be no good end seeing all the faithfull wanting this change can and doe get Christ by faith as hath been proved before Ioh. 1.12 3.16 c. 5. This change were against all our senses we heare Christ calling it bread Mat. 26.26 Mar. 14.22 Luk. 22.19 The H. Ghost calleth it bread 1 Cor. 10.16.17 1 Cor. 11.23 Now in objects of sense our senses are competent judges according to Christs own argument Luk. ult 39. we see we touch we taste we smell bread 6. This change were against not only S. Scripture Ioh. 16 7.28 17.11 Act. 3.21 Heb. 8.4 But also this change were against naturall yea heavenly reason that Christs humane body should be at one and the selfe same time in heaven and on earth also it would contradict Mat. ult 6. Mark ult 6. and Luk. ult 6. Ob. D. Luther affirmeth that there is no contradiction in this affirmation Christs humane body is at one and the same time not on earth as Joh. 17.11 Christ saith I am no more in the world then it is understood of a sightly moveable and comprehensible manner of being But when it is said that Christs humane body is in the world as in the bread and wine Then it is understood of the unsightly immoveable and incomprehensible manner of beeing A. The H. Ghost taught no such divinity in S. Scripture That Christs humane body hath a manner of being belonging unto it of invisibility immoveability and incomprehensibility Besides its visible moveable and comprehensible manner of being Surely Christ even after His resurrection demonstrates the realty of His humane body by its visibility and palpability Luk ult 39. 7. This change would altogether overthrow the very beeing of this Sacrament for in every Sacrament there must be both a signe and the thing signified that the elect may receive both 8. If such a change be it must either bee naturall or miraculous by nature it cannot be that a little bread should be made Christs body nor is it done by a miracle for all miracles were visible but this we see not yea all our senses witnesse the contrary 9. What Christ once rejected as unnecessary unto salvation He will not afterward admit of it as necessary unto salvation for he cannot lie Tit. 1.2 nor deny himselfe 2 Tim. 2.13 but Christ hath rejected the carnall eating of his flesh which Transubstantiation and Consubstantiation do maintain as unnecessary to salvation Joh. 6 63. He will not then admit it now as necessary Ob. Christ affirmeth that unlesse we eat His flesh and drinke His bloud we have no life i.e. everlasting in us Joh. 6.53 A. 1. To beleeve in Christ and to eat his flesh and drinke his bloud are one and the same Joh. 6.29.35.40.47 compared with 1.51.53,54,55 2. These words litterally taken would contradict Christs affirmation unto Mary Magdalen who never tasted this Supper Luk. 7.48 and his assurance given to the theefe on the crosse Luk. 23.43 who never tasted this Sacrament Q. What learnest thou hence A. That that Sacramentall bread and wine are not changed in their nature even after the Consecration but in their use and end only Which is broken for you Q. Why was Christs body broken for the elect A. For two maine causes 1. That although Christ be the fountaine of life Ps 36.9 Ioh. 6.58 as in Himself Ioh. 10.18 So also unto us Act. 17.25.28 Col. 3.4 And although His flesh be meat indeed and His bloud drink indeed Ioh. 6.55 Yet unlesse His body had been broken for the elect He had neither been our life nor our soules food not our life untill by death he had destroyed him who had the power of death that is the divell Heb. 2.14 Nor could Christ be our soules food untill His body was broken Heb. 9.13,14,15,16 2. Unlesse Christs body had been broken He could not have procured remission of sin unto the elect for without shedding of bloud there is no remission of sin Heb. 9.22 Nor could he have answered Gods truth Gen. 2.17 because that nature that sinned behoved to dye But now His body being broken He is a fountaine opened for sin and for uncleannesse Zach. 13.1 Q. What doth this teach thee A. 1. To know the love of Christ which passeth all knowledge Eph. 3.19 that I may love him above all things counting my life and all things but dung in comparison of Christ Philip. 3.8 2. To bewaile my sins confesse them and forsake them Prov. 28.13 because they occasioned the breaking of Christs body Esa 53.5 and crucifie him afresh Heb. 6.6 3. Papists and Lutherans sinfull folly who keep their sacramentall bread whole unbroken in their mouth Ob. But they offer an unbloudy sacrifice as they say A. They are meer deluders of their owne soules for without shedding of bloud there is no remission of sins Heb. 9.22 4. Seeing the Father spared not his own Son but gave him freely for us all Rom. 8.32 And that Christ spared not himselfe but laid downe His life willingly for all the elect Ioh. 10.18 If I can get Christ in this Sacrament by faith I get all whatsoever is good for me Rom. 8 32. Doe this in remembrance of me Q. What doth the Holy Ghost aime at in those words A. 1. This is the first end of this Sacrament in which I am commanded to remember continually all that Christ hath done and suffered for me which all is summarily signified in this Supper of the Lord. 2. That whatsoever was at first done and said in this Sacrament by our Lord and his Apostles must be imitated in discretion ever afterwards Q. What doth this teach thee A. 1. Never to forget my Lords love lest I be turned into hell Ps 9.17 2. In receiving this Sacrament to imitate the institution according to my calling be I Minister or hearer 3. The terrible condition of such who refuse or contemne this Sacrament for they refuse the means of their salvation and remember not Christ V. 25. This cup is the New Testament in my bloud Q. Why did Christ take wine to represent Hâ—… bloud in this Sacrament A. 1. Because wine resembles Chrisâ— bloud both in colour being red and in namâ—… for its called the bloud of the grape Gen. â—… 11 2. As it is not wine untill it be pressed oâ—… of the grape So nor Christs bloud did saâ—… as actually untillit was shed out of His body Mat. 26.28 Heb. 9.14 3. As wine is to be given to the sorrowfull and heavy hearted for comforting them Prov. 31.6 So Christs bloud is the only salve which can comfort a sin-sick soule which is sensible of its sin and misery Act. 2.38,39 1 Joh. 17. 4. As wine maketh mans heart glad Ps 104.15 So doth Christs bloud glad our souls when by faith we are sure that it was shed for us 1 Pet. 1.18,19 Q. What doth the Holy Ghost shew in these words This cup is the New Testament in my bloud A. 1. As the Gospel consists of two main
parts 1. Of all that Christ did and suffered for all the elect 2. That Christ was chosen of the Father to be redeemer of all the elect Ps 89.19 That the Father did preordain Him 1 Pet. 1.20 Sent Him Ioh. 3.17 Sealed Him Ioh. 6.27 Sanctified Him Ioh. 10.36 And that Christ was freely given of the Father Ioh. 3.16 And was made of the Father unto all the truly faithfull our wisdome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 Es 9.6 And that Christ gave Himselfe freely for all the elect Eph. 5.2 So this Sacrament representeth both these unto us 2. That this Sacrament is the seale of the Gospel Rom. 4.11 shewing all that to the eye for it is a visible word which the Gospel presents to the eare Even that Christ is freely given of the Father and fully gives Himselfe in this Sacrament unto all who will take Him by faith as His own words prove Take eat this is my body Drinke this is my bloud Q. How can I take Christ A. Taking of Christ is an act of the will which act by faith takes Christ to be my Prophet to teach me Ioh. 15.15 To be my Priest whose sacrifice of Himselfe can only save me Heb. 7.24,25 And to be my King to apply salvation unto me Act. 4.12 And whose only laws concerning his worship and my salvation I must solemnly sweare to observe Ps 119.106 2. As I must take Christ by faith which wanting Gods best Ordinances profit not Heb. 4.2 So I must take Him to love Him above all things Philip. 3.8 for nothing can please the Lord which is not done in love 1 Cor. 3. passim 3. In taking Christ I must resolve and constantly endeavour to my best possibility to serve Him all the dayes of my life Luk. 1.74,75 Q. What learnest thou hence A. 1. Seeing Christ who is the full food of my soul is given of the Father freely gives himselfe in this Supper I must purge away all my native corruptions Es 1 16,17 and hunger for it Mat. 5.6 before I receive it 2. I admire the hellish obstinacie of Papists and Lutherans who confesse these words This cup c. to be a figurative speech The cup for the wine and yet will not allow so much when the Lord calleth the bread His body 3. Papists perversenesse who give not the wine unto the inferior sort of their receivers Do this in remembrance of me Q. What is here to be markt Q. Two things 1. Why is remembrance again commanded And secondly what is it that we must remember Q. Why is remembrance again urged A. Because of our natures totall corruption Gen. 5.6 Rom. 7.24 forgetting what we should remember and remembring what we should forget Q. How is that proved A. We are commanded to remember 1. The seventh day to keep it all holy Ex. 20.8 2. To remember and not forget how we provoke the Lord to wrath Deut. 9.7 3. To remember now our Creator in the dayes of our youth Eccles 12.1 4. To remember Lots wife for looking backe to sin Luk. 17.32 5. And in this Sacrament to remember Christ which all wee too often forget Againe we too much remember injuries which we are commanded to forget Mat. 6.15 So our memories are like strainers which keep the dregs and suffer the best to passe thorow Q. Are not all those from our memories weaknesse A. No but from our natures perversenesse for the world sin trespasses and vanities are too much remembred even of the faithfull Rom. 7.15 Q. What are we here to remember concerning Christ A. 1. We must remember what Christ hath done and suffered for us And that His blood which is my soulss spirituall drinke and which only can cleanse me from all sin 1 Joh. 1.7 is fully and freely given here unto all faithfull receivers 2. We must remember this Sacraments four ends 3. That Christs bloud was shed for mee Mat. 26.28 4. And to imitate the Institution Q. What learnest thou here A. 1. To bewaile my natures perversity and my memories frailty 2. To frequent this Sacrament often that I may still remember what my Lord hath undergone for me V. 26. Yee doe shew the Lords death till hee come Q. What is here propounded A. Another end of this Sacrament Christs death Q. What was Christs death A. It was the last act of His voluntary humiliation in which He suffered the most extreame most horrible paines which were due unto all the elect by reason of their sins Q. Why is his death which is a passion called an act A. Because Christ did dispose himselfe willingly to undergoe it Joh. 10.11.18 Q. Why is Christs death called voluntary A. None could enforce Him unto it for He is omnipotent Esa 96. Rev. 1.8 19.16 His death was of power Col. 2.15 not of infirmity for observance of His Fathers will Mat. 26.39.42 for His love to the elect Ioh. 10.15 for satisfying His Fathers justice by victory 1 Cor. 15.54 and not succumbing by misery Act. 2.24 Q. Did our Saviour indeed suffer such extream torments A. Yes for his sufferings did equall all those eternall torments which the whole elect should have suffered Esa 53. Psal 22. Ioh. 19. Q. Christs sufferings being so short how is that possible A. 1. The eternity of paine the totall absence of Gods favour and such other circumstances accompanying the eternall torments of reprobates are not of the essence but are adjuncts of paine And therefore Christ did not undergoe them 2. Our Lord had sufficiency both of power and dignity to overcome death and all its circumstances Act. 2.24 1 Cor. 15.54.57 3. These limitations duly considered Christs death was the very same both in its kinde for it was accursed Gal. 3.13 and in its measure for he bare all the elects sinnes Esa 53.3,4,5 6. And His death did represent the very death of the damned fully Mat. 27.46 Luk. 22.44 Q. What doth this teach thee A. 1. Seeing that the Father spared not the Sonne of His love who did no sin neither was guil found in His mouth 1 Pet. 2.22 He will not spare me if I continue in any one knowne sin with delight Iam. 2.10 compared with Deut. 27.26 2. That the Lord is of purer eyes then to behold evill and cannot looke on iniquity Habbac 1.13 3. I must communicate often that I may shew alwayes the Lords death and that sinne live not in me Rom. 6.3 compared with v. 6. 4. If in this Sacrament I get Christ by faith then his bloud cleanseth mee from all sin 1 Ioh. 1.7 V. 27. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drinke this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and bloud of the Lord. Q. What is most remarkable in this verse A. Three things especially 1. What that sinne is which maketh unworthy receivers guilty of Christs body and bloud 2. How that unworthinesse maketh them guilty 3. And the ground or cause of that guiltinesse Q. What sinne is