Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	life_n	sacrament_n	tree_n	1,539	5	9.0601	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86500	The mischeife of mixt communions, fully discussed. All maine arguments on both sides, are largely canvased. Many difficulties demonstratively cleared, as that Judas was not at the Lords Supper, &c. When, and how was the originall of parishes in England. Severall cases of conscience resolved. As in case unworthy ones thrust into the Lords Supper; what single Christians should doe, and what the congregation should doe. A discovery what is the originall, and rise of all these disputes, and how a faire end may be put to all. / By Doctor Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2569A; Thomason E607_8; ESTC R205868	24,915	24

THEE leave there thy gift before the Altar and goe thy way first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift Mark the reason following Vers 24. Least he deale with thee and thou be cast out Surely the New Testament worshipp is as purely to be kept as the Mosaicall And if we must be carefull when we goe to offer to God that the minde of our Brother be cleer and quiet towards us we must also be carefull that our consciences troubled at the sins of our brother which we have against him may be discharged and thereby quieted afore we communicate with him 3. Obs That this Let a man examine c. is spoken to Church-members in Corinth that were Saints and fit matter for a Church that they might receive in a due manner and were not men of evill lives habitually Ad to all that of our Saviour so often repeated Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy SELFE A mans neighbour is a kinde of selfe Obj. 4 4. They object My neighbours sin is not mine and therefore his sin is upon himselfe not on me if I come prepared to the Communion Answ 1. We have shewed but now thou dost not come prepared if thou lettest thy Brother alone in his sinn 2. Though his personal sin of drunkennesse swearing c. is not communicated to thee by a transmigration of that evil quality in him into thy soule to make thee a drunkard or swearer too like to him yet it becomes the Congregational and Partnership or accessory sin of thee and the Church if thou and they let him alone to goe on in his sin and the meane while admit him without controll to the Communion When Adam had disobediently eaten of the tree of knowledg of good and evill God would not let him eate of the Sacrament of the tree of life but thrust Adam out of Paradise Adam and Eve both must be soundly schooled unto repentance afore they shall have any Sacrament allowed them or types of sacrifices importing the same thing And so in the New Testament the Church of Corinth must cast out the incestuous person and must not eate with an inordinate brother so long as unreformed because mark the reason to the point in hand if they do they all the whole lump is levened and soured His sin became the sin some how of the rest of the Communicants If a member of a Corporation or Company be unjust contrary to the Lawes of that Corporation or Company though they doe not the same injustice yet t is their injustice not to punish that member 3. Thou that lettest thy brother alone in his sin dost contract a particular sin to thy selfe namely the sin of hating thy Brother Levit. 19.17 Thou shalt not HATE thy Brother IN THINE HEART Thou shalt IN ANY WISE rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him 1. Thou dost hate him in not loving him so as to reprove him So this Text makes that love and hate immediate contraries 2. He growing bad if thou be good thou canst not but hate him in his evill way and this hate is because thou dost suffer his sin upon him as t is plain also in the Text. 3. Hereupon secretly thou dost hate him and so as to vilifie him behinde his back as the phrase In thine heart signifies as Gen. 37.41 Esau sayd in his heart that is in secret and all because thou hast not done thy duty in reproving him 4. Giving consent to receive into a Church office or into the Church as a member such as are unworthy if but through rashnesse and suddennesse of admission before thorough means and tryals be used to know such is a partaking of their sins that are so admitted 1 Tim. 5.20 21 22. Them that sin rebuke c. I charge thee observe these c. Without preferring one afore another Lay hands SUDDENLY on no man neither be partakers of other mens sins The Prophet Ezekiel chargeth on them that doe not reprove their Brother more then sin namely judgement also Ezek. 3.20 When a RIGHTEOUS man doth turne from his RIGHTEOUSNES and commit iniquity c. he shall dye because thou hast not given him warning he shall dye in his sin c. but his blood will I require at thy hands You heard afore rebuking is injoyned People as well as Ministers Obj. 5. Ob. The theefe repented at last and an evill liver in his now comming to the Communion signifies for ought I know that he doth repent Ans 1. The theefe doth not repent by comming to an Ordinance of God therefore this Objection is impertinently urged 2. He is now under an heavy judgement of God which usually more workes on the wicked then single Ordinances therefore this Objection doth not suite with the point in hand 3. Here is God making known to us that the theefe repented at last yea the gracious words and confessions of the theefe of his sin and his justifying of Christ shew as much But the dumb comming of a wicked man to the Communion doth no more shew that he repents then Judas his comming to the last to Christs Sermons and Passover did shew that he repented of his covetous and trayterous heart 3. By this Objection we should stil conceive a wicked man to repent at every Communion though between Communions he lives wickedly all his life long and so never any Church discipline should be executed upon him but Christs discipline be layd aside and never used 4. This of the theefe is but an example which is an inartificial and insufficient argument and t is but one example of that kinde from the beginning of the world never the like to be again as there was to be but one Christ and to suffer but once on the Crosse and that once to shew his power in that his lowest humiliation to forgive the theefe on the Crosse 5. But we have an evident rule to goe by set down for us by Christ how to deale with one that goes on in his sins and not for us to goe by guess that when he comes to an Ordinance a Communion c. he then repents The rule is Matth. 18.15 If thy brother shall trespasse against thee goe and tell him his fault between thee and him ALONE if he shall hear thee thou hast GAINED THY BROTHER see by this an hearing to obey and reforme is here meant If he will not heare thee Greek to neglect what he heares take with thee one or two more that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established And if he shall neglect to heare them the same Greek word still tell it unto the Church But if he neglect to heare the Church the same Greek word let him be unto thee an Heathen or Publican See a man that walkes disorderly is not to be trusted for ought this Text allows not one time after any one sees his sin but that one Brother or Sister must goe tel him of