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death_n	covenant_n	new_a	testament_n	4,131	5	9.2871	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01344	Ioseph's partie-colored coat containing, a comment on part of the 11. chapter of the 1. epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians : together with severall sermons, namely, [brace] 1. Growth in grace, 2. How farre examples may be followed, 3. An ill match well broken off, 4. Good from bad friends, 5. A glasse for gluttons, 6. How farre grace may be entayled, 7. A christning sermon, 8. Faction confuted / by T.F.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1640 (1640)	STC 11466.3; ESTC S4310	83,852	200

God in the Omnisciency of his wisedome surveyed the latitude of all occurrencies yet beholding all future Inconveniences present hee appoynted the Laity to drinke of the cup VVine was then as subject to spilling it hath not since gotten a more liquid or diffusive quality But in severall places of Scripture no mention is made of wine but of bread onely as Act. 2.4 and the 46. Continued breaking of bread from house to house Act. 20.7 Met together to breake bread Either bread by a Synecdoche is here put for Bread and VVine or else that phrase importeth their ordinary meetings and civill feasts But a Cart-load of these exceptions Tekel are weighed in the ballance and found too light to out-poyse Christs Institution The wise Shunamite woman 2 King 4.30 was not content with the company of Elisha's staffe and servant but as the Lord liveth saith she and as thy soule liveth I will not leave thee she would not leane on the staffe but on the staffs Master and would have him with her So let us not be so foolish to depart from Gods written Word in the Sacrament concerning giving the Laity the Cup for the company of humane Arguments on our side but let us stick close to our Commission and then wee need not feare a Premunire so long as wee have the Letter of Gods Law on our side When hee had supped Christ did therefore institute this Sacrament after Supper to shew that herein hee chiefly aymed not at the feeding of our bodies but the refreshing of our soules We are not to bring our devotion in our guts and to come to the Communion for Belly-cheare like those that followed our Saviour Iohn 6.26 Because they had eaten of the Loaves and were filled No wee are to come with more refined thoughts and as for matter of bodily meat containe our selves as after Supper This Cup is the New Testament in my blood This Cup that is the wine in this Cup Wee cannot scarce stirre a pace in Scripture without meeting with a figure even in these Testamentary Expressions of our Saviour Why then doe the Papists make such newes yea wonders at Figures then which nothing is more common Is the New Testament in my blood that is the wine therein contained signeth unto you the New Covenant of Grace which is ratified and confirmed in my blood that is by my death For indeed it is the death of the Testator that giveth life to the Testament and the will though sealed is not sealed in effect till the Maker of the same be dead But why is it called the New Testament seeing it is an old one and the same which was made to Adam the seed of the Woman shall breake the Serpents head often reiterated and confirmed to Abraham David and others Indeed it was old in the Promise new in the Performance old quoad substantiam materiam faederis new quoad modum clarioris manifestationis It is said of those that live within a mile or two of Olympus that they are under a constant continued shade which the height of the Mountaine casteth upon them So the Jews and al the Church of God before Christs comming lived in constant umbrages and shadows of Types Figures Ceremonies and Representations al which were taken away when our Saviour the Sun of Righteousnes did appear Therefore it is said in My Blood as in opposition to the blood of Kids Calves Goats sacrificed in the Temple Other parts of the verse are expounded in the former VERSE 26. For as often as yee eate of this Bread and drinke this Cup yee doe shew the Lords body till hee come VNder as Often is Often included whence we gather Wee must frequently celebrate the Lords Supper In the * Primitive Church it was done every day and fit it was the Aqua Vitae bottle should ever be at their nostrils who were sounding every moment and they needed constant cordials who ever and anon had the Qualmes of temptation in the time of Persecution This frquencie soone abated when peace came into the Church which makes Saint Ambrose reprove the negligence of the Easterne Churches * who received it but once a yeare At this day our Mother-Church of England seeing her childrens backwardnesse herein by canon compelleth them to receive at the least thrice a yeare such is the necessity to force them by Law to come to a Feast and to make a statute for hungry men to eate and sicke folke to take Physicke But heare the Arguments of some to the contrary that it is to be but seldome received The Passeover was celebrated but once a yeare in whose place for Sacraments never dye without heirs the Lords Supper succeeds The Passeover by God was stinted to bee used no oftner in the Lords Supper we are left to our own liberty Finding therefore our continuall sinning and therefore need thereof to strengthen us in our grace we may yea must oftner use it especially seeing all services of God under the Gospel ought to bee more plentifull and abundant than under the Law Things done often are seldome done solemnely Manna if rayned every day is not dainty the frequent doing of it will make men perfunctory and negligent therein Necessary duties are not to be left undone for the Inconveniences which per accidens through humane corruption may follow thereon Then Sermons should be as seldome as Apolloes smiles semel in anno and prayers should not be presented to God every day lest the commonnesse of the duty should bring it into contempt Rather Ministers are to instruct their people to come with reverence notwithstanding their frequent repayring thereunto But long preparation is requisite to this Action and therefore this Sacrament cannot often be received After the first Grand Preparation whereby faith and repentance wee are first estated in Gods favour other preparations are not so difficult in doing or tedious in time as being but the reiterating of the same againe The good Huswife which scoureth her Plate once a weeke hath lesse worke than she that doth it but once in Twelve-moneth Often preparing makes the worke easie and fits men the sooner for the Sacrament though I am not altogether of Saint * Ambrose his opinion that Qui non meretur quotidie accipere non meretur post annum accipere Whether is it of absolute necessity that a man on his Death-bed should receive the Sacrament Hee is as weake in Iudgement as the dying man in body who conceives it so It is not the bare Absence but the neglect and contempt of the Sacrament which is dangerous Besides that surely is not by God made absolutely necessary to salvation which in some cases is impossible to bee had As in sudden death when the sicke man is gone before the Priest can come In infectious diseases when the Priest cannot bring Christs blood without the hazarding of his owne not to speake of the Inconveniencie of giving