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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

eternall life and thus much for the reason cōtayning also a discription of that for vvhich vvee should labour Seeing then vvee see vvhat great reason vvee haue to seeke this spirituall food it is necessarie for vs to knovv vvhere vvee shall find it and that is the next point vve are to consider set dovvne in these vvords vvhich the sonne of man shall giue vnto you In these vvords let vs marke these tvvo things First vvho it is of vvhom vvee must haue this meat That is the Sonne of man The second is hovv vve shall haue it and that is set dovvne in these vvords he shall giue it vnto vs. Touching the first vvee are to mark that it pleaseth Christ through out the Scriptures to name himselfe more by this name the Sonne of man then by any other especiallie vvhen he speaks of the vvorks of sauing grace and for the comfort of his elect ones it must therefore be a matter of great moment and of singular instruction for vs that moues Christ to take this name vpon himselfe and certainly it is so although not perceaued nor comprehended by euerie man In this same chapter vvhen Christ had told the levves that vnles they did eate the flesh of the Sonne of man and drinke his blood they had no life in them many of his disciples murmured at it and said this is a hard saying and in deed no maruell that it seeme hard to a naturall man for hovv can he thinke that the flesh and blood of man should haue the vertue of eternall life in them but Christ opens this mistery in the same place telling them that it vvas the spirit that quickeneth the flesh prositteth nothing for it is true that all though vvithout this flesh and blood vve can haue no life in vs yet certainly euen the flesh and blood of Christ nakedly considered as flesh and blood or yet as the flesh and blood of a man could neuer giue life to them that eate and drinke it but as being the flesh and blood of God in the vvhich flesh all the fullnes of the God-head dvvels bodily it is no maruell that it giues life to them that eate and drinke them for as much as the eternal spirit is neuer separated from this flesh nor from this blood therfore all though their can be no eternall life but frō this eternal spirit yet it is the pleasure of God that no sauing vertue of the Diety nor life frō the God head should euer be cōmunicated vnto man but in through the flesh and blood of Iesus Christ the Lord Let no man therefore Dispise this flesh blood nor the outvvard means vvhereby our fellovvship and communion in this flesh and blood is sealed vnto vs since vvithout this flesh and blood it is not the purpose of God to saue vs let vs therefore lay vp this misterie in our hearts that as the flesh of Christ can neuer quicken but by the spirit euen so also the spirit shall neuer quicken but by the flesh There is yet more in this to be considered and that is that as God vvill dispence no sauing grace but in the flesh and blood of Iesus Christ the man so he vvill not dispence it but by Christ as hee is man for God hath giuen all iudgment to the Sonne not as hee is God simplie but as he is the Sonne of man and by him as hee is man vvill he iudge the vvorld as the Apostle saith in the 17. of Act. God hath appointed a day in which he vvill iudge the vvorld in righteousnes by the man vvhom he hath ordained Iesus Christ as man shall iudge both heauen and earth For the Father hath exalted him in his man hood and hath giuen him a name aboue all names vnto vvhich all knees must bovve and euerie mouth confesseth him to be the Lord therefore it is not vvithout cause that Dauid considering this vvondered as you may see in the 8. psal saying VVhat is man that thou art mindfull of him and the sonne of man that thou visitest him for thou hast made him a littel lovver then the Angels and hast crowned him vvith honour and glorie and hath put all things vnder his feet It is good for vs to consider this that as Christ himselfe saith all povver is giuen vnto mee ouer all flesh the povver of ruling and of iudging of sauing damming men is giuen to Christ as man for there is nothing that is not subdued vnto Christ the man as the Apostle proues in the 1. Cor. 15. from these vvords of the Psalme that God hath subdued all things vnder his feet prouing therby that it is manifest that nothing is vnsubdued to him but he that did subdue them vntill that the last enemie death it selfe be subdued Christ shall stil possesse the kingdome but vvhen hee hath subdued all things then shall he render vp the kingdome to his father that God may be all in all but in the meane time till this be done all povver is giuen to Christ as man to destroy all aduersarie powers either diuells or vvicked men thus hath God honoured highly exalted the humanitie of his Sonne by ●ertue of the fullnes of the God head ●vvelling in him bodilie this is the ●eason that Christ in this place saith the Sonne of man shall giue vs this bread of eternall life The consideration of these things ●erue for a singular cōfort to the Godly a fearefull terror to the vvicked Touching the vvicked vvhen they must see knovv this that the man vvhom they haue pearced and put to ●eath vvhom they haue so despised vvhose blood they haue trod vnder foote to be exalted to such glorie and vvhen they shal see him come in the ●louds in maiestie and great povver accompanied vvith innumerable an●ells and hearing him sitting in the throne of iudgmēt prononce the sentence of eternall death against them For the Godly it is a matter of singuler ioy to knovv that he shall be their iudge and that in his humaine nature vvherin in all things hee vvas made like vnto them sinne only excepted and vvherein he vvrought their redemption by his ovvn death vvhen they shall vnderstand that the dispensation of all things is put in his hands and that he hath povver to giue eternall life yea he himselfe to giue his ovvne flesh and blood vnto vs vnto eternall life certainly if this vvere not the greatest comfort of Gods elect vvere taken avvaie no consideration of the Sonne of God as God simplie could possibly refresh our soules if vvee did not consider him in his flesh being man for he is no lesse terrible in his Dyetie to a sinner then the Father but our interest in him ariseth vpon this that hee is be come our brother in our nature that being man hee might bring vs that are men to God Therefore first of all he did a base himselfe and tooke vpon him the shape of a seruant and in that nature