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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31058	A brief exposition of the Lord's prayer and the Decalogue to which is added the doctrine of the sacraments / by Isaac Barrow ...	Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677.	1681 (1681)	Wing B928; ESTC R20292	77,455	270

of Bread and Wine 2. The breaking of Bread and handling the Cup. 3. The delivery and distribution of them to the persons present 4. The declaration accompanying that delivery that those symbolical things and actions did represent our Saviour's Body given and broken our Saviour's Blood shed and poured out for us in sanction of the new Covenant 5. The actual partaking of those Symbols by eating the Bread and drinking the Wine done by all present These things we find done at the first institution and exemplary practice of this holy Ceremony the which our Saviour obliged us to imitate saying Do this in remembrance of me There followeth in S. Matthew and S. Mark presently after the narration concerning these particulars 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And having sung a Hymn they went to the Mount of Olives Which action was indeed in it self proper to conclude the practice of this holy Rite yet what reference it hath thereto cannot thence be determined However with these the Church hath always joined several acts of Devotion Confessions Prayers Praises Thanksgivings Intercessions Vows suitable to the nature and design of the Sacrament apt to glorify God and edify the Faithful in the celebration thereof Such is the practice it self instituted and injoined by our Saviour the mysterious importance thereof as we find it explained in Holy Scripture the only solid and sure ground upon which we can build the explication of supernatural Mysteries consisteth chiefly in these particulars 1. It was intended for a Commemorative representation of our Saviour's Passion for us fit to mind us of it to move us to consider it to beget affections in us suitable to the memory and consideration thereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Do this saith our Lord for my remembrance or in commemoration of me that is so as thereby to have raised in you a reflection of mind and heart upon those grievous pains which I shall have endured for your sake to procure for you a remission of sins and reconciliation to God And So often saith S. Paul as you eat this Bread and drink this Cup 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ye tell forth or significantly express the death of our Lord till he come or during his absence from us The suffering of our Saviour the most wonderful act of Goodness and Charity that ever was performed in the World which produced effects of highest consequence to our benefit the consideration whereof is apt to work the best dispositions of piety in us should very frequently be present to our thoughts and affections and that it may be so with advantage such a solemn and sensible representation thereof is very conducible wherein we behold him crucified as it were in effigie his Body broken his Blood poured out for us it being in a sort a putting us into the circumstances of those who did behold our Saviour for us hanging upon the Cross. Our Lord being absent in Body from us sitting in Heaven at God's right hand to supply that absence that we should not be apt to forget him and thereby become wholly estranged from him is pleased to order this occasion of being present and conversing with us in such a manner as may retain in our memories his gracious performances for us may impress in our hearts a kindly sense of them may raise us up in mind and affection to him 2. The Benefits consequent upon our Saviour's Passion rightly apprehended heartily believed seriously considered by us are hereby lively represented and effectually conveyed to the sustenance and nourishment of our spiritual Life to the refreshment and comfort of our Souls It is a holy Feast a spiritual Repast a divine Entertainment to which God in kindness invites us to which if we come with well-disposed minds he there feeds us with most holy and delicious Viands with heavenly Manna with most reviving and cherishing Liquor Bread is the staff of Life the most common most necessary and most wholsome and most savory Meat Wine is the most pleasant and wholsome also the most sprightly and cordial Drink by them therefore our Lord chose to represent that Body and Blood by the Oblation of which a capacity of life and health was procured to Mankind the taking in which by right apprehension tasting it by hearty Faith digesting it by careful attention and meditation converting it into our substance by devout grateful and holy affections joined with serious and steady resolutions of living answerable thereto will certainly support and maintain our spiritual Life in a vigorous Health and happy growth of Grace refreshing our hearts with comfort and satisfaction unspeakable He that doth thus eats our Saviour's Flesh and drinks his Blood that is who as our Saviour interpreteth it doth believe in him that Belief importing all other acts of Mind and Will connected with right persuasions concerning him hath eternal life and shall live for ever as himself declares and promises which Benefits therefore in the due performance of this holy Duty are conveyed unto us 3. This Sacrament declares that Union which good Christians partaking thereof have with Christ their mystical insertion into him by a close dependence upon him for spiritual Life Mercy Grace and Salvation a constant adherence to him by Faith and Obedience a near conformity to him in Mind and Affection an inseparable conjunction with him by the strictest bands of fidelity and by the most endearing Relations Which things could not more fitly be set out than by the partaking our best and most necessary Food which being taken in soon becomes united to us assimilated and converted into our substance thereby renewing our strength and repairing the decays of our nature Wherefore He saith our Saviour that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood abides in me and I in him and The Cup of Blessing saith S. Paul which we bless is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ the Bread which we break is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ We in the outward Action partake of the Symbols representing our Saviour's Body and Blood We in the spiritual Intention communicate of his very Person being according to the manner insinuated intimately united to him 4. By this Sacrament consequently is signified and sealed that Union which is among our Saviour's true Disciples communicating therein their being together united in consent of mind and unity of Faith in mutual good will and affection in hope and tendency to the same blessed end in spiritual Brotherhood and Society especially upon account of their Communion with Christ which most closely ties them one to another they partaking of this one individual Food become translated as it were into one Body and Substance Seeing saith S. Paul we being many are one Bread one Body for all of us do partake of one Bread In the representing produceing and promoting these things we are taught the Mystery of this Sacrament doth consist It was

cry out Holy Holy Holy confessing with the heavenly host in the Apocalypse that he is worthy of all honour glory and power we do also partly declare our hearty wishes that God may be every where had in highest veneration that all things relating to him may receive their due regard that all honour and praise all duty and service may in a peculiar manner be rendred unto him by all men by all creatures by our selves especially that all minds may entertain good and worthy opinions of him all tongues speak well of him celebrate and bless him all creatures yield adoration to his name and obedience to his will that he be worshipped in truth and sincerity with zeal and fervency this particularly in the Prophet Esay and by S. Peter is called sanctifying God's Name in opposition to idolatrous and profane Religion Sanctifie the Lord of hosts himself and let him be your fear let him be your dread saith the Prophet and Fear not their fear nor be troubled but sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts saith the Apostle Thus do we here pray and wish in respect to all men and to all creatures capable of thus sanctifying God's Name but more particularly we pray for our selves that God would grant to us that we by our religious and righteous conversation may bring honour to his name so that men seeing our good works may glorifie our Father which is in Heaven Vouchsafe saith he that we may live so purely that all men by us may glorifie thee so descants S. Chrysostome Thy Kingdom come This Petition or devout wish being subordinate to the former as expressing a main particular of that which is there generally desired we here to the glory of God desiring a successfull and speedy propagation of true Religion seems in its direct and immediate sense to respect the state of things in that time more especially befitting our Lord's Disciples then when the Kingdom of God that is the state of Religion under the Evangelical Dispensation was coming and approaching according to that of our Saviour in S. Luke I say unto you of a truth there be some of you standing here that shall not taste death till they see the Kingdom of God whence it did become them in zeal to God's glory and charity for mens salvation to desire that Christianity might soon effectually be propagated over the world being generally entertained by men with due faith and obedience that is that all men willingly might acknowledge God as their Lord and Maker worshipping and serving him in truth that they might receive his blessed Son Jesus Christ as their King and Saviour heartily embracing his doctrine and humbly submitting to his laws to which purpose our Lord injoins his Disciples to pray that the Lord of the harvest would send labourers into his harvest and S. Paul exhorts the Thessalonians to pray that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified And in parity of reason upon the same grounds we are concerned and obliged to desire that Christian Religion may be settled and confirmed may grow and be encreased may prosper and flourish in the world that God's authority may to the largest extension of place to the highest intention of degree universally and perfectly be maintained and promoted both in external profession and real effect the minds of all men being subdued to the obedience of faith and avowing the subjection due to him and truly yielding obedience to all his most just and holy laws Thus should we pray that God's Kingdom may come particularly desiring that it may so come into our own hearts humbli●● imploring his grace that he thereby would rule in our hearts quelling in them all exorbitant passions and vicious desires protecting them from all spiritual enemies disposing them to an entire subjection to his will and a willing compliance with all his commandments for this is the Kingdom of God which as our Lord telleth us is within us the which doth not as S. Paul teacheth us consist in meat and drink in any outward formal performances but in righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost that is in obedience to God's will and in the comfortable consequences thereof this is the Kingdome of God which we are enjoined before any worldly accommodations first to seek Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven This Sentence is likewise complicated of praise good desire and petition for we thereby first do acknowledge the wisedom justice and goodness of God in all resolutions of his will and dispensations of his providence 1. We profess our approbation of all God's counsels our complacence and satisfaction in all his proceedings our cheerfull submission and consent to all his pleasure joining our suffrage and saying in harmony with that blessed Choire in the Revelation Great and wonderfull are thy works O Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways O thou King of Saints We disclaim our own judgments and conceits we renounce our own desires and designs so far as they appear inconsistent with the determinations of Gods wisedom or discordant with his pleasure saying after our Lord Let not my will but thine be done 2. We do also express our desire that as in heaven all things with a free and undisturbed course do pass according to God's will and good liking every intimation of his pleasure finding there a most entire and ready compliance from those perfectly loyal and pious spirits those ministers of his that do his pleasure as the Psalmist calls them so that here on earth the gracious designs of God may be accomplished without opposition or rub that none should presume as the Pharisees and Lawyers are said to doe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to disappoint or defeat God's counsel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to thrust away or repulse God's word as the Jews did in the Acts to resist provoke or defie God by obstinate disobedience as many are said to do in the Scriptures but that every where a free humble hearty and full obedience be rendred to his commands 3. We do also pray that God would grant us the grace willingly to perform whatever he requires of us perfecting us as the Apostle speaketh in every good work to do his will and working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight contentedly to bear whatever he layeth upon us that God would bestow upon us a perfect resignation of our wills unto his will a cheerfull acquiescence in that state and station wherein he hath placed us a submiss patience in all adversities whereinto he disposeth us to fall a constant readiness with satisfaction and thankfulness without reluctancy or repining to receive whatever cometh from his will whether gratefull or distastefull to our present sense acknowledging his wisedom his goodness his justice in all his dealings toward us heartily saying with good Eli It is the Lord