and as Maldonate saith a great question Quid Christus vitis generationem hit appellat magna est questio Maldonat ad loc but without any just ground or cause that I know the phrase is obvious and plaine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Genimen vitis as the vulgar Latine hath it the geniture or product the fruit of the Vine that is Wine which as elsewhere it is called the bloud of the Grape Gen. 49.11 so here the fruit of the vine Quest This Periphrasis why here used But why doth our Saviour here make use of this Periphrasis this circumlocution why doth he not speake plainly and simply I will no more hence-forth drinke of this wine or any wine A. Here to let other answers passe that of Grotius and some others seemeth most naturall Groti ad loc Cameron Myrothec ad loc who informes us from the Rabbins that this was the usuall Language in the celebration of the Passeover where mentioning the Cup Benedictio sis tu Domine Rex mundi qui das nobis fructum vitis Maldonat ad loc they were wont to call it by no other name but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the fruit of the vine So ran their set forme of Benediction which the Master of the feast was wont to use in their consecrating of that cup. Blessed art thou O Lord God King of the world who hast made the fruit of the vines And hereupon our Saviour as hee borrowed most of those Sacramental actions which are used in his Supper from the Passeover so also he retaineth this phrase and manner of speech calling the Sacramentall Cup the fruit of the vine Obs 1. The Sacramentall Cup Wine not Water Chrysost in Matth. Hom. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ibid. Such it was in the first institution the fruit of the vine wine not water as Chrysostom observes from this text against some pernicious Heretickes in his time as he calleth them who cleane contrary to our Saviours practise Joh. 2.9 who turned water into wine they turned the Sacramentall wine into water nor yet wine mixed with water Nor wine mixed with water as they of the Church of Rome will have it putting a mystery in it but pure wine the pure bloud of the grape as it is called Deut. 32.14 such it was in the first institution and let not any dare either to change or yet adulterate it with any

we come to come with due preparation so in the act of receiving to raise up our hearts that what wee doe we may doe it with all our might with all possible intention of soule and spirit certainly this we would do were we but assured as our Saviour here was that the present Sacrament should be our last O how would we then bend our spirits to the duty Do we the like at every Sacrament not knowing but it may be so so eating the Sacramentall Bread and so drinking the Sacramentall Cup as if it were our laft farewell to all Creature-comforts and Ordinances So doth our blessed Saviour here celebrating of this Feast with his Apostles and having drunke of that Sacramentall Cup Henceforth saith he I shall drink no more of this fruit of the vine Part 2. The Ptomise or Consolation There is his Prediction or Valediction The Consolation or Promise followeth untill that day when I drinke it new with you in the kingdome of my Father Untill A word spoken in season a word spoken in season which as the Wise-man saith is verbum bonum a good word Prov. 15.23 Like apples of gold with pictures of silver Prov. 25.11 Amiable and acceptable such was this Untill unto the Apostles here who could not but be much troubled at the former words to heare that their Master and they must now part that this was the last meale that ever they were like to have together this could not but be a sadding to their spirits So was it to the Elders of Ephesus when Paul told them that they should see his face no more Act. 20.25 This made a deep impression upon their spirits as the last verse of that Chapter informes us And they all wept sore saith the thirty seventh and fell on Pauls neck and kissed him sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake that they should see his face no more To think what losse themselves and the Church should have in Pauls death this strucke them to the heart and questionlesse it could not but doe the like to the Apostles here to heare the like from their master that he and they must now part that this was the last Cup that ever hee should drinke with them this could not but be a sad word to them To allay this griefe he therefore prefently subjoynes this consolatory promise staying their hearts and comforting them with the hope and assurance of another and a better communion one day Untill that day when I shall drinke it new with you in my Fathers kingdom Q. Quest Vntill that day But what day was that a question What day is here spoken of and a great question among Expositors a four-fold opinion I finde about it A. 1. Ans A four-fold opinion about it A. 1. The time of our Saviours abode upon earth after his resurrection Some in the first place understand it of the time of our Saviours abode upon earth after his resurrection during which time he had communion with his Apostles appearing to them and conversing with them which he did at sundary times for forty dayes together as Saint Luke reports it Act. 1.3 And thus conversing with them he also ate with them this hee did more then once So wee finde him Luke 24.41 where comming to his Disciples hee demands of them Have yee here any meat And they giving him a peice of broyled Fish and an Hony-combe He tooke it saith the text and did eate before them The like we finde again John 21. where our Saviour putting the like question to Peter and some of the Apostles with him Children have ye any meat Vers 5. Afterwards he dined with them upon their miraculous draught of fishes Ver. 12 13. And thus eating with them though it be not expressed yet it is more then probable that he also drank with them So much is collected from that speech of Peter to Cornelius and his company Petrus non dixit Christum comedisse ac bibisse cum discipulis sed discipulos comedisse ac bibisse cum Christo Camer Myrothec in Act. 10.41 Acts 20.41 where speaking of Christ he tells them God shewed him unto us who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead This did Peter and the rest of the Apostles And they eating and drinking with him by the leave of that learned Cameron it cannot well be conceived but that he did the like with them both eat and drink with them And drinking with them not improbably he might drink wine also which was no unusual drink in that Countrey And to this some conceive this speech of his here to relate Chrysost Theophy l. Euthym. Bez. Gr. Aun This Exposition disallowed for 3 Reasons Maldonat ad loc So divers of the Antients to whom Beza seemeth not averse look upon this place But with them I cannot go along Three Reasons I finde given against this Exposition A first taken from these words Till that day which seemeth saith Maldonate to point at some remoter time then this Secondly Our Saviour was not as yet entred into his Fathers Kingdom Calvin ad loc being in that interval in a middle state betwixt mortality and glory as himself telleth Mary John 20.17 Touch me not saith he for I am not yet ascended unto my Father But thirdly should we suppose him then in his Fathers Kingdom as he was upon the confines of it Calvin ib. being then in a state of immortality yet the like cannot be said of his Apostles their condition being not yet changed Upon these grounds I shall lay aside this first Exposition Secondly Answ 2 The day of Pentecoft Others in the second place by That day understand The day of Pentecost Of this day our Saviour had spoken to his Apostles before telling them that then they should see the Kingdom of God come with power So Saint Mark sets it down Chap. 9.1 Verily I say unto you that there be some of them which stand here who shall not taste of death till they have seen the Kingdom of God come with power So it did at that day when after our Saviours Ascension the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the Apostles in such a wonderful manner to the admiration of all the beholders in so much that some of them spared not to say That they were full of new wine Acts 2.13 Now did the Kingdom of God come with power Carthus ad loc the Gospel being by this means wonderfully propagated And here say some was this promise made good Here did Christ coming in his Kingdom as Saint Matthew hath it Matth. 16.28 drink this fruit of the Vine new with his Apostles Communicating unto them such extraordinary gifts and graces Thirdly Answ 3 Others in the second place by That day understand the time or Kingdom of Grace The time of Grace under the Gospel Beda Hieron under the Gospel This is oft-times called the Kingdom of God