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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49808	Baptismalogia, or, A treatise concerning baptisms whereto is added a discourse concerning the supper, bread and vvine, called also, communion / by Thomas Lawson.	Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1678 (1678)	Wing L723; ESTC R36244	71,361	108

Fellowship and Communion began much to consist in Externals as Bread and Wine then Christians entertained a Custom of Kissing one another before they received the Communion thereby testifying their Love to one another as faith Parens on the Romans In the ancient Church when they assembled saith Meds to celebrate the Communion the Deacon was wont to proclaim Nequis contra aliquem Let no Man have ought against his Brother and then Salutate alij alios osculo sancto that is Salute one another with an Holy Kiss which they did first the Bishop and Clergy then the Laity the Men apart by themselves and the Women by themselves in token of Friendship this was called Osculum pacis The K●ss of Peace After this entred a Ceremony in the Midnight of Apostacy as I may say still used among the Romanists to this day ' for the Priest to send a little Gilded or Painted Table with a Crucifix or some Saints Picture thereon to be kissed of every one in the Church before they receive the Bread this they call The Kissing of the Pax Mede What there is of the Power of Godliness or of the Form thereof in this thing without further Remarks I leave to the Wise to judge Of the Feast of the Sacrament of the Altar The outward Jew had several Feasts of especial Solemnity which shadowed out a spiritual Feast under the Gospel-Dispensation to be truly and inwardly witnessed in the purified Houses of inward Jews The outward Jew was to observe the Feast of the Passover of Unleavened Bread wherein for seven dayes they were to eat Unleavened Bread no Leaven was to be found in their Houses Exod. 23. The outward Jew was to observe the Feast of Pentecost instituted in Remembrance of the Law delivered unto Moses in the Mount fifty dayes after their departure out of Aegypt this was called the Feast of Weeks in which they were to offer a new Meat-Offering unto the Lord Levit. 23. a Tribute of a Free-will Offering Deut. 26. The outward Jew was to observe the Feast of Harvest the first ripe Fruits of the Land were to be offered unto the Lord Exod. 22. As also the Feast of In-gathering when Fruits were gathered in and this was to continue seven dayes called also the Feast of Tabernacles Exod. 23. Levit. 23. Moreover The outward Jew was to observe the Feast of Attonement c. Now Christ Jesus put an End to all these as Typical Shadows Figures being the End of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believes the inward Jews the truly Gathered of the Lord had the true sense and feeling hereof bearing record to Christ Jesus their Passover their Unleavened Bread Bread of Life their spiritual Law-giver making them free from the Law of Sin and Death they were come to the Evangelical Meat-Offering to the Free-will Offering they bare record to Christ the First Fruits of them that sleep they knew the Evangelical In-gathering having Heavenly Treasure in Earthen Vessels they knew a Tabernacle not of man's building John testified saying The Word became Flesh and tabernacled in us dwelt in us as in a Tabernacle so they saw his Glory and the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will in-dwell in them Rev. 22.3 yea and by Christ they were Witnesses of Attonement the inward Jews Called and Chosen were come to the End of the Jewish Shadows Feasts as other things they were come to the Joy of the holy Spirit to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb these knew a Good Conscience to be a continual Feast blessed are they which are called unto the Marriage Supper of the Lamb if they obey his Call and frame not Excuses as those Guests did mentioned by the Evangelist and that the Apostles who were come to the End of Jewish Observances as o● Days and Feasts did institute others I have not found nor observed further then that the Churches in the Apostles dayes usually gathered together to wait upon and worship the living God on the First Day of the Week and in primitive Times the Observation of it was as a Badge of Christianity when the Question was propounded Servasti Dominicum Hast thoú kept the Lord's Day the Answer was returned Christianus sum intermittere non possum I am a Christian I cannot but keep the Lord's Day But Professors of Christianity are grown perfectly prophane saith one as that they can play on that day without Book Trapp Let us keep that day saith Ignatius in a spiritual manner rejoycing in the Meditation of the Law not in the Rest of the Body Epist 3. ad Magnes The Apostle in Christ the End of the Jewish Observation of Dayes said thus He that observes a Day he observes it to the Lord Rom. 14.6 so say we Further the Galatians Judaizing turning to beggarly Rudiments Paul wrote unto them saying Ye observe Days Moneths Times and Years I am afraid of you Gal. 4.10 11. Now as the Apostacy prevailed the Sun-shine of the Evangelical Day was loft then they brought in multitudes of Saints Dayes so called to be observed to this and that Saint till such times as all the Dayes of a Year were not sufficient to afford a particular Day to each Saints whom they desired to honour with a Festival then came in All-Saints Day so called and among other dayes set apart in the year 1254. Pope Vrban the fourth ordained the Feast of the Sacrament of the Altar with Indulgences and Pardons in this Degeneration of Christianity came in as I said before these things and as for Christmas Shrovetide c. the very Names discover their Founders and those that plead for the Observation of those Times are generally the greatest Prophaners thereof in Sports Games vicious Courses Observers rather of the Rule of Sardanapalus who said Ede bibe lude post mortem nulla voluptas Eat drink play c. then of Christ Jesus Concerning the word Sacrament and Eucharist The old Roman Soldiers took an Oath to be true to their General to live and dye with him and that Oath was called Sacramentum militare Rivet Horace Now when the Roman Empire turned Christians by the lump and painted themselves with the Form of Godliness few beautified with the Power and Virtue thereof they began to apply the Term of their Heathen Custom to the Signs or Shadow of the Christian Church so that the word Sacrament came from the Heathen Romans Leigh Tertullian is said to be the first who used the word Sacrament in order to the Signs or Figures of the Church who was about the year 210. It is a word not found in the Scriptures if truly translated yet it hath got such rooting among the Professors of Christianity as that if any deny it they are branded as Hereticks and Schismaticks by Papists and Protestants Now as it were to allure people into a Reverence and Veneration of it Papists in their Translations have put it in the Body of the Scripture for whereas Paul said This

a Representation consecrated Bread works not the Works of the true Christ the true and faithful Witness so is not Christ Christ called also Jesus by interpretation a Saviour such is his Name such is his Nature he saves his People from their Sins Mat. 1.21 thorow his inward Operation they become new Creatures God's Workmanship in a word of Beth-aven that is a House of Vanity or Iniquity they become Bethel that is the House of God Sharers in the Riches Peace of the Lords Family consecrated Bread effects not these things in the Receivers though a thousand times consecrated received so is not the Virgins Birth John testified saying The Blood of Jesus Christ clenseth us from all sin 1 Joh 1.7 this is the effectual remedy the Lords Candle finds many a foul Flaw in man such as believe are reduced into the Order of the heavenly Truth the Apostle further bare record saying He loved us and washed us from our sins in his own Blood Rev. 1.5 6. and hath made us Kings and Priests unto God Kings to reign in Truths Dominion over the Earth over the World over Lusts over spiritual Adversaries Priests to offer a Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving unto the Lord to this Dignity Bread and Wine though a thousand times consecrated cannot bring Again The true Christ the Virgins Birth is the same today yesterday and forever incorruptible perishes not immortal the Holy One sees not Corruption but Bread and Wine though consecrated corrupts perishes grows mouldy loses Vertues Taste Savour so is not the Body and Blood of Christ and the Disciples were not to labour for the Meat which perishes but for that Meat which endureth unto everlasting Life John 6.27 Again Thorow the Body of Christ the faithful become dead to the Law to be married to Christ to be fruitful unto God Rom. 7.4 dead to the Law dead to sin yea and the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus makes free from the Law of Sin and Death Rom. 8.2 10. but the consecrated Host hath not this Operation in man but leaves men alive in Sin dead to God so not Christs bod● not his flesh not his blood Christ said to the Jews Your Fathers did eat Manna in the Wilderness and are dead such Minds as stick in Visibles are dead in Sins and Trespasses though consecrated by Man they quicken not it is the Spirit that quickneth and he that eats of the Bread saith Christ that comes from Heaven the Word Christ's Flesh he knows a Vivification a Quickning he dyes not but lives forever John 6. and 't is the Lord that gives being and Vertue to all Creatures not mans Consecration which cannot keep Visibles from losing their Vertue Savour Taste 't is evident by their own Constitution that they were conscious of this who enjoyned That Priests on every eighth day should renew the holy Eucharist that is consecrated Bread c. lest thorow Oldness thereof some should be brought into Indevotion to have the Spark of their Devotion as I may say in measure extinguished Summa Concil et Pontif. but Christ is the same today yesterday and forever his Years fail not he waxes not old as a Garment Of giving Bread and Wine to the World for this it is alledged that Judas did eat of the Bread and did drink of the Cup. Answ That was that the Scripture might be fulfilled Mine own familiar Friend which did eat of my Bread hath lift up his Heel against me Psal 41.9 yea and Christ the Store-house of Wisdom and Knowledge said He that dippeth his Hand with me in the Dish the same shall betray me Matth. 26.23 his Fellow-commoner as I may say whereby the Indiguity of the thing was much aggravated as for Judas he was numbred with the Disciples and had obtained part of the true Ministry Acts 1. but fell by Transgression and became a Member of that sinful and unsociable Society which Christ testified against and for giving Bread and Wine the Sacrament as 't is called to the World have you no Example but Judas who sold Christ for Money as many sell Bread and Wine for Money now which after Consecration is truly and really Christ as many in Degeneration affirm Christ gave it to his Disciples only a Shadow of a more spiritual Bread of a more spiritual Cup after to be received Of giving Bread and Wine to Infants After the Primitive Times when thorow the inundation of Apostacy and over-spreading of that foul Leprosie the living Bread and living Cup was lost then streamed in a Sea of Confusion as I said before the Heavenly Key of pure Knowledge and Divine Understanding was lost things of God became as a Book sealed with seven Seals the Opener and Fulfiller of the Scriptures of Truth came in a high measure to be lost then a Cloud of Mis-apprehensions and Mis-interpretations of Scriptures involved the Professors of Christianity then thorow a Mis-apprehension and Mis-understanding of that Scripture of Christ Except ye eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood ye have no Life in you John 6.53 the Fathers fell into that Error that None but Communicants could be saved whereupon they gave the Sacrament so called to Infants and put it into the Mouthes of Dead Men c. Augustine Bishop of Hippo was thus minded as appears by this his following Conclusion t●at It is in vain to promise Salvation and Life Eternal to little Children unless they be baptized and receive the Body and Blood of Christ since the Necessity of them both is attested by so many so great and divine Testimonies This Practice of giving the Sacrament to Infants crept in the early Ages of the World became wonderful general and continued above six hundred years in the Church till the time of Charlemain some were so strict in it as that a Canon enjoyned That baptized Infants should receive the Communion before they sucked or received any other Nourishment the same is or hath been observed by the Greeks Aethiopians Bohemians Moravians and that this was enjoyned by Popes Bishops c. these following Authors testifie recourse being had to their Canons Constitutions c. Pope Innocent Paganinus Gaudentius Theol. de moribus seculi Nicephorus in Histor Eccles Johannes Langius Augustin Taylors worthy Communicant chap. 3. Alcninus Maldonate on John 6. Author of the Naked Truth Grotius Notwithstanding Pope Innocent had appointed the Sacrament to be given to Infants and it became in a manner universal of long continuance yet the Council of Trent put out this Canon If any one shall say that the Communion of the Eucharist that is consecrated Bread is necessary for Children before they attain unto years of Discretion let him be Anathema accursed Concil Trident. Sect. 3. Can. 4. Here the Pope who cannot err as 't is said came to be questioned his Doctrine Augustin's Doctrine and the Church Practice for above six hundred years came to be cast out as spurious by the