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A10037	Duties of communicants, or a treatise, teaching such as purpose to receiue the sacrament of the Lords Supper how they may rightly carrie themselues, before, in, and after the action of receiuing. By R: Preston, preacher of Gods Word at Rushden in Northampton-shire.	Preston, Richard, d. ca. 1624.	1621 (1621)	STC 20284; ESTC S100877	48,394	185

passeth knowledge that they might be filled with all the fulnes of God c. Reason 2 A second Reason to moue vs to thankefulnesse is this in this Sacrament we receiue the seale of all Gods promises and of all the assurances of our owne saluation If a pardon should come to a malefactor he would be a glad and a thankfull man but when he seeth the Kings broad seale put to it much more ioyfull and thankefull for then he knoweth all is cocksure it is no forged Counterfeit So the King of heauen and earth hath not onely giuen vs a pardon but also hath set to it his seale in this Sacrament therefore we should alwayes bee singing Psalmes of praise and lift vp our hearts with ioyfull thankefulnesse vnto the Lord. Reason 3 A third Reason is In this Sacramēt we feele our selues most strongly knit vnto Christ and vnto his Church so that nothing can remoue vs from the loue of Christ and his Saints and we haue such continuall comfort in the sense feeling of both that we haue not onely iust cause of ioy but also of thankefulnesse Vse Vse This may serue to giue a checke to our vnthankfulnes as for all Gods benefits so especially for the Crowne of all the rest euen his Son Christ giuen vnto vs in this Sacrament this is a bolt and a barre to keepe Gods benefits from vs wee will not be thankful for them when we haue receiued them Vnthankefulnesse sayth one Ventus exiccans et vrens fluenta gratiae Bernar. is a block that stops vp the passages of Grace and it turneth the blessings of God into curses because the Gentiles were vnthankefull Rom. 1.21.22 2 Tim. 3.2 the Lord infatuated their vnderstanding It is a sin most hatefull to man say he is vngratefull Ingratum dixeris omnia dixeris Minus Publianus and thou mayest well say he is euery way faulty If we respect Gods Commandement that commandeth vs to be thankful in all things or the practise of Christ and his Disciples that after the receipt of this Sacrament gaue thankes or the loue of God that ought to mooue vs to thankefulnesse or the seale of our pardon which ministreth matter of thankefulnesse or the fellowship we haue with Christ and beleeuers which vrgeth vs to be thankefull let vs then testifie our thankfulnesse to God with the Prophet Dauid Psal 116.12.13 saying What shall I render vnto the Lord for all his mercies I will take the cup of saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord the sacrifice of thanksgiuing is as pleasant and acceptable vnto God as is any sacrifice and therefore by Dauid the Lord sayth Psal 50.23 Who so offereth me thankes and prayse he honoureth me euen with most excellent honour The second dutie after wee haue receiued this sacrament is carefulnes to grow in strength and to encrease in spirituall grace We must striue to feele encrease and take heed that we be not vnprofitable in our receipts As Peter speaketh of the Word it must be desired to the end we may grow by it 1. Pet. 2.2 so we desire and receiue this sacrament that we may gather strength grow thereby in grace till at last we come to a perfect and a full age in Christ Our Sauiour testifieth of himselfe Ioh 15.1.2.3 that he is the vine and his father is the husbandman euery brauch that bringeth not forth fruit in him he taketh away Mat. 3. but euery one that bringeth forth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit This duty of growing is much vrged in Scripture we beseech you brethren and exhort you in the Lord Iesus 1 Thes 4.4.10 that yee increase more and more 2 Pet. 3.18 Heb. 6.1 Grow in grace Let vs bee led forward vnto perfection Salomon compareth the righteous vnto the Sunne Pro. 4.18 that shineth more and more vnto the perfect day This is a manifest truth neither is there any point plainer then this that the children of God after grace receiued must alwayes be growing And the Reasons of it are these Reason 1 1. Because otherwise we frustrate the end of the Sacrament which is to feede vs that wee may gather strength and encrease of grace Psal 92.12.13.14 As a poore man comming to a good banquet is much refreshed strengthened and cheared thereby So the Lord hath appointed this banquet Eze. 47.12 that all the good graces of our soules begun in vs which are but poore and weake may receiue much strength and refreshing Reason 2 2. Because otherwise we in respect of our owne good receiue Gods graces in vaine if we thriue not and prosper not thereby A thing which the Apostle would haue vs especially to looke vnto exhorting and beseeching vs in the examble of the Corinthians to take ●eede to our selues 2 Cor. 6.1 least we receiue the grace of God in vaine Reason 3 3. If we receiue this ordinance in vaine the danger of it is great for God will one day most surely punish it And therfore our Sauiour Christs sentence is that al vnfruitful vnprofitable seruants that would not reape profit by Gods ordinances and talents shall be cast into vtter darknesse where is nothing but torments Mat 25.26 30.31 weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth Vse 1 Vse 1. This may serue to reproue those that keepe one standing and one stay in their Profession and Religion and though they haue had the meanes of grace long and vsed them often yet there is no encrease of grace no encrease of knowledge faith repentance new obedience c. They can goe from day to day to the hearing of the Word and other godly exercises but still they are at one stay as ignorant as senselesse as void of true iudgment and of as bad a Conscience But alas what a fearefull state and condition is this If a childe grow neither in length nor strength nor fatnesse after many yeares feeding sucking attending on him c. surely the mother will be out of conceite with him So when the Lord shall feed vs in seasonable time and we shall be all at one stand at a stay neither thriuing in knowledge nor encreasing in good affection towards religion he will be out of all good conceits with vs and at last giue vs ouer to our owne sencelesnesse The sicke person that is so sicke that he feeles not his disease and wants a stomacke that he cannot eate is much pitied and lamented and euery one saith of him surely he cannot liue So these that receiue Gods graces in vaine in respect of the sence of comfort in themselues though not in vaine in respect of God these men I say that reape no profit by receiuing the Sacrament are much to be pitied for they are neare vnto death and their end will be damnation Vse 2 Vse 2. This serueth also for our Instruction Let vs striue after perfection that we may daily

to say the Wine and minister it but vnder one kinde vnder the Bread without the wine contrarie vnto Christs institution who first tooke Bread and then Wine Ob Ob. But are not the outward signes ordinarie bread and wine Sol Sol. No. They are consecrated by a diuine Word which doth not change their substance into other substances but changeth them in their vse and name for that which was before but common Bread and Wine to nourish mens bodies is after the blessing set apart to an holy vse for the feeding of the soules of Christians And where before they were called but bread and wine they are now called by the names of those holy things they signifie the bodie and bloud of Christ the better to draw our mindes from those outward Elements to heauenly Graces which by the sight of our bodies they represent to the spirituall eyes of our faith The second thing that must be knowne is the vse and end of this Sacrament there be diuerse ends thereof First it is ordained of God to shew vs the Lord his death Christ when he had giuen the bread and wine to his Disciples bids them doe all in remembrance of him Luk 12.19 Mat. ●6 26 1. Cor. 11.26 And Paul sayth as often as we eate this bread and drinke of this cup we shew forth the Lords death till he come As the staying and killing of the Paschall Lambe was a notable meanes to shew the Lords death ●ill he came in the flesh so this Sacrament is a speciall meanes to shew vs his death alreadie come and vnder-gone for vs ●ill such time as he shall come againe to Iudge the world in righteousnesse Hence the Lords Supper is called a Propitiatorie sacrifice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not properly or really but figuratiuely because it is a memoriall of that Propitiatorie sacrifice which Christ offered vpon the crosse Vse Vse 1. This doctrine serueth to confute and ouerthrow the Popish Masse wherein the Priest would represent Christ vnto the People for this Sacrament is onely ordained of God as a liuely meanes to represent Christ and to shew forth his death till he come but yet they are not contented with this liuely representation of Chris● exhibited but they haue brought in three more representations and so make foure in all 1. Simplex representatio a simple representation of the death of Christ which is done so often as this Sacrament is receiued 2. Representatio ad viuem a liuely and full representation of Christs death which they doe vse yearely to set forth by solemne gestures apparell and other ceremonies vpon good Fryday as it is commonly called before Easter and so they make this Sacrament nothing else but a Pageant play 3. The third representation is their sacrifice of the Masse Bellar de Missa lib. cap. 1. And 4. the fourth is added by the Rhemists who wished that this Sacrament might bee celebrated at Easter Rhemist 1. Cor. 6.8 and the reliques of it if there were any hanged vp in a Pixe not onely to represent Christ but to housle the sicke But wee are taught by the word of God that by eating the bread and drinking the wine and not by gazing or looking on or lifting vp or turning about or carrying in processions or hanging vp bread in Pixes or by any such meanes is the Lords death shewed forth We are to acknowledge onely one Sacramentall representatiō of Christ in the Supper Morna contra Missam cap 60. and the sacrifice of the Masse an abhominable Idoll neuer heard of till after the time of Gregorie the Great in the fixt age of the Church Secondly by this point falleth to the ground another pillar of Poperie namely their Transubstantiation whereby they hold the very Elements of bread and wine to be changed into the very bodie and bloud of Christ and so maintaine the Physicall substantiall and reall presence but if the end of this Sacrament be to shew forth Christs death and all that wee must doe must be done in remembrance of him then Christ is not really or physically present Helpes of remembrance are of things absent not present and therefore Gelasius sayth Lib de duabus Christi naturis Bread and Wine in this Sacrament passe into the bodie and bloud of Christ yet so as the substāce and nature of Bread and Wine ceaseth not Bernard could say Christ is present Non materialiter sed spiritualiter not substantially but by a Sacramentall relation betweene the signes and the things signified This Popish tradition was not known in the primitiue church nor long after Which makes Ignatius say thus Ignatius in Epist ad Philadelph There is one flesh of our Lord and one bloud shed for vs one bread broken for all and one cup for the whole Church how was it possible better to distinguish betweene the signes and the thing signified then by these foure words first flesh and secondly bloud on the one part thirdly bread and fourthly cup on the other part This point is handled elswhere in one Treatise of the doctrine of this Sacrament 2. A second end of this Sacrament is to cōfirme our faith in which respect it is called a seale of the new couenant Mat. 26.28 Rom. 4.11 1 Cor. 11.25 and remission of sinnes and also to assure vs of life eternall in which respect it is called Reu. 2.7 the tree of life which God hath planted in the midst of the Paradise of his Church and whereof he hath promised to giue euery one that ouercommeth to eate Our Sauiour assureth vs Ioh 6.5 that if any man eate of this bread he shall liue for euer and the bread that I will giue him is my flesh which I will giue for the life of the World Ob Ob. Yea but wee haue the word to confirme our faith and to assure vs of our saluation what need we this Sacrament Sol Sol. Though wee haue the word yet this Sacrament is needfull and in two things it goeth beyond the word 1. In this Sacrament God offers and exhibites Christ and his benefits to euery faithfull Communicant Not onely generally as the word doth but also particularly therefore hee sayth Take thou this eate thou this c. But in the word hee speakes and offers Christ onely generally to all that beleeue and repent ctc. 2. In the word he giueth but onely his promise of grace touching Christ and his benefits but in this sacrament he giueth not onely his promise of grace and that in particular but also his seale and pledge for the further ratifying and establishing of his promise therefore it is said This is my bodie c. This then must needes much confirme our faith Vse as we see the Kings great broad seale set to a pardon confirmeth a pardon the matter of the seale of Gods Couenant consisteth not as doe the seales of Kings and Princes of the earth either of yellow