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Mensalia sacra, or, Meditations on the Lord's Supper wherein the nature of the holy sacrament is explain'd and the most weighty cases of conscience about it are resolv'd / by the reverend Mr. Francis Crow, late minister of the Gospel at Clare in Suffolk ; to which is prefixt a brief account of the author's life and death.
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Crow, Francis, d. 1692.
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119.60 as all spiritual purposes are to be manag'd but yet leâ it be done with greatest seriousness and fulness of consent it being a bargain never to be broken a covenant never to be forgotten and doing a thing never to be undone again If the desires after Christ you make this Covenant with be true they will make worldly desires in a good measure dye and run low Sometimes you desire a thing so that all other things are so little they scarce come into your thoughts for that same thing you love so âuch Such a desire had Christ to redeem us that even Sufferings were desirable in order to its accomplishment I have a baptism to be baptized with and how am I straitned till it be accomplished 13 âo seal our covenant are we come even that Câvenant he maâe with his Christ the everlasting Covenant the sure and ordâred Covenant wherein lies all our salvation hereafter and all our consolation here O let our hearts be carried out according to the loving kindness of the Lord shewed in it Consider all the mercies of this Covenant and labour to taste in every one of them that the Lord is gracious This is the Salt of the Covenant without which our Morâel will be unsavoury There is something in the Covenant better than Salvation better than Heaven and that is the Lord our Righteousness and Jehovah our God He is not ashamed to be called our God let not us be a shame but a praise to him To have him for your God is to have all in God for your good and O then let all that is in you be for God Christ is here sending us by the hands of his Commissionated Officers the Cluster of Grapes as the first fruits of the Land of promise and commanding you to take and eat the Bread of Life He is reaching unto the thirsty Soul the fruit of the Vine turning it Sacramentally into his Blood bidding you drink it in remembrance of him till he come and feasting you with his fullest Love and satisfying you with the pleasure and presence of his glory Great and glorious things are soând here under the plainest dress that the eye of faith may be most exercised The glory of their Ordinances under the Law was a stumbling block to them for they rested in the Cabbinet and over-looked the Jewels The meanness of our Ordinances are so to us for we look not for the Treasure in earthen Vessels The Types were rich and our Memorials poor they had finer Spectacles we better Eyes If their Tree had more shadow ours hath more fruit Christ in commanding us to do this in remembrance of him builds a Monument of himself before he dies plain and simple to the eye but firm and lasting to continue till he come again and all that is said of him in the Gospel is here to be seen in this Sacrament Here may we see him dying and paying our Ransom the Lamb of God lying bound on the Altar heated with his Father's wrath On the Table we have a fair prospect of the Cross with the sacrifice of the Son of God set before us And let us say Lord if thou remember our sins we will remember thy Christ For in remembring his death we must by all means mind that as our sins slew him so his death conquers sin and expiates guilt and this is the food of the sacrifice that our souls must live upon And if this be rightly apprehended you see the great benefit by Christ here represented confirmed and participated And it 's easy to perceive how far they forsake their own mercies that for the sake of sin come not up to the terms of the covenant Iâ ye think good give me my price it not forbear Any that come hither thinking to âold âast their sins receive not Christ in the âacrament but Satan receiâes them as he did Juâas after he had received the Sop Such be all these who come not hither to repent of sin but to câver it 14. When we look into our Bibles we fând the Death and sufferings of Christ represented here a far greater matter than many make of it bearing so great a part in the âcriptures and making so great a figure there âor we find the sufferings and satisfaction of Christ the chief thing manifested by the Spirit of God to the Prophets together with the Glory that should follow thereupon to him and his redeemed ones 1 Pet. 1.11 which shews us their prime study was taken up in this And this was likewise the end of all the discoveries of sin and threatnings of God's wrath in the Law even to point out the necessiây of his sâtisfaction Rom. 10 4. And lastly the very substance and signâââââm of all Typeâ aâd sâcrâfices was but to point out the sufferingâ of Christ and the glorious effects thereof Heâ 20.1 Now no hing we hear of his Sâffârings in the World or see thereof in Sacraments makes any saving impression upân us till thereby siâ bâcomes exceeding siâfâl and Christ exceeding prâcious among the many things we have seen in the World and works we have done whân shall we begin to see sin in its own colourâ viz. To sâe it the only thing that breâks the Law and so dishonoureth the Law giver Crucified Christ Grieves the Spirit gratifies Sââan debaseth human nature dâstracts the world and damos Souls And yet for all this men cannot hatâ sân becaâsâ it 's oâr âo k Hel 4.10 O monstrouâ sinful sâlfishâess that fâr all the inconceivablâ evâl in sin yet cannot hate it because it 's ours whân âo tâât we should hate it more than all thâ ãâ¦ã the whole woâld Now this due sense of Sân ãâ¦ã exâlt Christ and make him âââââous who is the âââha and Omega ân the busâââss of Relâgiân without him you cân do nothing and lok for nothing It'â by hâs âtreâgâh ãâã muât wââk and by his Righteousâess you muât be âccâpted Isa 45.24 For indeed we cannot for sin âhink of any mercy till God turn our eye on Christ in whom he is gâacious And the end of all we see Christ to be for âs is to oblige us to love and obedience We have new representations of the favour of God and grace of Christ daily in these Ordinances that our obedience may be new our hearts and livâs ââlarged and consecrated to the service of such a Saviour who hath Redeemed us with the blood we come here to commemorate Iâ Faith âake these things real to our minds we shall be affected now and reformed hereafter If unbelief reign and we abide under its Power we shall be dead still and worldly as we were But look to him for a share of Heavenly Grace to âxcâte our minds aâd thoughts to a Holy Zeâl and higher âctings than we are usually acquainted with in the lower regions of our converse 15. Having given up our names to Christ in Covenant we are obliged often to renew it to shew the âââcâritâ of our heart