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death_n	body_n	sin_n	word_n	4,388	5	4.1531	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96917	A brotherly and friendly censure of the errour of a dear friend and brother in Christian affection, in an answer to his four questions lately sent abroad in print to the view of the world. Published according to order.	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1645 (1645)	Wing W355; Thomason E265_4; ESTC R212426	12,460	13

and Prelats excommunications which belike doe still runne in your minde were brutish thunderbolts thrown out upon every small occasion presently and like the fooles dagger which is out to stab at every crosse word and makes but a word and a blow yet Gods Word teacheth godly wise Pastors and Presbyters more meeknesse and gravity in proceeding to the utmost censure that is first to reprove admonish and rebuke and if those more gentle meanes doe not prevaile then to suspend from the Sacrament which by experience is often found to humble stubborne offenders and bring them to repentance and so prevent cutting off from the Congregation And all godly Christians doe here see a double warrant of divine Authority First from Gods Word secondly from his blessing of this proceeding with good successe This is my first answer Secondly to your bold assertion That in the Old Testament we reade of no circumcised person ever debarred from the passeover by the Priests that was desirous to eat it I Answer that it is as void of truth as full of boldnesse For Levit. 22. 3. Numb 9. 5. and divers other places Every circumcised person who was legally unclean is forbiden to eate of the passeover or any holy thing under pain of being cut off and might not eat of it till he was cleansed and rightly prepared as appeares 2 Chron. 30. 3 the very chapter by you quoted according to the expresse words of the law Numb. 9. 11. And therefore much more ought baptized persons now under the Gospell who are manifestly unclean with the spirituall defilement of scandalous sin be suspended from the more holy Sacrament of Christs body and blood untill he be cleansed by repentance Thirdly to the instance of Judas whom our Saviour knew to be a devil and a traytour I Answer first that Judas was not admitted to the Sacrament for Judas went out before the Supper was ended immediatly upon his receiving of the sop Joh 13. 30. But our Saviour did not ordaine this Sacrament till after Supper Luk. 22. 20 When he had supped 1. Cor. 11. 25. Secondly if Judas had been admitted it makes nothing to the matter for Judas professed faith in Christ and in his outward conversation appeared so unblameable that when our Saviour told them that one of them twelve should betray him they did not suspect Judas more then themselves but every one asked saying Master is it I And indeed let a man be an hypocrite traytor or devil inwardly the Minister is not to judge of such secret things which belong to God but to looke to the outward profession life and conversation and accordingly deal with them Fourthly S. Pauls admonishing of the Corinthians of the great danger of unworthy receiving namely that it was eating damnation to themselves and making them guilty of Christs body and blood and thereupon enjoyning a strict examination of every one before he eat of that bread and drinke of that cup doth sufficiently instruct the elders to put back all such as did outwardly appeare to be scandalous impenitent sinners and so most unworthy to receive the holy signes and seales of the Lords body and blood Fifthly To that question of yours Whether a Minister hath not discharged his full duty and conscience if he doth admonish his flock of the danger of unworthy receiving and seriously dehort such as he deemes unworthy from receiving the Sacrament till they become more fit to participate under paine of eating and drinking their own damnation and other judgements I answer that this is no full discharge neither doe those Scriptures which you quote Ezek 33. 1 2 c. Act. 20. 16. or ours and French Liturgies prove any such thing in this case For they who suspend scandalous persons doe also admonish all others to examine themselves and mention the danger of unworthy receiving that none unprepared may presume It is a discharge of a Ministers duty when he admonisheth onely of the danger of a sin in which when it is committed the party admonished hath onely an hand But here the Minister is partaker of the sin and as much guilty by giving as the other by receiving I pray you tell me Sir if you have a cup in your hand which will poyson and kill a sick distemperd man if he drinke of it will you give it unto him if he desires it and doe you thinke it enough to admonish him that it is deadly poyson and first dehort him from drinking of it and then immediatly reach it to him with intent that he shall drinke of it I perswade my selfe that as he shall perish so his blood shall be required at your hands and that you shall as guilty hold up your hand at the barre for it Quest 3. The third Question intimates that you conceive unworthy hearing of the Word to be as great as dangerous as damning a sin as unworthy receiving of the Sacrament That Ministers are no more partakers of other mens sins not more guilty of their sins and of giving holy things to doggs and casting pearles before swine by giving the Sacrament of Christs body and blood to unworthy receivers who are openly scandalous then by preaching the Word to unprofitable hearers to whom he is the favour of death unto death And hereupon you would inferre that Ministers may as well refuse to preach the Word unto their people lest it should not profit them as they may refuse to give the Sacrament to scandalous persons who eat their own damnation To this I answer that there is vast difference between these two preaching the Word to unprofitable hearers and giving the Sacrament to persons openly scandalous impenitent and prophane receivers First a Minister preacheth the Word to many that are unprofitable hearers not knowing them to be such and in hope to convert and profit them if there be any such in the auditorie and so also he gives the Sacrament to some unworthy receivers unwillingly not knowing them to be such and in such cases he is blamelesse but if he gives the holy seales of Christs body and blood to scandalous impenitent persons he knowes that he gives them damnation to eat and drink and he is halfe sharer with them in the sinfull act And therefore though the sin of unworthy hear●●● of the Word is as dangerous and damning as unworthy receiving of the Sacrament to the hearen and receivers yet to the Minister in the one to weet preaching without knowledge of the hurt which some receive by it there is no fault but in giving to the scandalous receiver he wittingly acts and partakes of the profanation of the holy ordinance Secondly The Lords holy Table in the holy communion is for the time a place of Gods more speciall presence then the common Auditory and there we come neerer to God and receive with the word and promises particularly applyed to us the seales of our communion with Christ and of our right and interest in him and all his benefits But preaching