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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90686	A scripture-rale to the Lords Table; or, Observations upon M. Humphreys his treatise, intituled, An humble vindication of free admission to the Lords Supper. Tending to discover the loose and prophane principles therein suggested. Published for the undeceiving the weak, and removing offences occasioned by it in the practice of reformation. Being the result of the discourses of some preachers in the county of Gloucester near Stow on the Wold, at their weekly meetings. / Digested by Anthony Palmer pastor of the Church of Christ at Bourton on the Water.	Palmer, Anthony, 1618?-1679.	1654 (1654)	Wing P218; Thomason E1496_2; ESTC R208631	72,178	194

ignorance lukewarmness loosness and formality in stead of such as fear the Lord walking in fellowship with the Father and one with another in the Spirit Now that any that truly fear the Lord should stick at this viz. to profess to own the Covenant of Gods free grace to give up themselves unto it and to Jesus Christ the Mediatour of it in all his Offices to walk under his Discipline and in fellowship with his people we cannot but justly wonder and why any godly men of parts should frame and raise up bug-bears against it The Lord give them to beleeve yea to taste the goodness and sweetness of it and they will be humbled before the Lord that they ever withstood it 4. The Novelty of this practice and from keeping any from the Sacrament is objected to us and others We could answer at large here That it is as old as the Gospel for beleevers to walk together in fellowship in the duties express'd and for unworthy persons to be kept from holy things We might moreover produce the testimony of the most eminent Divines that have been the Lords witnesses since as the Church of God hath been blest with as Cyprian Justin Martyr Chrysostom Ambrose c. The abundant testimonies of all Reformed Divines Calvin Beza Bullinger Hyperius Bucer Zanchy c. with the sad complaints they make in their writings of the abuse of the Lords Supper c. Saith Calvin in one of his Epistles speaking of the profane Sine crass â Dei injuriâ admitti nequeunt Lib. Epist pag. 438. quàm turpis pudenda ista profanatio Saerorum The profane cannot be admitted without gross injury unto the Lord How vile and shamefull is the profanation of these holy things Yea saith Bishop Bilson Not onely the want of the Sacraments but the abuse of either hazards the weal of the whole Church yea casting holy things to dogs procures a dreadfull doom as well to consenters as presumers it being a way to turn the house of God into a den of thieves if profane ones be allowed the Mysteries and Assemblies of the faithfull 5. It is objected It is tyrannical We answer we wish that people would first look to their own duty To obey them that have the rule over them and to submit themselves to them Heb. 13.17 before they so peremptorily assert That the Minister doing his duty in reference to the Lord and the good of their souls is tyrannical What tyranny for a Minister to make an universal invitation to the people he preacheth to to own the Lord and one another in holiness and love and so to walk with them This Objection proceeds from a love of liberty and elbow-room in a carnal course c. 6. Separation is objected What separation for a Minister coming to a people setled upon the lees of ignorance and profaneness and having much abused Sacraments to call upon all that fear the Lord to profess Christ with their mouths and to give up themselves to him and so to walk in mutual love and comfort together Separation from wickedness is not schism but from the godly We profess to hold Communion with Ministers and Churches where Reformation is in any measure practis'd Lastly A vulgar Objection that is in the mouths of most that we take upon us in this practice to judge the hearts of most We answer though we cannot nor do we undertake directly to judge mens hearts yet we can argue out what is in mens heart as the Wiseman speaks Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water but a man of understanding draweth it cut And that first by their words for Christ teacheth us so to know them Mat. 12.34 Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh And vers 35. An evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth evil things as by lying swearing hard speeches bitter scoffes and revilings at such as profess godliness under the names of Pharisees and hypocrites with such like corrupt communications any of which in their constant practice discover the heart How else did Simon Magus manifest himself in the gall of bitterness 2. By their works Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts adulteries fornications murders thefts false witness blasphemies c. By such fruits we shall know them 3. An humble Christian will be willing to have his heart tried and to have his Minister apply rules and evidences to discover whether it be sound and right with the Lord or not 4. Where none of these fruits doe appear we do not pretend to make a judgement of mens hearts so there be a willing subjection to the Lord and his wayes to walk in fellowship with him and his people Thus have we taken liberty we trust without offence to any of the Lords people with open-heartedness and plainness to propose what we humbly conceive we have learned of the Lord and being deeply desirous to be ashamed of our former abominations Ezek. 43.10 11. we hope we have or shall see the Patern of the Lords house so far as in abundance of mercy he shall please to use us which the Lord who will build up and come into his Temple will in his time reveal to all that love him In the mean time the Lord give unto us and all our Brethren whose hearts are truly after Reformation to pray more and dispute less and laying aside all animosities to do the work of our blessed God committed to us peaceably according to the light we have received in our generations Now we shall deliver some brief and plain observations upon this unhappy piece of Mr Humfreys aiming at the satisfaction of the people meerly conceiving that judicious godly Ministers are not at all startled in their principles by what he hath vented And so we have laboured to frame such answers as are most obvious to the people and not puzzle them First We take notice of this Parenthesis in the Title viz. That his Treatise was published for the ease support and satisfaction of tender consciences otherwise remedilesse in or mixt Congregations Answ 1. By ease it is plain he means by his Sophistry to delude their understandings so far as that they may without scruple partake of the Lords Table with the ignorant and profane This is to make the conscience quiet and not good as water cooling a feaver for the present but makes it return with greater violence 2. We are confident this hath not eased but more grieved and perplexed the most tender cohsciences in the Natton as most of the godly bear witness and hath made the hearts of the righteous sad The burden of such mixt communicating which hath been and is in the mixt Congregations of England hath been and is the grief and sad complaint of the servants of God both Ministers and people and will be proved a snare 3. Whereas he saith Tender consciences are otherwise remediless in our mixt Congregations 1. We offer it to

such inconsequent reasoning 2. His second consideration That the Gospel offers Christ freely to all c. without qualifications so there be a present giving up himself sincerely to him And yet none but such as shall be qualified after their mindes must come to the Sacrament Answ But would he have no qualifications upon a soul that comes to the Sacrament no repentance no faith c. Doth not his sincere giving up himself unto the Lord as his Lord and Saviour imply these But what if this soul should before the Minister and Church before he comes to this Ordinance professe that in sincerity so farre as he knows his own heart he doth give up himself to the Lord and his people Would this take off from the free tender of Christ Further saith he Is Christ offered as a free gift in the Word and must we not come Without our price and money to this Ordinance c. Answ The Authors ingenuity were desirable here Do the Preachers when they call for Repentance and faith in such as come to this Ordinance and sutable conversation do they make this buying of Christ Besides The Word is to begin and work faith this Ordinance supposeth faith for it is supposed the bargain 's made before the conveyance is sealed that a soul receives Christ before Christ seals his love to him His third consideration That the Gospel way is the best way to bring souls to Christ Let saith he a mans heart be fully convinced of the free grace of God in Christ his heart can stand it no longer out against his conversion Answ This is true but what to purpose in his Argument Is every mans heart so convinced that hears the Gospel He must first profess to have his heart convinced of the free grace of Christ before he can rationally desire the seal or it can rationally be given unto him Aye but saith he when the Word is preacht Covenant opened Seal applied the Message of reconciliation comes in its full vertue to convince c. But Sir keep to your rule the Gospel way is the best way c. Was this ever the Gospel way or is it any where prescribed in it Was not conviction alwayes profest before either Sacrament was administred We are well assured he cannot shew any precept or example to the contrary in the Gospel Therefore this huddling of things will not passe 4. His fourth consideration sure a hasty one is this The Gospel is a peaceable Gospel an embassie of peace now how shall this peace be kept if we go to make separation at this Ordinance Answ The truth is a sufficiently worldly and carnal Argument but Reader observe may not the same reason be urged against the preaching of the Gospel too Doth not this breed disturbance c. Yea is not this reasoning directly against what Christ himself delivers shall be the effect of the preaching of the Gospel Matth. 10.33 34. I came not to send peace but a sword I am come to set a man at variance against his father c. And a mans foes shall be those of his own house c. And elswhere I will gather you one of a family and two of a City c. Jer. 3.14 Now is not the Gospel a Gospel of peace that is to the soul which receives it in which sense it is an embassie of peace because it will make such work in the world by the opposition of men against it May it not as well be said O the Gospel will make disturbance How shall the peace be kept Whereas it is on purpose to separate the kingdom of Christ from the world The truth is this argument is of so little weight that therefore such a separation as keeps off ignorant and profane persons from the Supper ought to be because it will disturb the consciences of such and may by grace awaken them to a consideration of their own condition and not longer be flattered in the customary carnal way they have been lulled asleep in He next states the case of a poor wounded sinner as if it were meant any such should be kept off by godly men who plead for the purity of this Ordinance We plead against such as are whole in their own opinions ignorant profane revilers and not wounded sinners if they declare themselves poor sinners and wounded no doubt but they will be received We shall not adde any thing to the other part of this consideration it being but a repeating of what is before urged His second Reason is drawn from the nature of a visible Church which saith he is a number of such as make profession of Jesus Christ and so are Saints by calling whatsoever they are in truth the essential marks whereof whereby it subsists as visible is the preaching the Word and administring Sacraments Answ Not to dispute this How far the preaching of the Word and administration of Sacraments are essential marks The Word may be preacht to those that are no Church and the Sacraments administred to a false Church Ordinances are rather food and maintenance of the Church then the marks of it There may be Churches in a large sense that may have no right Gospel-constitution and yet have these Ordinances as begun meerly by the command of the Magistrate to subject to such forms he prescribes and not by the preaching of the Gospel and a voluntary submission of a people to it and such are not properly Saints by calling It is possible there may be such Congregations in England c. Will you stile affected-ignorant persons scoffers at instruction and the power of godliness obstinate hereticks Saints by calling though they make profession of Jesus Christ Surely this destroyes their profession Therefore it may be added that a Church is coetus fidelium a society of believers that profess Christ and his Gospel and practise answerably and are answerably united by mutual agreement who submit freely to Christs Discipline But he goeth on Now unless men will be so bold as to divest our mixt Congregations of the name of the visible Church they cannot take away one essential note in the free use of this Ordinance Answ But Sir there is much difference between the reforming of a Church that there may be a due and justifiable use of this Ordinance and a taking of it away which we know none but fanatick persons who deny the use of this Ordinance to do But he will prove That our mixt Congregations ought to have the use of this Ordinance both from Christs doctrine and example His Doctrine In the Parables of the little and great fishes in one net good and bad called to one feast the chaff and wheat in one barn tares and wheat in one field Mat. 13. which must grow together till the day of Judgement and so no separation Answ Briefly Those tares we understand with most reformed Expositours to be close hypocrites and nor of open profane persons and revilers of the Gospel-Ministry and of the