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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00731	A Christians preparation to the worthy receiuing of the blessed sacrament of the Lords Supper	Field, Theophilus, 1574-1636.	1622 (1622)	STC 10860; ESTC S118349	22,963	94

The Body desireth Sleepe in excesse This must bee punished with watching or if wee bee not able to watch all night yet as Christ saith to Peter Wee Mat. 26. 40. must force our selues to watch one houre with Christ and that houre is to be spent in holy Meditations in Prayer and Deuotion to God 2. The Flesh desireth to enioy a beautifull person This must bee punished by making a Couenant with our eyes not to thinke vpon Iob 37. 1. a woman 3 Worldly Sinnes are Couetousnesse Ambition Thirst after the outward commodities of the World And these must be punished by the Purse First by making restitution of whatsoeuer wee haue gotten contrarie to the law of God Secondly by being bountifull in deeds of Piety to the Priests of God and the Ministers of the Gospell Thirdly in being liberall in deeds of mercy to the poore members of Christ Now because euery one is not of Iudgment to know the right Quantum of all these ingredients to repentance how much hee must take of each therefore hee is to resort to some vnderstanding Priest who is to prescribe how much or how little will serue the turne for so the people did in the Old Testament and Saint Paul takes vpon him to doe it in the New for hee prescribes a Sufficit to the incestuous Corinthian 2 Cor. 2. 6. But here we are to take heed of a Common error which possesseth the most men of these times For many are perswaded that Repentance may bee performed in a moment of time But they are grossely deceiued for all these seuen forenamed duties cannot bee done in a moment but require some good space of time Therefore God saith Dedi illi tempus ad poenitendum I gaue her a space and time to repent in And as Apoc. 2. 21. there must bee a space to exercise the grace of Repentance in so there must bee a certaine place assigned to it for euery place is not fit for this exercise And therefore the Prophet Zachary would haue vs to separate Zachar● our selues from company when we goe about to set our selues in the state of Repentance And Saint Peter did put it in practise in his owne person for he went out from company first and then wept bitterly Math. 26. ●● And hee deliuereth the same in doctrine The Lord would haue no man to perish but 2. Peter 3. ● would haue men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to separate themselues to repentance I haue staied the longer vpon this point because as there is no saluation without Repentance so there can be no profitable accesse to the Lords Table without it But the Law is not onely a Looking-glasse but also our Schoolemaster to bring Galat. 3. 24. vs to Christ to the Gospell Therefore I proceed now to the Second matter concerning which wee are to make our Examination and that is Faith and it consisteth of two things Knowledge and Application Touching Knowledge euery Knowledge Communicant is bound to know three generall poynts of Christian Religion These as also the Summe of all which Christians are bound to beleeue are contained in the Creed which consisteth of three generall parts The first part whereof concerneth God the Father the second God the Sonne the third God the Holy Ghost The Maine part of the Creed Of Christ is that which concerneth Iesus Christ Wherein I am taught to beleeue with my heart That Iesus Christ is very God begotten of the Father from all eternitie before all worlds and the same Christ is True Man borne of Mary the Virgine This God-man and Man God is my Lord who when I was vtterly perished and damned redeemed mee from Death and from the power of Sathan not with Golde or Siluer but with his owne holy and precious Blood and by his vndeserued Death Passion that I might be His owne and might liue in his Kingdome and serue Him without seruile feare in perpetuall holinesse righteousnes of life euen as he rose from the dead and now liueth and raigneth for euer I beleeue that there is no Saluation but by him onely no fruition of God but through him He purchased Saluation and Redemption not for me onely but for the 1 Iohn 2. 2. whole world But the Benefit of Redemption Of the Sacrament is an vniuersall benefit and belongeth to all Mankinde yet all mankind are not partakers of it None doe ordinarily pertake of it but such as haue it passed vnto them vnder Seale The Seales which God vseth to apply vnto mee in particular that which Christ wrought for all the world in generall are the Two Sacraments Baptisme and the Communion of Christes Body and Blood And heere comes in the necessitie of Faith concerning the Sacraments for they are both of them Sacramenta Fi●●i Sacraments of Faith so called by the Fathers because the Mysteries in them contained are not to be iudged by our Senses nor discussed by Reason but to bee apprehended and receiued by Faith onely In Both the Sacraments there bee two things to be considered there is an earthly Thing which we see and feele with our outward Senses and there is an heauenly and spirituall thing or grace which wee cannot see but by Faith Both these parts are inseparably vnited and cannot be separated one from another He that is rightly fitted for the receiuing of the Sacrament doth receiue both these parts together namely the earthly with the heauenly and the heauenly with the earthly which are so inseparably conioyned by God in a Sacramental vnion that he that goeth about to separate them must needs run himselfe vpon a curse But as wee are not to diuide and disioyne one part from an other so wee must take heed that we doe not confound them one with another but keepe them distinct As for example We know that in the Person of our Sauiour Christ there are two seuerall Natures viz. the God-head and the Man-hood The Nature of Man is not the Nature of God nor is the Nature of God the Nature of Man The one is not turned into the other neither are they blended and mingled one Nature with the other but both remaine distinct in the same person yet are they so indissolubly vnited by personall vnion that Death was not able to sunder or separate them For howsoeuer at the death of Christ his Soule was separated from his Body and his Bodie sundered from his Soule yet euen when hee lay in the graue both the parts of his Humane Nature Body and Soule were as neerely vnited to his Godhead as they were at his Birth or are now in heauen So to restraine my speech to the Communion There are two distinct and seuerall things in the Sacrament an Earthly as Bread and Wine and an Heauenly sc the Body and Blood of Christ The Body of Christ is not turned into the Bread neither is Bread turned into the body of Christ Nor is the one blended or mingled