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A82006	The great duty of communicating explain'd and enforc'd, the objections against it answer'd, and the necessary preparation for it stated With devotions to be us'd before, at, and after the Lord's Supper. By the author of The duties of the closet.	Dawes, William, Sir, 1671-1724.	1700 (1700)	Wing D455B; ESTC R229669	29,052	50

unfeign'd thanks for thy great mercy in admitting me this day to the sweet and comfortable communion of the Body and Blood of Christ and for all those benefits which I there receiv'd Enable me for the future to live worthy of them to make good all the promises and vows I there made and to continue stedfast in that Repentance Faith and Charity which I there profess'd Marvellous was thy love in sending thy Son to dye for us and particularly great has it been towards me in that it has caus'd me to be born in a Christian Country where I had early and easy opportunities of knowing the Christian Religion and that too in its utmost purity and simplicity and have long been protected and maintain'd in the free and undisturb'd exercise of it Oh that my behaviour may prove answerable to these mercies that I may use all these happy opportunities which many other poor Souls want as one that is truly sensible of the advantage of them that I may grow in Grace and the knowledge of Christ Jesus and abound in every good word and work to the praise and glory of God I know O Lord that if we sin wilfully after that we have receiv'd the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins but a certain looking for of judgment and fiery indignation O let me constantly carry this in my thoughts and seriously reflect upon it that so I may not be of them who draw back unto perdition but of them that believe to the saving of the Soul I pray likewise that all my fellow Christians may sincerely perform that covenant which they have this day made to thee that they may cease to do evil and learn to do well that they may be strong in the faith of Christ and love one another as he hath lov'd them that so thy honour may be effectually promoted the Salvation of all men farther'd thy Sons Kingdom enlarg'd and his coming hastened to the inexpressible comfort and eternal joy of all those who having sincerely obey'd the Gospel of Christ here shall evermore rejoyce in the blessed fruits and rewards of their Obedience in Heaven Grant this O merciful Father for the sake of thy well-beloved Son Christ Jesus to whom with thy self and thy Eternally blessed Spirit three persons but one God be all Honour and Glory Might Majesty and Dominion from this time henceforth and for evermore Amen The End Books Printed for Thomas Speed over against Jonathan's Coffee-House in Exchange Alley in Cornhil 1700. THE Duties of the Closet Being an earnest Exhortation to private Devotion Part 1. the second Edition Price 1 s. 6 d. The Great Duty of Communicating Explain'd and Enforc'd the Objections against it answered and the necessary Preparation for it stated With Devotions to be us'd Before At and After the Lord's Supper By the Author of The Duties of the Closet Price 3 d. but 20 s. a hundred to those who give them away A Sermon Preach'd before the King at White-hall November 5. 1696. On Job Ch. 5. Ver. 12. The second Edition Price 6 d. A Sermon Preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor and Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chappel On Sunday the 11th of April 1697. On Prov. 14. ver 34. Price 6 d. Christianity best propagated by the good lives of Christians A Sermon preach'd before the Gentlemen Educated at Merchant Taylors School at St Mary le Bow January 16 1699. On Matth. 5. ver 16. Price 6 d. These by Sir William Dawes Baronet D. 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THE GREAT Duty of Communicating EXPLAIN'D and ENFORC'D THE Objections against it Answer'd AND THE Necessary Preparation for it Stated WITH DEVOTIONS To be Us'd Before At and After THE Lord's Supper By the Author of The Duties of the Closet LONDON Printed for Thomas Speed over against Jonathan's Coffee-house in Exchange-alley Cornhil 1700. Price 3 d. but 20 s. a hundred to those who give them away TO HIS PARISHIONERS Dear Neighbours IT being my design to settle a monthly Sacrament amongst you beginning from Easter-day now at hand I cannot satisfy my self without endeavouring by all ways in my power to dispose and prepare you for a constant attendance at it For which end I send you this little plain Book which contains the sum of all that is necessary for you to know and all that I have already Preached to you on this Subject And I most earnestly beseech intreat and require you as you will answer it at the Great Day when men must give a strict and severe account how they have us'd those means and opportunities of being acquaint●d with their Duty which have been offer'd to them especially by the hands of their Spiritual Teachers and Pastors to peruse and consider it with the same seriousness and concern for your Souls with which I call God to witness it was written And if it should not reach all your Scruples and answer all your Difficulties I beg of you that you will let me know wherein you shall remain unsatisfied that so I may give you such farther Helps and Directions as shall appear to be needful This as it will show your sincerity and honest desire of coming to the knowledge of the Truth as it is in Christ Jesus so will it likewise be the shortest and surest way of your coming at it it being impossible by Writing or Preaching to give the same exact and speedy resolutions to the doubts and difficulties of particular Persons as by verbal conferences wherein they have the satisfaction of puting their Case and hearing it answered in their own way May it please God of his Great Goodness so to excite direct and bless your Endeavours in this as well as in all Religious Matters that you may adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour in all things and by so doing Glorify God make your calling and election sure and fulfil the joy of Your most Faithful and most Loving Pastor Feb. the 20th 1699. THE GREAT DUTY OF Communicating c. CHAP. I. Of the Nature End and Design of the Lords Supper the benefits which Christians are made partakers of by receiving it and the obligations which they lie under to receive it IN order to a full and clear understanding of the Nature of the Lord's Supper we shall do well seriously and particularly to consider the Account which the Scriptures give us of our blessed Masters Institution of it And this by comparing together Matt. 26. Mark 14. Luke 22. 1 Corinth 11. we shall find in short to be this Our Blessed Saviour when he was eating the Passover with his twelve Apostles the evening before his Passion took Bread and gave thanks or blessed it and brake it and gave it to them saying Take eat This is my Body which is given for you This do in remembrance of me Likewise also the Cup after Supper and when he had given thanks he gave it to them and they all drank of it And he said unto them This is my Blood of the New Testament or the new Testament in my Blood which is shed for you and for many This do in remembrance of me For the better explaining of which words and ascertaining the extent of their Obligation we will distinctly consider these three things First What it is that is here commanded to be done Do this Secondly Who the Persons are that are concern'd to Do this Thirdly The end for which it is to be done in remembrance of me First What it is that is here commanded to be done and this can be nothing else than what our Saviour and his Apostles had been just then doing viz. taking Bread and blessing and breaking it and likewise taking Wine and giving thanks and partaking of and distributing both To this and every part of this action must the words do this necessarily refer because they immediately follow the doing of all this and no part of this is excepted in our Saviours command Those who are to provide and distribute are to provide and distribute both Bread and Wine for so had our Lord done and those who are to receive are to receive both Bread and Wine for so had the Apostles received And therefore the Church of Rome is inexcusable which directly contrary to our Lords Institution gives the Bread only to some Receivers without the Wine Secondly Who the Persons are that are concerned to do this and they are all Christians whatsoever By which I mean First All Successions and Generations of Christians that shall be in the World as long as it shall last For they being all equally concerned in the benefits of our Saviour's Death and Passion must according to reason be supposed to be equally obliged to keep up this Holy Supper in commemoration of them So that if we had had no Direction about this matter in Scripture the reason of the thing it self must then have taken place and that would have made this Supper perpetual But the Scriptures have not been silent in this point but have plainly told us that we are thus to shew the Lords Death till he come That is till his second coming to judge the World Secondly All sorts of Christians the Laity or People as well as the Clergy or Ministers of the Gospel For tho it is pretended by some that because our Lord gave the Bread and Wine only to the Apostles who were all Ministers and not any one Lay Disciple therefore he design'd this Supper only for the Ministers of the Gosspel but not at all for the People yet I think the contrary may very plainly be proved both from reason and Scripture From reason both because it appears most probable that the Apostles in the Institution of this Supper were the representatives of the people and not of the Ministers who were then much better represented by our Great High Priest Christ Jesus and whose Office it is plain he then alone executed and likewise because it is certain that the people who are as much partakers of the benefits of Christ's death as the Ministers have as great reason to commemorate 'em as they From Scripture both because it is evident from thence that the Apostles constantly administred this Supper to the people as to give one Instance for all we read Acts 2.42 where we have no less than three thousand Lay Converts at once receiving this Supper and likewise because we there find St. Paul spending great part of a Chapter in urging and directing the Lay Corinthians how they ought to receive 1 Cor. 11. 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