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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58940	A sacramental-question concerning assurance how far necessary to a worthy communicant, practically answered, in a sermon, preparatory to the Lord's-Supper, Saturday, March 2, 1699/1700.	J. S.	1700 (1700)	Wing S223A; ESTC R7898	20,918	72

them for they have sometimes Doubts and no Assurance nor will their present State allow it and yet they will adventure Oh beware how you misapply and misimprove to your own Destruction what hath been said for the Encouragement and Support of Sincere Christians under Doubts and Scruples Weakness and Temptations Let such consider the Guilt they contract and the unspeakable Hazard they run by professing to belong to Christ's Family and so partaking of His Supper as Living Members of His Body while they are secret Enemies unto Christ in Heart and Life and hate to be reform'd Such are Guilty of His Body and Blood they joyn with the Murderers of JESUS whose Death they pretend to shew forth His very Blood will cry for Vengeance against their Hypocrisie and sink 'em under more dreadful and intolerable Wrath. They of all others Eat and Drink their own Damnation who thus wilfully prophane the Ordinance and take the Name of GOD in vain by pretending Love to CHRIST to serve some little Secular turn and be thought better than they are while they Live in secret allow'd Wickedness in stated Enmity and Rebellion against Him I may say of the Worthy or Unworthy Receiver as Solomon did of Adonijah 1 Kings 1.25 If he be a Worthy Man not a Hair shall fall from his Head but if Wickedness be found in him he shall Dye If you come to the Lord's Table humbly and penitently in Obedience unto Christ in such a manner and for such holy Ends as He hath appointed you shall meet with Welcome you shall be feasted with the fat things of His House you shall partake of the Treasures of His Grace and receive of His Fulness But if you come without Sorrow for Sin and without Resolution against it if you come Impenitent and Unreformed without Desires and Purposes and Endeavours to forsake Sin and subdue Corruption and be devoted to God c. You increase your Guilt you harden your Hearts the more you receive a Curse instead of a Blessing and will be more under the Power and in the Possession of the Devil And You shall dye for 't unless Soveraign Grace do timely prevent it by your Repentance and Conversion I cannot speak with too much Terror to such But Secondly There be Others Humble and Sincere Weary and Heavy-laden Contrite and Broken in Heart who have many Doubts and yet much Love who Fear and Tremble if they come and yet fear to tarry away There are many Such who need this Encouragement They have the Call of Christ to remember His Dying Love their Duty is plain They ought to make an Adventure of Faith as Peter when unlikely to take any Fish yet at Christ's Command let down the Net with astonishing Success Or as the Disciples said to the Blind Man Be of good Comfort Arise for the Master calleth thee Mark x. Let Faith in the Authority of Christ bring you to Remember His Death this way If you obey the Precept you don't know the Success as to Comfort Is there no Encouragement in the Invitation Let him that is a Thirst come and Who Ever will let him come and take of the Waters of Life freely Rev. xxii Are not sensible weary thirsty Sinners invited Therefore Lord I 'll not exclude my self I am one of them surely there may be Mercy for Me among the Rest however Unworthy and Vile I am The Invitation is not to such as are Worthy but Thirsty We come to Him that we may partake of His Grace and receive more of the Spirit of Holiness according as we need it And here I would not forget the Case of Those who are in Doubts because they have had a Religious Education and by the Restraining Grace of God and the Precepts instill'd into them by their Parents and Ministers they have liv'd unblamably in the World as to their outward Conversation They are afraid all their Religion is the Fruit of Education only and not of Special Grace And they are further doubtful concerning themselves for want of feeling those Pangs of Sorrow and Bitter Repentance which they hear and read others have had in their Conversion to God who have been reclaim'd from a Prostigate Life They apprehend on that account that they may be still Strangers to the great Change by Regeneration and the New Birth On the one hand I wish they would look to it that it be not really the Truth of their Case that they have indeed proceeded no further than a good Education may carry a Man which too many I fear do Rest in Yet Others there are who have had a Religion Education and by God's Blessing on it have had Early Experience of the distinguishing Grace of God They can't say precisely when they were Born again but can discover the Effects of it in Heart and Life These should not be discouraged on that account Nor for want of those Terrors which the Repentance and Conversion of Some is accompany'd with Early Contents who seek the Lord and serve Him from their Youth commonly escape such Terrors We find not that 't is true of All. If the Spirit of Christ hath wrought such a Change in your Judgment Choice Affections Conscience and Life as will make up the Character of those that are Sanctify'd you should not be uneasie and perplex'd for want of knowing when this Change was first made you may know a Man is Alive tho' you know not when or when he was Born And what if you cannot say those things concerning the Time Manner Antecedents and Concommitants of your Conversion from Sin to God that Others it may be can say who had great and presumptuous Sins scandalous and notorious Abominations to Repent of which God never suffer'd you to fall into Such are not sufficiently sensible of the Blessing of a good Education and what a Mercy it is to be sav'd from such Terrors It may be some of the Best Christians in all this Nation are of this Sort who may sometimes fear they have gone no further than Education without the saving Grace of God may lead ' em But if you can prove your Sanctification by the real genuine Fruits of it And that there is such a Change of Heart and Life wrought it matters not that you know not the exact Time You are certain Corrupt Nature could never incline you to love God and be devoted to Him to hate Sin and watch against it and to take Heaven for your Portion and Christ for your Saviour This Change must be from the Divine Spirit however Early Gradual and Insensible it seems to have been Effected If you find the Image of God upon your Souls and the real Fruits of the Spirit in Heart and Life tho' you never were acquainted with the Throws and Pangs and Terrors that introduce or accompany the Conversion of others you have Reason to be Thankful and not be discourag'd on that account Your great Business now should be to walk Circumspectly and to live more