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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	covenant_n	grace_n	seal_n	4,967	5	9.5543	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87512	The want of church-government no warrant for a totall omission of the Lords Supper. Or, A brief and scholastical debate of that question, which hath so wonderfully perplexed many, both ministers and people. Whether or no, the sacrament of the Lords Supper may (according to presbyterial principles) be lawfully administred in an un-presbyterated church, that is, a church destitute of ruling elders. Wherein the affirmative is confirmed by many arguments, and cleared from objections, especially such as are drawn from the unavoidablenesse of mixt communions without ecclesiastical discipline. / By Henry Jeanes, minister of Gods Word at Chedzoy in Sommerset-shire.	Jeanes, Henry, 1611-1662.	1650 (1650)	Wing J511; Thomason E618_6; ESTC R202652	58,879	80

so judged by them that have authority he must administer the Sacramentall signes unto him not as unto one worthy or unworthy but as unto one yet undivided from them If you take giving of the Lords Supper for the Ministerial distribution of the Elements why then again I grant the Lords Supper is not to be given unto dogs and swine provided that they be such juridically by Church censure and so this precept binds not absolutely but conditionally upon a condition that dependeth upon the Eldership and not upon the Minister solely And thus again the reverend Bowles answereth the place Qui omnium pessim● usque dum Ecclesia eos suâ sententiâ decretoriâ pro cambus porcis habendos declaraverit non mihi cum illis ut canibus porcis agendum Latronem qui mortem commeruit nullus jure de vita tollat usque dum judex reum declaraverit sententiam tulerit I am not to deal with the worst of men as dogs and swine until the Church hath sentenced them to be such Suppose a felon hath deserved death yet the Sheriffe himself cannot lawfully execute him untill he be tryed and the judge hath condemned him If any should argue from this place for a Ministers not giving of the Lords Supper unto such dogs and swine as are not so by Church censure I hope they desire to be understood not absolutely but limitedly so farre forth as it lyeth in a Minister And this I readily yeeld unto as no way impugning my opinion I do confesse that a Minister is to keep dogges and swine from the Sacrament so farre as in him lyeth that is he is to do all that God hath required at his hands for prevention thereof But I am very confident that this grant of mine will no wayes prejudice my cause or advantage that of my opposites because God for prevention of wicked mens Sacramentall approaches nowhere requireth a Minister to usurp a power which is none of his a sole power of jurisdiction in foro Ecclesiastico externo But the Schoolmen endeavour to prove not only from the but now mentioned place of Scripture but also from reason That it is a sinne to give the Lords Supper unto such as a man knowes to be unworthy receivers Great is the dignity and holinesse of this blessed Sacrament Obligatio exhibendi reverentiam huic Sacramento digne illud tractandi naturalis est ex intrinsecâ ipsius Sacramenti dignitate orta ad hanc vero pertinet obligatio non dandi Sacramentum hoc indignis Sicut non projicere illud in locum immundum similia Suarez in tertiam part Thom. disp 67. sect 1. Is dicitur sacrilegium committere qui violat rem Sacram per aliquam irreverentiam D. Thom. 2.2 Q. 99. a. 2.3 Atqui Minister conferens Sacramentum homini indigno violat rem Sacram per quandam irreverentiam ergo sacrilegium committit Becanus su mma Theol. par 3. tract 2. cap. 5. Sect. 8. and therefore it should be handled in a meet decent reverent and devout manner Now it were a very undecent and unreverent part to take the Elements assoone as consecrated and wittingly to throw them into a noysome sinke but it is a point of greater irreverence nay it is a kind of Sacriledge to take them and give them unto known unworthy receivers for no sink is so foule dirty and stinking as a sinful earthy and uncleansed soul For answer I deny that there is any sacriledge or irreverence in a Ministers giving the Sacrament unto unworthy persons who are not such juridically provided still that he use all lawfull likely means to keep them off And the Schoolmen themselves confesse as much concerning hidden and secret sinners as also when a Minister cannot avoid the giving of it unto them without scandall or some other great inconvenience Indeed the dignity and holinesse of the Sacrament is sacrilegiously violated by the irreverence of unworthy receivers But God hath not left his Church infallible means to keep his Name and Ordinances from irreverence And the Minister is not guilty of this irreverence in unworthy receiving though he give them the Sacramental Elements if he do what lyeth in him to keep them off and when he cannot hinder them he give them the Elements with regret with a mourning and bleeding heart I shall conclude my answer unto this Objejection with that of Suarez praedictâ disputatione Section 4. Ipsemet Christus vult ut aliqua ejus injuria potius permittatur quàm indebito modo ac ordine caveatur It is Christs will rather that there should be a permission of wrongs and injuries unto his Name Ordinances and Sacraments then that they should be prevented by unlawfull means in an undue either order or manner A second generall Attribution of the Lords Supper from whence it is endeavoured to conclude to the sinfulnesse of giving it in any case unto such as are known by the Minister to be unworthy receivers is its being a seal of the Covenant of Grace the righteousnesse of Faith For hence think some it followeth that administration of the Lords Supper unto known scandalous and wicked persons is a practicall and visible lye a confirmation of an untruth because it seals the Covenant and Promises to those who have visibly no share in them For answer The Lords Supper may be said to be a seal of the Covenant or Promise of Grace either absolutely or conditionally The truth of the Covenant and Promises in themselves our obligation to gratitude and obedience are sealed absolutely by the Lords Supper but interest in the Covenant and Promises of Grace the Lords Supper sealeth unto those that partake thereof but conditionally so they beleeve Unto wicked men the Promises are as propounded so sealed but conditionally Sacramenta saith Amesius non sunt Testimonia completa absoluta nisicredentibus They are saith Rutherford seals unto the wicked not in actu secundo but only in actu primo See Mr. Marshall in his defence of Infant Baptisme against Tombs pag. 117.118 The last sort of Objections proving that it is a sin to give the Lords Supper unto known scandalous sinners is drawn from the consequents that will follow upon distribution of the Sacramentall Elements unto them First transgression of the Rule of Christ Secondly pollution of the Sacrament Thirdly a participation of the sinne of unworthy receivers Fourthly a Communion with wicked men in worship c. First then upon a Ministers giving the Sacramental elements unto them there will follow a transgression of the Rule of Christ which by my owne confession excludeth scandalous sinners c. For answer Upon a Ministers giving the Sacramental elements unto known scandalous sinners that are not such by Church censure for of such only we speak there will follow a transgression of the Rule of Christ but by whom by the known scandalous sin in unworthy receiving by the Church-guides in case the Church be Presbyterated if