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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64687	Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere by the most Reverend James Usher ...; Sermons. Selections	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1678 (1678)	Wing U227; ESTC R13437	263,159	200

that they deserve to eat condemnation to themselves as openly profane ones in whom it's high treason Being God's vowed enemies to take his Privy Seal and put it to so vile a use this I say deserves damnation but then others there are that have faith and repentance and a portion in Christ yet coming unworthily to this feast eat judgment to themselves that is a judgement of chastisement There is a twofold judgment 1. One of revenge for such a person that puts God's Seal to a wrong evidence having no faith to make Christ his portion in such a one its high treason to put forth his hand to this tree of life 2. Another of chastisement for such a one as hath repentance and yet comes too unmannerly and carries himself too carelesly at the Lord's Table at this the Apostle aims in the Text not at that judgment of condemnation but at a judgment to prevent damnation And this appears in the words following where we shall find the Apostle recounting up the particulars of this judgment of chastisement For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep ver 30. Mark what 's the judgment he eats why this he 's cast upon his bed of sickness into a Consumption perchance or some other corporal disease a cause Physicians seldom or never look into they look to Agues Colds or the like they never once conjecture that their unworthy eating at the Lord's Table cast them into the disease and was the principal cause of the malady Nay death it self too often is the punishment of such bold attempts so that all the Physicians in the world cannot cure them And thus God inflicts temporal judgments to free them from eternal as appears farther in the 32 ver When we are judged we are chastned of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world that is we undergo a judgment of chastisement to prevent the judgment of condemnation which though it be a sharp and bitter pill yet by the mercy of God we eat that whereby damnation is prevented This judgment of condemnation is the portion of the profane person who dares to meddle with that which belongs not to him against whom the Angel of the Lord with a flaming sword stands to keep the way of this tree of life Those that come that have faith yet coming unpreparedly they eat judgment too yet by God's mercy it 's that which preserves them from the damnation of the soul. Now before I come to the particulars note how careful God is that spiritual exercises should be spiritually performed He 's very angry when he sees a spiritual duty carnally undertaken For this cause many are sick c. that is because you that are believers have faith repentance and a portion in your Saviour come irreverently come unpreparedly perform a spiritual work so carnally We have presidents hereof in Scripture and chiefly two First for circumcision Exod. 4.24 At the 21. v. God sent Moses on a Message into Egypt and in the 24. vers the Text saith It came to pass by the way in the Inn that the Lord met him and sought to kill him This is very strange this hath no dependance on that which goes before a strange accident God sought to kill although he but a little before had sent him into Egypt and told him he would be with him Why what should he do then how should the message be done and fulfilled But what was the reason hereof It 's not expressed yet we may gather from the following words that it was by reason his son was uncircumcised for ver 25. Zippora took a sharp stone and cut off the fore-skin of her son and cast it at his feet and said surely a blood● husband hast thou been unto me God would have smitten him for the neglect of the Sacrament of Circumcision Another instance we have for the Passover in Hezekiah's time 2 Chron. 30 17 18. A multitude of the people yea many of Ephraim and Manasseth Issachar and Zebulon had not cleansed themselves yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it was written There were many likewise in the Congregation that were not sanctified and therefore God punished them It 's not set down in what manner God punished them yet by the consequent it may be gathered that is was by sickness for the next words are to that effect Hezekiah prayed for them saying the Lord pardon every one that prepareth his heart to seek God the Lord God of his Fath●r though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuary and the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah and healed the people So that you see for this God smites a person and it 's to be feared lest judgments temporal fall on the whole Nation for this fault that he even smites not a few of the people to death But we pass from this and come to the particulars 3. The particulars of this offence and wherein it consists that a man comes unworthily that so we may know whether we are guilty of the crime Know ther●fore that there are two sorts that come to the Communion First those to whom the business doth not belong that have nothing to do with the thing as openly profane ones Secondly such as have interest in the matter but yet come unpreparedly and in an unbeseeming manner the former take part in the sign but enjoy not the thing signified and the latter coming unpreparedly depart without the comfort which otherwise they might have Now mark to whom Christ would say if he were now coming to judgment in the clouds to whom I say If he were now coming in the clouds he would say Come ye blessed of my Father inherit a Kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world Mat. 25.34 to them he would likewise say Come to my Table come to this banquet partake of my body and blood and to as many as he would say Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting flames to so many would he say go you from my Table come not near Now there are two sorts of people to whom if the Lord Jesus were coming in the clouds to Judgment he would say Depart into everlasting flames and those are these that know not him and obey not the Gospel of Jesus Christ 2 Thes. 1.18 Now to these two sorts of people Christ would say if he were on earth Depart from my Table meddle not with those Mysteries And they are 1. Those that know not God and indeed it is a most unworthy thing for an ignorant man to come to God's Table Know whoever thou art that art such an one ●hat it belongs not to thee it was appointed for an understanding people The Lord invites not fools and block-heads to his Mysteries God will not know them that know not him If thou knowest not what the signs are or the relation of them to the thing signified hast no insight or understanding of the Mysteries Know that it