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A96898	The Lords table. Whether it is to be spread like a table in an inne for all comers? That it ought not so be done is here maintained.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3498; Thomason E880_7; ESTC R206596	63,848	77

THE LORDS TABLE Whether it is to be spread like A Table in an Inne for all comers That it ought not so be done is here maintained Give not that which is holy unto the dogges Matth 7. 6. And he set the Porters at the Gates of the house of the Lord that none which was uncleane in any thing should enter-in 2 Chron. 23. 19. Suppose him to be the greatest person in the world and would receive the blessed Cup from my hand signing to all and sealing to every beleiver the Blood of That God-Man I would rather give him my heart blood than I would give that Cup unto him whilest he declares himselfe to be no Disciple Chrysost in Math 26. Hom 83. w. They that give The bread and wine to unworthy ones are as guiltie of Sacriledge every whit as he would be who could give the Sacred Body of Christ to be torne in peices and eaten by dogges or trampled-on by Swine Calv 4. book of Institutions Chap 12. 5. He that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himselfe not discerning the Lords Body 1 Cor. 11. 29. LONDON Printed by M. S. for Henry Cripps in Popes-head-Alley 1656. THE SECOND TREATISE Relating to The Lords Supper And second Query thereupon Whether all are to be admitted to the Lords Table upon account onely of their Infant Baptism though aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel and strangers from the Covenant of promise having no hope well set and setling and without God in the world Eph. 2. 12. The Negative here also is under our maintenance Here are foure things premised first Then is set downe what the contrary minded have to say for the holding forth the Affirmative In the next place we Argue the Negative CHAP. I. SECT I. THis being a matter of such high concernment to be cleare-in we will premise a few things here also to cleare our way into it and first 1. That we little thought any Godly Minister would have put this to Question Whether all persons pell mell tag rag as we commonly say how ignorant how prophane how notorious soever for their Deboiserie are to have admittance to the Lord's Table by priviledge of Infant Baptisme Surely this Question de Juro would have been exploded when our times were at worst Archbishops and Bishops at their Zenith or hight what ever their Vicars Curats and Parsons did de facto some of them as very varlets as were those they did admit But de jure this should not have been so as may be collected by him that is ordinarily versed in the old Service-Booke Specialle that place which relates to the order should be observed in th● administration of the Lords Supper together with other Constitutions and Canon's as to that sacred administration printed sixtie yeares agoe and reprinted a few yeares by-past Wee will quote two places onely one out of the Canons of our Church the other out of the Booke of Common Prayer The 26 Canon straitly chargeth every Minister That he shall not in any wise admit to the Communion any of his flock which be openly knowne to live in sin notorious without repentance And the Common prayer book in the Rubrick before the Communion commandeth That if any be an open and notorious evill-liver or have don any wrong to his Neighbour in word or deed so that the Congregation by him is offended the Minister shall call him and advertise him in any wise not to presume to the Lords-Table till he hath openly declared himselfe to have truely repented c. Therefore we doe not doubt but the Ministers of the Presbyterall way whose Plat-formes for Church-Discipline one of us have read will rise up in their might against Mr Hs and the men of his way and judgement who not onely admit but plead for admittance of any body how scandalous soever it is a wonder if those they admit are worse then themselves for their two pence leave so much behind them and take damnation with them did Judas doe worse that betrayed his Lord and Master This may minde some body of what he may have read was spoken of an Arian Heretick I shall account him a Mihi non alius quàm diabolus quam diu Arianus Devill as long as he is an Arian and perhaps he may apply it to this Gentleman the leader of that drove or herd of Ministers who are of the same perswasion with him For it may be doubted That he with his followers have to their power don more mischiefe to the Church of Christ than the most pernicious Heretick now a dayes hath don What! A Minister of Christ speak Qui non vivit ut ipse docuit certum id documentum est non esse Christianum and act so so contrary to all men who walk by the Rule prescribed them in Gods Word You know his practise and you shall heare by a little how much he speaks anon against our Lord and Master that you may know how well you have spoken in justification of him He may preach Christ but doing things most contrary to the minde of Christ he makes full proofe he is no Christian Christianity being nothing else but as faire and full a Christianismus est similitudo Dei quantum possib●ie est hamanae naturae Just Ma●t orat ad Anti. Ratio naturalis potest altecari ubi deficis lex drought of God upon the Soule as the Soule is capable off in this body of death But see how justly Sin is called darknesse it hath darkned we feare the very light of nature in him or naturall reason which say the Lawyers may speake where the Law is silent so naturall reason where the word of God is silent but where the word of God speaketh reason must be dumb Sin hath darkned that common light in the man as may be feared And now read him in his writings how Crosse he standeth and acteth to the word of Christ His Blessed practise among His Disciples and Commission given them to the worlds end Therefore SECT II. 2. WE are Sir heartily sory this should grate so hard upon you but we cannot possibly help-it while you hold so fast to your fore-man his tenent as to free admission of all notorious for their obstinate and affected ignorance as some must be where all have free admission unto the Lords Table It will fare the worse for you because he is so bad yee agree so well here that we want skill to make difference betwixt you him therefore ye will pardon us if discerning no difference betwixt you we make none though full loth we are to Couple you together But sith you will have it so so it must be and possible with some men it may be for your honour but however we cannot helpe you at all nor we suppose can you helpe your selfe by that proviso you speake of which the man of your perswasion gives you excommunication If a person man or woman so notoriously

order of nature Answer this to God see if He will accept of your replie which we may heare anon Wee proceed Secondly They that have no faith are not to be admitted to the Lords Table not onely because they receive nothing there but because they fearefully prophane the Holy things there They have no knowledge of those things none at all and none they looke after their soule is not good it is starke naught as darke Prov. 19. 2. as a Dungeon for what should enlighten it as noysome and loathsome as an open Sepulchre or a vessell wherein is no pleasure Prov. 13. 5. for what should discover this their filthinesse to them that they may appeare such in their owne eyes that doe not beleive Rom 15. 31. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are disobedient rebellious imperswadable ones unreasonable and wicked men that is the Apostles Character of them and he makes cleare proofe of it in these words they have no faith Are 2 Thes 3. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they at the Lords Table they are out of place sure as a swine is when he is in the Parlour absurd men so Erasmus Englisheth it though Beza liketh it not Quod mihi quidem absurdum videtur But our Learned Reinolds liketh it well The Apostle saith he calleth men without Faith Absurd men because it is an unreasonable and sottish thing for a workman to be without his cheifest Instrument and that is universally requisite to every one of his workes a husband-man without a plow or a builder without a rule preacher without a Bible or a Christian without faith are things equally absurd and unreasonable What reason have we to plead for those unreasonable men to be admitted to the Lords Table more than we have for the admitting of swine into our Parlour uncleane ones will make all things like themselves as uncleane too to themselves we meane Thirdly Persons that have no faith are not to be admitted to the Lords Table because they cannot shew the Lords death there 1 Cor. 11. 26. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Scripture Mr. H● hath corrupted af●er his māner with his glosse It is a grave and a weighty word that we English shew and we would rather leave it to you to unfold to your people wh●ch may require one hou●es worke But in a word a worthy receiver that brings faith with him he doth with all thankesgiving and praise shew forth the excellencies of Christ and the Glorious benefits of His bloodshed upon the Crosse the Bounties of His Goodnesse and Beauties of His Holinesse making an ostentation of them unto the world preaching to every one as he can This this is it wherein every true Christian is to glory and he orders his life accordingly The import of that word as we suppose Now they that Come to the Lords Table and have no faith are no more able to shew the Lords death there than a man of Clouts stuffed with Straw is able to gaine the victory in the day of warre Fourthly And to run over these Grave matters he that comes thither and brings no faith with him must needs receive unworthily that is other ●ise than is meete such mysteries should Neh. 27. be received And therefore shall be held as guilty before God as Judas was who betrayed the body of our Saviour or as the Jewes were who so villanously abused Him Binding His hands spitting in His sacred face and crowning Him with thornes and as the Souldiers were who peirced His sides and spilt His blood He shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. Fifthly Free admission is not to be given those who cannot examine themselves about their faith that is search digg goe downe into the fouldings of their soules to enquire what their estate is what it is to be out of Christ or what it is to be in Him Infantes furiosos in verbo Dei minime inst●uctos Bez. they cannot examine themselves about these matters no more than Children can for they are Children in understanding no more than mad men can for these are mad upon their Idol roprobates disallowed of God in a state of reprobation We will commend you to Beza's Annotations or rather those to you which we thought to have been large upon being so full to our purpose Sixthly Why should faithlesse men worse than Infidells because borne and bred in England a land of visions be suffered to come to the Lords Table They cannot discerne the Lords Body they can put no difference between that bread which represents the body of Christ Crucified and Common bread at their owne Tables nor between the wine there Sealeing to a worthy receiver a full discharge from all his sins in the blood of Jesus Christ No difference can he make betwixt this wine and common wine And now being suffered to come to the Lords Table he there drinks downe a Cup of damnation in stead of salvation a cup of cursing in stead of a cup of blessing and seales the Stone upon his graves mouth where he lies rotting in sinne as dead bodyes in their graves He eateth and drinketh damnation to himselfe not Verse 29. discerning the Lords body 1. As you have received mercy and now would shew mercy unto everlasting soules admit not these faithlesse these unreasoble and wicked ones that cannot shew forth the Lords death cannot examine themselves have no discernining of the Lords body admit them not to the Lords Table They have no faith then they must be full of themselves as a vessell being full and running over they cannot Eate and drinke there any other thing but damnation to themselves This Scripture also Mr H s the patron of fornicators and prophane persons as was Esau fearefully abuseth plucking out as he can the sting of it so as the most bruitelike person may come to the Lords Table and not be stung by it oh prophane man and past shame he and his booke stinketh in the nostrills of the Lord and of his people as the worst excrements of the Dragon doth 2. And now Sir we will spare you the labour if please you in making a reply to this and ours in making Answer thereunto This we heare is ordinarily said They were borne and Baptized in a Church and therefore beleivers we like not to make an Answer to such a foppery why but they say they beleive the same with the former they say it with their tongues what say they with their hands such are their words what are their workes They may say so and Blaspheme in so saying as was hinted more than once Rev. 2. 9. I pray you observe it and let this mocke-faith goe unlesse you will whip it like a vagrant and send it backe to the Devill whence it came We have been speaking of that faith which gives reall union and communion with Jesus Christ and of necessity brings forth good workes as a good tree good fruit he beares upon a