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A10232 The communicants duty set forth in eight sermons / preached at Kings-Lynne in Norfolke by Thomas Purchas ... Purchas, Thomas. 1639 (1639) STC 20509.3; ESTC S1282 68,428 342

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promised to bee our God and we to be his people by which wee have deliverance from our former evill and the glad tidings of salvation through Jesus Christ Now for the second Knowledge to bee examined and that is the speciall Knowledge concerning the nature of the Lords Supper as our Knowledge First What it is Secondly why it is so called Thirdly The causes of it Fourthly The end of it First it concernes every man that comes to Gods Table The Lords Supper described that hee know what the Lords Supper is Namely a Sacrament of our spirituall nourishment and growth by faith in CHRIST to eternall life Secondly why it is called W●y so called the Lords Supper as Because it was ordained Reas 1 by the Lord m 1 Cor. 11. 22. Because it was instituted in remembrance of the Reas 2 Lord this do saith he as yee doe it in remembrance of me n 1 Cor. 11. 25. Because in the primitive Reas 3 Church it was usually received on the day of the Lord o Acts ●0 7. The principall cause Thirdly we must know the causes of it as First The cause principall Secondly the cause instrumentall Thirdly The cause materiall The cause principall is God Because hee onely can Reas give grace and afoord meanes First Commanding to Minister and receive it Secondly Promising that whosoever receiveth and beleeveth shall be saved The Instrumentall cause Cause instrumentall Cause materiall of it is the Minister The Materiall cause twofold 1. The outward signe 2. The inward thing signified The outward signe The outward signe is twofold First The Elements of Bread and Wine Secondly The actions of the Minister and Receiver First the Elements of Bread and Wine And here is a question to be answered Quaes Why the Lord Jesus Why bread Christ did make choyse of Bread and Wine rather than any other elements to bee Signes of the Sacrament of his Body and Blood Resp For good Reasons the Analogy and proportion that is between them shewing the same And thus it holds First Bread is the principall supporter of mans life now as Bread is of naturall life so the Lord Jesus is of our spirituall bread in regard of the strength of it it is called The Staffe of Bread p Lev. 26. 26. Reason Because as the weake and wearied man is stayed up by the staffe so the weake body is strengthned by bread so saith the Psalmist he bringeth forth of the earth bread that strengthens mans heart q Psal 104. 15. S. Aug. upon which words Saint Augustine after his Allegoricall manner of exposition applies it unto Christ saying quem panem What Bread and answers Christum Christ Secondly Bread takes away corporall hunger and as bread takes away corporall hunger so the Lord Jesus takes away spirituall Thirdly Bread profiteth none but such as are hungry it doth no good unto them that are filled and glutted the Lord Jesus profiteth none but those who hunger and thirst after righteousnesse Quaes Why Wine Why wine Resp First Wine is the sweetest liquor proceeding from the Vine the Lord Jesus the most sweetest liquor He is the true Vine his blood is sweete indeed r Ioh. 15. 1 7. Secondly Wine cheereth up the heart of man ſ Ps 104. 15 the promises of the Lord Jesus cheere up the soule and revives it Thirdly Wine mundi fies cleanses the wounds of the body the blood of Christ cleanseth the soule Fourthly Wine takes away fearefulnesse and causeth boldnesse the blood of the Lord Jesus by faith assures us of Gods favour eases us of the Curse of the Law makes us constant in the confession of Christ This the Analogie and proportion is so that Wine The Cup no to be denied cannot without great wrong be denied unto the people the Papists doe it who like the false Mother would have the child divided the Lord is the true Mother and cannot indure it what man will indure in his ordinary refreshing to have the Cup taken from him the blood of Christ is the speciall price of our Redemption for we were not redeemed with corruptible things but the blood of the Son of God as a Lamb unspotted and undefiled Our blessed Lord saith t 1 Pet. 1. 18. drink yee all of this u 1 Corin. 11 25. they will not doe it and what is this but to damme up the Fountaine Christ hath set open for Judah and Jerusalem but herein they deale with Christ and his Church as in other matters they account the Scripture not the perfect rule of faith but patch it up with their Traditions they make Christ but halfe a Saviour I perswade my selfe if the people should deale with their Priests in their offerings accondingly it would either coole their devotion or work a reformation Now for the actions of the Minister The Ministers actions represent the actions of God and Receivers First The actions of the Minister these actions are foure and they represent the actions of God First the taking of the Bread and Wine into his hands signifies the pointing out of Christ by God for the office of Mediatorship Secondly The blessing and consecrating of these Elements to an holy use signifies the actuall sending of Christ and the holy anoynting of him and setting him apart for that worke Thirdly The breaking of the Bread and the effusion of the Wine signifies the breaking of Christs Body on the Crosse and the shedding of his Blood Fourthly The delivering of these outward Elements to the Receivers signifies Gods offering of Christ unto all that will receive him Secondly The actions of the Receiver these represent the actions of the The receivers actions represent the actions of the soule soule and inward man for as the outward man receives the outward Elements so the inward man receives Christ First The taking of Bread and Wine with the outward hands of the body signifies the taking of Christ with the inward hand of the soule Secondly The eating of the Bread and the drinking of the Wine signifies a peculiar applying of Christ unto our soules that even as Bread and Wine being digested in the stomacks of our bodies is conjoyned to the body and made a part and member of the body so Christ received and digested in the Will and Affections is united to us and we to him he becomes our Head and we his members and as the receiving of outward food doth strengthen the body and makes it fit for naturall actions so the receiving of Christ the spirituall food doth strengthen the inward man and makes it fit for spirituall duties Secondly Now there is the inward thing signified and this whole Christ with all his benefits The last thing wee must The end why it was instituted examine our Knowledge of is concerning the end of the Lords Supper and here the question to be propounded is Quaes Why the Lords Supper was instituted Resp For two ends