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A communicant instructed, or, Practicall directions for worthy receiving of the Lords Supper by Francis Roberts.
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Roberts, Francis, 1609-1675.
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tree And the Tree of Knowledge of good and evill assuring him of death upon breach of Covenant and tasting of that Tree 9. Finally Adam enjoyed sweet Peace and Communion with God all the while he continued in this his pure primitive state God familiarly conversed with him he with God in the Garden of Eden receiving from God no expressions but of love and favour This Peace and Communion with God was the Eden of Eden the Paradise of Adams Paradise Object These were Adams Priviledges before the fall and they were excellent But what is all this to us Asw. All this is very much to us For all Adams Priviledges were our Priviledges Adam being a publick person the generall Parent Root and Stock of Mankinde and we all at that time in his loyns Therefore as Levi is said to pay Tithes in Abram unto Melchizedech because Levi was in his father Abram's loyns when Melchizedech met him So we may be truly said to enjoy all the Priviledges of the state of innocency in Adam because at that time we all were in Adams loynes when he injoyed them Oh therefore How happy a man was Adam and how happy were all we in Adam before the fall Thus we should know our selves and our primitive state what once we were in Adam before the fall Next we should know what we now are by nature since the fall II. What are we now in Adam by nature since the fall Answ. As the pillar of cloud between the Israelites and Egyptians had a light side and a dark side Giving light by night to Israel but being darknesse to the Egyptians So our state before and after the fall had a bright side and a dark side I have already shewed you the bright side of the cloud Now I shall represent unto you the dark side We were not once so happy before the fall but we are now as miserable since the fall And this chiefly two ways 1. Through the Privation and Absence of all good which we had 2. Through the Position or presence of all evil which we had not 1. By the fall of Adam we have lost all the good we had all the happinesse we enjoyed in our first estate 1. Our reasonable and immortall soules are become brutish in the things of God and liable to die everlastingly 2 We are banished out of Paradise our pleasant Habitation 3 We are deprived of Edens liberall Provision In the sweat of our browes we must now get our bread and though we toyle never so much Yet the earth yields not its strength but brings forth thorns thistles 4 We have lost much of our dominion over the creatures many of them rebeling against us 5 The sweetness of Marriage-society is imbittered The wives subjection to her husband becoming grievous Her sorrows in Conception and bringing forth being greatly multiplied and both of them being exercised with cares and troubles in the flesh touching their children one another 6. Our innocency and spotlesnesse is swallowed up with nocency and sinfulnesse 7. We are disrobed of Gods beauteous image Having sought out many inventions till Christ the second Adam repair Gods image in us 8. We have brok Covenant with God by eating the forbidden fruit and so have debar'd our selves of all benefit of the Tree of Life 9. And finally we lost our sweet Peace and Communion with God sin defiling our consciences with guilt clothing us with shame and filling our hearts with fear and horrour at the presence of God our â—irst Parents and we in them endeavouring to hide our selves from Gods presence among the trees of the Garden Thus by the fall we are quite stript of all our glory and happinesse wherein we were created 2. By the fall of Adam we are also implunged into all manner of evil which we had not before viz. 1. Evil of sin 2. Evil of punishment 1 The evil of sin is most grievous upon us divers wayes Principally in regard 1. Of Adams sin whereof we are guilty 1. Of Original sin wherein we are naturally drowned 3. Of Actual sin of all sorts and degrees whereunto we are naturally disposed 1. We are all guilty of Adams sin of Adams fall For we all being in the loyns of Adam the publick Root of mankind we stood with him and we fell with him Hence it is said By one man sin entred into the World and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned And again By one mans disobedience many were made sinners So that Adams fall and first sin together with all the sinfull ingredients aggravations thereof As Vnbelief Pride Disobedience Rebellion Vnthankfulnesse Intemperance Murder Apostacy Hypocrisie c. may all most justly be laid to our charge And this is sin enough were we guilty of no more to sink us into everlasting death 2. We are all drowned in Original corruption For even Infants from Adam to Moses that lived not so long as to sin Actually as Adam in his Apostacy did even they were brought under death for their guilt of Adams sin and of Originall corruption of their natures Death reigned from Adam to Moses even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression And David thus laments himâ—elf Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me This the common lot of all Adams posterity even of David among the rest Yea Iob long before David said Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean not one So then Adam by the fall becoming unclean all Adams children naturally and by ordinary propagation descending from him are naturally unclean also This sinful uncleannesse of nature we call Original sin or Original corrupâ—ion That we may the better discern the venome and sinfulnesse of Original sinne Let us a little consider 1. The names 2. The Nature 3. Thâ— Aggravations of it Thâ— Names given to Original sin in Scripture are divers and very observeable It is called 1. Sin by way of Emphasis as being the sin of sins the mother sin In sin did my mother conceive me 2. Sin-dwelling-in-us Because it hath its continual abode in our natures while we continue in these Tabernacles whether we wake or sleep c. As Ivy abides in an old wall till the wall be pulled down Hence Paul It is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me 3. The easily-encompassing-sin Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that doth so easily-beset us By weight Beza seems rightly to understand all burdensome worldly impediments which hinder us in our Christian course By Sin easily-encompassing Original corruption of our natures that like snares besets us before behinde and on every side tangels our Mindes Consciences Wills Affections and all our members is as fetters to our feet manacles to our hands c. so that we cannot run
died for us Much more then being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Hence Christ in the Institution of the Supper saith This is my blood of the New Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins God justifies us efficiently Christ justifies us by his blood and obedience meritoriously by his Resurrection evidentially evidencing the full vertue and victory of his death Faith justifies us instrumentally good works justifie us declaratively in the sight of men declaring our faith to be lively and true that brings forth good works 4. Victorie over our spiritual enemies Naturally by the fall we are in the bond of iniquity and through fear of death all our life-time subject to bondage and led captive by Satan at his will Israels bondage and slavery in Egypt or Babylon no way comparable to this spiritual bondage But Christ by his death Hath condemned sin in the flesh Hath overcome death and destroyed him that had the power of death the Devil having spoâ—led principalities and powers and triumphed over them openly by his Crosse. 5. Finally Entrance into Heaven Though our sin had cast us out of Paradise and from all hope of Heaven yet Christ by his death and blood hath opened to us the gate of the heavenly Paradise We have boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Iesus by a new livâ—ng way which he hath consecrated for us through the vail that is to say his flesh Theâ—e are some of the glorious fruits of Christs death Redemption Reconciliation Justification Victory over our spiritual enemies and entrance into the holiest of all Remember theâ—e at the Lords Supper that sweet Memorial of Christs death Thus remember the Mystery of his death 3. Energetically Remember Christ and his death the History Mystery of his death so as to work this remembrance with energy force and efficacy upon thine heart and spirit Let this remembrance of Christ make some savory practical impressions upon thy soul which may dwell and fix there for thy good How may that be done Answ. Thus 1. Remember Christ and his death so as to lay to heart the deep sinfulness and misery into which the first Adam plunged us by his fall Judge of the extremity of the malady by the eminency of the remedy No lesse then death then such a death and that of such a person as Christ who was God-man could eâ—er have expiated that sinfulness or haâ—e remoâ—ed that misery If all the men on earth and all the Angels in heaven had died and that eternally they could never have satisfied Gods justice for one sin For Gods justice offended is infinite and all that mere creatures can do or endure are as themselves meer finite but Christs person being of infinite worth in respect of his God-head satisfied to the full Think not Adams sin to be small It murdered himself and all his posterity It cost Christ his dearest hearts blood And Adams first sin was thy sin for thou wast in his loyns when he fell Lay this to heart proportionably 2. Remember Christ and his death so as to admire Gods infinite 1. Wisdom 2. Iustice and 3. Love therein toward sinners 1. Admire his wisdom in contriving this strange way for saving of sinners which men and Angels could not have contrived or imagined That the eternal Son of God should become man personally uniting the humane nature to his divine person That as man he might suffer as God he might satisfie for sinners Here 's Chrâ—st crucified the wisdom of God indeed God! 2. Admire his justice Christ his dear and only Son must be sacrificed that we his utter enemies might be spared Christ his spotless Son who knew no sin must be condemned that we sinners who knew nothing but sin might be cleared Christ who was thâ— life it self must die that we who were dead in sins might live Who would not count it an unrighteous Act if any King should put to death his own obedient Son to save the life of a Traytor or condemn the innocent knowingly for the nocent Oh then how infinite is this Justice of God in giving Christ the righteous to die for us unrighteous It is such justice as seems to have a shew of injustice but that God is so righteous that he can do nothing unrighteously 3. Finally Admire his love God so loved us as to give his own Son his only Son his righteous Son the Son of his love to die a painful shameful and cursed death for us worthless loveless sinners dead in sins enemies enmity it self against God O the depth and heighth and length and breadth of this love of God in Christ which passeth knowledge Say be astonished O my soul at this love which passed all love 3. Remember Christ and his death so as to lament and hate those sins for which Christ thus suffered When thou seest the bread broken think how Christs body was broken wounded for thy sins And then fill thine heart with grief and indignation against those sins Shall Christs body be so broken and his heart pierced for thy sins and shall not thy heart be pricked and broken for thine own sins Shall thy sins derive Gods wrath upon Christ and shall not thine hatred and wrathful indignation be kindled against thine own sins Dost thou count those sins small or light which Christ found so heavy and heynous that he sweat great drops of blood falling down to the ground and cryed out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Dost thou think much to shed a few penitential tears for those sins for which Christ shed all his hearts blood Canst thou love or be reconciled to those corruptions for which Christ was so hated to the very death Say to thy soul O my soul consider thy sins aright For those Christ bled wilt thou not bleed for them for those Christ died and wilt thou live in them â— c. 4. Remember Christ and his death so as to resolve more effectually to conform to Christ and to his death Then we aright remember Christ crucified when we resolve and endeavour to resemble Christ crucified In this Supper so think upon Christ dying as to be willing to die with him But how shall I die with him or be conform to Christ crucified Answ. By dying to sin By being crucified to the world And by suffering for Christ. 1. By dying unto sin Christ died for sin that we who are dead in sin might die unto sin Whilest we are dead in sin we can do nothing else but sin but when we die to sin we habitually live not any longer therein nor thenceforth serve sin How should we that are dead to sin live any longer therein Hence the Apostle urges our death