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A91314	A vindication of foure serious questions of grand importance, concerning excommunication and suspention from the sacrament of the Lords Supper, from some misprisions and unjust exceptions lately taken against them; both in the pulpit, by a reverend brother of Scotland, in a sermon at Margarets Church in Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at a publike fast there held for Scotland, on the 5th of September last: and in the presse, by three new-printed pamphlets, by way of answer to, and censure of them. Wherein some scripture texts, (commonly reproduced for excommunication, and bare suspention from the Lords Supper onely,) are cleared from false glosses, inferences, conclusions wrested from them; ... / By William Prynne of Lincolns Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P4124; Thomason E265_5; ESTC R212424	79,558	71

receivers esp●cially the most scandalous and sinfull generally to re●orm all their evill wayes and carry themselves more obediently zealously towards God and Christ then ever they did before And we experimentally find that many sc●ndalous sinners even out of a meer naturall or hypocriticall conscience when they resort to the Lords Ta●le doe oft enter into solemne secret Vowes and Covenants between God and their ownesoules to amend their former evill wayes peruse and read some good pious books of devotion meditation and listen very diligently to the Word when preached which they will no whit regard look on ot hearken to at other seasons yea become good reall at leastwise formall converts Fourthly every Ordinance of Chtist and the Sacrament especially above others is a speciall meanes not onely of confirming but begetting and encreasing grace as I have proved and I make no doubt but many scandalous obstinate sinners have been and may be still reclaimed by their owne ptivate conscionable preparations examinations meditations prayers vowes and pious resolutions taken to themselves and by the publike confessions exhortations admonitions prayers i●structions used in the Congr●gation both before at and imediatly after their approaches to the Lord● Table yea I dare say ten to one would be reclaimed converted by such admission then will be converted or amended by their bare suspension from it Hence it was that Christ who came into the world to save sinners when he would reclaime and bring home sinners conversed familiarly with permitted them ever to come to him and hi● Ordi●ances not debarred them from them And the forecited Fathers alleage this for one reason why Christ admitted the very traytor Judas to the sacrament though he knew him to be a devill and cast-away because he would ●vercome him by this great mercy goodnesse lenity and leave no meanes of his convertion unattempted If therefore scandalous sinners seriously desire to receive the Sacrament as a principall meanes to subdue their iniquities reforme their lives and tye them faster unto God for the future making publike profession of the reality of their intentions in this kind as they all doe at lest in words and outward shew why such should be debarred fro● the Sacrament of the Lords Supper since really admitted to the Sacrament of Baptisme and all other Ordinances I cannot yet discerne any proofe or reason Thirdly whether Christ did ever intend that none but true reall beleevers and penitents should receive his supper Or whether he did not infallibly both know and really intend that many unregenerate impenitent persons would and ●hould receive it some of them to their cōvertion who belong to him others of them to their h●rt condemnation as well as true penitents for their comfort and salvation Our Antagonists do and m●st of necessity grant that close hypocrites persons who are not scandalous b●t blamelesse in their outward conversations endued withcompetent knowledge have an external right to the Lords supper though not truly regenerate and endued with saving faith and that no Mini●ler Presbytery or Classis can or ought of right to suspend such from the Sacrament for if reall Saints should onely approa●h the Lords Table how few would the number of Communicants be in all Congregations or what Minister Church or Classis might or could take such a jurisdiction upon them as certainly to define who are reall Saints and who not since the Lord onely knowes infallibly who are his They doe and must likewise yeeld that such persons as these hauing no justifying faith nor sincere repentance in them when they doe receive this Sacrament doe eat and drink their owne damnation as well as the prophanest obstinatest sinners If then these may be admitted to the Sacrament though they thus eat and drinke damnation to themselves not discerning the Lords body then why not others and if Christ hath ordiained the Sacrament of his Supper as well as the preaching of the Word and Gospell to be a savour of death to such unworthy as well as a savour of life unto life to worthy receivers then what reason in point of conscience can any Minister alleage why he should not administer the Sacrament to all who desire to receive it as well as preach the Gospell to those who desire to heare it since God hath his end in both the glory of his justice in the one as well as of his grace and mercy in the other Fourthly Whether all obstinate scandalous impenitent sinners before they come to participate at the Lords Tahle b● not in a present state of damnation and whether they doe not aggravate and e●crease their damnation by resorting to Sermons hearing reading praying fasting and every other publike duty they performe to God as well as eat and augment it by resorting ●o the Sacrament If yea which cannot be gain said and is yeelded by all then what matter of conscience or solid reason can be rendred by any rationall Christian why such perso●s should not at well be admitted to the Sacrament as to any other Ordinance or not suspended equally from all Ordi●ances as well as from it since all by accident ●hrough mens abuse and unprofitablenesse prove means of aggravating their sins and condemnation Either therefore our Opposites must suspend such person● from all Ordinances alike till they be reclaimed which themselves perchance will deem a preposterous course or else admit them to the Sacrament as well as to other Ordinances since all prove alike good or bad saving or damning to them Object If they alleage as some of them doe that suspension from the Sacrament though not from othe● Ordinances is but a step to excommunication and therefore warranted by those Texts and reasons which make for a totall excomunication from the Church and o●her Ordinances Answ. I demand first whether Christ himselfe whose Kingdome and Discipline you pretend excomunication to be and him to be the onely Law-giver of his Church hath made suspension onely from the Sacrament but not from other Ordinances a step to totall excomunication or a necessary or expedient forerunner of it as you grant he hath made publike admonitions exhortations reproofes and the like If yea then shew me where when or how by Scripture which I am certaine you cannot doe If not then this suspension from the Sacrament alone which is now contested for with so much eage●nesse as if Christs Kingdome and Church-discipline did wholly consist therein is but a meere humane invention and so no Ordinance of Christ nor any part of his Kingly government Secondly I shall demand whether those Texts which prescribe a totall exclusion from the Church Ordinances can be any way satisfied obeyed by a partiall execution of them Wh●n God commands any thing to be fully executed a halfe or partiall performance onely is no better in his esteem then plaine disobedience or rebellion as appeares in the case of a Saul's incompleat fulfilling●f Gods commission against the A●al●kites in sparing Agag and