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A practical discourse upon the Blessed Sacrament shewing the duties of the communicant before, at, and after the Eucharist / by Edward Pelling ...
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Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.
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there is no respect of persons Col. 3. 25. TO forbear all Fashood Dissimulation Truth and Insincerity And so the Holy Scripture commands us Not to lye one to another Col. 3. 9. but putting away all lying to speak every Man truth with his Neighbour Ephes 4. 25. Because lying lips are abomination to the Lord but they that deal truly are his delight Prov. 12. 22. TO be candid in our Behaviour towards all men Not to be given to reviling Candour backbitings whisperings railings evil surmisings or judging one another but in all points to walk by the Rule of Charity which suffereth long and is kind which envieth not which vaunteth not it self which is not puffed up which behaveth not it self unseemly which seeketh not her own which is not easily provoked which thinketh no evil which rejoyceth not in iniquity but which rejoyceth in the truth which beareth all things believeth all things that are good hopeth all things endureth all things 1 Cor. 13. 4 5 6 7. and which covereth a multitude of Sins 1 Pet. 4. 8. TO be merciful to the Necessitous Using Hospitality without grudging Mercy 1 Pet. 4. 9. Visiting the Fatherless and Widows in their distress Jam. 1. 27. Praying for the sick Jam. 5. 16. teaching and admonishing one another Col. 3. 16. Distributing to the necessity of Saints Rom. 12. 13. Doing good to the poor being rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate laying up in store for our selves a good foundation against the time to come that we may lay hold on eternal life 1 Tim. 6. 18 19. TO be kind and obliging in our deportment Courtesie having compassion one of another being pitiful and courteous 1 Pet. 3. 8. Being gentle and easie to be entreated Jam. 3. 17. bearing the infirmities of the weak every one pleasing his Neighbour for his good to edification Rom. 15. 1 2. Comforting the feeble minded supporting the weak being patient towards all men 1 Thes 5. 14. Rejoycing with them that rejoice and weeping with them that weep Rom. 12. 15. TO be kindly affectioned even to our Forgiving Enemies Enemies Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil-speaking be put away from you with all malice Ephes 4 21. Instead of rendring evil for evil or railing for railing 1 Pet. 3. 9. Love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you Matth. 5. 44. Dearly be loved avenge not your selves but rather give place unto wrath for it is written vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger feed him if he thirst give him drink for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head Rom. 12. 19 20. TO be modest and inoffensive in your familiar discourse Swear not at Modesty all Matth. 5. 34. Bless but curse not Rom. 12. 14. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister Grace unto the hearers Ephes 4. 29. And let your speech be alway with Grace seasoned with salt that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man Col. 4. 6. TO be lovers and makers of peace If ye have bitter envying and strife in Peaceableness your Hearts glory not and lye not against the truth this wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual devillish for where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work Jam. 3. 14 15 16. Study therefore to be quiet and do do your own business 1 Thes 4. 11. Follow peace with all men Heb. 12. 14. Be at peace among your selves 1 Thes 5. 13. Seek peace and ensue it 1 Pet. 3. 11. And follow after the things that make for peace Rom. 14. 19. And if it be possible and as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men Rom. 12. 18. FOR the obtaining of this the greatest Blessing upon Earth such a perfect Virtues relating to Civil Government Peace as may resemble the State of the Blessed in Heaven there are other Virtues still which relate directly to our Governours To our Temporal Governours That we render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's Matth. 22. 21. That we pay to all their dues Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custom to whom Custom Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour Rom. 13. 7. That we submit our selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as Supreme or unto Governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well for so is the Will of God 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. And that every Soul be subject unto the higher Powers because there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Wherefore we must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for Conscience sake Rom. 13. 1 2 5. TO our Spiritual Gevernors also the To our Spiritual Governours Bishops and other Pastors of the Church That we obey them that have the rule over us and submit our selves for they watch for our souls as they that must give account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for us Heb. 13. 17. That we know them which labour among us and are over us in the Lord and admonish us That we esteem them very highly in love for their works 1 Thes 5. 12 13. That such as rule well be counted worthy of double honour especially they who labour with toyl and hazard in the word and doctrine 1 Tim. 5. 17. TO the whole Estate and Body of the Church also That we forsake not the To the whole State of the Church assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is Heb. 10. 25. That we be not contentious about Circumstantials where we have no such Custom nor the Churches of God 1 Cor. 11. 16. That we endeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace because there is one Body and one Spirit even as we are called in one hope of our calling One Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in us all Epes 4. 3 4 5 6. Therefore I beseech you Brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no division among you but that ye be perfectly joined in the same mind and in the same judgment 1 Cor. 1. 10. And that ye give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentles nor to the Church of God 1 Cor. 10. 32. IF these things be in you and abound Virtues relating unto God you
Tertullian to do good unto all Men without distinction or limitation Even the Old Law required the Jews not to hate their Brethren in their hearts Levit. 19. 17. Nay it required them to do friendly Offices to one another although there were enmity between them as we find Exod. 22. 4 5. If thou meet thine Enemies Ox or his Ass going astray thou shalt surely bring it back to him again c. But all this was meant with peculiar respect to their own Tribes and Countreymen for other Nations they were permitted to hate and in many Cases were bound to treat them after an hostile manner But Christ's Religion carries a far different Spirit with it A Christian is bound to look upon every Child of Adam as his Neighbour though an Enemy even to the Faith though without Christ though an alien from the Commonwealth of Israel and consequently he is obliged not only to abhor all malicious Designs against him but moreover to extend the utmost of his Charity unto him like the common Maker and Father of us all whose mercy is over all his Works Ye have heard saith Christ Mat. 5. That it hath been said thou shalt love thy Neighbour and hate thine Enemy But I say unto you love your Enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them that despightfully use you and persecute you that you may be the Children of your Father which is in Heaven for he maketh his Sun to rise on the Evil and on the Good and sendeth rain on the Just and Vnjust For if ye love them only which love you what reward have ye Do not even the Publicans the same And if ye Salute your Brethren only what do you more than others Do not even the Publicans so Alas this comes infinitely short of the boundless and most generous Spirit of Christianity which teacheth us not to be overcome by Evil but to overcome Evil with Good if an Enemy hunger to feed him if he thirst to give him drink and by so doing to heap coals of fire upon his head to melt and intender his Spirit instead of calling for fire from Heaven to consume him as those Disciples would have done upon the heads of the Samaritans who knew not what Sweetness and Charity the Christians Spirit is of 2. THUS you see the nature of that Charity which consisteth in Fraternal Forgiveness in its full Latitude and Extent To come closer to our purpose yet let us now in the next place consider the particular necessity of this thing when we Celebrate this Divine Mystery Forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that Trespass against us is a Prayer we use daily by our Lord 's own directions and thereby we are taught that Charity is always to be mixt with our Devotion and that we should pity the necessity of others Souls as often as we call for mercy upon our own But as I have already shewn you there are at this great Solemnity Special and Peculiar Reasons to to actuate not only our Faith and Repentance but our Charity too in its several Parts and Properties and therefore laying aside at present the Consideration of those General Obligations which are derived from the Commands of Christ that were given on other Occasions I shall take notice only of those special Reasons which have a more peculiar influence upon our minds from the Consideration of this Mystery IF thou bring thy Gift to the Altar and there remembrest that thy Brother hath ought against thee leave there thy Gift before the Altar and go thy way first be reconciled to thy Brother and then come and offer thy Gift Matth. 5. 23 24. It was this place of Scripture which gave occasion to the Primitive Christians to call the Lord's Table an Altar and just as they went about to offer up their Sacrifices of Prayer Praises and Alms-deeds to express their Reconciliation and perfect Love by Saluting each other with an Holy Kiss the Deacon having called out unto them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let none have ought against another The peculiar Reasons of this Charity may be drawn from these 4 Considerations 1. FROM the Consideration of that Analogy which this Christian Feast bears to the Sacrifical Banquets of old to which this Banquet doth in some measure correspond * Illud autem observatum ab antiquis videmus ut quoties Supplicationes aut lectisternia indicerentur a jurgiis litibus abstinerent vinctis vincula demerent Gyrald Syntag. 17. page 482. The Heathens themselves were wont at those Solemnities to give over all Strifes and Controversies and to release such miserable Creatures as were in Prisons and Bonds By the common light of Nature they found it necessary for them all to appear before God with Calm and Unpassionate Minds to testifie their freedom from sowerness and rancour by expressions of Humanity and Forgiveness so that their Religious Feasts seem'd to resemble that Charistia which Valerius Maximus speaks of a Feast of Love and entire Friendship I do not speak this to lessen the Dignity of this Christian Eucharist but to shew that if they made it a great part of their Religion to be thus dispos'd who wanted the assistance of Divine Revelation and fed only upon Ritual and mean Entertainments which the Custom of Nations had made every where common certainly the Noblest acts of Charity must be required of us who have been so often told of the infinite Love of God to us and have the singular Honour and Happiness to feed together upon that Lamb of God which was Sacrificed for the forgiveness of the whole World 2. HERE we Celebrate the Memorial of our Saviour's Sufferings who refused not to be kist by the impurest lips in the World even when he knew that Judas his own Disciple his Almoner came to betray him who called him by no harder Name than Friend who healed the Officers Ear which had been cut off by the rash zeal of another Disciple who held his peace though oppress'd at his Tryal with false accusations who took no notice of the rudeness of their malice when his implacable Enemies spit upon him buffeted him smote him on the face with their hands that wanted nothing but to be embrewed in his Blood who forgave Peter though he had Apostatiz'd and flatly denyed him with Oaths and Imprecations who pityed not himself but those poor People that followed him with tears to his Crucifixion and used that soft expression to them Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves and for your Children who was led as a Lamb to the Slaughter and as a Sheep that before his Shearers is dumb who when he was reviled reviled not again and when he suffered threatned not but closed up his Life with a most Charitable Prayer for his Enemies forgiveness in a word who throughout this whole affair behaved himself with the most eminent Candour Meekness Goodness and