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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04377	Directions for the vvorthy receiuing of the Lords Supper with some few questions to the same purpose. By Robert Iension, Batchelor in Diuinity, and Minister of Gods Word, at New-Castle vpon Tine.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1624 (1624)	STC 14490; ESTC S119429	15,511	55

in grace thus differing from Baptisme which is the Sacrament of our first birth or regeneration as bread therefore is for the sustenance of man and preseruation of naturall life in him so is Christs body and bloud spiritually for the encrease and nourishing of our faith and of Gods graces in vs. For thus in decay of grace we come to get assurance and féeling of it againe Christ is therefore called the bread of life Iohn 6.35.51 herein differing from common bread that it onely preserues life where life is once begun but Christ begins life in vs being set before vs in the preaching of the Gospel called the childrēs bread Mat. 15.26 And he is eaten by faith spiritually Ioh. 6.56 He also continues and preserues life in vs as bread eaten by the same faith sacramentally Consider bread and wine are also for our comfort and to make glad the heart of man Psalm 104.14 15. so also this Sacrament and therefore in our faintings and in our afflictions we are to haue recourse hither this bread being like that meale which Elisha cast into the pot to make the pottage wholesome whereof it was said before death is in the pot 2. Kings 4.40 and 41. When we sée both bread and wine consider that Christ is our perfect Sauiour and Redéemer both bread and water of life vnto vs so that we néed not saluation in whole or in part of any other 4 Consider hence also the necessitie of this Sacrament especially of the thing signified by this bread and wine for as without bread and wine or other moysture we could not possibly liue whereas we may well spare many vnnecessary dainties so without this body and blood of Christ and the merits thereon depending it is impossible for any either to liue the life of grace here or of glory hereafter When we sée the Minister set apart by prayer and consecration these Elements from a common to an holy vse which signifies Gods eternall decrée in sealing Christ to the worke of our redemption and saluation Iohn 6.27 Then further consider and meditate on God the Fathers excéeding great loue Who so loued the world that he gaue his only begotten Sonne Christ to redeeme it Ioh. 3.16 Which loue God setteth forth séeing that first of himselfe vnsought to Secondly he the partie offended should prouide a Sauiour and giue thirdly his onely beloued Sonne for vs Fourthly before we were Fifthly whom he foresaw to be vnable to helpe our selues yea Sixtly to be enemies vnto him Rom. 5.8 Oh wonderfull loue of God! how did Abraham loue God when for his sake he was ready to offer in sacrifice his onely sonne Isaak yet that was his duty God so requiring it How much more doth God loue vs that fréely yea contrary to our deseruings giues to death his onely Sonne Christ one ten thousand times better then Isaack And thinke if God so loued me how ought I to loue him againe how ought I for his sake to part with my dearest and darling sinnes c. When we sée the bread broken and the wine powred out then thinke on the death and passion of Christ and on those intolerable paines which he suffered both in body and also much more in soule not for himselfe but for vs and here also more specially meditate First on Christs speciall Loue to vs who would so willingly become our suretie and pay our debt to God which is death which we were neuer able to haue endured For greater loue then this hath no man when any man bestowes his life on his friends Ioh. 15.13 But Christ is that good shepheard who giueth his life for vs his sheepe Ioh. 10.11 How then must I meditate should this inflame my heart with the loue of this my Sauiour c. And how may I now rest assured that I shall be vndoubtedly saued for if when I was a sinner Christ died for me much more then being now iustified by his blood shal I be saued from wrath throgh him c. Rom. 5.8.9.10 Secondly considering his grieuous suffering and pangs for vs his hands and his féet boared his side pearced with a speare himselfe mocked and now sustaining in soule the wrath of his Father due to our sinnes meditate Didst thou swéet Sauiour suffer such torments for me and shall not I endure an euill word for thée and for the profession of thy Name Diddest thou on the Crosse taste Vineger and Gall for me and shall I liue in pleasure and delicacies faring deliciously euery day and so please my palate with excesse in delicious meates and wines Diddest thou die for me and shall not I die to sinne and thus shew forth in my selfe thy death Yea diddest thou die for me and shall not I be ready to lay downe my life for thy Names sake c. Thirdly consider also the cause of all this his suffering which was not any sinne of his but our sinne 2. Cor. 5.21 and thinke and say Lord when I looke vpon thée whom my sinnes haue pierced how should I lament for thée as one that mourneth for his onely Sonne and bee sorry for thée as one is sorry for his first borne Zach. 12.10 Nay how should I rather mourne for mine owne sinnes and hate them with a deadly hatred whereby I crucifie thée againe so louing a Sauiour my sinnes being the speare that pierced thee and the nailes that lastened thée to the Crosse How weighty are my sinnes and how great the desert thereof which could not be borne by me nor satisfied for by any thing I am able either to doe or suffer but onely by thy precious death and bloud-shed of thée my deare Sauiour and my God blessed for euer Shall I now henceforth account any sinne light or little which deserued such infinite punishment Oh my Sauiour possesse my heart with thy loue teach mee to loue thee perfectly and to hate all sinne which cost thee so deare c. When the Minister representing the person of God the Father comes towards thée to offer and giue to each the signes this Bread and Wine then first meditate and pray and say with the Centurion Lord I am not worthy thou shouldest come vnder my roofe and as Elizabeth said to Mary whence commeth this to me that not the mother of the Lord but the Lord himselfe should come to me Luk. 1.14 And with the blessed Virgin Luk. 1.38 Behold the seruant of the Lord be it vnto thee according to thy word and here secondly assure thy selfe of Gods especiall loue to thée in particular and take these signes as speciall seales and pledges of Gods speciall loue towards thee and here raise vp thy thoughts with this or the like meditation Lord whereas in thy Word thou offerest Christ to all beleeuers though thou namest none now I see thou meanest euen me poore sinner as well as any thou appliest and assurest vnto me thy generall promise as if my name were recorded in thy Word and written in that