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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81950	The right receiving of Christ· Or, An appendix to the worthy communicant, or A treatise shewing the due order of receiving the sacrament. By Jer. Dyke, late minister of Epping in Essex. Which was intended by the said author in his life time to be annexed to this treatise of the sacrament; as appeares in the epistle. Wherein a Christian may know, whether he hath rightly received Christ in the sacrament or no.	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1645 (1645)	Wing D2959bA; ESTC R229229	52,271	144

words shake off the dust of your feete It shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgement then for that Citie Why so See the reason ver 40. He that receives you receives me and so also he that refuses you refuses me So then he that refused to receive the Apostles their sinne was that they refused to receive Christ And what should become of those that refused to receive him Gods vengeance shall lie heavier upon such mens heads at the day of Judgement then upon the head of a cursed damned Sodomite That sin shall presse and sinke a mans soule deeper into hell then Sodoms sin How heavie and dreadfull will Sodoms Hell be in Hell whose sinne made a visible Hell on earth and such an Hell on earth the monuments whereof remaine extant and exemplary to this day to be a terrour to all ungodly ones And yet as heavy as Sodoms punishment shall be it shall be easier then thine that receivest not Christ when offered unto thee Indeed when Christ would have come into a village of Samaria Luk. 9. 53. they would not receive him and they did not receive him sayes the Text. The Disciples would have had fire from heaven to have consumed them And if they thought they were worthy of fire from heaven that would not receive him but to lodge in their Towne and in some of their houses How much more shall they be judged worthy of fire in hell that doe not and will not receive him into their hearts when his Ministers offer him to men and labour to make ready for him And though then Christ would not have fire come downe upon those Samaritans yet when the time of judgement comes he will bring fiery vengeance upon all those that have not received him into their hearts 2 Thes 1. 7 8. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ Not to obey the Gospel is not to obey the commandements of the Gospel as not to obey the Law is not to obey the commandements of the Law Now the maine commandement of the Gospel is Receive the Lord Jesus Christ This commandement not obeyed will bring fiery vengeance on his head that obeyes it not Oh that men would but thinke seriously of this danger The stoutest sturdiest and most rebellious spirit that ever was when he shall see Christ come in Glory shall then with howling and wringing of hands cry out upon himself Ah cursed wretch that I am oh that I had had the grace to have received this Lord Christ when he was offered to me Ah beast and foole that I received him not when I was so often pressed to it now shall I receive vengeance and wrath for ever because I received not the Lord Christ Nay thinke upon one thing also before that day come There will be a day of Death before the day of Judgement Thou must dye and thou knowest not how soone and when thou commest to dye like enough thou wilt take up Stephens prayer Acts 7. 59. Lord Jesus receive my spirit Then full faine wilt thou be to have Christ Jesus receive thy soule Now wouldest thou in good earnest have Christ Jesus receive thy soule when thou dyest why then be as willing to receive Christ Jesus into thy soule whilest thou livest He will receive no soule that hath not first received him In vaine shalt thou cry at thy last gaspe Lord Jesus receive my soule if thy soule have not before received him He will returne thee a cold and a comfortlesse answer Oh now yee can call to mee to receive your soule I called all the dayes of your life to receive me for these thirty forty fifty yeares together and you would never bee brought to receive me As you have dealt by me so will I now deale by you I will now be quit with you I called upon you to receive me and yee would not now cry you on and howle on to me to receive you I will as little regard your calles as you regarded mine your owne measure be mete unto you Let this meditation sinke deeply downe into our hearts and as willingly as wee would have Christ receive our soules at death and as willingly as wee would be received into everlasting habitations at the last day so willingly so gladly receive the Lord Jesus Christ now he is offered to you in the Gospel It being a matter of so great consequence and necessitie to receive Christ Quest how may wee come and what must be done to receive him They that will receive Christ there must be two things done by them Answ 1. All hindrances must be removed 2. Some positive duties must be done CHAP. V. Hindrances to be removed by such as will receive Christ FIrst All such things must be removed that hinder the soule from Receiving Christ There is no man that receives not Christ but there is something that holds him off We reade of a man in the Gospel that had a withered arme Now if a man would have offered him money upon condition that hee would have received it with his hand he could not have received it because his arme was withered So God offers Christ to be received and men receive him not because their armes are withered A Palsey shaking hand may receive an almes but a withered hand cannot Now there is one thing or other that withers the hand of the soule that it cannot stretch out it selfe to receive Christ Men must therefore first consider what that is which withers their hand arme and must get that first removed before they can receive Christ When Antichrist was to come into the world he could not be received untill that which hindred were taken out of the way 2 Thes 2. 7. when Christ would and should be received there is still some one thing or other that lets and hinders it And he cannot be received till that which hinders be taken out of the way Let us see what those hindrances are that must be first taken out of the way They are these First An over-good conceit of a 1. mans own condition and estate wherein he is for the present Such a conceit disconceits a man of the necessitie of Christ and makes him regardlesse of him when offered Offer to a man a thing that he needs not and he will not be at the paines to reach forth his hand to receive it What cares he to receive a thing he needs not Offer an almes to a rich man and he scornes it what he take an almes that hath money of his owne in his purse he thinkes it an abuse a disgrace and a disparagement to him for one of his ranke and repute to have an almes offered him But offer it to a poore man to a needy person his heart is gladded at the offer and hee thankfully receives it A man that thinkes highly

well of his estate already he thinkes meanly of Christ The whole need not the Physitian need no Physicke and therefore care neither for Physicke nor Physitian Men that are strongly possest with the conceit of the present goodnesse of their estates and conditions Christ is vile in their eyes A man therefore that would ever receive Christ must first emptie his heart of all such conceits and be under the sence and under the pinch too of selfe-emptinesse A man that would receive Christ must come with an empty hand The full stomack despises the honey-combs of the Gospel and the full hand will never receive Christ offered Stout-hearted persons are farre from righteousnesse Isa 46. 12. Hearken unto mee yee stout-hearted that are far from righteousnesse I bring neere my righteousnesse God brings Christ and his righteousnesse neere to men he offers it them in the ministry of the Gospel and yet though it be brought neere they are farre from it because they doe not receive it And why doe they not receive it when it is brought so neere unto them Because they are stout-hearted They have a conceit that their estate is good already and they build and rest upon a righteousnesse of their own in their moralities and performances and this conceit makes them so stout-hearted that they will not submit themselves to the righteousnesse of God Rom. 10. 3. Wee are Lords wee will not come unto thee Jer. 2. 31. Beggers will come and receive Gods offers and his almes but whilest men conceit themselves to be Lords to have Lords estates they will neither come nor receive Gods offers If therefore wee would receive Christ wee must away with all these swelling conceits wee must away with our Lordships with our stoutnesse and fulnesse and labour to see our cursed and damnable condition by nature the emptinesse and vanitie of all wee have and doe we must be in a perishing condition Luk. 15. 17. in a lost condition Luk. 19. 10. He that will be Christs disciple and receive him for his Lord must deny himselfe The Apostle Phil. 3. counts all things dung that he may winne and receive Christ And Christ before he offers Laodicea Gold Rayment and eye-salve he first convinces her of her poverty beggery nakednesse and labours to empty her of her selfelove and selfe-conceitednesse that shee was rich and needed nothing Thereby giving to understand that it is a most dangerous hindrance that keepes men from receiving Christ to have an over-good conceit of a mans owne naturall estate of what he hath and doth As ever therefore thou wilt receive Christ away with it Such as goe downe to the dust and in the sence of their wretchednesse are laid in the dust That cannot keepe alive their owne soules and see no way but death they they are that will bow to Christ and receive him with all their soules Psal 22. 29. CHAP. VI. The love of our lusts a hindrance from receiving Christ ANother maine hindrance to the receiving of Christ is a love of our lusts an inordinate love of our profits pleasures credits c. Our lusts loved at all our profits and pleasures over-loved doe altogether hinder a man from receiving of Christ A mans lusts must be cast out if Christ be received in Now mens lusts are deare to them men are strongly bewitcht with them and they will never endure to receive Christ upon such termes as to turne their lusts going When Christ is once received for the husband there must be a bill of Divorce given to all these and they must be packt out That 's death to a carnall heart to doe so he can as easily die as doe it and therefore will rather refuse to receive Christ then he will receive him upon such harsh termes When it was propounded to the Roman Emperour to receive Christ for a God the Senate refused to doe it because they understood if he were received as a God he onely must be received and no other with him all other gods must downe if they received him upon the very same ground it is that men doe not receive Christ into their hearts because they see that if Christ be received their lusts must out of doores and Christ alone must have their hearts Christ will not be received by us whilest the roomes of our hearts are taken up by base and sinfull lusts As when he was borne he was faine to be in the stable because no roome for him in the Inne Luk. 2. 7. So if we make and will have our hearts common Innes and receptacles for lusts to harbour and lodge them How long shall thy vaine thoughts lodge within thee Jer. 4. 14. Christ cannot will not be received because there is no Roome for him What was the reason Diatrephes would not receive John but because he loved to have the preheminence 3 John 9. Lusts love to have the preheminence in the heart and therefore keepe out Christ from being received because if he be received they must lose their preheminence and they had as lieve lose their lives as that So it is also in the inordinate love of the world and our profits It was a faire offer which was made to them Luk. 14. Come for all things are ready Receive Christ tendred to you in the Gospel and yee shall receive with him all things your soules can desire And yet they received not Christ in that offer and all because their oxen and their farmes inordinately loved drew their hearts another way It is so in the case of credit and respect in the world inordinately respected Christ is offered to many a man in the world but he stickes at receiving him What is the matter Oh sayes he If I receive him I shall receive but little credit by it in the world nay I shall lose credit and respect amongst my friends If I might receive Christ and credit both I could then receive him but because if Christ be received my credit will be gone therefore I will none I will not meddle Our Saviour charging those with this sinne of not receiving him Joh. 5. 43. I am come in my Fathers name and yee receive mee not doth there shew this very thing to be the reason of their not receiving him ver 44. How can yee beleeve which receive honour one of another As if he had said I complaine that yee receive mee not and indeed it is no wonder yee receive me not when yee receive honour one of another that is you desire to have credit respect esteeme and good opinion one of another You see if any one receive me all his fellows will hate him scorne sleight and dis-esteeme him and you stand so much upon your honour and credit one amongst another that it is impossible for you thus inordinately affected to your credit ever to receive me So that if ever wee would receive Christ we must casheire all our lusts send them packing Wee must renounce all our carnall lusts worldly lusts and