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A93056	Holy things for holy men: or, The lawyers plea non-suited, his evidence proved insufficient, his foul mouth civilly wiped, and his arrogant railings admonished, and bridled; in some Christian reproofe and pitie expressed towards Mr Prynn's book; intituled, The Lord's supper briefly vindicated, (or rather indeed by him therein exposed, vilified, and profaned: and the conscientious ministry therein abused, injured, and affronted. By S.S. minister of the gospel.	Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1658 (1658)	Wing S3037; Thomason E946_2; ESTC R207597	33,401	60

Holy things FOR HOLY MEN OR The Lawyers Plea Non-suited his Evidence proved insufficient his foul mouth civilly wiped and his arrogant railings admonished and bridled IN Some Christian Reproofe and Pitie expressed towards Mr PRYNN'S Book Intituled The Lord's Supper briefly vindicated or rather indeed by him therein exposed vilified and profaned and the Conscientious Ministry therein abused injured and affronted By S. S. Minister of the Gospel Titus 1. 13. Rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith ● Tim. 3. 14. But continue thou in the things which tho● hast learned and hast been assured of knowing of whom thou hast learned them Mr. W. Pryn. Perpetuity pag. 344. The Sacraments do never convey any inward and spiritual grace which may truly regenerate and engraft men into Christ but where there is a hand of Faith to receive them and the grace conveyed by them Cupio propitiis auribus quid sentiam dicere sin minus dicam iratis Sen. Epist 59. London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside over-against the great Conduit 1658. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER And more especially to Mr Will. Prynne Esquire A While since I met an absurd ignorant Pamphlet under the name of one Dr Swadlin pleading for a Promiscuous receiving the Lords Supper by promiscuous sinners a Term as new as unsound and silly I meant to have said somewhat to his madness But perceiving by a later Pamphlet of his own that he is Fame infamia periturus and that 't is likely he writeth such trifles to get a miserable living I waved him not thinking it strange to read what I found there because they were his Neither hath it cost me any great expence of patience to hear such a Spittler as Joh. Spittlehouse in name and deed call us Judasses and all the ill-names that his worse heart hath invented and his loathsome throat spit forth against us Neither have I regarded the ignorant blarings of so base and silly an Almanack-maker as Will Lilly not worth his worthless profession I can as easily slight the ravings of Papists Anabaptists and pitiful Jesuited Quakers as the Lion the bawlings and yappings of a little Cur But to see a petty-martyr an old Professor and a learned one even a Mr. Prynne to fall from his own stedfastness to behold him watching over us like a Leopard and helping the Sons of Lot and hear him even him using as Mr. John Goodwin called it the very language of Dragons against us this grievs once for all and sick as I am I cannot but say to him as dying Caesar to his Brutus Etiam tu Prynne What is our Saul amongst such Prophets even such Prophets as the old Prophet was 1 Kings 13. will he bring us into a praemunire against God and our high trust and calling whilst he tells us a fair tale of what is our duty to do and indure when we find not one word for it in our Commission When I first saw Mr. Prynns book of the Lords Supper vindicated in the Title which came to my hand some few daies since I beheld it with such a spirit as Paul the Athenians Altar to the Unknown God for I perceive Mr. Prynne doth adore a conceit of he knows not what whilst under the Inscription of Vindication hee defameth profaneth and prostituteth the blessed Sacrament Therefore whilst he gives the empty name of a Vindication to his book let him give me leave to do the thing to vindicate the Lords Supper indeed from all wicked unholy bold intruders and usurpers and wherein he ignorantly mistakes himself I will declare unto him if he Please to trust me as willingly in mine as I would him in his Profession In his Book I am very sensible of his change of Spirit since he wrote his useful Book of the Perpetuity of the regenerate had some man then shewed him such a Book as this of his and fo●etold him You shall one day write thus he would have cried out What am I a Dogg that I should do such a thing Then he would have plucked out his eies for the godly Ministers zealous of Reformation but now they are become his enemies because we tell him the Truth And hereunto I cannot but note his fury railing impertinencies and false principles in his book and have laid down better not from my own judgment but from former and later judicious sound Divines at home and abroad I have also observ'd his pomp and confidence the matter and form of his whole book and to satisfie my self I have dared gently to prick his ratling full blown bladder to consider the paint of this Butterfly the feather of this Ostrich or rather the squallid wings of this flitter-mouse whereby I can easily judge according to the old rule Qui se habet pro sapiente hunc Deus homines habent pro ignaro For the profest refutation of the Book I do not look upon it as my work I know the Lawyer hath learned and pious Antagonists with whom I number not my self in point of ability yet a smal measure might be sufficient to answer 100 such Pamphlets or any other that I have had the trouble to see upon their subject My present writing and further I never intend is onely to enter my dissent and protest and not without good evidence to the truth against Mr. Pryns erroneous conceit for which I am grieved and for the reproaches he casts upon conscientious Ministers for the reproaches of those that reproached them are fallen upon me whilst our enemies rejoice that they have found our friend and Brother to be an Executioner rather to grieve then torment us that they have gotten our Demosthenes to write angry Philippicks against us even our own Prynne to implead us and open his mouth against us with a tongue of falshood and compasse us about with words of hatred and fight against us without a cause for our love he is our adversary but we give our selves unto praier vide Psal 109. and our praiers return into our own bosome our hearts are fortified his spittings upon us are wiped off and soul-establishing consolations and promises are applied to the condition calling and person of every godly Minister They shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against the for I am with thee saith the Lord to deliver thee Jer. 1. 19. In nothing terrified by your adversaries which to them is an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God Phil 1. 28 vide Genev. Bezae not as I know thy works behold I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it for thou hast a little strength and hast kept my word and not denied my name Behold I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan which say they are Jews and are not but do lie Behold I will make them to come and worship before thy feet and to know that I have

King 10. 6. and some like instances and no lesse nor more pertinent And he after all from the weight of his bare word charges it upon our consciences from a single instance far fetcht from the West of England with a confident assumption thereupon that some nay many have been converted by the Sacrament Answ We answer What God hath done of his meer grace of prerogative is not the matter in question but we are to regard what is in our Charge and Commission where we have no command nor leave that I know to administer the Lords Supper according to Mr. Prynnes Institution What if the Lord Christ were pleased to promise a Thief mercy upon the Crosse may we therefore admit of Thievs to the Lord's Table Mr. Prynne tells us in his sounder times and Writings of two Mimicks or Stage-plaiers converted whilst they were blasphemously dishonouring Christ in their ridiculous and Mimical acting and administring the Sacrament of Baptisme I mean Porphyrius and Arddion Would therefore Mr. Prynne if he were a Minister himself that can lay such a heavy burthen upon us admit him to the Lord's Table that had lately committed but a Mimical rape or acted the Divel upon a Stage If nay then Mr. Prynne is ours If yea What meant Mr. Prynne to make or my self and others to buy at so dear a rate that seven stringed whip a book of great reading and then of as great zeal called Histriomastix Hath not Mr. Prynne heard of that famous Cook in the Church-history that was converted by beholding the very flame and feeling the heat of his fire hath he not heard of some that were converted by the receit of an alms why will he not then be as bountifull of his own as hee would have us be of Gods Table Hath no Mr. Prynne heard that just Suspension hath had it's numbers of Converts If not I could tell of rich and plentiful experience that way And if the worthy Mr. Prynne as once I thought him were under my Ministry I should try the experiment if he should obtrude upon himself for all his Law-tricks as I have successfully and most happily done upon others And rejoyce not that he were made sorry but that he might be sorrowfull to repentance that he might be made sorry after a Godly manner that he might not receiv damage in any thing For the sin of the man is very great and his book very sinfull the Rubrick it self being judg and for my so doing I should not be afraid to refer the action to GOD and the judgment of a nationall Synod Pryn. Pag. 3. he objecteth the Lords Supper is no where called a seal in Scripture Answ What if it be not called a seal in expresse words of Scripture is it therefore no seal what we find a seal and a sealing Ordinance in the effect is so in truth though we find it not named nor our own names in Scripture That which hath a power of witness to evidence confirm is a seal without exception so the blood of the passeover was a seal of the promised safety protection of the Israelites houses being sprinckled on the side posts and lintel of their doors 2. Mr. Prynne confesseth pag. 4. that circumcision was a seal if so was it a seal as a Sacrament or onely under some other consideration if the latter what was the consideration if the former why should not that which was common to one Sacrament be common to the other 3. Is an impression upon the shamefull part of the body a seal and is not an impression upon the sanctified heart and soul of a believer a Seal nay doth not the very face of a holy Communicant bear a seal of a holy refreshing cheerfulness 4. The Lords Supper doth also confirm and therefore Mr. Pryn being judg it is a seal if but secondarily pag. 8. and so are all the instances by him mentioned in a sort But there is no need that every thing that sealeth onely should confirm nor every thing that confirmeth be a seal properly but the Sacrament doth both seal and confirm the believer that receiveth in faith and therefore is a seal 5. M. Prynne confesseth an immateriall and invisible seal set on the soul or fore-head by the Spirit of God or his Angels pag. 5. I hope then to say Sacraments or Seals may be as tollerable as to say soul or fore-head for where doth M. Prynne find them put one for the other or Angells for the Spirit of God 6. What absurdity will follow if we say that in the Communion God doth annoint us and seal us and give us the earnest of his spirit I hope some of us have found it so And though M. Pryn knows not ●or the present for his neutralizing in this lamentable fashion whose image and superscription is sealed upon the believing soul in the receiving the Lords Supper in a strict and most examinate manner yet there are many humble poor Saints of God that do know and can say and affirm that their feeding at the Lords Table leavs a seal indelible upon their hearts 7. After all M. Prynn's cavilling at the word Seal and the materiality immateriality properness and improperness of it he granteth the Lords Supper to be a seal but not affixed As the Jews sometimes said to Pilate write not the King of the Jews but that he said I am the King of the Jews so M. Prynne to extenuate what may be and diminish from the glory of the ordinance though he must call it a seal yet will not have it called a seal affixed Doth not himself know a seal is not a seal otherwise then affixed and yet he hath the audacity to call this a false improper unscriptural paradox pag 7. for proof refers you to another pretty piece of his that like the shepherds Calender will perhaps refer you to this again Pryn. Pag. 25. M. Prynne confesses a competent knowledg and historicall belief at least of the death passion and merits of Christ and of the matter and ends of the Lords Supper are pre-required of all such who are admitted thereunto pag 34. the Communicants must be worthy pag 26. there must be an externall profession of the Gospel And then he gravely concludeth it must therefore now be duly administred to all unregenerate Christians as a converting Ordinance and pag. 39 Whether regenerate or unregenerate ignorant or knowing scandalous or unblameable Is this good sence in divinity sweet M. Prynne Pryn. Pag. 37. You have more to as good sence and purpose at large that because the Lords Supper is part of the Ministers office as well as preaching therefore it is doubtlesse a faith-begetting soul-converting ordinance and pag. 42. in prosecution he tells us in brief there is not any means or motive to faith or conversion in the Gospell preached which is not included in the Lords Supper Therefore saith he is' t not a good inference our opposites must either grant the

the divine Institution Antonius Praetorius expresseth himself In Homiliis de Coena pag. 248. Vana est questio c. 'T is but a vain question whether the wicked and unbelieving eat the Lords body when the very Symbols of it belong not to them and 't is as impossible that they should eat the flesh of Christ as for a monster without eie hand or mouth to see take or eat And there further The Sacraments are seals of the promises and Covenant of God therefore no man ought to use them but such as find themselves in Covenant and believe the promises of God pag. 246. Bastinguis in his Catachisme quest 82 puts the question May they be admitted to the Supper that declare by their life that they are unbelievers or ungodly No in no wise for by that means the Covenant of God is prophaned c. and by and by in the Explic. saith he if they provoke the wrath of God who without examining themselvs do come to the holy Supper how much more shall God be provoked to wrath if the Church it selfe do wink at such grosse sins in those that receive Which saith he being so if they do offer themselvs to communicate with the rest of the members of the Church it shall be the duty of the Pastors to use the keys given by Christ too that end and by the Authority of them to bar such men from the Supper till there appear in them Testimonies of repentance and change of life This is not like Mr. Prynns Doctrine GERHARD In Loc. Com. de coena cap. 20. numb 215 enters a vaste and learned dissent from Mr. Prynne Num nostra sententia est What saith he do we say that in the Eucharist those that continue in sins and persevere in them against conscience and retain a purpose of sin nor bring the fear of God nor repentance do receive remission of sins No verily but we teach in expresse words that impenitent ones and such as continue in their sins against conscience eat and drink judgment to themselvs And in cap. 21 Numb 223. hee 's larger yet but 't is worth the reading even of Mr. Prynne himself Notorii peccatores c. Notorious sinners which obstinately continue in their sins and wickedness against their consciences nor give any evidence of repentance such are not to be admitted to the holy Supper As well for the dignity of the Sacrament Matth. 7. Give not that which is holy to doggs nor cast your pearls before swine for such are impenitent persons that continue in the filth of their sin As also for the danger that redoundeth unto them for unworthy receiving 1 Cor. 11. 27. Who eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation As also lastly for the Communication of anothers sin of which a Minister makes himself partaker that admitteth notorious impenitent sinners to this holy Banquet 1 Tim. 5. 22. Be not partakers of other mens sins These are the words of Gerhard unto which he adds the expression of Chrysostme in his 83 Homily on Matth. before mentioned that that zealous Father would rather lose blood and life then to the wounding of his conscience admit unworthy persons to the holy Supper yea saith he further if the unclean were kept from the passeover Numb 9. 6. How much more are they that abide in the defilement of great sins without true repentance to be kept from the holy Supper If one that is called a brother 1 Cor. 5. 11. be a fornicator c. with such a one no not to eat how much lesse are they to be admitted to this heavenly Banquet And so he goes on as Mr. Prynne may read more then heart can wish unto which he may add the perusall of 22 and 23 chap. and in cap. 23. num 251. There was saith he in the antient Church a publick confession of Publick scandalls and a private confession made to the Minister of the Church that he might try the examination a man had made of himself whether he did acknowledg his sin with serious remorse and embraced Christ with faith and had a serious purpose to mend his life for by this means not by M. Prynns way the impenitent were reformed the negligent excited the the rude instructed the dejected were comforted with evangelical consolation and the unworthy use of the holy Supper was prevented This is the large and faithful testimony of Gerhard Our own excellent Whitaker is larger then to be transcribed Tom. 1. fol. 94. We must not say that he ears the body of Christ which is not in the body of Christ for they cannot be accounted members of Christ and a little further he addeth He that comes without faith to the Sacraments doth not onely not beget grace but doth make fearfull shipwrack of grace and salvation he that hath no faith receiveth damage by the Sacraments but obtains not grace and salvation Mr Hooker Eccl. pol. lib. 5. Speaking largely of the Sacraments as I noted before Saith Sacraments are not physicall but moral instruments of salvation duties of service and worship which unlesse we perform as the Author of grace commandeth they are unprofitable for all receive not the grace of God that receive the Sacraments of his grace c. Mr. George Gelespie did with his Arons Rod point to more learned and better principles then Mr. Prynn had the happiness to receive I shall note him nothing in particular but refer him to the book it self and the earnest perusall of it once more Dr. Feild lib. 5. cap. 22. M. Perkins Dr. Preston Calvin Musculus Zanchie Amesius Scharpius Willet Bishop Andrews Medit. Lord's Supper cap. 18. Reynalds And lately the Reverend and most industrious Mr. Baxter and a very great number of other witnesses of the truth of God whose names are in the book of Life might be produced If the case required it or this smal tract contain them Onely I crave leave that I may produce one materiall witnes more whilst I must affront Mr. Prynne Gentleman the Author of that Book called the perpetuity of the regenerate mans estate Printed 1626. To Mr. Prynne Esquire the Author of the Scandalous pamphlet now under censure O that ever any mans vast abilities should be so blasted and dwindled into such a pittifull piece of nothing upon such an unworthy if not ungratious subject and in such a scambling pamphlet See whether he hath not don by us what he then complained of in others Then he pitied the Puritan Ministers now with Caligula he wishes surely wee had all but one neck and at his mercy He saith there in his Preface There alwaies hath bin are and shall be a generation of men upon the earth which shal be hated scorned persecuted reproached reviled accused slandered and condemned even of all sorts of men for Mr. Prinn's own worship for no crime no cause o● sin at all but onely for their new gratious godly holy lives and for their detest and hatred of all kind