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A54286 A discourse concerning the worship of God towards the holy table or altar Penton, Stephen, 1639-1706. 1682 (1682) Wing P1438; ESTC R31106 36,950 124

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washed from the pollutions thereof with water so in our second or new birth they that were born into the Church and made Members of the same were washed from the pollutions of their Sins by the Sanctifying of the Holy Spirit who in Holy Scripture is frequently Signified under the name of Water John 7.38 39. Now though our blessed Saviours death and blood-shed be the ground of that Sacrament yet it is not his Blood that is represented by the water but the Sanctifying of the Holy Spirit whence our Saviour said to Nicodemus Vnlhss a man be born again of Water and of the Spirit c Besides Baptisme is the Sacrament of our Initiation the Lords Supper of our Conformation Baptisme might be Administred to Infants the Lords Supper only to men of Ripe years By Baptisme we have only the beginning of our Spiritual Life by the Lords Supper we have our Conservation in it and Continual food and nourishment This is the Commemoration Representation Exhibition and Application of that one most perfect Sacrifice of our Lord once offered upon the Cross So that upon this Table is prepared God's Heavenly Banquet for our Souls our Manna the Bread of Life in Comparison whereof all Earthly Feasts and Dainties are but poor Course and despicable From hence we drink the Cup of Salvation and Heavenly Benediction yea we eat and drink the very Body and Blood of our Saviour in a Mistery Whence the Antient Fathers are wont to call them Reverend and Dreadful Mysteries the Viands of Immortality the earnest of our Inheritance and the place in Reference thereto The Holy Altar the Sacred Table the Seat and Throne and Chair of Estate of our Lord Christ Jesus Thus I hope I have proved this Table to be the Highest and most Honourable part of the Church and therefore the fittest towards which our Devotions to God should be tendred Now I shall prove it to be Consonant to Scripture and approved by the Constant practice of the Saints in all Ages Perhaps you expect some place of Scripture containing this Proposition in express terms But this Demand were unreasonable For if we should believe no more than what we have express words of Scripture for in the New-Testament Then we shall be never able to prove our Baptizing of Infants The Analogy of the H. T. a Rule in many things or our substituting the Lords day in place of the Jewish Sabbath which are two points of main Consequence and yet we have no Rule given expresly concerning them in the New-Testament Nor was it needful for in such things where God hath not given or prescribed to us any new Rule to guide us In Tithes he hath refered us to the Analogy of the Old This the Apostle teacheth us where he proves the due of the Ministers miantainance under the Gospel from the Analogy of the Old Law Do ye not know that they that Minister about Holy things live of the Holy things of the Temple 1 Cor 9.13 and they that waitat the Altar are Partakers of the Altar even so hath the Lord Ordained that they that preach the Gospel would live of the Gospel But where hath God Ordained that but in the Old Law whence the Apostle proveth this for what need God give a new Commandment concerning Tithes in the New-Testament while the Reason and Ground of the Commandement first given doth as much concern us as them It was reason that they who waited at the Altar should live of it It is as much reason that they who Preach the Gospel should live by it God hath reserved to himself the Tithes to bestow upon his Ministers in the Old-Testament for their maintainance and it was not needful he should give any new Command for Tithes under the Gospel seeing he never abolish't them that he hath not abolish't them is plain because he hath not abolish't the cause for which he did at first Ordain them viz the mainitainance of his Ministers as the Apostle here shews Thus you see the folly of those that will admit of no proofs out of the Old-Testament for any thing even there where is the same ground and reason which the Apostle confutes here by his own practice and by citing a place out of Deuterinomy 25.4 Thou shalt not muzzel the mouth of the Oxe which treadeth out the Corn. which saith the Apostle God spake altogether for our sakes that are Ministers of the Gospel And whence arose the Auncient practise of the Church in Baptising Infants I Pedo Baptiand the Lords day but from the Analogy of Circumcision or the Hallowing of every first day in the week as one in seven but from the Analogy of the Jewish Sabath By the same reason it was not necessary for God or Christ in the Gospel to give us any new rule for the manner of our worship of him in his house Euseb line 3. line 14 Ir. line line 3. line 3. or to specify the place towards which we should Adore him in express words having therein left us to the Analogy of the Old Law there being the same reason to tye us to worship God towards this place that there was to tye the Jews to worship him towards the Altar I might alledge to this purpose a place out of Clemens a man of the Apostolique age and whose name saith St. Paul was written in the Book of Life in his true and genuine Epistle to the Corinthians We p. 52. where he saith ought to do all things rightly and orderly which our Lord hath Commanded us to Celebrate our oblations and Lyturgyes at appointed times for he would not have these things done rashly and out of order but at set times and hours He hath likewise defined by his most High will where and by whom he would have these things performed But where I pray do we find any of these things Specified by God unless he hath left us to the Analogy of the Old-Testament For the only reason that moved the Jews to worship toward the Ark was the Memorial of his Name that is The same Reason ties us to wor●ship God towards the Altar that tied the Jews to worship towards the Ark. of his Special presence The whole Temple was the Place of Gods Special Presence but the Ark was as it were his Front or Face where he did most chiefly testify his Presence Simil. as the whole Chamber where the King manifests himself to his Subjects is called the Presence Chamber but the Chair of Estate doth most principally represent the Kings Person But first I will shew that places in the Old Testament set a part for Gods Worship were places set a part for the Memorial of his Name and therefore Sacred and also that God did promise a special Exhibition of his presence and blessings in those places This I prove out of Exod. 20.24 where God after the promulgation of the Decalogue forbidding the People by Moses to make with him gods of Silver