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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01030	A preparatiue sermon, to the Lords table, preached by the Reuerend Mr. Iohn Forbes, pastour to the Companie of Marchant Aduentureres residing in Delff	Forbes, John, 1568?-1634.	1632 (1632)	STC 11133; ESTC S120856	19,249	70

A PREPARATIVE SERMON TO THE LORDS TABLE preached by the Reverend Mr. Iohn Forbes Pastour to the Companie of Marchant Adventurers residing in Delff 1. Cor. 11.28 But let a man examine himselfe and so let him eate of that bread and drinke of that Cup. Printed at Delff 1632. A PREPARATIVE SERMON TO THE LORDS TABLE Iohn 6. Vers 27. Labour not for the meat vvhich perisheth but for that meat vvhich endureth vnto euerlasting life which the Sonne of man shall giue vnto you for him hath God the Father sealed AMonge our manifold enormities there is not any one which more grieues the Lord Iesus and vvhich doth make him more to be offended vvith vs then vvhen vve abuse either himselfe or his blessed ordinances to peruerse ends therfore of all things vvherevnto vvee are to looke to in our selues this is one of the chiefest least in shevve of seeking after Christ in comming to his holy ordinances vve thereby increase our guiltines prouoke the Lord to vvrath and indignation against vs. VVe knovv vvhat fearefull iudgments the Corinthians did bring vpon themselues for not eating the Lords supper as they ought For vvhich abuse of that holy ordinance the Lord plagued them vvith sundry diseases and sicknesses and diuerse kinds of deaths so zealous is the Lord of keeping his holy ordinances from the abuse contempt of men See 1. Cor chap. 11. VVee are not ignorant also of the seueritie vsed by God against Nadab and Abihu the Sonnes of Aaron for offring of strang fire before the Lord in consuming them both vvith fire that came out from the Lord see Leuit. 10. The like example haue vvee of the testimonie of Gods anger against Vzzah as example to all them that vse not the holy things of God aright nor respectfully vvho presuming cōtrarie to the ordinance of God to touch the Arke Though vpō a good zeale to stay it vvhen he did see it like to fall vvas strucken to death by the Lord. Let vs remember vvhat the Lord did to king Vziah for attempting to enter in to the sanctuary to offer incense before the Lord vvhich belonged only to the Priest to doe in striking him vvith a leaprosie all the daies of his life 2. Chro. cap. 26. Annanias and Saphirah are documents to this day of the Lords sore displeasure against all those vvho pretending faith loue and zeale and liberalitie to Christ and his Church dealt hipocriticallie vvith counterfeit shevve and not trulie vvith God in any thing concerning his vvorship his glory his ordinances and his obedience vvho both of them vvere punished by death for dealing falselie vvith the Lord in their prophane counterfeite shevve of imitating the charitable liberalitie of the Primitiue Churches in selling their possessions and bringing the price thereof to the Apostles feet for the support of those that did vvant See Act. 5. All these do let vs see that the Lord can not abide that any man should prophane any of his holy ordināces or for any by-pretēce to make shevv of zeale to his glorie or desire of his holy things it is not possible that hee should suffer vs to goe long vnpunished if vve doe not serue him in all his ordinances vvith sinceere vpright hearts The truth vvhereof is confirmed by this Historie For these Ievves comming vnto Christ did make a great shevve and desire to enjoy the blessed fellovvship and communion of the Sonne of God yet Christ is displeased vvith them because they sought him not vvith vpright hearts therfore hauing checked and reproued them in manifesting and opening the poyson of hypocrisie which was in their hearts in the preceding verse of this chapter In this verse vvhich vve haue novv read hee laboureth to cure by vvholesome medecine the sicknes of their soule if possible the peruerse disposition of their hearts could be reformed The euill that he reproues in them is this that they sought not after Christ aright because they did not set before themselues the right vse of Christ in comming vnto him They should haue sought after him first and principallie for spirituall things tending to the vvelfare of their soules but they sought after him for nothing but the foode of their bodies and the vvelfare of this their tansitorie life therefore Christ is offended at them so hee is vvith all others vvho follovving their footsteps come vnto him or his ordinances in the like manner Novv to remedie this euill the Sonne of God labours to giue them some vvholesome instruction in which these points are to be marked First VVhat it is that he enioynes them to vvhich is to labour Secondly For vvhat he vvill haue them to labour that is for spirituall things namely the meate of their soules and the food of eternall life Thirdly vvee haue to consider the preparation vnto this by remouing the hindrances hereof in repressing the loue of the vvorld in mens hearts Commanding them not to labour for that meate which perisheth Fourthly vve haue heere set downe by Christ an information an instruction vvhere to finde this bread of life since it vvere in vaine to labour for it if vve knew not vvhere to find it Therefore hee tells them the Sonne of man shall giue it vnto them Fifthly Here is set downe an argument or reason of confirmation to make this good and to secure the soule of him that seeks this bread of life from Christ that Christ is able yea not only able but also vvilling and ready to giue it vnto them and that is set dovvne in these vvords for him hath God the Father sealed First then let vs speake of the exhortation vvhich is to labour for that meat vvhich endureth to eternall life By this exhortation vve see manifestly that it neuer vvas the purpose nor mind of God since the vvorld beganne that men should feede on any meat either corporall or spirituall vvithout labour and pains taking for it you knovv that lavve of the Apostle to the Thes the second Epist. 3. chap. vers 10. If there be any that vvill not vvorke the same man shall not eate that man therefore shall neuer be vvorthie of heauen that vvill take no paines for it for if it be Gods vvill that vvee should labour if vve vvould enioy the food of our bodies it must needs be much more his vvill that vvee should labour for the food of our soules It is therefore in vaine for men euer to looke to be made pertakers of the supper of the lambe and bread of heauen if they vvill take no paines for it there is an necessitie layd vpon vs to labour for the food both of soule and bodie it is no slothfull nor careles man that God vvill feed such men therefore as thinke to goe to heauen sleeping vvithout seeking after heauen and doe hope to haue Christ brought vnto them vvhile they rest in their beds and vvill not doe so much as to rise and let him in vvhen he calles and knocks