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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39521	Questions preparatory to the better, free, and more Christian administration of the Lords Supper by E.F., Esq.	Fisher, Edward, fl. 1627-1655.; Fisher, Edward, fl. 1627-1655. Christian caveat.	1655 (1655)	Wing F1000; ESTC R14629	3,980	10

QUESTIONS PREPARATORY TO The better free and more Christian ADMINISTRATION OF THE Lords Supper Jer. 5. ver 29 30 31. Shall I not visit for these things saith the LORD Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this A wonderfull and horrible thing is committed in the land The Prophets prophesy falsly and the Priests bear rule by their means and my people love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof By E. F. Esq LONDON Printed for Edw Blackmore at the Angel and R. Lowndes at the White-Lyon in S. Pauls Church-yard 1655. Questions preparatory to the better free and more Christian Administration of the Lords Supper WHether this be a good reason Because the Priests under the Law did by GOD's command keep Lepers and uncleane persons out of the Temple a Levit. 13. v. 4. 46. 2 Chron. 26. v. 20. Therefore the Ministers under the Gospel may without Christs command keep and suspend whom they themselves judge unworthy Receivers from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Whether is such judgment of the Ministers infallible and when was it given them And whether is the Institution Function Rule and Authority of Ministers under the Gospel or ought it to be equall or like unto that of the Priests under the Law Whether when Christ by shedding His most precious blood hath utterly abolished and taken away the very Office of Levites Priests and Priesthood it self b Hebr. 7. v. 11 12 18. 8. v. 13. 9. v. 10. it be not deceitfull and unchristian to alleadge the practice of Levites and Jewish Priests as a guide for us under the Gospel And whether St Paul saith true that he that submitteth to a part of the Law is bound to keep the whole Law renounceth the benefits of Chrict and is fallen from grace Galat. 5. v. 2 3 4. Whether the power of binding and loosing was not given to the Church c Matth. 16. v. 18 19. compared with ch 18. v. 17. 18. and not to any particular person or Church-Officer And whether Suspension from the Sacrament be not a branch of that power And if so Then whether it be not a sinfull usurpation and an high presumption for any man under the fictitious Title of Church-Officer of which Title we reade not in the Scripture to take upon him the Churches Authority of binding and loosing Whether this be a good consequence Because the Church of Corinth the Church of Ephesus and other Churches did Excommunicate and cast out of their Churches notorious scandalous Offenders and Hereticks d 1 Cor. 1. v. 2. comp with ch 5. v. 1 3 4 5. Rev. 2. v. 1 2 6. Therefore the Minister may Suspend whom his conscience pleaseth from the Lords Supper Whether in the 1 Corinth 11. v. 28. we should not read thus Let every man examine himself and so let him go to the Minister and know of him whether he be fit to eat of this bread and drink of this cup And if so Then whether the Assembly of Divines ought not to amend this Text Whether if no example or precept of Scripture can be brought for the Ministers power of Suspending from the Sacrament the conscience of that Minister who exerciseth this power be not secretly guided by some other Rule than the Word of GOD And whether the true Rule be not pride profit and an ambitious desire to exercise authority over their Brethren which Christ hath forbidden Matth. 20. v. 25 26. Whether it doth reasonably follow Because GOD's renewing of Circumcision in the time of Joshua e Josh 5. v. 7. which Circumcision had been long before Instituted by GOD himself f Gen 17. v. 10. was no Innovation in the Jewish Church Therefore the bringing in of the Ministers power of Suspension from the Sacrament which power Christ never ordained nor did the Churches of Christ ever approve or practice is no Innovation in the Christian Church Whether in Matth. 7. v 6. Christ spake not those words to the people as well as to his Disciples g Matth 5. v 1 2 7. v. 28 29. and therefore Ye in the Text must be understood as spoken to all Christians And whether those words are not thus to be expounded Give ye not that which is holy unto dogs that is Offer not teach ye not my Gospel unto froward obstinate men who render themselves unworthy of so great salvation Neither cast ye your pearls before swine that is Neither declare ye my precious and glorious Doctrines b Matth. 13. v. 44 35. comp with v. 19. which ye have received unto sottish regardlesse men who delight in their iniquities Lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rent you that is Lest they despise my Doctrines and set themselves to doe you all manner of mischief i Verbis verberibus And if so Then whether such Ministers as limit the word Ye unto themselves only contrary to the expresse Text k Matth. 7. v. 28 29. and by that which is holy and your pearls will have meant the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and by Dogs and Swine unworthy Receivers without Scripture-proofs and even contrary to reason for that Sacrament was not instituted till neer two years after this Exhortation l Compare the time of Christ's Sermon in the Mount with John 6. v. 5. 13. v. 1. be not impudent Wresters of GOD's holy Word false prophets and deluders of the people Whether when three Evangelists recording the Institution of the Lords Supper do most expresly testifie that Christ then sate at Table with his 12. Disciples amongst whom particularly is named Judas Iscariot and that Christ gave the bread and cup to them all and that they all did eat of the bread and drink of the cup Nay when Christ himself saith in the very time and act of celebration Behold the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me at the Table m Matth. 26. v. 20 25 26 27 Mark 14. v. 17 18 22 23. Luke 22. v. 14. 19 20 21. are they not unworthy to be accounted Christs Ministers who shall openly question and deny the truth of Judas his being there and his partaking of the Sacrament Would not such Ministers for their own ends deny the whole Scriptures Whether did not Christ three severall times to His Disciples affirm that one of them should betray him The First was as they were eating the Passeover and is mentioned by S. Matthew and S. Mark when the Disciples one by one said unto Christ LORD is it I Unto which Christ replied in Generall terms He it is that dippeth his hand with Me in the dish * Matth. 26. v. 21 22 23. Mark 14. v. 18 19 ●0 The Second time was as they were celebrating His Supper and is mentioned by S. Luke when the Disciples enquired onely among themselves which of them it was that should doe this thing † Luke 22. v.