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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77514	Two treatises: I. The saints communion with Jesus Christ, sacramental, spiritual, and celestial; wherein ministers and Christian are excited to a conscientious administration, and participation of that, of late-time, in many places, too much neglected ordinance, the sacrament of the Lords Supper; wherein that great controversie of a free admission is debated. II. Acquaintance with God; the nature of it opened, the practice perswaded, encouraged, directed, cautioned. / As it was lately delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel there.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing B4735; Thomason E1547_1; ESTC R209457	66,672	237

in that elegant Enantiôsis of his 2 Cor. 4.17 Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory Ever then let this be in our right eye In imitation of our heavenly pattern set we this joy before us And herewith stay our hearts against whatever apprehensions or fears Yed A Cordial in the last agony even of death it self That is a Cup which we must all drink of sooner or later and to flesh and blood it is a bitter cup. The bitterness of death is past saith Agag when he thought to have escaped with his life 1 Sam. 15.32 I finde more bitter then death saith the Preacher of the deceitful woman Eccles 7.26 Death is a bitter cup it will be found so to those who have nothing to sweeten their mouths with To allay the bitterness of it sweeten it with this new wine the apprehension of heavenly glory which being tasted of apprehended by Faith will be of soveraign use to comfort the heart and bear up the Spirit in the midst of this last agony Of such use was it to our Saviour and of such use let it be to all that are his Thus in the midst of what ever conflicts here we meet with in our warfare upon earth remember we what is laid up in Heaven for us what through Christ being his his Subjects his Souldiers we may certainly expect and look for when we have finished our course It was the speech of the Roman General wherewith he is said to have encouraged his Souldiers being to engage in a hazardous battel So dine ye this day saith he as remembring that ye are to sup in another world Muscul ad Text. This Speech Musculus writing upon the Text taketh notice of as a passage which hath been looked upon by many as worthy to be remembred by Christians But how much more saith he is this sentence of our Saviour here to his Apostles worthy to be recommended to them and inculcated upon them Where he maketh promise to those who shall stick close to him following him as his Apostles had done that they shall sup with him in another world have a sweet communion with him drinking of this new wine with him in the Kingdom of his Father Thus make we use of this in our own personal tentations and sufferings 2. And secondly make use of it in reference to others In respect of others A Cordial for such as are to part with their nearest and dearest relations When we are to part with our nearest and dearest relations Husbands to part with their Wives Wives with their Husbands Parents with their Children or Children with their Parents These are to be taken from us by death who while they lived were the delight of our eyes and the joy of our hearts among the cheif of our earthly comforts This is a time wherein comfort is very seasonable Now a cup of consolation would do well Such a custom there was amongst the Jews as we may learn from the Prophet Jeremy Jer. 16.7 where speaking of those calamitous times which should come upon that Nation wherein all neighborly offices of love and respect one to another should be wholly neglected and laid aside among other things he saith That they should not give the cup of consolation to their Brethren for their Father or for their Mother when any of their friends were in heaviness for the loss of those who were near and dear to them not to put them to the trouble and charge of a feast as the custom now a days is Longe secùs quâm apud nos in usu est ubi viduae morte conjugum graviter afflictae mensam vicinis cognatis infiruunt Cartwright Com. in Prov. 31.6 7. not so fitly and approvedly as our reverend Cartwright notes it writing upon Prov. 31.6 7. but either to invite them to their Houses or else to send in to them provisions of meat and drink that so by eating and drinking with them they might help them the better to digest and put over their grief This was that which the Prophet there calleth the cup of consolation Such a cup our blessed Saviour here giveth to his Apostles His departure being now at hand and he taking his leave of them leaveth this consolation with them that however he and they should part for a time yet it should be but for a time There should come a day when they should meet again and then they should drink a better cup have a better communion together then now they had And the like cup of consolation let me this day put into the hands of all such among you as either at present are or how soon you know not may be in the like condition whom God hath called or shall call to part with your dearest relations as a parting there must be Know you and consider that this is but a parting for a time This I speak in reference to such as you have comfortable hopes of that they are dead in the Lord. Indeed as for others such as live and die without hope to part with them is a sad parting But being such such as are faln asleep in Christ now know that your parting with them is but for a time not for ever Though they shall not return to you yet you shall go to them as David said of his childe 2 Sam. 12.23 So as you and they shall have a meeting in Heaven where you shall both have a sweet communion with Jesus Christ and so far forth as may make for your mutual happiness one with another drinking of this new wine Use 2 enjoying those joyes Exhortation to make sure our communion with Christ upon Earth which shall never more know what any mixture of sorrow meaneth This by way of Consolation 2. Which that we may accordingly apply and bring home to our selves be we exhorted in the second place every of us to endeavor to make this sure to our selves That we be as Paul calleth beleevers Rom. 9.8 Children of the promise such as to whom this promise belongs Who they are I have hinted to you already in laying down the Doctrine viz. Such as have communion with Jesus Christ upon Earth Such onely shall have communion with him in Heaven Every of us then have an eye to this And here content not we our selves with an outward Not contenting our selves with visible and Sacramental communion visible communion Not but that also we must have a regard unto this to have an outward communion with Jesus Christ to own him follow him in a visible profession of his Name Which yet is not to be neglected and to meet him in his Ordinances as in hearing of his Word so in partaking in his Supper to eat and drink with him at his Table Which Ordinance Christians ought the rather to have regard unto and make use of in as much as it is both a sign and

Applica ∣ tion which I shall direct onely two wayes by way of Consolation Exhortation Use 1. Use 1 By way of Consolation Consolation to such as have communion with Christ upon earth So our Saviour himselfe here intends what he saith to his Apostles that it might be as a Cordiall first to himselfe then to them To himselfe to strengthen his approaching Passion to them to comfort them concerning his departing from them And both these waies let it bee usefull unto us I mean such and onely such as have communion with Jesus Christ In respect of themselves a Cordial against present sufferings or fears Being in our measure such now take this 1 As a Cordiall against present and imminent felt or feared Tentations In this case let Christians look beyond the present their present sufferings or feares setting before them this cup this cup of new wine prepared in heaven for them after they have finished their suffering worke So did our blessed Saviour here apprehending that bitter cup coming towards him which he was to drink in his passion he sets before him this cup this sweet cup which he should drinke of in his exaltation This is that which the Apostle tels us Heb. 12.2 where speaking of Christ and his exemplary patience in his sufferings he saith that for the joy which was set before him he indured the crosse and despised the shame c. Thus did he drown all his sorrowes and fears in this cup of new wine in the apprehension of that heavenly glory which waited for him after his suffering worke was over In this way it was as is most probably conjectured that the Angell of God is said to have strengthened him in his Agony Luk. 22.43 And there appeared unto him an Angell from heaven strengthning him This he did not by infusing or communicating to him any power or vertue Christus enim destitutus Divinitatis in se habitantis virtute humanaeque naturae relictus ac proinde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 opus habuit Angelorum solatio Gro. Annot. in Lu. 22.43 New wine for heavy hearts but by presenting unto his humanity his divinity being for the present asleep and the influence of it for the time suspended as Grotius there ingeniously explains it the certain assurance of a speedy victory and insuing glory And in the like way let me as an Angell and Minister of Christ strengthen your hearts against what ever tentations and sufferings yee are subject unto viz. by setting this new wine before you So Salomon or rather Bathsheba for he learned that lesson from his Mother as in the first verse of the Chapter he acknowledgeth adviseth in the place forenamed Prov. 31.6 7. Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish and wine to those that bee of heavy hearts let him drinke and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more And this counsell shall I here lay hold upon making use of it in a spirituall way giving this new wine to those that are of heavy hearts presenting unto dejected spirits in their disconsolate condition this cup of consolation which I shal desire all such not only to tast but to drink of and that a hearty draught to sit at it So doe Wine bibbers use to doe at their wine against whom the Prophet denounceth that woe which I shall desire all such Good-fellowes to take notice of Isa 5.11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink that continue till night till wine inflame them Christians to sit at this wine They sit at the wine the like let Christians do at this wine in the drinking whereof there is no fear of excess sit at it continue by it I mean by Divine meditation and serious contemplation often setting before them the joy and glory of Heaven which God hath prepared for his Saints and servants after that they have suffered a while Here it may be they meet with many a bitter draught they have their affliction and their misery their wormwood and their gall as the Church describes her sad condition in Babylon Lam. 3.19 But let them remember there is wine new wine laid up in Heaven for them A Cordial for such as suffer for Christ And how should the thought hereof comfort and strengthen the hearts of all the sons and daughters of Sion in the midst of what ever sufferings especially if they be sufferings for Christ Now let them know that drinking of his Cup here they shall drink of it hereafter Drinking of his bitter cup they shall drink of his sweet cup drinking of his Vinegar his old and sowre wine here they shall drink with him of his new and sweet wine another day Having thus communion with him in his sufferings upon earth they shall have communion with him in his glory and happiness in Heaven Ye are they saith our Saviour to his Apostles who have continued with me in my temptations Therefore I appoint unto you a Kingdom as my Father hath appointed me that ye may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom Luke 22.28 29. Thus being sharers with Christ in his Cross they shall be also in his Crown If we suffer with him we shall also be glorified with him reign with him Rom. 8.17 2 Tim. 2.12 Christians Christians to have an eye to the recompence of reward Be ye more in the thought of this feeling your hearts oppressed with the weight of temporal sufferings do but cast the glory of Heaven into the contrary ballance against them So did Moses of whom the Apostle tells us Heb. 11.26 That he esteemed the reproach of Christ for Christs sake greater riches then the treasures of Egypt for he had an eye to the recompence of reward not onely to the earthly Canaan as Grotius would have it but to the heavenly and to the glory thereof This is the Christians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of which the same Apostle speaketh in the Chapter foregoing Vers 35. Cast not away your confidence which hath great recompence of reward not onely temporal but eternal And this it was which Moses there had an eye at the reward of eternal life This it was that he put in the scale against all his sufferings the like do we which doing we shall finde this infinitely preponderating and weighing down the other So it did at Pauls beam I reckon saith he that the sufferings of this present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us So it is The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sufferings the Martyrdoms of this present life be hey never so many never so great yet they are not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they hold no proportion with the recompence of reward the glory of Heaven The one being comparatively light the other ponderous the one momentany the other eternal So the Apostle weighing them in the ballance of the Sanctuary sets his Tekel upon the former