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A85542	Christians liberty to the Lords table, discovered by eight arguments, therby proving, that the Sacrament of the body and blood of our Lord, doth as well teach to grace, as strengthen and confirm grace, and so is common, as well to the outward Christian as to the inward Christian: occasioned by the contrary doctrine, taught by a strange minister in Woolchurch, on the 29th of June last. / By I.G a parishioner there. Imprimatur, James Cranford.	Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.	1645 (1645)	Wing G1589; Thomason E296_30; ESTC R200217	18,658	23

denominated the called of God they are so declared because the word of grace preaching Christ crucified had effectually wrought on them and called them And so also should from time to time call all others of all nations that are of the election of grace so that the Scripture is full and pertinent to prove the Argument as also the other Scripture Gal. 3. 1. of which he made no mention at all as my memory serves me although thereby the Apostle proves plainly to the Galatians that the truth was effectually taught to them by having Jesus Christ crucified evidently set forth before their eyes amongst them whereby the very strength of the Argument is proved that as the Word of Christ crucified spoken to the eare teacheth or is a means to work grace so also is the Sacrament of bread and wine that doth teach preach or manifest the same Christ crucified to the eye by which the heart is informed as by the eare His Answer to the third Argument To this hee answerd negatively also and as I remember found fault with the translation of the Scripture alledged by me for the proof of my Argument and said the words yee do shew the Lords death till c. is not truly translated for it should be shew yee c. My Reply to his third Answer This mans answer to this Scripture is like the answer that an Arrian made me not long ago to another Scripture I alledged against his blasphemous position of Arrianisme he maintaining that Christ was a meere man and that to affirm a Trinity in Unity of the Godhead was nonsense and ridiculous and contrary to reason nature learning and Scripture Will you be judged by Scripture said I yes said he whereupon I demanded what he thought of 1 Joh. 5. 7. There are three that beare record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one here said I the Scripture affirms the Trinity in Unity Oh Sir said he the Text it not truly translated for the word in the originall is they do agree in one I pray said I what other acceptation hath the word or how can you expresse it otherwise from the originall it is said he as truly to be translated they are one as they agree in one then said I your own mouth is witnesse for by your own words you have confirmed the Text so I say to this Linguist that in the Margin shew yee c. is the same in the Text yee do shew c. And therefore it is full for the same purpose for which I brought it and plainly proves that so often as the Supper of the Lord is celebrated the death of Christ thereby is manifested preached declared and shewed forth to the communicants the beholders and participaters of the bread and wine the signes of the Lords Body and Blood and this the Scriptures do cleerly and apparently teach and set forth to us if you consider the terms the Holy Ghost uses for that very end and purpose as that of our Lord which I alledged for the proof of my Argument Luke 22. 19 20. This is my body which was given for you this do in remembrance of me also this cup is the new Testament in my blood which is shed for you where by body we are to understand the bread that signifies his Body And so by cup signifying his Blood and in obeying his command to eat the bread and to drink of the cup the end and intent of eating and drinking is to commemorate his death and passion and so often as we do so eat and drink wee participate of that which manifesteth to us the new Covenant which is the only means that God hath ordained for salvation proved to us in these words This cup is the new Testament in my blood which was shed for you c. And by the apt lively visible signes to the eye of bread and wine is preached to us the new and living way which hee hath new made and consecrated for us through the vaile that is to say his flesh Heb. 10. 20. yea as apparently as it is preached and made known to the ears by words and as St. Luke so St. Matthew hath it thus This is my body c. this is my blood of the new Testament c. giving to the signes the very name of his body and blood that whosoever readeth or seeth the signes may be thereby taught the benefit of Christs death thereby purchasing for man-kinde repentance and remission of sins which as it is in his name preached to the ears by the word so manifested to the eyes by broken bread and powred out wine for the eye and ear are equall in-lets to the heart so that it is cleerly proved that the Sacrament of the Supper of the Lord doth as truly teach grace where it is not as it doth confirm it where it is His Answer to my fourth Argument To the fourth Argument hee saith the passage in his Sermon concerning Matth. 7. 5. was but by way of allusion to that Scripture My Reply to his fourth Answer He did so allude to that Scripture as that hee confidently affirmed that all wicked and unregenerated men were Dogs and Swine and whosoever did administer the Sacrament to such did therein cast holy things to Dogs and pearles before Swine therefore I say still that he that so teacheth directly orindirectly positively or consequently such a Preacher doth not understand the command of our Lord in Matth. 7. 5. neither did the Preacher by his seeming evasion answer the Argument but it stands still in every part of its strength against him for in the Scriptures all naturall men are not called Dogs and Swine but such as have been enlightened and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost in its common gifts and having thereby received the truth in some measure and efficacie to be outwardly cleansed from the pollution of the world through the knowledg of our Lord Jesus Christ and yet turn from the holy commandment given unto them and become insnared intangled and overcome again with the pollution from which they were washed and again lick up the filth they had vomited these and such as these are Swine that wallow in the mire again and Dogs that return to their vomit 2 Pet. 2. 22. Heb. 6. 4 5 6. who as they discover themselves the way of censure and excommunication is to be used with them His Answer to my fifth Argument Against my fifth Argument bee peremptorily affirmed that Judas was not with the twelve when the Sacrament was instituted and administred and first for the proof thereof if my memory fail me not he told the Congregation that the translators of the Bible had not placed the 21. verse of the 22. chapter of Luke in the right place but they ought to have brought in those words of that verse next after the 16. verse And who affirmed that so it was in the originall the Greek Testament

bread and wine doth shew forth as in my Reply to his seventh Answer shall be more cleerely manifested so then notwithstanding all you have said in your seeming Answer the Argument stands in force against you in all its parts that whosoever affirmeth that they that give the Sacrament to wicked unregenerate men casts holy things to Dogs and pearles before Swine doth in so saying either willingly or ignorantly or both testifie that Christs practice in the case of Judas was against his commandment in Matth. 7. 5. which is blasphemy so to affirm for our Lord did give the bread and cup to Judas amongst the rest as before is more then probable and in so doing hee did not cast holy things to Dogs nor pearles before Swine Now it is very true the ignorant and scandalous are not fit to receive yet there is no rule from God or man that forbids them but the authority given to the Church to excommunicate them yet however they ought daily to be exhorted and admonished to repentance and faith His Answer to my sixth Argument I answer saith hee the first part of his Argument is not proved and therefore my denying it is my answering it To the second part of his Argument I answer saith hee that I have proved in the beginning of my Sermon that a man in Scripture is alwayes under that name to be understood a spirituall man so that the Scripture hee alledges is not to be understood of a naturall man but of a regenerated spirituall man And so as a naturall man cannot discern the things of God neither can hee discern the Lords body and therefore ought not to be admited to the Lords Table and so I have fully answered his sixth Argument saith hee if my memory faile mee not in the repetition say I. My Reply to his sixth Answer To the first part of the Answer I reply that I had thought he had so well known the Scriptures that when a man had spoke Scripture it had been as good a proof as to have quoted the Text and because the want of quoting the Text is the cause say you the Argument is not proved therefore reade and examine the Scriptures and then tell mee if it be not proved Simon Magus also believed and was baptized Acts 8. 13. who continned with Philip in the communion of all common ordinances as the Word Sacraments Prayer and the laying on of hands wondering to behold the miracles and signes which were done vers. 18. whose impenitent naturall estate the Apostle Peter doth declare notwithstanding vers. 21. And so it was with Demas Col. 4. 14. and Philemon vers. 24. which Text shews his like fellowship and communion with Gods people in the common ordinances notwithstanding in the 2 Tim. 4. 10. S. Paul shews his carnality and wickednesse and also S. John unmasks a great man in high place in the Church Diotrephes by name 3 John vers. 9. and as he loved so hee had preeminence who was so wicked that hee would not receive the Apostles of Christ nor the brethren and hindered and forbad them that would and excommunicated them through malice here 's a false Christian in great place and authority in the Church even a carnall naturall man and a prater against the Saints the best of Gods people and yet for all this not denyed to partake at the Lords Table for hee was the man that denyed others in such a case and condition were the false Apostles 2 Cor. 11. 13. Rev. 2. 2. false Prophets 1 John 4. 1. false Teachers 2 Pet. 2. 1. and false brethren 2 Cor. 11. 26. Gal. 2. 4. and the Apostles the Prophets the Teachers the Brethren although false yet all in common communion and fellowship in the Word Sacraments and Prayer c. So that now you see the first part of the Argument proved which you would not see before To the second part of his Answer I reply and as it consisteth of two parts so the Gentleman is mistaken in both And first for the name man he saith that in the Scriptures it is only to be understood of a spirituall man which to affirm is fond and ridiculous as before in the Introduction I have shewed and now more largely shall be cleered as Job 14. 1. A man that is born of a woman is of few dayes and full of trouble where Job means by the name man every naturall man as hee is born into the world and so saith Eliphas the Temanite Job 15. 14. What is man that he should be clean and he that is born of a woman that he should be righteous And again Job 5. 7. Man is born to trouble or labour as the sparks fly upwards as also Eccles. 7. 29. God hath made man upright but hee that is man hath found many inventions th●se and many other Scriptures make it cleer that naturall men as they are born of their mothers into the world are called men and therefore the ground and foundation of his doctrine is false as the doctrine is false And so likewise I shall prove in the second place that such a generall or unregenerate believing man may discern ordinary bread and wine that is ordained to feed and sustain our natures from the Sacrament of bread and wine that are signes of Christs body and blood the only spirituall food of our soules and so communicate of them also in this different respect whereunto they are appointed and to this doctrine the Apostle points in these words 1 Cor. 11. 22. What have yee not houses to eat and drink in that is for your ordinary food for you shame the Church of God to come to the Table of the Lord to eat to gluttony and to drink to drunkennesse What shall I say to you saith the Apostle for this I must reprove yee for saith he the Lord in the same night he was betrayed instituted the Sacrament of bread and wine the bread to signifie his body the wine his blood which body was broken and blood shed for you that is for mans salvation vers. 22 24 25. And our communicating in these shewes forth the Lords death and keeps it continually in our remembrance and therefore the bread and wine ought to be so known as to discern thereby the body of the Lord to do it in remembrance of Christ and thereby to shew forth his death and whosoever doth not so communicate is condemned in his own conscience for every man naturall and spirituall are capable of this knowledge of this discerning and in this respect and distinction the Lords Table differing from ordinary food may all naturall believing men receive it even the elect before regeneration as others having been baptized And thus to know and distinguish is to discern the Lords body in one sense as to eat Christs flesh and drink his blood by justifying faith is in a more excellent and spirituall sense so that by this distinction his answer is manifested to be no answer and my Argument

Sacrament of the Lords Supper doth not teach to the begetting of faith for that is the proper office of the Word alone Rom. 10. 17. so then saith the Apostle Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God and therefore not by the Sacrament c. My Replication to his first Answer In my affirming that the bread and wine the signes of the Lords Body and Blood do teach grace where it is not as well as confirme grace where it is I do not therein deny that faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God but I affirm that the same Word is also taught and preached by the Sacrament For the Text hee alledgeth doth not say as he affirmeth that it is the office of the Word alone but these are the Apostles words so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God Now we must observe that the term faith hath divers acceptations in the Scriptures and for the clearing this point I will observe but two distinctions First as it is referred to God the Creator and secondly as it hath respect to Jesus Christ the Saviour and in both these respects the heart is as truly taught by the eye by seeing Gods works as by the ear through hearing Gods Word The first distinction is fully proved by the Apostle Rom. 1. 19. 20. because that which may be known of God is manifest in them that is to mankinde for God saith Hee hath shewed it unto them for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are cleerly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternall power and Godhead so that they are without excuse And that holy man Job of whom God himself testifies that hee was his servant he was wel acquainted with this truth Job 12. 7 8. But ask now saith he the beasts and they shall teach thee and the fowles of the aire and they shall tell thee or speak unto the earth and it shall teach thee and the fishes of the Sea shall declare unto thee And again two Apostles Paul and Barnabas give in evidence to this truth at Lystra saying Acts 14. 17. Neverthelesse he that is God left not himself without witnesse in that hee did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitfull seasons filling our hearts with food and gladnesse and again St Paul Rom. 2. 4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodnesse and forbearance and long-suffering not knowing that the goodnesse of God leadeth thee to repentance that is to return to God And for the further proof of this the Prophet David is very ample and large Psal. 19. Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth that is declareth or preacheth knowledge there is no speech nor language where their voyce is not heard And secondly that faith in Jesus Christ is taught visibly by the eye as audibly by the eare the Scriptures do as clearly and plainly declare also for thus did all the shadowes under the Law visibly and openly teach and preach Christ as the Sacraments under the Gospel and this was the only objection of the Nonconformists ever since King Edward the sixth his time that none but God could put or impose upon his Church teaching signes or ceremonies and such teaching signes Sacraments or shadows was circumcision the Paschall Lamb and all other ceremonies before Christ And so saith the Apostle Col. 2. 16 17. Meats and drinks Holy dayes and new Moons or Sabbath dayes were a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ so also the Sanctuary the gifts and sacrifices and the Priesthood under the Law serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things Heb. 9. And as Jesus Christ was thus visibly taught by the eye to the heart under the Law so he is more clearly taught preached and set forth by the two Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper now under the Gospell which do as visibly manifest him as the Word doth audibly and as the Rainbow in the clouds when it appeareth to the eye doth certainly teach the heart Gods perpetuall faithfulnesse in his promise so the visible signes of Christs Body and Blood in the Sacrament and are a lively ample visible Sermon to us of Christs death and passion his giving himself for mans salvation and do teach and instruct us to grace and mercy by Jesus Christ as truly as the Word preached so that now it is cleer by what hath been proved that if the visible creatures teach the same truth in their measure that the audible creatures do then so doth also the bread and wine set apart to be received that Christs death may be commemorated and they therein declare and preach also in their measure the word of Grace and promise the new and living way to life by the body of Christ which shal be further opened by my Replication to his Answer of the third Argument And by the way take notice that this my first Argument is the same in effect that Mr. Perkins laies down in his fifth Principle where hee makes the means to attain faith to be the Sacrament as well as the Word and Prayer and so also in the Directory pag. 52. in these words And we are to give thanks to God for all means of grace the Word and Sacraments His Answer to my second Argument The second Argument hee denyed also and gave no Answer to the first Scripture Gal. 3. 1. but to the second Text 1 Cor. 1. 23 24. where the Apostle saith Wee preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolishnesse but to them that are called of God both Jewes and Greeks Christ the power of God and the wisdome of God in which words saith hee the Apostle doth not prove that Christ crucified doth convert Jews and Greeks but that he is to one a stumbling blocke and to the other foolishnesse but in the next verse to them that are called of God both Jews and Greeks Christ the power of God and the wisdome of God so that hee affirmed this Scripture is nothing at all to my Argument thus or to this effect as my memory serves me was his Answer My Reply to his second Answer A man can never preach truly that doth not distinguish of termes that differ rightly for in these two verses the Apostle speaks of Jewes and Greeks in a twofold notion that is of both nations of such as were cast away and reprobate as also of such in both nations as were ordained and elected to eternall life to the first the preaching of Christ crucified proved through their own wickednesse and opposing the truth to the one nation foolishnes to the other people a stumbling block which notwithstanding the same doctrine to the elected part of both nations through Gods grace working their hearts to receive it became to them the power of God and the wisdome of God to their salvations And although the elect are here

the like another said he is a foole to meddle with that he understands not for saith he he hath not the tongues and without them it is impossible he should understand the Scriptures this man although an Elder did not remember that the Apostle saith To one is given the gift of Prophesie to another the gift of Tongues by the same Spirit 1 Cor. 12. 10 11. Another said I was an enemy to all goodnesse and threatened me I should answer it before Authority so I heard and have born the defamings of many amongst which some were my familiars And between the Church and my house one told me Now you are met withall you are repayd now to whom I answered according to the old Proverb one tale is good till another is heard and the Scripture saith said I he that is first in his cause seems just which opprobrious behaviours and reproachfull expressious I have born wth patience both in the time of the assembly and ever since and so will continue without opening my mouth against them and conclude with an exhortation to Ministers and people concerning the receiving the Communion For although there be no rule in Scripture that gives any one particular Minister order to restrain any from the Lords Table that believe and are baptized except the authority given to the Church in case of excommunication as at first is signified yet the Scriptures do plentifully testifie that faithfull Minsters ought to watch over the flock of Christ to teach instruct and admonish the people to learn know and understand the meaning of all Gods ordinances and instructed in our own estates and conditions as John the Baptist exhorted the Parisees and Sadduces Mat. 3. 7. and that except we be betterred by them that which is ordained for our eternall life will be found to be to our eternall death and therefore Ministers ought to be apt to teach upon all occasions in season and out of season to shew and open to the Congregation what Prayer is in it self and that the people ought to joyn their affections to the plain truth hee should pronounce to God in his own and the peoples behalf so likewise that the Scriptures and truths opened and discovered by them is no lesse then the Word of God that shall judge us at the last day and therefore that all attention should be given to it with feare and trembling and that the end of our hearing should be to know obey it so also as touching the Sacraments that of Baptismes to declare the doctrine of Baptismes which the Scriptures cleerly teach and distinguish of so also the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of our Lord that for as much as it is Gods great mercy and goodness to give unto us those visible signs of his body and blood which are living representations of his death and passion and that as he is the propitiation of the sins of the elect of God called and justified whose hearts are purified by faith in his blood who thereby eat his flesh and drink his blood spiritually and so have eternall life in them So also Gods Word teacheth us that his blood is the propitiation of the sins of the whole world 1 Joh. 2. 2. And therefore as every naturall man renders their salvation so they are to examine themselves and prepare their hearts by repentance so to come to the Sacrament as to finde Jesus Christ to become their spirituall life as he is life and food both to such as are regenerated so that all and every mans coming to Gods Ordinances may be endeavoured to be for the better and not for the worse and also Ministers ought to have compassionate affections towards the people even as a Nurse towards the Babe on her breast and as a tender mother towards the childe of her womb and in all their wayes seek them and not theirs so that all bitternesse and pride be avoided and that the Congregation may see that they sincerely seek the salvation of the people and also the people must know that holy and faithfull teachers ought to be had in double honour both by countenance and maintenance that the glory of God and mans salvation be promoted and thus and so admonisheth he that is the Lords and thine in him J. G. The Prophets prophesie falsly and the Priests beare rule by their means and my people love to have it so saith the Lord Jer. 5. 31. FINIS 1 Cor. 15. 23.