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A88892	The sacramental stumbling-block removed. Or a brief discourse concerning examination by the congregational eldership, before admittance to the sacrament. Wherein all contrary scruples are silenced : the equity and necessity of that duty vindicated, both by scripture, and undenyable arguments. Set forth for, 1. The satisfaction of the weake. 2. The information of the ignorant. 3. The conviction of the obstinate. 4. The edification of the Church of God. / by W.L.	L. W.	1648 (1648)	Wing L96; Thomason E425_16; ESTC R204558	31,401	51

preposterous and unwarrantable thrusting himself upon such Divine displeasure Why shouldst thou endeavour to draw the guilt of thy bloud upon the Eldership or why shouldst thou pull ruine upon thy self And although thou beest not capable blesse God for a believing wife or if thy wife uncapable and thou admitted endeavour her instruction that she may in due time be also received in to Sacramental Communion here and both spiritually united to Jesus Christ 3. It s the want of knowledge of Jesus Christ ignorance of the Doctrine of regeneration and reformation that makes men scruple hereat for any such reason none being more ready to rush upon Divine Ordinances to their ruine then men and women most uncapable to receive them rightly Ob. 24. What are the principal points that will be enquired of by the Eldership what time men come before them A. They are very plain and easie to be understood and every man and woman may reade them in the Ordinance of Parliament wherein are set down certain rules and directions concerning Admission and suspension in point of ignorance and scandal but for that all have not that Ordinance I shall hint out the Heads briefly as followeth All admitted ought to know 1. That there is a God That there is but one True and everliving God maker of Heaven and Earth and Governour of all things That this onely true God is the God whom we worship That this God is but one yet three distinct Persons the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost all equally God 2. That God created man in his own Image in Knowledge righteousnesse and true holinesse That by one man sinne entred the world and death by sinne That thereby also all men are dead in trespasses and sinnes and are by Nature children of wrath and so liable to eternal death the wages of every sinne 3. That there is but one Mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus who is also over all God blessed for ever neither is their salvation in any other That he was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary That he died upon the Crosse to save his People from their sinnes That he rose the third day from the Dead ascended into Heaven sitteth at the right hand of God and maketh continual Intercession for us of whose fulnesse we receive all Grace necessary to salvation 4. That Christ and his benefits are applied onely by Faith that Faith is the gift of God and that we have it not of our selves but is wrought in us by the Word and Spirit of God 5. That Faith is that Grace whereby we believe and trust in Christ for remission of sinnes and life everlasting according to the promise of the Gospel That whosoever believes not on the Sonne of God shall not see life but the wrath of God abides on him to Eternity 6. That they who truely repent of their sinnes do see them sorrow for them and turn from them to the Lord and that except men repent they shall surely perish 7. That a godly life is conscionably ordered according to the Word of God in holynesse and righteousnesse without which no man shall see the Lord. 8. That the Sacraments are Seals of the Covenant of grace in the bloud of Christ That the Sacraments of the New Testament are Baptisme and the Lords Supper That the outward Elements in the Lords Supper are Bread and Wine and do signifie the Body and Bloud of Christ crucified which the worthy receiver by Faith doth partake of in this Sacrament which Christ hath likewise ordained for a remembrance of his death That whosoever eateth and drinketh unworthily is guilty of the Body and Bloud of the Lord and therefore that every one is to examine himself lest he eat and drink judgement to himself not discerning the Lords Body 9. That the souls of the Faithfull after death do immediately live with Christ in blessednesse And that the souls of the wicked do immediately go into Hell torments That there shall be a Resurrection of the bodies both of just and unjust at the last day at which time all shall appear before the judgement seat of Christ to receive according to what they have done in the body whether it be good or evil and that the righteous shal go into Life eternal and the wicked into everlasting punishment Ob. 25. What are the crimes that make men uncapable of admittance in point of scandal A. 1. All persons that shall blasphemously speak or write any thing of God his holy Word or Sacraments 2. An Incestuous person 3. An Adulterer 4. A Fornicator 5. A Drunkard 6. A profane Swearer or Curser 7. One that hath taken away the life of any Person maliciously 8. All worshippers of Images Crosses Crucifixes or Reliques All that shall make any Image of the Trinitie or any person thereof all Religious worshippers of Saints Angels or any meer Creatures 9. Any person that professeth himself not to be in charitie with his Neighbour 10. Any person that shall challenge any other person by word message or writing to fight or that shall accept such challenge and agree thereunto any person that shall knowingly carry any such challenge by word message or writing 11. Any person that on the Lords-Day shall use any Dancing Playing at Dice or Cards or any other Game Masquing Wake Shooting Bowling playing at Foot-ball or Stool-ball Wrestling or that shall make or resort to any Playes Interluds Fencing Bull-baiting or Bear-baiting or shall use Hawking Hunting or Coursing Fishing or Fowling or that shall publikely expose any Wares to sale otherwaise then is provided by an Ordinance of Parliament of the 6. of April 1644. Any person that shall travel upon the Lords-Day without reasonable cause 12. Any person that keepeth a known Stewes or Brothel-house or that shall solicit the Chastitie of any person for himself or any other 13. Any person Father or Mother that shall consent to the marriage of their Child to a Papist or any person that shall marry a Papist 14. Any person that shall repair for any advice to any Witch Wizard or Fortune-teller 15. Any person that shall assault his Parents or any Magistrate Minister or Elder in the Execution of his Office 16. Any person that shall be Legally attainted of Barretrie Forgerie Extortion or Briberie And the severall Elderships shall have power likewise to suspend from the Sacrament of the LORDS-Supper all Ministers that shall be duely proved to be guiltie of any of the Crimes aforesaid from giving or receiving the Sacrament of the LORDS-Supper FINIS Imprimatur James Cranford John Bellamie Errata Pag 4. line 6. For the journey reade their journey l. 9. for no way r. in a way p. 4. Ob. 4. r. appear p. 4. l. 24 for tresbytery r. Presbytery p. 10. l. 34. for desolute r. destitute p. 11. l. 8. for gelding r. gould ring p. 12. l. 5. for which r. when p. 15. l. 17. for Aposiles r. appeals p. 16. l. 10. for hardly r. Lordly p. 16. l. 11. for dominum r. dominion p. 16. l. 31. for record r. retard p. 22. l. 9. for injustifiably r. inevitably p. 24. l. 34. for their Idols r. the Iewes p. 30. l. 3. for preaches Preachers

be expected Thirdly The holy things of God are hereby profained childrens bread given to dogs Pearls cast before swine the uncircumcised admitted no difference put between the precious and the vild giving the Lord just cause to deprive us of his Ordinances and to say as sometime he did of his Israel What hath my beloved to do in my house Jeremiah 11.15 Fourthly It will abundantly grieve and burthen the godly party even as putrified and rotten members grieve the whole body and as its death for a dead carcasse to be joyned to a living man and as in the best framed Fabrick although much of the materials are very sound and good yet one rotten pillar or beam may bring all about our ears And as no man will put an old peece into a new garment so is it not only unsutable but very unsafe nay destructive to admit men ignorant and scandalous to fellowship with the Saints what fellowship can light have with darknesse or God with Belial And for this cause was it the hand of God lay so heavy upon the Corinthians many of them visited with sicknesses and death for their unworthy participating the Lords body 1 Cor. 11. 14. Consider that Apostolical injunction is binding to all Governours in Churches in this case 1 Cor. 5.11 If any that is called a Brother be a fornicator or covetuous or an Idolater or a rayler or a drunkard or an Extortioner with such a one eat not The Apostle prohibits not eating common bread with such for then we must go out of the world but Sacramentall bread And therefore appointed this remedy vers 13. Put away therefore from among you that wicked person 12. Ob. Methinks if they would Catechise the young people it would do well but for ancient men that have received the Sacrament twenty or thirty years together or more that have born all Offices in both Church and Parish to be now called to account like boyes This cannot be endured A. It s very good indeed for young people to be well catechised in the grounds and principles of Religion and in the Doctrine of the Sacrament that may become capable of those holy mysteries and if in publick the ancient loose nothing by it yet it s too too common for old men to be very ignorant of Jesus Christ and therefore have need enough of Examination and yet respect had to their yeers also neither Parliament or Eldership intending such a particular Catechistical account of ancient men as of the younger sort it being to pedagogicall but if the soules of the anciont be as precious as the souls of the young and if the blood of the ancient as well as the younger people will be required at their hands that willingly receive them into Sacramental communion that by unworthy participating become guilty of the body and blood of Jesus Christ then I say it is of as great necessity for the old as well as young people to render a reason of their faith to the Church Had not I pray you Nichodemus need enough of catechising an ancient man a Ruler of the Jewes yet utterly ignorant of the doctrine of Regeneration and as ignorant are many of our great and ancient men both of Regeneration and also of the work of Reformation doctrine of the Sacrament yet no doubt but all the respect that may be will be had both to age and sex the work being intended by all intrusted in it to be caried on with all humilitie love and Christian tendernesse laying aside all sinister respects or ambitious ends according to the exhortation of the Apostle 1 Pet. 5.23 speaking there to the Elders exhorts them to feed the flock of God which is among them and of whom they have oversight not by constraint or for filthy lucre but of a ready minde neither as being lords over Gods heritage but to be ensamples to the stock And for that some have received the Sacrament twenty or thirty years together the longer the worse with many for we know by wofull experience how promiscuously the Ordinances of God have been even hand over head dispensed to the great dishonour of God the shame of such as had power in the Church and much to be feared and lamented to the losse of many a poor soul and indeed this being one of the grand corruptions to be cast out of the Church ought not to be pleaded for in the least Old customs have begot old corruptions 13. Ob. But must all men be examined Certainly some men are as able to examine the Eldership as the Elders them What need is there to examine such A. Would to God all men were so and their conversations as sutable With Moses I wish all the Lords people were Prophets yet men never so well qualified must be examined before admitted yea and by men peradventure some of them of meaner abilities then those Examined For 1. The Ordinance of Parliament although made upon long and serious debate for that purpose exempts none 2. If men be never so able or honest if not known the duty may not be omitted 3. If they be known to be such yet to avoid exception and to encourage others although lesse paines need be taken it s not needlesse to render an account of the reason of our faith but according to Apostolical injunction Certainly when the Apostle enjoynes all to this duty he means not only men of weak abilities but even the strongest Christian 4. Although men be never so able yet they must obey them that are set over them in the Lord and who are lawfully called to that function and who have received authority from God abilities must not make men shake off obedience 5. Such men as are able and Godly doe seldom or never scruple this their hearts being most averse that have least knowledge of God ignorance and scandal being the grand reason of mens standing out were not men in the dark they would not stumble 14. Ob. But must women also be examined is there any rule for that in Scripture A. There is as much rule for Examination of women before their first admittance as there is for their coming to the Sacrament there being no possitive precept for it although very undeniable consequences from the Word Certainly women were conversant with Jesus Christ as well as men and although not recorded in holy Writ yet doubtlesse did participate the body and blood of Jesus Christ Sacramentally as well as men And if they have immortal soules and must live by faith as well as men and have no other way to salvation but Jesus Christ as well as men and if the guilt of their blood may by unworthy rushing upon the Ordinance of God be charged upon the Eldership as well as upon themselves certainly as much care had need to be taken how they be admitted and what right they have to the sacred and divine miresteries Peradventure shame-fac'dnesse and modesty subject to that Sex may at first a little bee