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lord_n	blood_n	body_n	cup_n	12,251	5	9.5859	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61692	A short discovery of certain truths of God according as they are revealed through the manifestation of the eternal light of the Son of righteousnesse, which are, a reply against two things in an epistle, and, an answer to certain queries contained in a book, intituled Christian queries, to quaking Christians, subscribed by one J.B. : also queries propounded, to be answered by the authour of the same book, or any other / by John Story.	Story, John, d. 1681.	1664 (1664)	Wing S5753; ESTC R4917	25,813	34

that spiritual Feast which is kept amongst the children of God for whom Christ their Passover is sacrificed and by his power they purge out the old leaven and keep this spiritual Feast not with the old leaven neither with the leaven of malice but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth 2 Cor. 5. 7. 8. for the bread of God which comes down from Heaven is that by which they keep this spiritual feast and the flesh and bloud of Christ is this bread which the holy people break and spiritually feed upon and the incomes of his love is that spirituall wine by which he doth wonderfully refresh their souls through which they come to grow into the endlesse life and in which they more abundantly partake of the everlasting consolation that is in Christ Jesus in which they spiritually eat and drink with him and he with them who are his lillies in his heavenly Kingdome And this is a small hint of that spiritual Passeover or feast which was and is kept by the Saints in this glorious Gospel-day through which the night is expelling and the shadowes vanishing away Glory glory be unto the Lord our God for ever But to return this practice of breaking of bread together was continued by the Apostles in the Churches as I. B. hath already instanced Acts 2. 46. And they brake bread from house to house and ate their meat with singleness of heart as is the practice of true Christians at this day and in which they ought to continue to the end that whether they eat they may eat unto the Lord or whether they drink they may do it unto him not making an idol of the creature or any Christian practice be it never so good in it self but may both eye and discern the Lord in all their practices and duties which was that good end for which the Apostle delivered unto the Church of Corinth the thing in question practised by Christ and his Apostles at the Passeover which many did soon abuse if not idolize even in his time for which he often reproved them 1 Cor. 10. 14. 1 Cor. 11. 20. where he saith When ye come together this is not to eat the Lords Supper for in eating every one takes before other his own supper and one is hungry and another drunken and tells them vers 25 26. As often as they break the bread and drink the cup they should do it in remembrance saying they that eat and drink unworthily eat and drink damnation to themselves not discerning the Lords body vers 29. Oh that all drunkards and gluttoners ignorant persons who make an idol of the creature in breaking the bread and drinking the cup unworthily Oh that they would seriously consider and lay these things to heart that they may not henceforth any more break the bread and drink the cup unworthily in the sinfull lust of the flesh the doing of which brings them to be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord in that they eat to and feed the same lusts of the world as was in them which slew him and none can be partakers of the table of the Lord while they thus feed at the table of Devils 1 Cor. 10. 21. But it may be the enemy will tell them it is no such thing for they neither are nor drank that day before they break that bread and drink that cup and call to natural memory with trembling and fear before they practice the thing before mentioned that Christs body was broken for them and his bloud shed for them the which I say all this thou maist do and yet be an idolatrous and unworthy eater in an unholy fear adoring the outward bread and the cup beyond what is meet even as there are too many that look upon it to be more then a sign and worship it as the thing signified and so in ignorance worship the bread and the cup as a God at sometime and at other times using it without that holy fear and remembrance in which Christs body is discerned and the heavenly virtues and fulnesse thereof enjoyed which fills all things and is that glorious and everlasting substance which lives and remains when all created excellencies come to an end and shadows are past away and is that eternal fountain which fills with spiritual grace and satisfaction all that in sincerity love him for ever and for evermore 6. Query Whether Christians are not bound to the performance of such religious duties as were practised by the people of God under the law and not abrogated by the Gospel 1. Whether Christians ought not to pray morning and evening as David very frequently did evening and morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud and he shall hear my voice Psa 55. 17. Or 2. Is it not lawfull for Christians to appoint and set apart a convenient time and season for the performance of religious exercises as did Daniel who not withstanding the Kings command thought himself obliged not to omit his duty once but prayed three times a day Dan. 6. 10 13. Or 3. Are we only to pray when our own spirits move us and not at the motion of Gods Spirit which bids us to pray continually or te be always in a frame and frequent in the duty of prayer 1 Thes 5. 17. Or 4. Whether it be not a duty incumbent upon all Christians to exercise family duties as the people of God in former times did whether parents ought not to instruct their children masters their servants for which God so much commended Abraham because he would command his children his houshold after him Gen. 18. 17 18 19. 5. Whether it be the duty of all Christians frequently to read over confer about the holy Scriptures both in their families with others as the Lord commanded the children of Israel thou shalt teath them diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou lyest down Deut. 6. 7. Nay 6. Whether is it not necessary for all Christians to beg Gods blessing with and return him thanks for every mercy they receive according to the practice of our blessee Saviour who when he fed so many thousands would first look up to heaven for a blessing upon what they enjoyed on earth Mat. 6. 41. And after his Resurrection he practised the same thing amongst his disciples Luke 24. 30. Whose blessed example the Apostle followed taking bread and giving thanks in the presence of them all Acts 27. 35. further recommending it to the practice of others that in every thing they would give thanks as the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning them 1 Thess 5. 18. Answ Christians are bound to the practice of many religious duties which was practised by the people of God under the Law for though the cerimonies types and shadws of the Law or first Covenant are abolished by the Gospel yet the weighty matters are