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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87512	The want of church-government no warrant for a totall omission of the Lords Supper. Or, A brief and scholastical debate of that question, which hath so wonderfully perplexed many, both ministers and people. Whether or no, the sacrament of the Lords Supper may (according to presbyterial principles) be lawfully administred in an un-presbyterated church, that is, a church destitute of ruling elders. Wherein the affirmative is confirmed by many arguments, and cleared from objections, especially such as are drawn from the unavoidablenesse of mixt communions without ecclesiastical discipline. / By Henry Jeanes, minister of Gods Word at Chedzoy in Sommerset-shire.	Jeanes, Henry, 1611-1662.	1650 (1650)	Wing J511; Thomason E618_6; ESTC R202652	58,879	80

they themselves had none at all When at Auspurge I asked a Ring-leader of this sect when he had partaken with the Church of Christ of the Bread and Cup of the Lord He expressy answered he had then abstained about twelve years from this Communion Being demanded why he had done so he replied that he had not as yet found any Church which was inwardly and outwardly adorned with the gifts and vertues of the true spouse of Christ and that therefore he did put off and deferre his Communion until he could find such a Church rightly setled or ordered Here I shall once for all clearly prove that a Ministers universal and total abstinence from administration of the Lords Supper unto that flock or Church over which God hath made him an overseer is unlawful though for the eschewing of scandal No sinful omission of that which is commanded by an affirmative Precept is lawful for the eschewing of scandal But a Ministers total and universal abstinence from the administration of the Lords Supper unto that flock over which God hath made him overseer is a sinful omission of that which is commanded by an affirmative Precept therefore it is not lawful for the eschewing of scandal The major is confirmed from that of the Apostle Rom 3.8 Their damnation is just that say Let us do evill that good may come as also that of Aquinas secunda secundae Quaest 43. Art 7. Secundum ordinem charitatis plus debet homo suam salutem spiritualem diligere quàm alterius A well-ordered charity beginneth ever at home making a man chiefly to desire and endeavour the salvation of his own soul and consequently to be more solicitous how to avoid sin in himself then to prevent it in others See Rutherford more largely touching scandal pag. 84. The Minor is proved because it is necessary for my salvation to obey affirmative Precepts though not in all differences of time See Rutherford pag. 13.14 Praecepta affirmativa obligant though not ad semper yet ad aliquando Affirmative Precepts tie us to do the things they require though not at all times yet at some time or other And therefore universally and totally to abstaine from what they command is sinfully to omit what is commanded by them I cannot but here call to mind a Reply of the renowned Chamier to a shift of Cajetan which he brings to elude our Arguments against their Communion under one kind that are drawn from the command of the Cup. The Command saith Cajetan is but affirmative and affirmativa Praecepta utsi obligent semper non tamen ad semper Unto which Chamier replyeth very solidly and sharply Esto saith he sed quid tu appellas pro semper nullumne apud te discrimen est inter non semper nunquam The like Reply will serve unto those who go about to evade the Command of the Lords Supper by telling us that it is an affirmative Command and doth oblige semper but not adsemper It doth always bind but not to always for there is a wide difference between not always and never Now the upshot of these mens tenents is that if the Church be not Presbyterated the Command of the Lords Supper doth never bind during such its condition Suarez in Tertiam Part. Thom. Tom. 30. Disput 80. Sect. 1. as also Becanus in his Summae Theol. Scholastic Part. tertiae Tract secundo cap. 25. Part. secundae Quaest prima alledge divers reasons why all Priests whatsoever are bound to say Masse if you please to make such a change in them as to put Ministers for Priests and the Lords Supper for Masse you may make them Orthodox and so they will serve our turn First it seems to be a kind of spiritual Prodigality very dangerous to the soul for a minister to deprive himself of the use of the power of order and of the fruit of the Sacrament Unto this we may adde out of Dunand that it is a virtuall contempt of the great benefit that is offered in the Sacrament Secondly Seeing the power is for the Act it is an inordinate thing to receive the power of administring this Sacrament and not to use this power but to let it lye idle Thirdly It is against charity to deprive the Church of that great fruit and benefit which they might partake of by this Sacrament Lastly Because the Minister by vertue of his office takes upon his shoulders the burden of praying for his people of Preaching and administring the Sacraments unto them and therefore he sins if he never or seldome dischargeth these offices and duties of his calling A calling and office is for the work Ministry and service proper thereunto and therefore it is a great fault to neglect that work service or Ministry which is proper to a mans calling Secondly Not only a Ministers totall and universall abstinence from administration of the Lords Supper but also seldomnesse and unfrequency of administring it is unlawfull And the reason of this is because as I have proved and cleared There is a command for a frequent administration of the Lords Supper And a command of frequency in dispensation of an Ordinance is violated and transgressed not only when the Ordinance is wholly and altogether omitted but also when it is seldome or rarely dispensed when it is omitted for the date of many years Thirdly This objection of scandall holds as well against administration of the Lords Supper in a Presbyterated as in an Un-Presbyterated Church For a Minister may ordinarily foresee that scandall will follow in a Presbyterated Church in case there be a Mal-administration of discipline or else in case scandalous persons known to be such only unto the Minister himself or else unto some one godly person cannot be convicted or proved to be such either by their own confession or else by the testimony of two or three witnesses Fourthly It is a very unreasonable position that the administration of the Lords Supper ought to be suspended and deferred upon the likelyhood of the following of scandall for then a Minister shall be almost perpetually uncertaine whether he may administer the Lords Supper or no because likelyhood of scandall to follow will occurre if not alwayes yet very often When our Saviour tels us Mat. 13.41 that in the consummation or end of the world the Son of man shall send his Angels and they shall gather out of his Kingdom all scandals or all things that offend he doth clearly imply that till then there will be scandals even in his Kingdom in his Church And this holds not only of scandals in generall but also of such scandals as are likely to follow upon dispensation of Gods Ordinances unto the end of the world Some will be scandalized at the Ordinances of God The Word will be a savour of death unto death in them that perish Unworthy receivers will eat and drink their own judgment will be guilty of the body and blood of Christ Christ himself will be for a