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death_n	body_n	life_n	separation_n	4,198	5	9.8832	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03354	Christs prayer expounded, a Christian directed, and a communicant prepared The first teaching to pray, the second to liue, the third to receiue the sacrament of Christs body. To which is added, a preface of prayer, a pithie prayer for Christian families. A thankes giuing for our deliuerance from treason by gunpowder, and learned Latin verses of that argument. By Robert Hill, preacher at Saint Martins in the fields.	Hill, Robert, d. 1623.	1606 (1606)	STC 13472; ESTC S119055	60,477	208

Morrice sonne to M. Morrice Attourney of the court of Wardes who thinking euer of sodaine death died suddenly in Milforde Lane Sep. 12. 1604. at the age of 23 yeares Twise twelue yeares not fully tolde a wearied breath I haue exchanged for an happy death My course was short the longer is my rest God takes them soonest whom he loueth best For he that 's borne to day and dyes to morrow Looseth some daies of rest but moneths of sorrow VVhy feare we death that cures all sicknesses Author of rest and end of all distresses Other misfortunes often come to grieue vs vs. Death striks but once that stroke doth relieue vs. He that thus thought of death in lifes vncertēty Hath doubtles now a life that brings eternity Liue for to learne that die thou must And after come to iudgement iust A Communicant instructed AT LONDON Printed for William Cotten 1606. A Communicant prepared to the Lordes Table Question MY good auditor after all these instructions concerning praier and pietie are you not desirous to receiue the Lordes supper Answ Yea sir I am desirous with all mine heart if you shal thinke me fit for so holy a banquet Quest What must you doe to bee a fit guest 1. Sam. 16.6 Psal 27. 1. Cor. 21. Ans Samuel bids me to santifie my selfe Dauid bids mee to wash mine hands in innocencie Paul bids mée to examine my selfe and so to eate of that bread and after to drink of that cuppe Quest Howe doe you proue this examination to be néedefull Ans 1. If the Iewes durst not eate the pascall Lambe without it I must not eate of the Lambes Supper without it 2. I must neither pray nor heare Gods word before I sée in what estate I am 3. I come in the best sort I can to the feast of any great man in this world 4. He that came without his wedding garment was examined how hée came thither Math. 22.12 5. If I eate and drinke vnworthily I eate and drinke mine owne damnation 1. Cor. 11.29 Quest What things are required of him that will come a fit guest to the Lords table Ans Thrée things The first what I must doe before I come 2. What I must doe when I am come 3. What I must doe after I haue bin partaker of that holy supper Quest What things are required of you before you come Ans Two things First I am bound to examine my selfe 2. I am bound to pray meditate of diuers things Quest What is examination An. It is a triall of my selfe howe I stand in the grace of God Quest What learne you out of this that a man must examine himselfe before he come to this table An. First that children are not capable of this banquet 2. That ignorant persons must not approach to this table 3. That madde people are not to bee admitted to this feast 4. That such as intend to liue in their sinnes must not dare to approach vnto this communion Quest Wherein stands this examination An. In fiue things 1. I must examine what knowledge I haue 2. What faith I haue 3. What repentance I haue 4. What obedience I haue 5. What loue I beare to my brethren Quest Wherein standes the examination of your knowledge An. In two things 1. What general knowledge I haue 2. What knowledge I haue in particular Quest Wherein consists generall knowledge Ans In three things whereof the 1. is What knowledge I haue of God 2. What knowledge I haue of my selfe 3. What knowledge I haue of the couenant of grace Quest what knowledge must you haue of God Ans I must know him to be such an one as he hath reuealed himselfe in his word to wit one inuisible and indiuisible essence and three truely distinct persons namely the Father begetting the Sonne begotten and the holy ghost procéeding from the father and the sonne Quest Must you knowe nothing els of God Answ Yes I must knowe that hee is creator and gouernour of all things a most wise vnderstander and knower of all thoughts most holy iust and mercifull to his creatures that hee is eternall without either beginning or ende and that he is present in all places Quest What must you know concerning your selfe Ans That by nature I am stained wholly with originall sinne so that my mind is full of blindnes will of frowardnes affections of peruersenes my conscience of guiltines so that therby by I am subiect to the curse of God in life in death and after death Quest What things are you subiect to in life Ans By reason of this sinne in my soule I am subiect to madnes in my body to diseases in my goods to losse 〈◊〉 in my name to reproach Quest What are you subiect to in death Ans To the separation of the soule from the body Quest What are you subiect to after death An. To be tormented for euer with the deuill and his angels and to be cast away from the presence of God Que. What must you know concerning the couenant of grace An. That Christ Iesus hath deliuered me from this misery who béeing very God became man to die for my sinnes and rose againe for my iustification Quest What particular knowledge is required of you An. I must know the nature and vse of this sacrament Quest What then is the Lords Supper An. It is a Sacrament wherein by the vse of bread and wine those that are ingrafted into Christ are nourished to life Quest What learne you out of this definition An. 1. That he cannot eate the Lords body who is not of the Lords body 2. That a man must come withall cheerefulnesse to this banquet and not to feare it as a man would doe poyson Quest Tell me now what is the outward matter of this sacrament An. Bread and wine by which are signified Christs bodie crucified and his blood powred out Quest Is not the bread wine turned into the body blood of Christ Ans No for these reasons 1. Christ instituted this supper before he was crucified 2. Then he must haue giuen his dead bodie with his liuing hands 3. The bread after consecration 〈◊〉 distributed into partes but the whole body of Christ is receiued of euery seuerall communicant 4. The bread is the communion o● Christs body and therefore not the very body 5. This were to make the body o● Christ of bakers bread 6. The bread and wine will corrupt being kept after consecration 7. We sée and taste onely bread and wine 8. Else the wicked should eate Christs body and so must haue eternall life 9. This takes away the nature of a sacrament wherein there must be a signe and the thing signified 10. It destroyes the nature of Christs body making it aliue dead in hea●uen vpon earth glorified vilified and in many places at one time Quest But yet may not this be done by a miracle An. Priests haue no promise to worke miracles nowe a daies and

made the nourishment of my body so Christes body and blood is made the nourishmente of my soul Yea I must feele the power of christe to mortify the corruption of my nature by his death to quicken mee in newnes of life by his resurrection and to giue me power to fight against my dedly aduersaries the world the flesh the deuill Is there nothing to doe for you after you haue receaued this holy sacrament Yes I must obserue these three thinges First I must giue god thanks for so great a benefyt 1 cor 11. ●6 2. I must look to receiue by it increase of faith repentance to rise from sin to receiue power against the deuill 3. If I feele this present comforte to bee thankful for it if not I must know that it is because I haue not prepared my selfe or because my faith is weak or because I liue in some secret sin wherefore I must goe to god acknowledge my fault desire paron and comfort for the same Now the Lord grant me this grace so to be partaker of his sacramental table that I may be partaker of his heuenly table through Iesus christ my lord alone blessed sauior Amen Ille non edit Corpus Christi qui non est de corpore christi August He cannot eate the body of Christ that is not of the body of christ Accede panis est non venenū mala res non est sed malus accipit Idem Come it is bread not poyson the thing is not euil but an euil person receiues it A godly praier for morning or Euening MOst high and mighty God and in thy sonne Christ Iesus our mercifull louing and gracious father thou hast commaunded vs to come vnto thee and vpon the knees of our hearts we do come vnto thee humbly entreating thee before wee begin to remoue far from vs all such impediments as vsually Satan casteth vpon this exercise and so to quicken vs vp by the spirit of supplication that in feare and reuerence of thy great name in faith and confidence of thy gratious assistan●… and in a seeking desire of the supplye of our wants wee may put vp and powre out our supplications vnto thee that as the messengers of our soules they may signifie our wants as the petitioners of mercy they may sue for our pardon and as proclaimers of thy grace they may declare our thankfulnes for all those mercies which we haue receiued and al those iudgements which we haue escaped O Lord our God we do here in thy prefence blessed are we that we may come to thy presence acknowledge and confes that wee are of our selues most wofull wicked and cursed creatures The corruption of our natures the iniquities of our liues doe generallie beare witnes against vs. But more particularly we confesse that our hearts are full of infidelity by reason whereof we do not as wee ought either depend vpon thy prouidence for the things of this life or beleeue thy promises for the life to come Dost thou visit vs we are impatient dost thou deny vs our desires in this world we are neuer contented with our estate Wee are full of doubt for the life to come and full of distrust for the things of this life We are glued too much to this wicked world and as though we said in our harts there is no god our mindes are greatly estranged from thee And alas miserable wretches that we are we delite in doing our own willes it is not meate and drinke to vs to do thy will In the pride of our hearts wee exalte our selues aboue thee and our brethren and boaste our selues as though we had receued nothing from thee We put away from vs the euill day and liue as though we should neuer die We walke on in the hardnesse of our heartes and by reason of the abundance of vainglory we rather seeke praise of men then thy glorye Our soules are so filled with loue to our selues that wee preferre our owne pleasure peace and liberty before thy maiesty or the loue of our brethren yea hypocrisie is so rooted in our soules that we content our selues with a profession of piety and labor not for the power of Gdlinesse And as for our liues they abound with actuall transgressions againste euery one of thy ten commandements hauing broken the same ten thousand times we Lord haue liued in contempt of thy prouidence committing Idolatry with thy creatures taking thy glorious name in vaine and prophaninge of thy moste holy sabaths we euen we who sho●… haue been vpright haue disregarded our betters enuied our brethren defiled our soules with vnchast desires labored to be rich by vnlawfull meanes disgraced our neighbors Iduged after that which was none of ours Wee haue herd thy worde O Lorde but wee haue not beleeued it wee haue knowen thy words but haue not practised it We haue come to thine hous without reuerence approached to thy table without repentance and practised many sinnes without remorse Do wee any good we please our selues too much doe we any euill we feare thee too little we are weary of praying when wee talke with thee wee are carelesse in hearing when thou speakest to vs. If we reade thy sacred and holy worde it is not sweet vnto vs as the hony combe but we delight more euen in vngodlye bookes Yea O Lorde the pampering of our bellies the pride of our apparell the negligence in our calling the mispending of our time our vaine conference at tables our wandring eies our wanton lusts our ambitious mindes our couetous desires our vngodlye speeches our lasciuious eares our censuring of our brethren our sin in recreations our vnwillingnes to labor our vnfaithfulnes in life our forgetfulnes of death and our abuse of thy mercies especialy in Christ do testify against vs that wee haue sinned against heauen and against thee and are no more worthy to be called thy children Are we ashamed at this and reclaimed from it no Lorde we are not ashamed But howsoeuer it hath pleased thee to vse many meanes as partly by thy word partly by thy spirit and partly by thy mercies partly by thy iudgments to the end we might be reclaimed from our crooked waies yet we haue contemned thy word the ministery of saluation grieued thy spirit the earnest of our inheritance abused thy mercies the pledges of thy loue forgotten thy iudgments the messengers of thy wrath Enter not into iudgement with vs thy seruants O lord for then shal no flesh liuing be iustified in thy sight Be mercifull vnto vs in forgiuing sins past be gratious vnto vs in preuenting sinnes to come Correct vs O Lord but with mercy not in thy iudgement for then shal we be consumed and brought to nought Open our blind eies that wee may come to a particular knowledge of our particular sinns especially such as we ar most giuen vnto Soften our hard and stony harts that we may sigh and grone