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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	believe_v	faith_n	implicit_a	1,688	5	13.6300	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92310	The receiver undeceived, or, An Answer to the author of a late sheet entituled Of receiving the Communion in the company of such, whom we conceive not so good, holy, and rightly principled, as we wish they were with an appendix for this proposition, Vngodly persons ought not to be admitted to the Holy Supper / by Sionophilus Ecthrobabylonicus.	Ecthrobabylonicus, Sionophilus.	1651 (1651)	Wing R626; ESTC R42553	10,908	16

make the Application POS. IIII To communicate with unworthy receivours is not held forth 1 Cor. 11.29 30 to us to be any cause of temporall much lesse eternall judgement to those that are worthy though cōmunicating with them Suppose it be not there might not divine indulgence be the reason of it as well as what you ayme at Or it is not there held forth as a ground of any judgement but it may be else where I wonder how you would expound that place of Numb 16.26 and that too Revel 18.4 Be not pertakers of her sinnes that ye receive not of her plagues Num. 16.26 Rev. 18.4 But to passe that by We know the whole church was not onely * 1 Cor. 5. elsewhere blamed about their countenance to and continuance of that scandalous person in their fellwship but in this very chapter also for the same disorder whereof wee speake v. 17.22 31. POS. V Your 5 doth quite forget it selfe yet we must remēber to say something to it for the Readers sake It begins In the Ordinance of Lords and Commons c. We know they did make many but no doubt you meane that of suspending ignorant and scandelous from the supper By this againe observe good Reader as above we noted whom our Author in this worke doth vindicate viz. Ignorant and scandalous persons against whom that Ordinance was provided But Sir let us consult the Ordinances of Jesus Christ the Lord of Lords and Commons and submit to theirs as they agree to his Otherwise 't is better to obey God then men Act. 5. Whereas you after speake of some godly livers that can give little or no account of his faith almost in words You do but well to speake for him that can say nothing for himselfe And trust me when I meet that dumbe beleever he may expect my my good word also Onely 't is pitty the Apostle Peter should forget him when he bids us all be ready to for to give a reason of our Hope And for your charity that perswades you had he not a good measure of Christian faith and knowledge in his heart he would not shew so much in life You may remember All 's not gold that glisters Alas Sir that you should be ignorant that other principles beside Christian faith knowledge may serve to moralize men in their lives What was it that made Paul so blamelesse whilst a Pharisee And very Heathens famous as to this unto posterity Ps● i. 3. I trow not Christian faith and knowledge POS. VI Your 6. hath so farre lost it's way that I professe I know not where to find it Nor do I thinke a hue and cry could meet the meaning of it You tell us what Queen Elizabeth said about these words This is my body Christ tooke the bread and brake it He was the Word that spake it And what that Word did make it I do receive and take it I hope you would not give lift to set up bankrupt transubstantiation once againe in England And for your descant on it All controversies are best shut up with such short resolutioni as this is I must confesse this were a short if safe dispatch But sure such remedy is worse then the malady I thinke for all the papist● that ignorance is still the mother of Error not Devotion Once it was certaine that * Hos 4.6 people perished for lack of knowledge Nor fared they beter that worshipped they knew not what Joh. 4. And yet shall wee believe we can't tell what and practise what we can't believe It is enough Implicit faith it seemes hath faster friends then all men find POS. VII Your last is mainly an Apologie for the Parliaments good opinion of you notwithstanding this your undertakement whether to serve the times or other ends it is no matter I for my part will promise not to speake a word against you in it Only I must take notice how you say nothing was defective in your former way as preceptively to worthy receiving necessary And yet in your whole sheet you have not one position or any portiō groūded on a precept Perhaps you have a charter that examples barely may serve to raise your buildings up but precepts only raze them down Howere I doubt not but the Reader sees by this time though you make the best on 't by setting a good face upon the businesse that you are poorely provided of that kind of furniture likewise So that had not the Magistrates sword stuck closer then Gods Word unto your former way it would have tumbled long agoe And lastly for that monument your lines erect upon the antient Rules Rubricks in English common ●●●●er and all it's appurtenancs you doe but keep the antient rule Nothing but well of the dead And let them rest r●tt for me at quiet in theyr graves for ever Thus Reader as I hope I have done the truth and thy selfe too right nor any wrong unto the Author Now with thy leave to prevent a vacuum I l'e take my turne to stuffe this paper up by way of Essay in asserting some thing of mine owne opinson as well as hither to in answering of an others Vngodly persons ought not to be admitted to the holy supper The termes are cleare to those that will not cavill And I hope anon the proposition shall to such as arn't on purpose sett against it PRECEPT I 1. T is against the meaning of Christs mandate at the institution Mat. 26. Mar 14. Luc. 22.19 Take i. Ye and shed for Your given for You i disciples godly or believers not others for what hast thou to doe to take my Covenant into thy mouth c. repeated 1 Cor. 12.11 broken for You. still restrained to Saints as 1 Cor. 1.2 Clearly explained 1 Cor. 5. with such not to eat whereon Pareus * Si convict is prophano cum talibus interdititur quanto magis convictu sacro● Par. in 1. Cor. 5.11 If that meere civill how much more sacred tabling is for bad with such 〈◊〉 ungodly though at large professors PRACTISE 2 2 'T is against the approved custome of the primitive purer times * Infractione Eucharistiae Syr. Interp. Acts 2.42 46. 20.7 believers 2 PRACTISE and none other spoken of Whether ungodly were admitted to the communion with the faithfull then may soon be seene Rom 1.6 7. called to be Saints there 's of that church The like the 1 Cor. 1.2 Eph. 1.1 Col. 1.2 Phil. 1.1 c. Surely they were not there de jure 2 Cor. 6.14 Be not unequally yoked with unbeleevers see v. 15.16 17. not in breaking bread at least And now me thinkes Christs precept and the Christans practise agreeing with it should gaine on tender hearts to be accounted full of duty free from danger that beaten roade much better then by pathes that hav● 〈◊〉 ●rod at first at best but by a sinfull man if not the man of 〈◊〉 REASON 3 And yet good reasons may be farther added A few I le intimate thy selfe enlarge them 1 Christs Order in his Ordinances would be inverted by it his word should be received before this Seale applyed T were vaine to Seale a blanke That 's for * James 1. begetting this encreasing grace Men first must live before they eat grow 2 It would pervert the end of this perticularly Breefly on Gods part First to (a) Signe represent Christs death and benefits 2ly to (b) Seale ratisie our soules communion with him and (c) 1 Cor. 10. one another in them How sutes this with ungodly men Againe mans acts are answerable First (d) 1 Cor. 11. commemoration of the benefits Secondly (e) Jer. 31.33 1 Cor. 15.31 Rom 6.3 obligation to obedience Who sees not these peculiar to believers 3 They ought not where a Church is gathering to be received into fellowship or if there to be rejected 2 Cor. 6.15 Matt. 18 17● 1 Cor. 5 without repentance 4 They have no right unto the thing How then unto the Signe They are open enimles unto Christ and shou● sit at table with him 5 The ●●presence is of danger to the Church approvin● A little da●●en leaveneth the whole lumpe spoken of the perso●●● 6. They eat and drinke damnation to themselves 1 C●● 11. 5. And then what cause have all ungodly ignorant and unbelievers to tremble in approaching to Christ's tables Since the which prosit Saints there ● Cor. 11. poysons them These have they death procured by what they have theyr life preserved And doth it not concerne the godly too in prudence to themselves in pitty unto them but most in piety towards Christ to preserve his worship pure theyr soules from perishing them selves to from pollution by forbearing such communion with ungodly persons Christ's Stewards specially to have a care of casting Pearles to swine Childrens bread to dogs which proves not bread but stone not fish but serpent unto such rese●●● And lastly 〈◊〉 ●oke unto the Lawe and testimony to be theyr guide in all theyr goings Es ● And as many as walke according to this Rule peace be unto them and mercy and upon the Israell of God Gal. 6.16 FINIS PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY