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A56679	Mensa mystica; or A discourse concerning the sacrament of the Lords Supper In which the ends of its institution are so manifested; our addresses to it so directed; our behaviour there, and afterward, so composed, that we may not lose the benefits which are to be received by it. By Simon Patrick, D.D. minsiter of Gods Word at Batersea in Surrey.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1667 (1667)	Wing P822A; ESTC R215619	205,852	511

And who may dwell with everlasting Burnings who may abide when he is angry Lest any should say that the Bloud of Jesus shall quench the flames and extinguish these angry heats observe to whom he speaks these words not to men under the Law from the fiery Mount but to those who were come to Mount Sion to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant and to the bloud of sprinkling c. v. 22 24. from whence he concludes these two things First That greater punishment shall be inflicted on Christians than others if they refuse obedience to Christs commands v. 25. Secondly That therefore they should seriously betake themselves to the service of their Lord with reverence and godly fear v. 28 29. Wicked men conclude O we shall escape well enough take you no care Christ hath died and done all for us We need not be so scrupulous since he hath satisfied for our sins But the Apostle makes just the quite contrary conclusion We are come to the Bloud of Jesus c. therefore see that you refuse not him that speaketh c. The Bloud of Jesus speaks better things to those that accept of the Gospel and obey it than the bloud of Abel's sacrifice did but to all that refuse it it speaks more sadly than the bloud that cryed against Cain and for ever shall such men be banished from the face of God The Apostle you see represents our God thus terrible after he had most highly magnified the priviledge of Christians and that will apologize for me who have diverted to this sad discourse when I was treating of the joyfull Feast of Christians But to that I shall now return again VIII Eighthly After all this Let us meditate of the joyes of Heaven of the Eternal Supper of the Lamb and the blessed life that we shall live above For the joyes of the other world are usually expressed among the Jewes by eating and drinking greater plenty of which chear was in their Countrey than any other being a Land flowing with Milk and Honey You may see a footstep of this in the New Testament beside all those in the Old One that sate at meat with our Saviour saith Luke 14.15 Blessed is he that shall eat Bread in the Kingdome of God Which some say was an ordinary saying among the Rabbines This is most certain that there are strange things in their latter Writers concerning the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Garden of Eden or pleasure that is above answerable to that which was below Where they speak of delightfull Rivers of Tables furnished with Leviathan and Behemoth by which it is likely their Doctors first understood some spiritual dainties and under this mythology did hide an excellent meaning but the great impostor Mahomet hath from thence fabricated his carnal bruitish Paradise taking them in a gross and unworthy sense The like they speak of Wine kept from the beginning of the world in a certain place i. e. excellent old Wine of which their Messiah shall first taste together with the Leviathan and then the Just they expect shall be feasted So R. Hai in his Book of the interpretation of Dreams saith that it is a sign of good to see in our sleep white Grapes and the eating of them signifies the possession of eternal life because they shew the Wine that is kept in Grapes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the dayes of the beginning All which I bring for this purpose that you may see they used by eating and drinking to set forth the joyes of Heaven and that you may better understand those words of our Saviour immediately after he had given them this Sacramental Bread and Wine Mat. 26.29 I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the Vint untill that day when I drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdome Which is no more than to say I shall never feast again with you till we meet in Heaven and partake together of those joyes that are figuratively expressed by new Wine In some regard and of some sorts new Wine is the best and in others old is preferred and so sometimes by the one sometimes by the other those eternal pleasures are denoted St. Luke also hath the same sence more fully cap. 22.16 I will not eat any more thereof i. e. of the Passeover untill it be fulfilled in the Kingdome of God i. e. I will not keep with you another solemn Commemoration of Gods mercies though he did eat with them when he rose again but the next festivity that we shall celebrate together must be in Heaven in the very presence of God when the Devil your great enemy shall be overthrown and quite destroyed as Pharaoh was And again v. 18. He saith I will not drink of the fruit of the Vine untill the Kingdome of God shall come Which signifies no more but that he and they should not rejoyce together any more till they came to drink of the Rivers of Gods pleasures From all which we may well collect that the Wine here in the Kingdome of the Son is an embleme of the Wine in the Kingdome of the Father In this world is the Kingdome of Christ in the world to come shall be the Kingdome of God and what is done here is a shadow of what shall be done in a more excellent manner hereafter and therefore this holy Feast should represent unto us those Heavenly delights From this Wine of the Grape we should endeavour to raise our minds to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that which is apprehended by the mind and tasted by the pallate of the soul which flows from God himself We should think that these are but some forecasts of those pleasures that he will hereafter bestow upon us but the Antepasts of the eternal Supper but the Vigils of the everlasting rest and that now we rather fast than feast if we compare these joys with those that are above We should look upon these as assurance of better chear where our appetites shall be satiated and our thirst quenched where we shall see the Lord Jesus in his Glory and feast our eyes with the sight of his beauty yea where we shall be ravished with the sight of God himself and shall drink of the pleasures that stream from the light of his blessed face And after those things in the world to come should we strive to stir up the longings of our soul We should desire to be in Heaven we should thirst after larger draughts to quench our thirst in the Ocean it self and to pass from this dark Glass and this vail of the Sacraments to the clear vision of his brightness For if God do here satisfie his faithfull Servants as with Marrow and fatness much more in the world to come will he replenish and fill them with sweetness and joy it self IX Ninthly And in the conclusion we should give God thanks for these great favours for the hopes of his glory for the tastes which he gives us before-hand for all

tokens of love whereby he would be remembred into a forsaken hole where they shall never be seen But how strangely are we affected to the Reliques that a dying friend commends unto us And how much more should we be moved if a friend should dye for us and should leave us a remembrance that he saved us from death Could we ever let him go out of our minds Should we not be in danger to think upon him over-much Could we endure that the remembrance he left us should be long out of our eye O my soul let us not deal then more unkindly with our blessed Saviour who humbled himself to the death even the death of the Cross that we might not eternally dye Who was made sinne for us that we might be made the righteousness of God through him Sure he never thought when he went to Heaven that we would remember his love so seldome and so coldly Did he think that those whom he loves so much would need so much entreaty to have Communion with him Is it not a grief unto him now if he be capable of any to see that he hath so few Lovers Doth it not trouble him that they who profess love to him testifie it so poorly and rarely Nay rather O my soul he is troubled that we love our selves no better and therefore both for the love of him and the love of our selves let us carefully observe his commands of which this is one Do this in remembrance of me For this is the love of God that we keep his Commandements And this Commandement we have from him that he who loveth God love his Brother also Mensa Mystica SECT IV. The Benefits of Holy Communion CHAP. XVII SUch is the nature of all bodies that the nearer they approach to their proper place and Center the more they accelerate their motion and with the greater speed they run as if they desired to be at their beloved rest from whence they are loath to be removed And such is the temper of all holy hearts when they run towards God the most natural place of their rest the very Center of their quiet and peace the nearer they come to him the faster they move they rather flye than run and use their Wings rather than their feet out of a vehement longing to be embraced by him We cannot but think then that they who draw nigh to God in this near way of Communion and are entertained by him at his own Table do flye up even unto Heaven and get into his very bosome as those that suffer more strong and powerful attractions from his mighty Goodness And there my Discourse may well leave them reposing themselves in his Arms and taking their rest in his love from whence they will not easily endure a divulsion by the force of any other thing But as a stone is unwilling to stir from the rest that it enjoyes in the bosome of the earth so hard will it be to draw such souls by the love of other things from their own Center where they feel so much quiet and tranquillity Such persons I might well leave to tell themselves and others if they can what joy they find in God what sweetness grows on this Tree of Life and what pleasures he hath welcomed them withall at this holy Feast Have you seen the Sun and the Moon in their full stand one against the other Have you beheld a River running with a mighty stream into the Ocean Or can you think that you see the fire falling from Heaven as it did in Elias his time to consume a sacrifice These are but little resemblances of that light wherewith their souls are filled when they look upon him of that fulness of joy wherein they are absorpt when their affections run to him of the testimonies that he gives of his acceptance when they offer themselves to his service And they themselves as I said can best tell into what a Paradise of pleasure he leads them when he comes into his Garden and beholds there all pleasant fruits But yet for the sake of those who are strangers to the Divine Life and are loath to leave their sinnes though it be to have Communion with God I shall labour briefly to declare the benefits of this holy Sacrament that so I may invite them for to lay aside their sinnes and exchange them for better pleasures And I hope I may provoke some to hunger after the House of God and especially after his Table where he seeds the hungry with rare delights where he cures the wounded comforts the weak enlightens the blind revives the dead pardons the sinner and strengthens him against his sinne Where he dignifies our souls and deifies as it were all our faculties where he unites us to himself and joyns us in friendship with our Brethren where he sprinkles our hearts with his Bloud replenisheth them with his Grace refresheth them with his Love encourageth them in his wayes inebriates them with his sweetness and gives them to drink of the Wine of the Kingdome and sowes in them the seed of immortality One would think there should not be a man of ordinary discretion that would refuse to be amended and so much bettered in his condition by conversing with God For you see men tip up the bowels of the earth and torment her to make her confess her Treasures they digg even into the heart of craggy Rocks and take incredible pains for Silver and Gold they will break their sweetest sleep to accomplish an ambitious desire they will spend their Patrimony their Credit their Bodies and their very Souls for a drop of drunken pleasure or carnal delight What is the matter then that men cannot be content to spend a few earnest thoughts to use a little serious diligence for the purchase of the riches of Heaven and Earth for the promises of this life and that which is to come for the glory of God for a Dignity not inferior to Angels for a Sea of delights and pleasures that ravish the heart of God Poor souls they are ignorant sure of the happiness that our Lord calls them unto they imagine there is nothing better than to eat and drink and satiate the body with that which tickleth its senses they are sunk into a sad puddle of filthy imaginations let us see if we can lift up their heads let us try to open their eyes let us endeavour to perswade that there are diviner delights that there is a bread infinitely more delicious and a Cup flowing with far more sweetness than that which the World bewitches and inchants her followers withall Psal 34.8 O come taste and see that the Lord is good as the Psalmist speaks Blessed is the man whom he chuseth Psal 65.4 and causeth to approach unto him that he may dwell in his Courts He shall be satisfied with the goodness of his House even of his holy Temple Many rare things there are which the Gospel presents us withall