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A44513	The crucified Jesus, or, A full account of the nature, end, design and benefits of the sacrament of the Lords Supper with necessary directions, prayers, praises and meditations to be used by persons who come to the Holy Communion / by Anthony Horneck ...	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2823; ESTC R35435	411,793	617

Beauty like thy Crown is immarcessible Ages cannot change it neither Heat nor Cold can alter it Thou art beautiful in thy Body beautiful in thy Soul but infifinitely beautiful in thy Divinity Nothing deserves to be loved or praised if thou dost not VI. Oh how blind are poor Mortals who are so very fond of Honours Riches curious Palaces Gardens Pleasures Musick Rarities Colours Herbs Flowers Stones and Minerals Great Conqueror of my Soul Thou art more honourable more amiable more sweet more pleasant more agreeable more delicious more harmonious to my Soul than all these Thy Excellency cannot by searching be found out VII O Lamb of Gd With the Four and Twenty Elders I fall down before thy Throne and cry Blessing and Praise and Honour and Wisdom be unto the Lamb for ever and ever for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy Blood out of every Kindred and Tongue and People and Nation VIII O God of Glory I beseech thee remove from me all those things which would hinder me from glorifying thee Remove from me an unsteady Mind that I may glorifie thee in Poverty as well as in Plenty in Adversity as well as Prosperity in Desertions as well as in Consolations in Disgrace as well as in Honour Let me look upon both Conditions as coming from the same good Hand of Providence and let that be an everlasting Motive to me to shew forth thy Glory IX O God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ I desire to glorifie thee in this World and in that to come with Men here and with Angels hereafter Give me the Grace of Continuance in magnifying thy Name thy Goodness and thy Charity while I am in this barren Wilderness that I may not fail of being admitted to the Regions of the Blessed where I may praise and magnifie thee World without end X. O Jesu Why art thou so lovely so beautiful so amiable but that I might love thee But I cannot love thee of my self Thy Love must give me Power and sow the Seeds of Reciprocal Love in my Soul O Love O Desire of my Soul Oh do not do that Injury to thy infinite Perfections as to let me live without being passionately enamoured with thee XI O God who hast promised that the Needy shall not always be forgotten that the Expectation of the Poor shall not perish for ever Look upon me a poor needy Wretch and give me those Riches I desire and without which I must ever count my self most miserably poor even the Riches of thy Love which whoever does enjoy hath enough and more than the richest Princes can pretend to XII Who would not praise thee O thou great Redeemer of Men Seven times a Day will I praise thee because of thine infinite Charity Morning and Evening and at Noon will I praise thee because thou hast bought me with Blood Oh that Men would praise the Lord for his Goodness and for his wonderful Works to the Children of Men. The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and let the God of my Salvation be exalted He delivers me from mine Enemies yea thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me Therefore will I give Thanks unto thee O Lord and sing Praises unto thy Name for ever CHAP. XXIX Of the Life we are to lead after we have receiv'd the Holy Communion The CONTENTS The Life to be led after Receiving a Reasonable Service Wherein that Service consists The necessity of it Men that are in an unconverted State live below their Reason The Generality of Men very rational in Temporal Concerns but very unreasonable in Things belonging to their Everlasting Peace The Prayer I. THough from the Premises any Man may guess what life it is that a Christian who hath engaged himself to God in this Sacrament and vow'd Faith and Allegiance to the King of Saints is to live after it yet to make these instructions complete I shall briefly add some Memorandums that are to be observed in our future Conversation and though in the foregoing Discourse I have often occasionally mention'd such a thing as a REASONABLE SERVICE yet it 's time I should now press it with great earnestness there being nothing more proper nothing more equitable after such solemn engagements than this Service and if we examine what it is it will be found to consist In these following particulars 1. In an happy agreement of our profession and actions of our belief and practices of our Principles and Conversation where our Profession is of one colour and our Practice of another where our Tongues speak one thing and our Lives another there I need not tell you how we involve our selves in a palpable contradiction Things contradictory mutually destroy each other A thing that is cold cannot at the same time be hot and what is black at the same time and under the same respects cannot be white and consequently where the Actions contradict our Principles the Actions destroy our Principles and in God's account we deny the Principles too by denying the consequences which are the actions that should naturall issue from those Principles and he that hath very good Principles but allows himself in bad Actions cannot be partly good and partly bad but is wholly bad which makes the Holy Ghost call all those Vnbelievers which profess the true Worship of God and dishonour it by their Lives Heb. 3. 17 18 19. But where I do believe that God is my Supreme Governor and therefore prefers his Will and Favour before the Will and Favour of Men when these two interfere and are contrary to one another Where I do believe that neither Fornicators nor Adulterers nor Effeminate nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Drunkards nor Revilers nor Extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God and therefore will not be perswaded by all the gain and profit of the World to venture upon any of these Sins If I believe that my Soul is worth more than a whole World and therefore will not wrong my better part though I might have the Riches of the Indies for doing it If I believe that if I am ashamed of the Gospel of Christ and of observing his Laws the Son of God will certainly be ashamed of me in the last day and thereupon take courage to act like a Man that believes it and stand up for the Glory and Honour of my God with Humility and Modesty in despight of all the reproaches and contempt of the World If I profess and believe that if I love not the Lord Jesus Christ so as to testifie my Love in my obedience to him I shall be for ever banish'd from the Glorious Presence of God and thereupon express my Love in thinking of him in Honouring and Esteeming him within and without if I believe that except my Righteousness exceeds the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees I shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven and thereupon actually shun those Sins which the Pharisees made

nothing of there my belief and actions go hand in hand together and if I hate to profess one thing and to do another then my service is truly reasonable and I have not receiv'd the Sacrament in vain 2. In subjecting our Flesh and Bodies to our reason This is to make our Members or Bodies instruments of Righteousness as it is said Rom. 6. 13. And what can be more reasonable than that the Slave should be subject to his Lord the servant to his Master the base and ignoble part to the more excellent the flesh to the Spirit and the Law of the Members to the Law of the Mind I have seen saith Salomon Servants upon Horses and Princes walk as Servants upon the Earth Eccl. 10. 7. The Moral of it is that it is unnatural unreasonable horridly monstrous to make our Reason a slave to our Interest and to suffer the Brute to ride the Man when Reason is only made use of to cater and provide for the ease and satisfaction of the Flesh it is as dismal a sight as to see a King brought to the Block and an excellent Prince Murther'd by his Subjects And therefore where Reason enlighten'd by the day-spring from on high and by the Lanthorn of the Word of God points at the Will of God and the Eye will not look upon vanity and dangerous shews and lustful objects because Reason saith that gazing upon them is unlawful and the Ears will not hearken to corrupt Communications nor to filthy jests and talk because Reason says that this becomes not the gravity of Saints and the Tongue will not speak any thing but what may Edifie and administer Grace unto the Hearer because Reason says that this is the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus and the hands will touch nothing that may raise unclean Thoughts or disorderly Desires because Reason says that this is to shun the occasions of evil and the Body will eat and drink moderately and will not pamper it self because Reason says that Moderation is the Christians Motto and the want of it grieves the Spirit of God there the Service is reasonable and an argument that we have not receiv'd the Sacrament in vain 3. In worshiping God with the understanding and inward Man If a Man talks with his Neighbour his Understanding ordinarily is fixt upon the subject he discourses of and what is Praying and Praising but speaking to God And surely no rational Creature will think that God deserves less attention than Man If with my Lips I pray and my Mind is at Rome or Constantinople if my Mouth Sings and my Thoughts are in my Shop if I read or hear the Word of God and my Thoughts are upon my Trade or Worldly business it is a brutish not reasonable service This the very Heathens have taken notice of as were an easie thing to prove Cato Epictetus Plato and Antoninus if there were occasion The Understanding must bear a principal part in the Devotion and I must not only understand the thing I pray for but my Understanding and Thoughts must keep pace with my Prayer and fix upon the tremendous Majesty I address too and though there are very few Men so happy as to fix their Understanding upon a Spiritual object in Devotion without the least variation or wandring of the Thoughts yet he that means to offer God his reasonable service must hold his Understanding to it as much as lies in him and if at any time it declines from that point reduce it and bring it back again to the Center from which it hath swerv'd and though the service be thereby somewhat interrupted yet as long as the interruption is not wilful God will still accept of it as of a reasonable service II. Nor need we wonder why this should be necessary For 1. The service must ever resemble God to whom it is offer'd and God being the highest reason and the Fountain of it the service must be answerable To worship the most reasonable Being with unreasonable offerings is a thing so absurd that the very sound of it is enough to fright us from it To worship God with our Bodies while our Souls do adore and admire something else is to make God a sensual Being and therefore our Saviour from the notion of God's being a Spirit enforces the Duty of Worshiping him in Spirit and in Truth Joh. 4. 24. 2. It is necessary for our own sakes If it be not reasonable we can take no comfort in it and besides cannot avoid running into Hypocrisie Hypocrisie is to seem to be good and not to be so as a false Pearl seems to be Oriental but is not It 's this reasonable service which must give our Devotion its just weight and goodness where this is wanting a Man seems to please God but doth not and from hence must necessarily arise great delusions and deceptions and the Soul that hath long flatter'd her self with external services when before the great Tribunal it shall find how wofully and wilfully it has mistaken the nature and design of the Gospel must fall into everlasting Grief and Torment The Preceding Considerations reduced to farther Practice I. TO be in an unconverted estate and to live below ones reason are one and the same thing Look upon a poor sensual Wretch that is yet a stranger to the life of God He rejoyces in those Sins which will make him infallibly miserable He stands upon the brink of Destruction and Laughs God is angry with him and he is pleased with it He prefers a Stone before Bread a Serpent before a Fish He glories in his Shame Triumphs in his Fetters breaks the Laws of the great Thunderer and justifies his actions and what is this but madness and distraction And O Sinner Is this a condition to sleep another Night in Is this a State to continue in one Moment longer Awake awake thou sluggard lest the Revenger of Blood overtake thee II. What pity is it to see Men so rational in their Temporal Concerns and so unreasonable in the things which belong to their everlasting Peace They would not make a false step nor do an imprudent action in the management of their Estates and Fortunes yet manage the greatest concerns of their Salvation so sillily so foolishly so irrationally that one would think they were intended for no higher life than that of Bees and Butter-flies O Christians Is there such a thing as a life to come and an immortal Life purchased by the Blood of the Son of God and is it not reasonable to look after it with the greatest application of your minds and understandings What will all your Wisdom in getting provision for the Flesh profit you while you are Fools in the things of God of Heaven and Eternity O Sirs Think of this reasonable service without which it had been better that you had never been born The PRAYER O God Great and Glorious I have too long measur'd thy service by mine own ease more