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A60170	A new naked truth, or, The sandy foundation of the Sacramental test shaken, by a warning-piece discharged from heaven against all sorts of persecutors wherein you may hold Christ crucified mystically and sacramentally, upon the cross of the sacramental penal test, with all the rest of the penal laws and tests attending thereon, and contributing thereunto / by Giles Shute ...	Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3709; ESTC R11222	67,483	56

Lord's body And therefore it is that we are commanded to Examine our selves before we partake of it to see whether we be born of God and so are in a converted Spiritual state of Grace and also to try our selves whether we be in a Spiritual frame of heart that we may know whether Grace be in Act and Exercise in us or not But to Return to the words of Institution After the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supped saying This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood this do ye as oft as ye drink it in Remembrance of me for as often as ye eat this Bread and Drink this Cup ye do shew the Lord's Death till he come Here is not one word of making this Sacred Ordinance a Test to accommodate the Civil State withall but on the contrary as you shall hear by and by For the Apostle bringeth it in Argumentatively with a Wherefore Whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord That is instead of commemorating Christ's Death and Sufferings and all the Benefits that floweth unto us from that Fountain of his precious Blood They do eat and drink their own Damnation without unfeigned Repentance and God's Infinite Mercy for they do crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame whosoever shall eat thus unworthily whether Lord or Commoner let them look to it for God is no respecter of Persons for he that feareth God and worketh Righteousness and none but such are or shall be accepted with him O that all they that are thus Guilty may tremble to think what is a coming upon them for this great Abomination of profaning the Lord's holy Supper by a Law which I had almost said is a National sin because the major part of the Governing Party have been thus Guilty Though I do hope and also believe That there was many in both Houses of Parliament both of Lords and Commoners when this Snare was made that had neither heart nor hand in it But yet notwithstanding the major part of them must be for it or it could not have been made therefore I would not be found to grieve any of the Generation of the Righteous without a cause by condemning the Innocent with the guilty But as the Apostle saith Let every Man examine himself whether he be guilty or not But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. And here the holy Apostle is bringing it in again argumentatively by way of precaution for said he He that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth drinketh damnation or condemnation to himself not discerning the Lord's Body for this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep that is die For what cause was it why for profaning the Ordinance of the Lord's Supper And who was it the holy Apostle charged this Guilt upon why even upon some of the Corinthians that believed in Christ for he said some among you They were converted as to their Spiritual state they were in a state of Grace But yet notwithstanding that they were in a very carnal loose frame of heart They did eat and drink worthily as to their Spiritual state but yet nevertheless they did eat and drink unworthily as to their frame of heart and therefore God punished them with corporal sicknesses and death though they were free from Eternal Death and Condemnation by vertue of their Union with Christ and so in a state of Grace which can never be broken Rom. 8.1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus that respects the Spiritual state of the Believer who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit The former that respects the State and this later respects the frame of heart in the former they are alive to God and in the later they walk with God The holy Apostle Peter was in a very carnal frame of heart when he would have disswaded our blessed Saviour from suffering Matt. 16.22 23. Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him saying Be it far from thee Lord this shall not come unto thee But ne turned and said unto Peter Get thee behind me Satan thou art an offence unto me for thou savourest not the things that be of God but those that be of men That is he was in a carnal frame of heart in a sudden passion of misguided Love and Zeal he was carnally minded and our Saviour Christ said unto Peter in another place of Scripture When thou art converted streng then thy Brethren this could not be meant of his first conversion into a state of Grace for so he was converted long before that time But it is meant of his after-conversion unto a more Spiritual frame of heart which he should be in after he had denied Christ And the Apostle Paul said Are ye not carnal and walk as men when one saith I am of Paul and another of Apollos and another of Cephas That is walk as men walketh in a carnal unregenerate state not that they were so but they were even like such And the two Disciples were in a very carnal unbelieving frame of heart even on that very Day that our Redeemer rose from the Dead Luke 24.21 25 26. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel and beside all this to day is the third day since these things were done They looked upon themselves to be deceived in effect but mind what our Saviour said unto them and also to us in them Then he said unto them O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory As if he should have said Did not all the Prophets prophesie of my coming in the flesh and dying in the flesh and rising again in the flesh and did you not see it with your own eyes or might have done it and did not I tell ye so my self that am the great Prophet the head of all the Prophets and will you not believe me nor my Prophets nor your own eyes neither as if Christ should have said This was a very carnal frame of heart indeed and it is said To be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace Now there is a great deal of difference between being carnally minded and a carnal mind as much as there is between Light and Darkness or as there is between hardness of heart and a hard heart for the carnal mindedness in the believer brings a death upon all his Graces and spiritual Comforts he is as if he was in a carnal State with a respect to the comforting Evidence of it that all lieth dead and all the Graces of the Spirit lieth covered over with these Ashes of Carnality and that fills the Soul of the

Believer full of Doubts and Fears with a respect to their spiritual State and puts them upon questioning all the Work of God upon their Soul. This carnally-mindedness respects a Child of God in a spiritual State but in a carnal frame of Heart and a carnal Mind respects a carnal dead Sinner in a state of Sin and Misery for it is said The carnal Mind is Enmity against God for it is not subject to the Will of God neither indeed can be There may be and too often there is an eating and drinking unworthily at the Lord's Table and that by two sorts of Persons First There is many times an eating and drinking unworthily at the Lord's Table by Believers themselves Secondly There is always an eating and drinking unworthily at the Lord's Table by carnal prophane Hypocrites as often as they do partake of that Ordinance whether Ecclesiastical or Civil for so we must distinguish now it seems for they have made it to have a double end Spiritual and Carnal There must ever be two things to make a Man a meet or worthy Partaker of this holy Ordinance because it is a Spiritual Feast as much now as it was under the Mosaical Law for they ate and drank Christ under the Law as well as we do now under the Gospel if you will believe the Apostle Paul who saith Moreover Brethren I would not that ye should be ignorant how that all our Fathers were under the Cloud and all passed through the Sea and were all Baptized unto Moses in the Cloud and in the Sea and did all eat the same spiritual Meat and did all drink the same spiritual Drink for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them and that Rock was Christ 1 Cor. 10. First There must be a spiritual State all the Subjects of this Ordinance must be born again they must be born of Water and of the Spirit or else they cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven here below which is the Church-Militant and if they be not so born they cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven above namely the Church-Triumphant in Glory John 3. for until then they be spiritually dead And what shall a dead stinking rotten-hearted Hypocrite do at the King of Kings Table For Gods Eye is upon all his Guest his Eye is upon their very Heart for God sees not as Man seeth he can spy out any one Soul that comes to his Table without the Wedding-Garment God sees what every ones end and aim is in partaking of that Ordinance He seeth them that come to eat and drink themselves into the Government or into a good fat place of Profit and Trust and sees them that come to eat and drink at that Ordinance to sell Ale by vertue of it or to bear Arms in the Train'd-Bands And God saw them that were more guilty than they namely those that gave it unto them for all men by Nature are dead in Sins and Trespasses and all Children of Wrath Eph. 2. And therefore it may be said of every carnal Sinner as it is said of the carnal lewd Woman in the 1 Tim. 5.6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth Now such as these be can have no Right nor Worthiness at all in them to partake of the Lord's Supper no nor to administer it unto them neither for they are none of Christ's Shepherds that doth thus John 10.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Matth. 15.14 Isai 9.16 Now all such as do exhibit this blessed Ordinance and those to whom it is exhibited that are not born of God can be but a Congregation of Hypocrites at the best Job 15.34 35. and are as loathsome as a dead stinking Corps would be to be placed at a Kings Table when he made a Royal Banquet for all his Nobles and far more loathsome too And therefore all such as these eateth and drinketh Damnation to themselves not discerning the Lord's Body And pray what can a dead Man discern And therefore all these do but make a Chain of that Ordinance for Satan to bind them faster to himself under the guilt of all their Sins instead of receiving any good or benefit by it whereas a Child of God that cometh in a right manner and to a right end goeth away from that Ordinance with all his Sins pardoned afresh and his Covenant renewed with the Lord and ratified and sealed in the Blood of Christ the others they go away with all the guilt of their Sins faster bound and his Covenant with Death and his Agreement with Hell renewed and ratified afresh and sealed Isai 28.15 And is not this a dreadful thing think ye The Lord awaken all that are thus guilty to unfeigned Repentance But Secondly There must not only be a spiritual State but there must be a spiritual frame of Heart also and this latter cannot be obtained before nor without the former There must be a spiritual State before ever there can be a spiritual frame of Heart therefore every one that does not come to the Table of the Lord thus spiritually qualified do come and eat and drink to themselves Damnation or Condemnation aye though he be a Child of God and in a spiritual State Nevertheless it is true he doth not eat and drink eternal Condemnation to himself and that because he is in Christ yet he may eat and drink the Merit of it vertually he may eat and drink temporal Condemnation to himself which may bring great temporal Judgments and Punishments upon him or them that thus do even corporal Sicknesses and Death Psal 89 30 31 32 33 34. If his Children that is Christ's Children forsake my Law and walk not in my Judgments if they break my Statutes and keep not my Commandments then will I visit their Transgressions with the Rod and their Iniquity with Stripes Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from them nor suffer my Faithfulness to fail My Covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my Lips. God my punish unworthy Receivers now though in a spiritual State as he did those unworthy Corinthians heretofore with Sickness and Death for their prophanation of the Lord's Supper when he may spare his Enemies in this Life to punish them in the World to come Thus I have shewed you briefly in part what the blessed End and Design of this holy Ordinance is and also the Nature and Tendency of it and you may observe that it is one of the great Tests that belongeth to the truly constituted Churches of Jesus Christ which was made and provided in the Great Charter of Heaven and lodged in the Church for all them and them only that belong to the spiritual Government of Heaven namely the true Members of Christs mystical Body the Church whereof he is the Supream Head and Governour namely the Universal Catholick Church And I have in the second place shewed what the Subjects of this