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A77514	Two treatises: I. The saints communion with Jesus Christ, sacramental, spiritual, and celestial; wherein ministers and Christian are excited to a conscientious administration, and participation of that, of late-time, in many places, too much neglected ordinance, the sacrament of the Lords Supper; wherein that great controversie of a free admission is debated. II. Acquaintance with God; the nature of it opened, the practice perswaded, encouraged, directed, cautioned. / As it was lately delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel there.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing B4735; Thomason E1547_1; ESTC R209457	66,672	237

they should also have a share with him So it followeth Untill that day Judas excluded though not from Sacramentall yet from Celestiall communion with Christ when I shall drinke it new with you with you What with all of them not so if Judas were in the company which some conceive that he was not taking up this for an argument against it because Christ here promiseth to those who dranke of that cup with him in the Sacrament of his Supper that he would drink it new with them Vobiscum ad plures non ad om ner referendum est Aquin. ad loc a matter wherein Judas had neither part nor lot But supposing him to be there yet wil not this create any great difficulty the promise being indefinite not universall extending to the generality of them to as many of them as had there not onely a Sacramentall but also a spirituall communion with him Observ With all such will Jesus Christ drink this new wine in his Fathers Kingdom Such as have communion with Christ upon earth shall have communion with him in Heaven have a blessed communion with them in heaven Marke it this is the Observation which I have been long making way to Such as have communion with Jesus Christ upon earth shall have communion with him in heaven Christ will not drinke this new wine alone he is not will not be satisfied unlesse his Saints partake with him Thus he is brought in expressing himselfe to his Church in the place fore-named Cant. 5.1 I am come into my garden my sister my spouse I have gathered my myrrhe with my spices I have eaten my hony combe with my hony I have dranke my wine with my milk eate O friends drinke drinke abundantly O beloved Thus doth the Lord Jesus Christ call his Church to communicate with him as in his Kingdom of Grace here so of Glory hereafter where entering into his Garden his heavenly Paradise he doth as Job speaketh of himselfe Job 31.17 not eat his morsell by himselfe alone or drink his wine alone ingrossing that heavenly glory to himselfe but he calleth his Saints and Angells to the participation of it This is that which he makes promise of to his Apostles Matth. 19. where when Peter speaking in the name of the rest as often on other occasions he doth demands of his Master what recompence they should have for that love and respect which they had shown unto him in forsaking al for his sake he receiveth this answer from him ver 28. Verily I say unto you that yee which have followed me in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory yee also shall sit upon twelve thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel They should be sharers with their Master in his glory when he should sit as a King upon his Throne they should sit as his Peeres about him when he should sit as Lord Cheife Justice upon the Bench they should sit as his Justices as his Assessors To the like purpose is that other promise Luk. 22.28 29. where our Saviour to take his Apostles off from that vaine contention of theirs about a temporall superiority a secular primacy hee tels them that in as much as they had been partners with him in his Sufferings and had hitherto owned him in his worst condition therefore they should also communicate with him in his glory I appoint unto you a Kingdome as my Father hath appointed unto me that yee may eate and drinke at my Table in my Kingdome c. Thus having had communion with him upon earth he promiseth them that they should have communion with him in heaven A Promise which in effect speaketh the same thing with this here in the Text where their Lord and Master eating and drinking with them in the Sacrament of his Supper tels them that one day hee would drinke that wine new with them have a sweet and blessed communion with them in the Kingdome of his Father whereof that Sacramental Communion was a Representation and a Pledge this he promiseth to his Apostles And what hee promiseth to them the like for substance shall he performe to all who have a like communion with him even to all true beleevers such as here follow him by profession and imitation they shall bee with him where I am there shall also my servant be Joh. 12.26 This was a branch of his last Will as he declares it Joh. 17.24 Father I will that they also whom thou hast given mee given to beleeve on me as the 20. ver explaines it be with me where I 〈◊〉 that they may behold my glory I and not only behold it but partake in it The glory which thou hast given me I have given them so we have it ver 22. That glory and happinesse which God the Father had by promise insured upon his Son Christ by a like promise Christ maketh it over to all true beleevers estating it upon them And giving them a title to it here he will put them into the actuall and full possession of it hereafter Come yee blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world Matth. 25.34 Such a blessed Communion shall they have with Christ in heaven who have here a spirituall communion with him upon earth Quest Celestiall communion begun at the day of death But when shall they have this communion A. I answer The beginning hereof shall be at the day of death To day shalt thou be with me in paradise saith our Saviour to the penitent theef Luke 23.43 promising to meet with him in a place of rest and happiness whether his soul was translated upon the dissolution and separation of it from the Body Thus it is said of Lazarus that dying he was forthwith carried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome Luk. 16.22 his soul his better part was conveyed in recessum quietis aeternae into the retiring place of eternal rest in Heaven where he should have communion with Abraham the Father of the faithful and with other Saints and Angels Here beginneth that blessed communion which the Saints shal have with Jesus Christ Upon their dissolution they shall thenceforth be with him beholding enjoying him and haing enjoyed of him I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ Phil. 1.23 But the perfection hereof is reserved to another day Perfected at the Resurrection the last day the day of the general resurrection and judgement when the bodies of Gods Saints being raised out of their dust and reunited to their glorified spirits shall be made joynt partakers of eternal glory and happiness with Jesus Christ Now shall this their blessed communion be at the full which was before but in the change and hereupon it is that our Saviour here in the Text referreth this his drinking of this new wine with his Apostles unto that day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 until that day the day of judgement which

were struck with spirituall blindnesse I would not brethren have you ignorant of this mystery that blindnesse is in part happened unto Israel saith the Apostle Rom. 11.25 Of misery this light being gone O what a sad and dismall day came upon that Nation a day of darknesse and of gloominess a day of clouds and of thicke darknesse wherein their Sunne was turned into darknesse as the Prophet Joel describeth the day of their calamity Joel 2.31 such was the darknesse which came upon that Nation for their not making use of the light while they injoyed it The like may they justly expect who make no better use of the light of the Word whilst it is continued unto them Children who play out the Candle that is allowed them goe to bed in the dark and what better can they looke for who trifle away the time and meanes of grace then that they should goe to bed in the darke dye without comfort Which let it take place with you that heare it this day God is pleased as yet to continue unto you the Gospel of peace and the peace of the Gospel As yet the promise holdeth good to you which the Lord maketh unto his people Isa 30.20 Though there bee given unto you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction though God be pleased to exercise you in sundry kindes having with-drawne from you many of these Temporall mercies which formerly you have injoyed yet your Teachers are not removed into corners but your eyes as yet see your Teachers But how long this mercy shall be continued unto you who knowes how soone the Shepherds may bee smitten and the sheep of this fold scattered who can tell who knoweth but that every Sermon that we preach unto you may be the last And that we shall speake no more to you in the name of the Lord. O that this consideration might worke you to a more conscientious attendance upon this ordinance The Sacrament of the Supper 2 And as upon the Word so upon the Sacrament the Sacrament of the Lords Supper which through the mercy and goodness of God is yet held forth unto you in this Congregation and that in a comfortable way I meane for the manner of Administration as for ought I know you shall meet with it elsewhere upon earth This is your Priviledge which many others in this Nation want and bewaile the want of it What our Saviour once said to the Jewes in his time Matth. 13.17 Many Prophets and righteous men have desired to see the things which you see and have not seen them Let mee apply unto you and to your present condition many both faithfull Ministers and private Christians have desired and doe yet desire to enjoy this Ordinance in such purity as it is dispenced in among you but cannot yet obtaine their desires But how long this mercy shall be continued unto you you know not hereof you have sad presidents in divers parts of this Nation where the use of this Ordinance being for a time unhappily discontinued such is the calamity that I say not the iniquity of the times they know not how in any comfortable way to their owne satisfaction and others to retrive and recover it againe My hopes are that this shall not be and my prayers and indeavours shal bee whilst God continueth me among you that this may not be your lot but though this Ordinance be continued unto you yet you know not how long you shall bee continued unto it Though this Tree of life like that in the Revelation chap. 22.2 shall as it hath done still yeeld her fruit every moneth yet you who are to reckon your lives not by Moneths but by dayes Few and evill have the dayes of the yeares of my life been so runs Jacobs computation Gen. 17 9. Man that is borne of a woman is of few dayes saith Job Job 14.1 when one Sacrament is past how doe you know whether you shall live to see another And therefore in the feare of God upon this ground be perswaded you who are capable of it and in measure fit for Sacramentall communion to a more conscientious attending upon this Ordinance Which exhortation let me direct to two sorts of persons 1 You who as yet stand aloof off from it The Sacrament of the Supper not to be neglected waiting it may be to see which way the wind will turne what changes and alterations time may bring forth that so you may more wisely as you thinke comply with it what know you but that your change may be at hand and may prevent as to you any other changes And if so thinke afore-hand how sadly this may lye upon your spirits in the day of sicknesse at the houre of death that you have upon such slight unwarrantable grounds neglected this Ordinance of God which through his blessing upon it might have been of speciall use for the comforting and strengthening of your hearts at that time when you shall have most need of comfort 2 For you But often received who have given in your names and new-ingaged your selves to a conscionable attendance upon this as upon other publick Ordinances of God in this Congregation doe not you think that a quarterly Communion as was heretofore accustomed wil now serve your turne If this Sacrament be oftner held forth as in this place it hath been and I hope shall bee I know not why without some just impediment you should absent your selves from it you will not doe it by your meales which serve for your bodily refreshment so oft as your Tables are spread you afford your presence and why should it not bee thus at Gods Table surely thus it would be were you but as sensible of Spirituall decayes as of Corporall and had but as good an appetite to the food of your soules as of your bodies To quicken which appetite lay this consideration to heart that you know not how nigh the time of your Passion or change may be Who knoweth what Cup what bitter cup is coming towards him or how nigh he may be to his last conflict with that last enemy Death wherein all comfort will be little enough upon this account neglect not this viaticum this soveraigne cordiall to drink of the fruit of the vine the Sacramentall Cup so often as it is by the Ministers of God in his name and way reached forth unto you And thus drinking of it Christians to receive every Sacrament as their last ever drinking it as your last cup. So doth our blessed Saviour here knowing that it should be so And doe we the like not knowing but it may be so None of us when we come to the Table of the Lord but may take up our Saviours words and say that for ought we know we shall henceforth no more drinke of the fruit of the vine but that this may be our last Sacrament And so looking upon it let it be our care and endeavour as when