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A91267	A seasonable vindication of free-admission, and frequent administration of the Holy Communion to all visible church-members, regenerate or unregenerate. From the institution, precept, president of Christ himself; the doctrine, practice of the primitive Church, fathers, councils, Christians: the confessions, articles, records, chief writers of our own and other reformed churches: the dangerous consequents, effects, schisms arising from the disusage, infrequency, monopoly of this sacrament, to visible or real saints alone; and suspension of all others from it, till approved worthy upon trial. And that upon meer Anabaptistical, and papistical false principles, practices, (here discovered) unadvisedly embraced, imitated, asserted, exceeded by sundry over-rigid, reforming ministers; to our Saviours dishonour, our Churches great disturbance, their own, their peoples prejudice; and the common enemies, and seducers grand advantage. / By Will: Prynne of Swainswick Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne·	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4070; Thomason E495_3; ESTC R203285	81,072	108

Others of them guilty of Adulterie lasciviousnesse fornication ch. 6. 18 19. c. 10. 8. 2 Cor. 12. 21. Others of them spiritually proud and puffed up with their knowledge who did eat things sacrificed to Idols in Idols Temples and scandalized their weak brethren ch. 8. 1. 2 7 8 c. c. 10. 22 23 28 29 30 32 33. Others of them withheld due maintenance from Pa●l himself those other Ministers who instructed them ch. 9. 6. to 20. Besides their men and women were very disorderly in their publike assemblies and came together not for the better but for the worse for which he reprehends them ch. 11. 3. to 34. and ch. 14. throughout More particularly when they came to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper they were very disorderly in not receiving it all together and tarrying not one for the other in despising and not relieving their poor Brethren and not eating with them yea some of them were drunken when they came to receive and they were also full of schisms contentions factions some being for Paul others for Apollos others for Cephas c. 1 Cor. 11. 16. to 34. 1 Cor. 3. 1 2 3. Yea the Apostle writes expresly that he could not speak unto the generality of them as unto spiritual but unto carnul even as unto babes in Christ being carnal and walking as men chap. 3. 1 2 3 4. Yet notwithstanding all these disabilities si●s scandals they were then freely admitted to the Lords Table and not secluded from it And though the Apostle reprehends them in this Epistle for their ignorance these other vices sins and disorders in their meetings yet he gives no order to their Ministers or Presbyteries to seclude them from the Sacrament till better instructed prepared and reformed in their lives but only admonisheth them to reform those their abuses themselves to judge and examine themselves before they eat and drink of the Lords bread and cup because otherwise they shall eat and drink Judgement to themselves and bring Gods temporal Iudgements of sicknesse and death upon them yet no way dehorts them from constant and frequent reception of this Sacrament by reason of this danger of unworthy receiving which they must take care to reform 1 Cor. 11. 33 34. but in no case omit the duty being Christs prescribed Ordinance to shew forth his death till ●e come Verse 25 26. From which only Texts and Presidents in Scripture relating to this Sacraments institution and reception it is most clear to my judgement and conscience 1. That Ignorance in Church-members and baptized Christians of years of discretion is no sufficient ●ause to debarre them from the Lords Supper no more than from the preaching of the word The reason is most clear because Christs Supper as d Augustine e Bishop Iewel f Thomas Beacon and others resolve is both a visible and audible Sermon Word and the Priest therein preacheth and declareth the death of the Lord with the fruits and benefits of his passion to the Communicants to instruct teach edifie them thereby as he doth by his other Sermons reading and preaching of the word at other seasons Therefore the best and readiest way to instruct and reform the peoples ignorance is frequently to call presse and admit them to this holy Sacrament that they * may be thereby edified instruct●d comforted inlightned by it and not to seclude them from it year after year which doth but continue and increase their former ignorance and harden them therein 2ly That no scandalous sins crimes unregeneracy or want of spiritual saving graces ought to seclude any external Christians or Church-members from the Lords Supper no more than from hearing of the word prayer thanksgiving fasting reading the Scriptures or any other publick or private duties of Gods worship Because they are peremptorily g commanded to perform this duty in remembrance of Christs death and thereby to shew forth his death till he come as well as to hear read pray fast praise God and the like from which no sin nor unpreparednesse may exempt or excuse any man yea it is a far greater and more dangerous sinne wilfully to neglect omit contemn the performance of this or any other holy duty than sinfully to perform and set about it there being a total disobedience in the one but a partial obedience at least through a failing in the due manner of peformance in the other Which I wish all Ministers and Christians would now sadly consider And so much the rather because the Apostle and Spirit of God in this Epistle pointblank against Dr. Drakes Mr. Collins and others conclusions thence make the Corinthians scandalous sins forementioned their resort to and eating meats offered to Idols and Devils in their Temples a more scandalous crime than any English Christians are now guilty of not a ground to seclude them from the Lords Table Supper Temple as unfit to communicate with other Christians but presseth their frequent participation of the Lords Table and resort to his Temple his Ordinances as the strongest argument to disswade reclame them from these scandalous sinnes Witnesse these expresse words 1 Cor. 10. 14. to 24. Wherefore my dearly beloved flee from Idolatry I speak as to wise men judge ye what I say The Cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the communion of the bloud of Christ The bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of Christ For we being many are one hread For we are all partakers of that one bread Behold Israel after the flesh are not they which eat of the Sacrifices partakers of the Altar What say I then that the Idol is any thing or that which is offered in sacrifice to Idols is any thing But I say that the things that the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to devil● and not to God and I would not that ye should have fellowship with Devils Mark this inference and that which follows Ye cannot drink the Cup of the Lord and the Cup of Devils Ye cannot be partakers of the Lords Table and of the Table of Devils c. In which clause the word cannot is not taken physically or naturally for they did actually eat drink of the Table Cup of the Lord and Devils for which he reprehends them nor of a moral or spiritual cannot as some interpret it that is You cannot lawfully or spiritually of right drink of the Lords Cup or be partakers of the Lords Table but ought to abstain or be secluded from them so long as ye partake of the Cup and Table of Devils which is clearly contradicted as false by the 16 17 and 20 verses but of a rational and logical * cannot That is You cannot in reason duty justice convenience experience drink of the Cup and partake of the Table of Devils or go to Idols Temples but flee from Idolatry and not have fellowship with Devils because you all drink the Cup of the Lord and are all partakers of the

Dignity hereby above the Dignity of their ordinary Lay Parishioners this New Papal Authority Tyranny Sacrilege being never claimed practiced by them before but only since their late pretended divine right and claim to their new Presbyterian Soveraign Authority to examine all their Parishioners visible worthiness fitnesse preparednesse to receive this Sacrament before their actual admission thereunto Wherby they have now altered this blessed Sacrament of Equality Unity to which all visible Members of every particular Congregation capable of Self-examination have an equal right and common interest as well as themselves or their new Presbyteries Triers and ought to receive it together with them as frequently as they shall receive it made it a Sacrament of Difference Dissention division separation and no Communion at all nor yet so much a Sacrament or Ordinance of Christ at all in many Churches but only in Notion and Dispute not actual publike Celebration according to Christs command m This doe in remembrance of me They having now metamorphosed our Saviours precepts Take ye Eat ye Drink ye ALL of this in Remembrance of me As OFT as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup shew ye the Lords death till he come into This doe not Take ye not Eat ye not Drink ye not AT ALL in Remembrance of me Never once much lesse oft eat this bread nor drink this Cup nor shew ye the Lords death thereby till he come O my obstinate refractory Christian Brethren if I may be now deemed worthy by you to call you so who are guilty of this practice I advise you beseech you for the Honour of my blessed Saviour and this his holy Sacrament the Honour of our Protestant Church and Religion the Honour of your own Ministry and Function the comfort the Salvation the edification of your own your peoples Souls now at last most seriously to consider this your worse than Papal Romish impious Sacrilege Impiety Antichristian Pride Usurpation Tyranny Rebellion against Christs positive Precepts for I can truly give it no other better Terms than these with shame and confusion of Face Heart Spirit and then be n no more stiff-necked no longer Popish Romish in this and other forementioned particulars as you have hitherto been which render you more really scandalous if not impious than any you debarre from this Sacrament And o repute me not your Enemy nor a Rayler because I thus plainly impartially tell you the truth and have paralleld your late practices with Popes and Popish Priests exorbitances Sacrileges not minced your Crimes with diminutive termes but set them forth by their proper Titles in their Native Colours that you might the better discern their horrour avoid their danger and bee the more humbled for them before God and Men but p repute me your best your truest cordiallest Christian Friend q for discovering these your Iniquities and rebuking you sharply that you may be sound in the Faith r Remember therefore whence you are fallen repent and reform your late dangerous Errours and doe your first workes by discharging your Pastorall duties to your people in frequent publike common Celebrations of the Lords Supper together with them as your Ministerial and Parochial Functions Christs Precepts the Statutes Edicts of our Church and Realm oblige you And that upon this ensuing Consideration super added to the Premises 7ly That Å¿ Bishop Iewel and the Fathers Authors forecited by him resolve That one principal end of the holy Communion is to joyn and unite Christians together in Christian Communion unity amity as being all fed together and partakers of this one bread That by their common open receiving of this holy communion frequently together they do openly testifie and declare that they are all one in Christ Jesus and all one amongst themselves That this is the principal means to joyn keep them together and to prevent Schisms Divisions Sects Contentions amongst Christians It being impossible as t S. Aug. writes to conjoyn men together into any name of religion be it true or false unles they bejoyned together with some bond of visible Signe or Sacraments like confederated sworn Brethren Hereupon the later Confession of * Helvetia cap. 12. writes thus of this Holy Supper Moreover we are admonished in the celebration of the Supper of the Lord to be mindfull of the body whereof we are made Members and that therefore we be at Concord with all our Brethren that we live holily and not pollute our selves with wickedness and strange Religions but persevering in the faith to the end of our life give diligence to excell in holinesse of life With which accords the Former Confession of Helvetia in these words Also the Lords Supper is as a badge unto us for as one loaf and one wine are made of many grains and grapes so we being the whole multitude of the faithfull are gathered together to be one bread and one body By this we testifie in an outward profession that we are redeemed by the bloud of Christ and made the members of Christ to whom we give thanks in whom we are Confederates and do promise to perform mutual duties one towards another The Confession of Saxony thus seconds them God will have this publick receiving to be a Confession whereby thou maist shew what kind of Doctrine thou dost imbrace and to what company thou doest joyn thy self Also he will hereby that the members of the Church should have a Bond of mutual love among themselves * God would that these publick Meetings should be witnesses of the Confession and severing of the Church of God from the Sects and Opinions of other Nations John assembled his flock at Ephesus and taught the Gospel and by the use of the Sacraments the whole Company did declare that they embraced this Doctrine and did invocate this God who delivered the Gospel and that they were separated from the worshippers of Diana Iupiter and other Idols For God will be seen and have this Church heard in the World and have it distinguished by many Publike Signs from other Nations And the promises wherein God doth affirm he will preserve his Church ar included in the very words of the Supper where he commandeth the death of the Lord should be shewed forth and this Supper distributed till he come Therefore doubtlesse the principal and only means that Ministers or Magistrates can use to prevent the dangerous universal epidemical increase of Sects Schisms Separations from our Parish Churches and publike Assemblies to reclaim reduce re-unite their people in personal presence and affection to themselves their Churches and one another and to restore unity amity peace settlement to our miserably distracted dilacerated Church and Realms divided subdivided into so many Sects Factions one from and against another is to restore presse practise the frequent publike use of this Holy Communion every Lords day or Moneth at least and not to seclude any of their Parishioners from it