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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

a pledge of their heavenly communion Sacramental communion Such is this Sacramental communion in the Supper First A sign representing it So it doth A sign representing the heavenly communion and that most lively specially as that Ordinance is now administred unto you and received by you in this Congregation where your sitting at the Table and there eating and drinking of the Sacramental Bread and Wine together Sitting at the Table a Mystical ceremony representing the communion of the Saints in Heaven carrieth with it a more lively representation and resemblance of that heavenly communion which one day you hope to have with Jesus Christ and with his Saints and Angels then any other form or manner of Administration doth or can do So much is not obscurely insinuated unto us in those expressions which our blessed Saviour is pleased to make use of in describing and setting forth that heavenly communion which he doth by sitting Matth. 8.11 Many shall come from the East and from the West and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Accumbent sit down A metaphor taken from feasts or banquets where men of different conditions sit down together so having a civil communion one with another So do the guests whilest the servitors stand by as the story tell us Martha did while Lazarus with the rest sate at table with our Saviour Joh. 12.2 And so again by eating and drinking at the Table Luke 22.30 I appoint unto you a Kingdom c. That ye may eat and drink at my Table 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 At my Table An expression questionless derived from his last Supper which he had then administred where his Apostles sate down with him eating and drinking at his table Thus they then celebrated the Passover not standing which gesture was appropriated unto that first Passover in Egypt because they were to eat it in haste as Moses tells them Exod. 12.11 but sitting their ordinary table gesture as the Evangelists Matthew and Mark both express it Matth. 26.20 Mark 14.18 And in the same posture they celebrated the Eucharistical Supper sitting and eating and drinking at the Table Which was to them a representation of that heavenly communion which there he promiseth they should have with him in Heaven shadowing it out not onely in the actions of eating and drinking but also in the posture of sitting and eating and drinking at the table A gesture not subject to any just exception Which I desire it may be the rather taken notice of for the satisfying of such as make a scruple of the like manner of administration at this day Which being so conform and agreeable to the Primitive pattern cannot I am sure upon any just ground be quarrelled with Secondly As this Sacramental communion is a sign Sacramental communion a pledge of celestial so a pledge of the heavenly communion As a sign representing it so a pledge sealing assuring it to all the worthy receivers of that Sacrament And upon this double account amongst others it ought not to be neglected but conscientiously attended upon where it is according to Christs Institution held forth But Christians may not rest here External communion not to be rested in in such an external communion This Judas had he followed his Master in an outward profession as well as the rest of the Apostles he heard his word he participated with him in the Passover and for ought I know in the Supper also Yet had he nothing to do with this promise being first a Traytor to his Master and after his own executioner he went 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to his own place as St. Luke tells us Acts 1.25 that is to that Hell which was a place more fit for him then that wherein he was among the Apostles and a place to which for his treachery and perfidiousness he was by God justly designed as that Text is commonly and I think properly expounded See then that we go further that we have an inward spiritual Inward spiritual communion to be sought after Rom. 6.5 invisible mystical communion with the Lord Jesus That being ingrafted into him not onely Sacramentally as all persons baptized are but really and truly united to him by faith and love we be made partakers of his Spirit which may transform us into his Image Eph. 3.17 That Christ may dwell in our hearts being present in us by the influence of his Grace and Spirit communicating to us the vertue of his death and resurrection Phil. 3.10 whereby we may be inabled to die unto sin and to live unto righteousness shewing forth his vertues expressing his life imitating his obedience in doing and suffering the will of our heavenly Father not onely hearing but receiving his words as the Apostles are said to do John 17.8 not onely eating of his bread and drinking of his cup in the Sacrament which many do upon earth who shall never eat or drink at his table in Heaven but that we eat his flesh and drink his blood applying the merits of his death unto our selves unto our justification looking up to him and by faith hanging upon him for a continual supply of his Spirit whereby we may be strengthned in the inward man Eph. 3.16 2 Cor. 3.18 and changed from glory to glory growing from grace to grace until we shall all come in the unity of the Faith and knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ as the Apostle speaketh Ephes 4.13 Having such a communion with this our blessed Lord and Saviour here in his Kingdom of grace upon earth we shall have a blessed Communion with him in his Kingdom of glory in Heaven where we shall drink of this fruit of the Vine new with him to all eternity Which honor and happiness may he vouchsafe to every of us To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be praise and thanks giving now and for ever Amen FINIS Acquaintance WITH GOD THE Nature of it opened The Practice Perswaded Incouraged Directed Cautioned As it was lately delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth By John Brinsley Minister of the Gospell there London Printed by R. I. for Tho. Newbery at the three golden Lyons in Cornhil To the right Worshipfull the Lady ANNE WENTWORTH at her house in Somerleyton in the County of Suffolk Madam I Can not I may not forget those respects which my selfe some years since found from your late honoured Husband and your selfe how during my exile in the late difficult times from the * Great Yarmouth place to which God first called and hath since returned me you were pleased to provide me a residence and subsistance in your neighboring * The Island of Lovingland Patmos where for some time I exercised my Ministery first as a Teacher in a * Lownde Village near you and

TWO TREATISES I. The Saints Communion with Jesus Christ Sacramental Spiritual and Celestial wherein Ministers and Christians 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 London Printed for Tho. Newberry at the Three Lyons in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1654. REader pardoning those too many mispointings which specially in the former of these Treatises hath sometimes rendered the sense perplexed be pleased to correct these literal and verbal mistakes of the Press ERRATA PAg. 11. line 21. read those p. 19. l. 23. r. his own p. 23. l. 23. r. prophecy p. 28. l. last r. intimation p. 29. l. 12. r. Sun of Righteousness p. 33. l. 5. r. those p. 34. l. 5. r. as comfortable a way p. 39. l. 11. r. drink p. 47. l. 18. r. third p. 50. l. 10. r. promised p. 52. l. 17. r. presidency p. 57. l. 1. r. not for p. 79. l. 23. r. ye p. 88. l. 14. r. to strengthen him against p. 90. l. 13. r. ingenuously p. 95. l. 21. r. be they p. 128. l. 17. r. paucos p. 160. marg r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE Saints Communion WITH JESUS CHRIST Sacramental Spiritual and Celestial Wherein Ministers and Christians 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 As it was lately delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth By John Brinsley Minister of the Gospel there London Printed for Tho. Newberry at the Three Lyons in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1654. To the Reverend and my much honored Fathers and Brethren the Ministers of the Gospel in the Church of England who desire to be found faithful Grace Mercy and Peace Reverend and much honored in the Lord PArdon the presumption of this Dedication which hath faln to you not more by choice then necessity In this ensuing Tract as the Text offered and the exigency of the times required it I have taken occasion once and again to excite Christians to a consciencious attendance upon that sacred Ordinance the Sacrament of the Supper as being both a sign and a seal a representation and a pledge of that blessed Communion which they hope to have another day with Jesus Christ and one with another in the Kingdom of their Father Now so it is that in the way of this motion at the request of some now walking abroad I foresee a double rub which without your help I am not able to remove The one is the late disuse of this Ordinance in some places the other the promiscuous prostitution of it in others The former of which deprives many of this Sacramental Communion who are desirous of it and in measure fitted for it The latter discourageth some others who out of tenderness of Conscience dare not communicate where they conceive though without any just ground their bare presence may make them accessory to such a profanation Upon this double account it is that I now make this Prefatory address to you wherein the sum of my request is That so many of you as are interested in the supposed guilt of either of these would be pleased seriously and speedily to apply your selves so much as in you is to the redress thereof A sad thing it is which the Church complains of in a litteral sense Lam. 4.4 That children should cry for bread and that there should be none to break it to them And it is no less that the children of the Kingdom should cry for Sacramental Bread and that there shall be none to break it unto them none to administer this Ordinance to them to which they have as good right as to any other Pardon me here if I take the boldness to minde you of what I know you cannot but remember and will be ready to acknowledge that you are not Lords but Stewards of the mysteries of God Now as the great Apostle maketh the Application of this doctrine 1 Cor. 4.1 2. It is required in stewards that a man be found faithful Many other qualifications there are requisite in such an officer but none more none so much as this of fidelity And wherein doth that consist but in a free distribution of what is committed to him according to his masters will for the good of the family Giving to every one his portion in due season Luke 12.46 And this it is which I do here humbly beg from all of you that you would in such a way approve your selves faithful to God and his people by a free dispensation of all Ordinances which he hath betrusted you with This some and many of you have done and do in the dispensing of the Word and why not also the Sacraments Surely these are to be looked upon amongst those sacred Mysteries by which name they were known to some of the Ancients who were wont to call the Eucharistical Elements 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dreadful Mysteries And as sure I am that the due administration of them is within the compass of your Commission As of Baptism so of the Supper which our Saviour in the first Institution held forth to his Apostles with an Hoc facite Do this 1 Cor. 11.24 25. directing them as it is conceived what they and all the Ministers of the Gospel in succeeding ages there represented by them were at that time to do in participating and afterwards in dispensing of that Ordinance viz. To imitate his example in taking blessing eating drinking the Sacramental Bread and Wine giving both to the people in commemoration of his Death and Passion This in obedience to his command they afterwards accordingly did Let not any of their Successors then lay aside this Ordinance nor yet without unavoidable necessity suspend it Our blessed Saviour knowing his departure to be at hand how desirous was he to celebrate the Paschal and Eucharistical Supper with his Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 With desire saith he to them I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer Luk. 22.15 And let the like motive prevail with you not knowing how nigh the time of your departure may be not to put off from moneth to moneth from year to year as in too many places of late times hath been done the celebration of this Ordinance In which neglect as the Ordinance suffers not a little so the Church much and that more ways then one And as for you my Brethren who do hold forth this Ordinance let me in the name of your Master and mine beg it at your hands that you would endeavor to dispense it in such