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lord_n	blood_n	body_n	wine_n	17,076	5	7.8457	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03354	Christs prayer expounded, a Christian directed, and a communicant prepared The first teaching to pray, the second to liue, the third to receiue the sacrament of Christs body. To which is added, a preface of prayer, a pithie prayer for Christian families. A thankes giuing for our deliuerance from treason by gunpowder, and learned Latin verses of that argument. By Robert Hill, preacher at Saint Martins in the fields.	Hill, Robert, d. 1623.	1606 (1606)	STC 13472; ESTC S119055	60,477	208

Morrice sonne to M. Morrice Attourney of the court of Wardes who thinking euer of sodaine death died suddenly in Milforde Lane Sep. 12. 1604. at the age of 23 yeares Twise twelue yeares not fully tolde a wearied breath I haue exchanged for an happy death My course was short the longer is my rest God takes them soonest whom he loueth best For he that 's borne to day and dyes to morrow Looseth some daies of rest but moneths of sorrow VVhy feare we death that cures all sicknesses Author of rest and end of all distresses Other misfortunes often come to grieue vs vs. Death striks but once that stroke doth relieue vs. He that thus thought of death in lifes vncertēty Hath doubtles now a life that brings eternity Liue for to learne that die thou must And after come to iudgement iust A Communicant instructed AT LONDON Printed for William Cotten 1606. A Communicant prepared to the Lordes Table Question MY good auditor after all these instructions concerning praier and pietie are you not desirous to receiue the Lordes supper Answ Yea sir I am desirous with all mine heart if you shal thinke me fit for so holy a banquet Quest What must you doe to bee a fit guest 1. Sam. 16.6 Psal 27. 1. Cor. 21. Ans Samuel bids me to santifie my selfe Dauid bids mee to wash mine hands in innocencie Paul bids mée to examine my selfe and so to eate of that bread and after to drink of that cuppe Quest Howe doe you proue this examination to be néedefull Ans 1. If the Iewes durst not eate the pascall Lambe without it I must not eate of the Lambes Supper without it 2. I must neither pray nor heare Gods word before I sée in what estate I am 3. I come in the best sort I can to the feast of any great man in this world 4. He that came without his wedding garment was examined how hée came thither Math. 22.12 5. If I eate and drinke vnworthily I eate and drinke mine owne damnation 1. Cor. 11.29 Quest What things are required of him that will come a fit guest to the Lords table Ans Thrée things The first what I must doe before I come 2. What I must doe when I am come 3. What I must doe after I haue bin partaker of that holy supper Quest What things are required of you before you come Ans Two things First I am bound to examine my selfe 2. I am bound to pray meditate of diuers things Quest What is examination An. It is a triall of my selfe howe I stand in the grace of God Quest What learne you out of this that a man must examine himselfe before he come to this table An. First that children are not capable of this banquet 2. That ignorant persons must not approach to this table 3. That madde people are not to bee admitted to this feast 4. That such as intend to liue in their sinnes must not dare to approach vnto this communion Quest Wherein stands this examination An. In fiue things 1. I must examine what knowledge I haue 2. What faith I haue 3. What repentance I haue 4. What obedience I haue 5. What loue I beare to my brethren Quest Wherein standes the examination of your knowledge An. In two things 1. What general knowledge I haue 2. What knowledge I haue in particular Quest Wherein consists generall knowledge Ans In three things whereof the 1. is What knowledge I haue of God 2. What knowledge I haue of my selfe 3. What knowledge I haue of the couenant of grace Quest what knowledge must you haue of God Ans I must know him to be such an one as he hath reuealed himselfe in his word to wit one inuisible and indiuisible essence and three truely distinct persons namely the Father begetting the Sonne begotten and the holy ghost procéeding from the father and the sonne Quest Must you knowe nothing els of God Answ Yes I must knowe that hee is creator and gouernour of all things a most wise vnderstander and knower of all thoughts most holy iust and mercifull to his creatures that hee is eternall without either beginning or ende and that he is present in all places Quest What must you know concerning your selfe Ans That by nature I am stained wholly with originall sinne so that my mind is full of blindnes will of frowardnes affections of peruersenes my conscience of guiltines so that therby by I am subiect to the curse of God in life in death and after death Quest What things are you subiect to in life Ans By reason of this sinne in my soule I am subiect to madnes in my body to diseases in my goods to losse 〈◊〉 in my name to reproach Quest What are you subiect to in death Ans To the separation of the soule from the body Quest What are you subiect to after death An. To be tormented for euer with the deuill and his angels and to be cast away from the presence of God Que. What must you know concerning the couenant of grace An. That Christ Iesus hath deliuered me from this misery who béeing very God became man to die for my sinnes and rose againe for my iustification Quest What particular knowledge is required of you An. I must know the nature and vse of this sacrament Quest What then is the Lords Supper An. It is a Sacrament wherein by the vse of bread and wine those that are ingrafted into Christ are nourished to life Quest What learne you out of this definition An. 1. That he cannot eate the Lords body who is not of the Lords body 2. That a man must come withall cheerefulnesse to this banquet and not to feare it as a man would doe poyson Quest Tell me now what is the outward matter of this sacrament An. Bread and wine by which are signified Christs bodie crucified and his blood powred out Quest Is not the bread wine turned into the body blood of Christ Ans No for these reasons 1. Christ instituted this supper before he was crucified 2. Then he must haue giuen his dead bodie with his liuing hands 3. The bread after consecration 〈◊〉 distributed into partes but the whole body of Christ is receiued of euery seuerall communicant 4. The bread is the communion o● Christs body and therefore not the very body 5. This were to make the body o● Christ of bakers bread 6. The bread and wine will corrupt being kept after consecration 7. We sée and taste onely bread and wine 8. Else the wicked should eate Christs body and so must haue eternall life 9. This takes away the nature of a sacrament wherein there must be a signe and the thing signified 10. It destroyes the nature of Christs body making it aliue dead in hea●uen vpon earth glorified vilified and in many places at one time Quest But yet may not this be done by a miracle An. Priests haue no promise to worke miracles nowe a daies and

vnder the burden of them make vs good god displeased with our selues because by sin wee haue dishonored thy maiesty Stir vp our dead dul harts that we may hunger after Christ his righteousnesse and after euery drop of his precious bloud In that son of thine looke on vs thy seruants and for his merits righteousnes vouchsafe good God mercifullie and freelie to doe awaye all our offenses Wash them away in his bloud and by the puritie of his spirite clense our hearts from the pollution and impuritie of them all say vnto our soules thou art our saluation let thy spirite in our hearts crie Abba Father Teach vs O Lord thy way and we shall walk in thy trueth O knit our hearts vnto thee that we may feare thy name And because through corruption in our harts and sin in our liues our faith is feeble and our confidence small we do humbly beseech thee to strengthen our faith by the daily meditation and particular application of thy mercifull promises made vnto vs in thy son Christ that neither in the dangers of this world nor the trobles of conscience nor in the hour of death wee may fall from thee Gratious father expell out of our hearts all carnall confidence the vnderminer of our faith teach vs in the spirit of tru humility to deny our selues to rely only vpon thee the merit of christ in the mater of our saluation And because it is not enough to com vnto thee by praier to sue vnto thee for pardon but al that ar in christ must be new creatures therfore we cal vpon thee for the spirit of regeneration mortify therby the corruptions of our flesh quicken vs thereby in the inner mā By the powr of Christs deth let vs dy vnto sin by the power of his resurrectiō let vs rise to righteousnes newnes of life let the one as a corrosiue eat vp the dead flesh of vngodlines the other as a spur stir vs vp to holines Illuminatour minds that we may know thy will giue vs spiritual vnderstāding to discern good euil Sanctify our memories to tresure vp good things purify our consciences to haue peace in thee reform our wils to doe thy wil let al our affections be ordered aright Teach vs to fear thee continually whersoeuer we ar to neglect al things in regard of christ to loue thee our brethren for thy sake to be zealus of thy glory to be greeued at our other sins ioyful when we cāpleas thee Let our bodies the instruments of sin be euer heerafter clensed by thy spirit that they may bee temples for that spirit to dwel in keepe our eies from beholding vanitie our eares from harkning to variety our mouths frō speking blasphemy our hands frō committing of iniquity our bodies from the action of adultery Let our light so shine before mē that they seeing our good works may glorify thee our heauenly father Make vs to remember that as we are sons wee must depend vpon thee as we ar seruants wee must obey thee and as we are christians we ought to walk worthy of our vocatiō and calling And because we haue al som particular calling either of rule or seruice or trust or fauor make vs from the highest to the lowest Faithful in our callings to remēber that a day wil come in which we must giue an accompte vnto thee of all our actions doon in this flesh whether they be good or euill Take away from vs all oportunity of sinning make vs euer thankful that we liue so as wee want allurementes to many sinnes Cause vs to see how deformed sin is in it selfe to what confusiō it is like to bring vs Lord make vs to fly the very occasiōs of sin to resist the beginnings of al tēptation let not a night pas ouer our heads in which we examin not howe wee haue spent the day neuer let vs come into any company wherin we may not not doe or receiue som good Keep vs that we fashiō not ourselues to this world but rather imitate the fashion of the moste godly in our callings Let vs neuer count any sin to be a little one because that our sauior died for the least And because we liue in dangerous times wherin many ar withdrawne from the profession of thy trueth Lord giue vs harts neuer to entertain any such doctrine which cannot be warranted out of thy word nor to admit of any such teachers as goe about to withdraw vs frō obedience to our gouernors if any one fal into any sin let vs restore such an one with the spirit of meeknes cōsidering our selues that we also may be tempted We further acknowledge most gracious God that our life is a war-fare vpon earth our enemies are sinn Satan the flesh Lord helpe vs in this spitituall combat are we weak be thou strong ar we tempted with the tēptation giue an issue may we be ouercom tech vs to watch ouer our own harts waies is there any one ●…une which we are weak to resist in the act of temptation giue vs power to resist it that by this means we may haue as iust cause to praise thee in our cōquests as we haue many reasons to hūble our selues in our foyles We see also most all seeing God that none cā liue godly in this world but they must suffer persecutions either Ismaell wil reuile them with a reproachful tongue or Esau wil pursue them with a blody sword what now must we do in these days of trial whether shal we come for helpe but to thee To thee therfore must wee come O Lord our god crauing wisdom to forsee prouidence to preuent patience to beare harts to be prepared for this fierytrial that by the denial of our selues distasting the worlde liking of heauen and heauenly things wee may make a good vse euen of the least affliction Confound in euery on of vs the cursed workes of the diuel Increase in vs dayly the giftes of thy spirit Fit vs for such calings in which thou hast or wilt place vs make vs to referre the strength of our bodies the giftes of our minde our credit in this world what so euer grace thou hast alredy or wilt hereafter bestow vpon vs to the glorye of thy name the good of thy church the eternal saluacion of our own souls And howe soeuer we liue heer in this Babilon of the world lord let our conuersation be euer in heauē that whether we eat or drink or what soeuer we do else wee may heare alwayes this voice soūding in our eares arise you dead come vnto iudgment Many other things haue we to beg for our selus that our ignorāce knoweth not to aske or forgetfulnes remēbers not to ask hear vs for thē in thy beloued son And giue vs leaue now good god to pray to thee for others Ther ar no christiā peple at