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B10074 Certain queries concerning the receiving of the sacrament preached in a sermon on Saint Luke 9. Vers. 30, 31 / by Richard Standfast. Standfast, Richard, 1608?-1684. 1680 (1680) Wing S5206; ESTC R184576 7,792 29

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CERTAIN QUERIES Concerning the Receiving of the Sacrament Preached in a SERMON ON Saint Luk. 9. Vers 30 31. By Richard Standfast M.A. Rector of Christ-Church within the City of Bristol LONDON Printed for Charles Allen Bookseller in Bristol 1680. CERTAIN QUERIES Concerning the Receiving of the SACRAMENT THE Lord Jesus Christ was Transfigured on the Holy Mount in the presence of Saint Peter James and John who were eye-witnesses of his Glory For behold there talked with him two men which were Moses and Elias who appeared in glory and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem By which passage it is manifest that among all the Subjects in the world there is not any that doth more deserve our diligent inquiry meditation discourse and conference than the Death and Passion of our Blessed Saviour And from hence it will appear how much they deserve to be blamed who professing Christianity and living in a Church where this Sacrament may be had duly administred according to Christs own Institution and such we are sure the Church of England to be shall yet either out of ignorance faction or prophaness live in the continual neglect of it as if the Table of the Lord were a contemptible thing and this blessed Sacrament a needless matter and lightly to be esteemed Especially considering that this blessed Sacrament was ordained by Christ himself for the continual remembrance of his Death and of the benefits which we receive thereby For whose conviction and reformation these few lines were intended whereunto if they prove effectual I have my desire However I have endeavoured to deliver my own soul The Queries are these following Quer. 1. Whether the deliverance of mankind from the slavery of sin and Satan Death and Hell do not as well deserve to be kept in remembrance as the deliverance of the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt and the house of bondage Or which is in substance all one Whether there be not as much or more reason for celebrating of the Lords-Supper than there was of old for observing of the Passover See Exod. 12.25 26 27. their bondage was but a Type of our slavery under Satan their deliverance a Type of ours their Paschal Lamb a Type of our Jesus the sprinkling of the blood of the Lamb secured them from the destroying Angel the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus upon us will secure us from the wrath to come for which we are bound to praise God for ever Surely if they had reason to keep their Passover we have as much if not more reason to observe the Lords-Supper for a memorial that Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us Qu. 2. Whether the celebrating of the Lords Supper be not as much under command now as ever the observing of the Passover was of old God gave the Jews a special command about observing the Passover insomuch that the Passover is called the ordinance of God yea an Ordinance to them and their sons for ever i.e. as long as their State and Political Government did continue Exod. 12.24 We also have a command for the Lords-Supper when our Savour said Do this in remembrance of me which words of command belong not only to Christs Clergy Disciples but even to all for if some are bound to take break and bless others must be bound to eat and drink if some are bound to administer others are bound to receive or else what need of any administration Nor doth this command shew only what may be done but what must be done and so make it not only a free-will offering but a necessary duty insomuch that to neglect it is the breach of a Commandment and must needs be sinful before God Nay there are circumstances which will aggravate the sin for this was instituted by a loving Master by a dying Saviour as his last words Will and Testament in memorial of the greatest love that ever was shewn and it was ordained to be an Ordinance for ever In doing 〈◊〉 we shew forth the Lords death till he come i.e. 'till he come again to Judgment As long as we live here upon earth we shall have need of frequent Communicating when we come to Heaven we shall have no need of any Sacrament for we shall then enjoy the substance it self but while we live here Christ hath comply'd with our infirmity and hath made it an Ordinance for ever even to the end of the World and therefore they must needs be the more sinful before God that shall totally neglect it Qu. 3. Whether the breach of this command do not as well deserve to be as severely punished as the not keeping the Passover Almighty God was so careful for every man to keep the Passover that if he were not in a condition fit to keep it on the time appointed scil the fourteenth day of the first Month he was to keep it on the fourteenth day of the second Month and if having no lawful impediment he did not observe it he was to be cut off from his people and to bear his sin Numb 9.5 11 13. Exscindetur a populis suis i.e. Hic in futuro saeculo a sanctorum consortio excludetur So Junius he shall be shut out from the Communion of Saints both here and hereafter Now where there is a parity of sin there may well be feared a parity of judgment and he that thus excludes himself from the society of Gods people here is not like to be numbred with the Saints hereafter Qu. 4. Whether there can be any better way for the commemoration of the death of Christ than that which was instituted by Christ himself for that very purpose In this we shew forth the Lords death and Christ is set forth lively crucified neither is the bread and wine only a bare sign or representation of the body and blood of Christ thus crucified and thus shed for us but it is signum exhibitivum it is the Communion of the body and blood of Christ 1 Cor. 10.16 i e. the Communication for therein there is a real exhibition a true tender and proffer of the body and blood of Christ unto every Communicant for the remission of our sins and salvation of our souls and this nothing can do but Christs own institution Crucifixes whether in picture or in carving either in wood or metal are but the imperfect and dangerous inventions of men Imperfect for they may delineate one suffering upon a Cross which may be as well one of the Thieves as Christ and can represent but the suffering of the body not of the soul and but of his Humanity but cannot represent his Divinity nor can they represent the benefits of his Passion And thus far they may be dangerous that thereby men may be invited to superstition and Idolatry and at best it is but the invention of man and no way fit to come into competition with the command and institution of our Blessed Saviour if we shall think that