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A47054	A token of Christian love, in several sober considerations receiving the Holy Sacrament, which in holy Scripture is called, The Supper of the Lord. Most humbly and faithfully presented unto all sorts of Protestants for their comfort in a right receiving of it, and for prevention of those miseries that may follow the receiving of it unworthily. By James Jones citizen of London.	Jones, James, fl. 1683-1684.	1683 (1683)	Wing J960; ESTC R213926	2,811	2

A TOKEN of Christian Love In several Sober Considerations concerning Receiving the Holy Sacrament which in holy Scripture is called The Supper of the Lord. Most humbly and faithfully presented unto all sorts of Protestants for their Comfort in a Right Receiving of it and for prevention of those Miseries that may follow the Receiving of it unworthily By James Jones Citizen of London First COnsider That the Sacrament is a holy Ordinance appointed and instituted by a holy Lord viz. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ at the time of the Passover The same night in which he was betrayed Matth. 26.26 27. 1 Cor. 11.23 Secondly Consider That this holy Ordinance was appointed for a holy People to keep up a holy Remembrance of Christ's Death till he come Thirdly Consider That in the happy Reign of King Edward the Sixth that being the time of a blessed Reformation from Romish Idolatry the Sacrament of the Altar being abolished this holy Ordinance was established throughout this Realm and all other the King's Dominions and Countries see the Statute 1 Edward 6th Chapter the first Paragraph first and 7th Fourthly Consider That the Word of God 1 Cor. 11.28 and also the forecited Statute doth require that every man shall examine himself before he shall partake of the same which doth suppose that they ought to be such as are able to give a true godly Judgmnet of themselves concerning their own fitness Now whether all Persons of the Age of Sixteen years are able thus to do had need be well considered by their Ministers by their Parents and by their Masters Fifthly Consider in Examining of your selves what may be the best Questions in the fear of God to put unto your own Souls and as a Christian help thereunto briefly thus Have I yet got a holy Heart Have I yet got a holy Life and Conversation Are my Sins pardoned Is my Soul purged by the Blood of the Son of God Have I yet got Repentance unto life Have I yet got Faith to the saving of my Soul Is my Soul in perfect hatred of all Sin Do I find spiritual power against all Sin Do I love God sincerely and transcendently Do I yet love the Word of God and all them that love God and his Word Who are the Companions of my delight Are they those that are godly or those that are profane and wicked Have I yet seen my danger of Hell by reason of sin against God in wicked Thoughts in wicked Words viz. Cursing Swearing Lying taking the holy and glorious Name of God in vain Have I yet seen the danger of my poor Soul by reason of wicked Purposes and wicked Practices And have I been yet born again forasmuch as Christ hath said Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God Joh. 3.3 5 8. Heb. 12.14 Without holiness no man shall see the Lord. Sixthly Consider who they are and what kind of People they be that thou art to communicate with whether the godly or ungodly especially seeing wickedness is grown very bold in all our Streets viz. Swearing Cursing Drunkenness Uncleanness Men calling upon God to damn them such unholy Persons are hot fit for this holy Ordinance and if thou art a godly Person thy self then fear and tremble to communicate with such Persons for the godly and the ungodly are not sit Companions in this holy Ordinance 1 Cor. 5 6 7. God's Church ought to purge out the old Leaven that they may be a new Lump ver 13. and put away the wicked Persons from among them O! it is a dreadful thing to have that Word follow a man after Receiving this Ordinance 1 Cor. 11.29 Whosoever eat●th and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself It is better for a mans Soul to have this Word follow him before-hand and Ring in his Ears than to have it Beat Beat upon his poor Conscience afterward Seventhly Consider in thy going to this holy ordinance whether it be from a holy sear of God and from a Principle of love to God or from a slavish fear of Man and sear of suffering some outward Trouble viz. a Fine or Imprisonment which if it were not for those latter things it may be thou wouldest not do it as an act of thy own free choice and then thou wilt be found one that dealest falsly with God and with Man also because neither God nor Man hath thy heast in the business And so because of the fear of Man thou mayest lose God's favour and Man's favour also being deemed no better than an hypocrite Eightly Consider that a little outward Reformation viz. two or three daies before the Communion is not a sufficient Preparation barely to forbear or be more slack in profaneness to make some abatement of thy Cursing Swearing and Drinking this is not enough Ninthly Consider that if thou shouldest be well Reformed before yet if thou shouldest afterward fall into thy old course of wickedness thou wilt be but as those woful Souls mentioned in 2 Pet 2.22 The Dog is turned to his vomit and the Sow that is washed to her wallowing in the mire Tenthly Consider all you that have the Care and Cure of Souls that you be not too easie in admitting and be more careful in not compelling of Persons to this Ordinance lest you be partakers of other mens sins and so break the Word of God and the good Law of the Land therefore consider that word 1 Tim. 5.22 Be not partakers of other mens sins keep thy self pute and let that good Statute be well considered 1 Edward 6. Chap. 1. Paragraph 7 in which there is a charge given to Ministers that besides a godly Exhortation sometime before the Sacrament to prepare the People they must at the very time of Receiving the Sacrament lay before the People the Benefit and Comfort promised to them that worthily Receive the holy Sacrament and the danger and indignation of Almighty God threatned to them which shall presume to Receive the same unworthily to the end that every Man may Try and Examine his own Conscience before he shall Receive the same Eleventhly Consider that if any shall forbear to come to the Sacrament for sear of sinning against God and so wrong their own Souls in it then take heed that your Ministers and Church-wardens do not take up the Trade of Informers and put People of tender Consciences to outward Trouble for Conscience sake forasmuch as poor Souls must be brought to God's holy waies by using God's holy Word and not by outward force Twelfthly Consider that it is a very great unhappiness that the chief times of the Sacrament are times of such great profaneness viz. Easter Whitsuntide and Christmass they being the daies called Holy-daies by reason of People being from their lawful Callings instead of lawful Recreations then is more profaneness more wickedness more serving of the Devil in a few daies than in many other weeks Conclusion Now forasmuch as the poor persecuted Dissenters who are Protestants do highly love and Reverence the holy Sacrament and do make Conscience to Receive it frequently in holy and humble manner and in godly Assemblies let such as put them to Trouble for not Receiving of it at such Places and with such Communicants as are against their Conscience consider whether they can answer such proceedings before Christ Jesus the Judge of quick and dead ADVERTISEMENT I. RAwleigh Redivivus or the Life and Death of the Right Honourable Anthony late Earl of Shaftesbury containing a large and Succinct S●ries of Affairs from his Cradle to his Grave Humbly dedicated to the Protesting Lords By Philanax Misopappas in Octavo Price bound two Shillings II. THE Romish Mass-Book faithfully Translaled into English with Notes and Observations thereupon plainly demonstrating the Idolatry and Blasphemy thereof Containing 1. The Cautelae or Caveats of the Mas● 2. The Canon of the Mass 3. The History of the Mass showing when how and by whom it was patched together c. Price bound one Shilling Both Sold by Thomas Malthus at the Sun in the Poultrey London Printed for Tho. Malthus at the Sun in the Poultrey 1683.