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A73323 A fit guest for the Lords table. Or, a treatise declaring the true vse of the Lords Supper Profitable for all communicants, as a preseruatiue against all profanesse and sundry nouell opinions. Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657. 1609 (1609) STC 24308; ESTC S125561 48,877 192

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our cause and shal not see our case Therefore especially take heede of these three that followe trye not your selues by them neither in their sentence nor example The first is within thee but not of thee neither ouer thee if thou be Christes and if Christ bee in thee and that is thy Flesh thy Concupisence thy Corruption This seekes for shelter in thy soule and for harbour in thine heart and therfore cannot indure that thou shouldest search thy selfe least finding of her out and perceiuing her noy somnes thou shouldest either turne her out as a saucie guest or seeke to kill her as a secret foe Secondly Paul saith Rom. 8. 1. that those which are in Christ Iesus as we al professe our selues to be doe not walke after the flesh but after the spirit like men that are absolued by the Iudge and haue discharged what the lawe requireth who do now no more walke in the prison but in the open ayre and are no longer ruled by the Iaylor but liue at liberty yet perhapps sauouring of the Dungeon and carrying the prints of their Bolts and fetters and not wholye stripped of their prison garments Now if we be in Christ as we say and if wee either doe or at least ought to walke after the spirit and not after the flesh or corruption of our hearts what reason haue wee to make her our Iudge in the tryall of our states Thirdly wee promised God in our Baptisme that wee would forsake and detest the flesh but if wee make her our Iudge wee shewe that we doe not forsake her but fauour her and that we doe not hate her but rather harbour and hearten her Fourthly the wisdome euen the best part of the flesh is death Ro. 8. 6. and therfore her sentence can in no wise be iust and good Who would meddle with that which is the cause of death and make it his Iudge and if the wisdome of the flesh be folly with the Lord as sure it is then is the flesh a verie foole and makes those foolish that are ruled by her therefore wicked men are tearmed fooles in the Scripture Now who would bee iudged or examined by a foole whose wisedome is folly yea and death working death and destruction to those that subscribe vnto it and will not renounce it Fiftly Saint Paul saith Rom. 8. 5 That they that are after the flesh doe sauour the things of the flesh but they that are after the spirit the thinges of the spirit But if wee will needes be tryed by the flesh and wil be content with her determination we plainely demonstrate that we sauour not the thinges of the spirit but that we are bewitched with the flesh and therefore that we are not guided by the holy Ghost but gouerned of the flesh Sixtly the very wisedome of the flesh is not onely an enemie but enmity against God Rom. 8. 7. wherefore doubtlesse if the flesh be our iudge her sentence will be against God not for him but most odious in his sight Furthermore it is no childe-like affection nor property of a gracious sonne to rest in her who is a flat fierce and irr●●onciliable eenemie to his father But such is our flesh to God yea and he also that in will and worke doth with a full resolution subscribe vnto it cannot but bee an enemy vnto him Seauenthly the wisedome of the flesh is not subiect to the law of God neither indeede can it be Rom. 8. 7. Now such is the tree as are the fruites the vvisedome of the flesh is an vtter and most desperat rebel against the law therefore also the flesh it selfe For for what any thing is thus or thus that thing for which the thing is so is it selfe much more so Now if the flesh rebell against the law and cannot be ruled by it vve must needes confesse that it is an vncompetent Iudge for vs for it will not condemne it selfe nor speake wel for the law it vvill not discouer her ovvne vvorkes vvhich are bastard plants set by sathan in the seminary of our soules and fructifiing in our liues no nor let vs see the vvorkes of God vvithin vs if any be nor commend them to our loue Eightly they that are in the flesh cannot please God Rom. 8. 8. But he that makes his flesh his Iudge or the Touchstone to try himself withall and doth with full consent of heart subscribe vnto her iudgement and liue acording vnto her lust this man is in the flesh therefore he cannot please God Now what true pleasure can any man take when God the fountaine of all true pleasures is not nay can not be pleased what pleasure cā Man take to liue in that estate wherin God the Lord of life cannot be pleased what peace can please or what ioy can any man enioy while he hath no peace with God while the wel-spring of all constant ioyes is grieued displeased with him If thou wouldest not be in the ranke and roll of those that can not please God and doe not serue him then make not thy flesh thy Iudge subscribe not to her sentence and liue not as she lusteth Ninthly the flesh makes vs doe that we wold not leaue vndon that we neither wold nor should omit Paul calleth it a body of death and cryeth out O wretched man that I am I who shall deliuer mee Ro. 7 24 from the body of this death It is the bane of the soule and the poyson of the sinner It is like the worme that eates the wood wherein it was bred Pliny writeth that the Leontophone breedeth in no countrie but where there bee Lyons Plin. Naet Hist 8. 38. sin among all corporal creatures is ingēdered in none but in man And as that little creature is so venemous that the Lyon king of beastes dieth presently if he taste neuer so little of his venome so our flesh the corruption of our natures is so corrupt and deadly that as so one as man the chiefest of creatures is polluted with it hee becomes obnoxious vnto death both temporall and aeternall Therefore as the Lyon dooth abhorre that beaste and crusheth him with his pawes so soone as he doth espye him so ought wee to detest and hate this Sinne abhor this Flesh accurse this corruption and labour to crush and kil● it so farre we ought to be from electing her to bee our iudge This were not to hate the flesh but to honour it and not to figh● against it but to foster it Moreouer Paul accounted himself wretched because he was turmoyled with his flesh as with a yoake about his necke a chaine about his legge and a burthen vpon his backe wished to bee deliuered from it as the tyred Oxe dooth from his yoke the prisoner from his fetters and as men wearied doe from their burthens which they beare It is therefore against reason right all religion for any man to giue consent vnto his flesh or to trye his