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A51995 The purity of Gospel communion, or, Grounds and reasons for separation from persons of corrupt manners, or that hold erroneous doctrine in matters of faith essential to salvation, or that are guilty of false worship, or irregular administration of Gospel ordinances briefly discussed to prevent the increase of sin and disorder by a mixed communion in church fellowship / by Isaac Marlow. Marlow, Isaac. 1694 (1694) Wing M694; ESTC R18243 42,542 83

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the upright There God has said he meets his people that remember him in his ways and Christ has much intailed his gracious presence on the faithful obedience of his Saints He that hath my Commandments Joh. 14.21 and keepeth them he it is that loveth we And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and will manifest my self to him If a man love me he will keep my words And my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him And therefore the more obedient a Soul is the more of Christs fulness he shall receive John 1.16 and Grace for Grace But 2. If thou standest off from Church-Communion because thou thinkest thy self unworthy of it or unmeet for it or till thou hast a special inspiration to thrust thee forth in thy duty my Answer is that in this snare I was intangled my self for divers years but at last I was satisfied in my Conscience that seeing I had true saving Faith and Light in Gospel Ordinances my personal unworthiness through the infirmity of Nature was no sufficient Ground for me to neglect the Institutions of Christ and that I could not rationally expect any extraordinary motions to do that which the Word of God did plainly express to be my Duty Besides for Christians to wait for a more than ordinary impulse of Spirit to thrust them forth in their Duty when clearly exprest in the Holy Scriptures is thro' weakness of Faith a Tempting God to confirm his written Will by extraordinary Inspiration which is a Sin Math. 4.7 Moreover I shall farther remove this objection from 1 Cor. 11.27 Whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord. This unworthiness cannot respect our natural infirmities for then the best of men would be excluded from that Ordinance but the unworthiness there mentioned is described to us in the same Chapter to be Divisions and Drunkeness See ver 18.20 21 22 33. and such like Disorders as should not be suffered in a Gospel-Church or that shew they despise the Church of God And therefore Christians having light in Gospel Ordinances tho' they are but weak in Faith and Babes in Christ and have not yet attained to the Faith of Assurance of their Election 2 Pet. 1.10 or to the clear witnessings of the Spirit of God with their Spirits Rom. 8.16 that they are the Children of God yet having the true Faith of cleaving to Christ with full purpose of heart and of reliance on his death and merits for Salvation and eternal life those have a right to full Communion with the Church at the Lords Table and we are bound to receive them Rom. 14.1 but not to doubtful Disputations But. If thou art one within the visible pale of the Church and such a wonderful and horrible thing is therein or shall happen as was in Israel tho' in a different manner the Prophets prophesied falsly Jere. 5.31 and the Priests bear Rule by their means and the people loved to have it so As the Lord said to them so will I say to thee if then thou art of their Spirit what wilt thou do in the end thereof when the Lord shall visit for these things canst thou bear yea like and plead for an Alteration in thy Church-Constitution or in Gods worship because thy Pastour will have it so Take heed lest thou givest ground to say of thee as it was said to Israel Isa 3.12 Ch. 9.16 O my People they which lead thee cause thee to err and destroy the way of thy paths and they that are led of them are destroyed 1 Cor. 10.22 Brethren beware lest ye provoke the Lord to Jealousy are ye stronger than he Deut. 12.32 hath he not said what things soever I command you observe to do it Thou shalt not add thereto nor diminish from it And have we not divers instances of his sore Displeasure for breaking his Rule of Worship as in Nadab and Abihu Lev. 7.11 to 19. who for offering of strange fire died before the Lord And might not some have thought it a small matter to have eaten of the Peace or Thank-offering after the first day or of the Vow-offering if any of it had been left on the third day but we see how great an offence it was to make so small an Addition to Gods Ordinance as that it should not be accepted neither should it be imputed to him that offered it It should be an Abomination and that soul should bear his iniquity Moreover we read how the Lord smote above fifty thousand of the men of Beth-she-mesh for but looking into his Ark and how Vzzah lost his life for touching the Ark of God 2 Sam. 6.6 1 Sam. 6.19 2 Chr. 26.16 because they sought him not after the due manner And how Vzziah the King for medling with Gods Ordinance and burning incense before the Lord 1 Chr. 15.13 contrary to his revealed Will was smote with leprosy unto his dying Day And Christ tells us Mat. 159. that in vain they do worship him teaching for Doctrines the Commandments of Men. Therefore to the Law and to the Testimony Isa 8.20 If they speak not according to this Word it is because there is no light in them Joh. 4.24 and let us keep the Commandments of God and worship him in Spirit and in Truth 1 Tim. 4 8. for Godliness is profitable unto all things having promise of the Life that now is and of that which is to come Postscript AFter I had penned the preceeding Treatise meeting with some other Motives I thought it necessary to add a brief Discourse on two particular Cases The First to shew that it is the Duty of Gospel-Ministers and all true Believers in Order to Church-Communion to subject themselves to the Ordinance of Water-Baptism The Second is against Excess in Apparel And First I shall premise some few things that are worth our Observation which I find in Mr. William Kiffins Book Intitled A Sober Discourse of Right to Church-Communion Where in his Epistle he saith The sence I have of my own weakness and inability would have been a Bar to me to appear in this publick way did I not see a necessity lying upon me for the Truths sake and the sakes of many by reason of some that have lately risen up to weaken if not make void that great Ordinance of Baptism by endeavouring to maintain that all Persons that believe altho' they never did nor do practice the same may partake of the Ordinance of the Lords Supper and all other Gospel instituted Duties A Notion not only contrary to the primitive Pattern but the constant Practice of all that ever prosessed the Christian Religion or that own the Scriptures to be the Rule of Faith and Practice And speaking somewhat of the like nature in p.