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A89597	The Kings censure upon recusants that refuse the sacrament of the Lords Supper. Delivered in three sermons, containing a refutation of some dangerous common errors, and a remonstration of the duties of administration and participation of that holy sacrament. Proving the necessity of receiving it. Reproving the neglect and contempt of it. Disproving the exceptions and excuses alleged against either the giving or taking of it. Set forth to publick view for the hungry and thirsty souls sake that desire to be satisfyed. By Thomas Marshal minister of the doctrin [sic] and sacraments of the Gospel.	Marshall, Thomas, 1621-1685.	1654 (1654)	Wing M808; Thomason E732_24; ESTC R206892	44,049	52

this end that they all might be damned which believed not the Truth but had pleasure in Unrighteousness Whether the thoughts of Mens hearts be the dictates of God's Spirit they must prove by comparing them with what the Spirit of Truth writes in holy Scriptures And if the Spirit that speaks in thee contradicts the Spirit that writes in that 't is not of God neither are they his Servants that obey that his Servants hear his voyce that is the Master of the Feast And so from him now we come to them He said unto his Servants And they are mentioned before 3 Quibus to his Servants verse 3. the Men he sent out to call the Guests to the VVedding They ran not before they were sent as did the false Prophets but staid for their Mission and that was their Commission 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the verb the same from whence the name Apostle springs And again Luk. 10. Mat. 28. in the 9 verse he saies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Go a word of Authority wherewith Christ sent out his Apostles in other places Observation Without Letters of Orders to take the Ministerial Office upon us is in the Church but disorder None ought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to call the Guests by preaching of the Word or wait on the Table of the Lord but whom he appoints to that Service And here the Servants are not to be taken in the common and largest sense for all that worship him and serve him as the People do but in a stricter and more peculiar way for them that officiate in his service as the Priests and Ministers do Kings make a difference in their Servants some wait more nearly upon their Persons some in Offices further off So doth God the King here who makes a distinction betwixt his Ministers and his People though all serve him together yet they in a nearer way Num. 16.9 God hath separated them to be near himself in the service of the Tabernacle and to stand before the Congregation to minister unto him They are his Stewards the People his Houshold they his Embassadours but those their Auditors they his Servitors those his Guests The Guests are sent for the Servants sent the Guests called the Servants call them Vers 3. He sent out his Servants to call them that were bidden A distinction then sure must be betwixt these two Vse 1. of Instruction Priest and People Clergy and Laity God hath ordained it so and gives no license to private men to take upon them the publick Ministring without a Lawfull yea and an External Calling To do so upon presumption of Gifts and Abilities is as great disorder in the Church as for the Common Souldier upon pretence of his skill and valour to usurp his Captains or chief Commanders place in the Camp or for the Common Lawyer upon pretence of his Learning and Judgement to set him down in the Judges place in the Court This to do without Commission brings all in all the three into confusion But for private men to officiate in the Priests room 2 Of Con● So 〈◊〉 though a Heathen yet a Wise Man so abhorred that he counted it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a deed deserving many deaths He it may be you will think was severe But God who is gentle and mercifull censured it worthy a foul Disease when he for offering Incense in the Priests office punished Vzziah the King with the Leprosie VVorthy of deprivation in King Saul 1 Sam. 13.11 12 13 14. who but once played the Sacrificer in case of necessity yet for this was cast out of the Throne both he and his Posterity Nay more than so worthy of death and that a strange death too Numb 16.40 in the 250 Princes of the Congregation that for offering Incense were consumed with strange Fire that came out from the Lord. And that for a memorandum That no Stranger which is not of the Seed of Aaron come near to offer Incense before the Lord that he be not as Corah and his Company And these all had the natural gift sufficient abilities to act those parts of the Priests Office they enterprised But God that was not therewithall pleased severely punished it as a prophanation for want of lawfull Calling and Consecration If private men for their practice of unlicensed preaching pretend there is more liberty under the Gospel to take on them the publick Ministry they are deceived there is no such warrant from the Word of God Not from the Prophecy of those times by Joel Ioel 2.28 which St. Peter saies was fulfilled in the Apostles speaking with Tongues those Magnalia Dei upon the day of Pentecost Act. 2.16 17. This is that saies he which was spoken by the Prophet Joel that in the last daies meaning the daies of the Gospel at the beginning of them not the last daies before the end of the World God will pour out his Spirit upon all Flesh and your Sons and Daughters shall prophecy as did the Daughters of Philip the Evangelist for this was a prediction of the holy Spirits emanation at the first plantation of the Gospel Act. 21.9 not of phanatique spirits eruption towards the end of the World when false Christs and false Prophets shall arise Mat. 24. and Mockers be in the last times which walk after their own lusts And these are they saies St. Jude which separate themselves Iude 18 19 and are sensual having not the Spirit Nor have they precept as they pretend for their practice That of St. Paul That all may prophecy one by one 1 Cor. 13.31 will not patronize them in it That is not to be understood of all the People private Men and Women which he forbids elswhere to speak in the Church 1 Cor. 14.34 but of all the Prophets or Preachers lawfully called to instruct the Church of God as appears by the Context 'T is great boldness then without an external Calling from Men to assume that high Calling under God and to be as St. Basil tearms it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Mans self-ordainer Yea a madness Lib. 4. Instit cap. 3. sect 14. saies Calvin Vt ab hominibus designetur Episcopus omninò ex ordine legitimae vocationis esse nemo sobrius inficiabitur That a Bishop or Minister should be designed of Men none but a mad Man will deny to be a lawfull Ordination Heb. 5.4 Exod. 29.1 St. Paul saith No man assumed the honour of the Priesthood unless he was called of God as Aaron was who was consecrated by Moses with a great deal of Ceremony But that none should upon a conceit of an internal Calling or Gift of the Spirit go out to preach without the external Consecration by Imposition of Hands the Holy Ghost hath given us a plain direction Act. 13.3 saying Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them Called they were to the work of the

now shall the Apostles Successors under a pretence of Reformation teach onely and not feed Understand all these pasce's of feeding Ore with the Doctrin of the mouth none of them opere with the example of the works or if that None re Sacramenti with the Sacrament of Christs body and blood which is the onely proper feeding indeed Such Pastors are Ministers of Gods word onely and not of the Sacrament at least not of the supper of the Lord. They have forgotten one part of their function these twelve years together whereby they starve the souls they have taken in Charge The Lord amend it that it be not laid to their charge in the day of judgment THE THIRD SERMON IN my last I made known the good pleasure of God the King to have the marriage feast of his son or the Sacrament of his body and bloud duly made ready for his people according to the practise of the Primitive Church in the purest times After which I made my address to those Ministers that neglect or refuse to make ready this feast and answered their plea on their peoples behalf Now I shall have the opportunity my beloved in Christ to make my application to you You have heard what the readiness of the wedding requires at the Ministers hands 2 Use to the Communicants Now more briefly say what will be expected from thence of you the Communicants And that is a readiness also in you that are called to come to the feast The King said unto his servants Tell them that are bidden I have prepared my dinner and all things are ready come to the marriage ver 4. A readiness there must be of mind to accept his kindness without running another way to the farm on Merchandice And more then that too There must be a Dressing and making of your selves ready answerable to the solemnity of the wedding The King overlooks the guests when they are come in and finding one there without his wedding Garment checks him for it How camest thou in hither not having made thy self ready 11. with thy wedding Garment 12. Nay more then checks condemns him to be manacled and fettered 13. and so cast into utter darkness where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth The heaviest censure that can be pronounced to be excommunicated and cast out into that horrid place of hellish torments No porticipation no presentation ought to be at this feast without due and fitting preparation Gen. 41.14 Joseph changed his garments when he came out of prison to appear before Pharoah King of Egypt put of his sorded habit and put on sweeter So must they do that appear at this banket before the King of Glory They must deponere aponere put off and put on put off the forded habits of their sins and put on a resolution of reformation of life Ephes 4 22.24 or as St. Paul hath it put off the Old man with the deceiveable lusts and by faith put on the new man Christ Jesus which is after God created in righteousness and holiness Colos 3. 12. Put off all these sayes he anger wrath malice 13 and filthy Communication out of your mouths 14. and put on as the Elect of God the bowels of mercy tenderness humbleness of mind meekness long suffering forbearing one another and forgiving one another but above all things put on Charity which is the bond of perfection Of which vertues and graces the wedding Garment of Sanctification is woven and wrought though some frame it of Charity and some of faith onely yet the most make it the ornament of the spirits vertues and graces in the conversation without joined with a good conscience cleansed from sin within When God was to come down uppon mount Sinai Exod. 19. to give the Law he commanded Moses to sanctifie the people two dayes before and charge them to wash their cloaths and to be ready on the third day So when the Lord comes to make us a feast of sat things and refined Wine in mount Sion his Evangelicall Church They that set in Moses chair are to teach the people to sanctifie themselves by prayer and examination and charge them to wash themselves by tears of repentance and contrition and so be ready against the time which if they do accordingly they shall not be Shent for coming without their wedding garment As guests thus must we all fit and prepare our selves and not only so but more precisely than ordinary guests Every soul is here at this wedding to present it self as a Bride ready trimmed to meet with her Bridgroom decked with the costly ornaments of Christs active and passive merits which he hath given it and with those pretious Jewels of the spirits gists and graces In a word adorned we must be with the righteousness of Justification and Sanctification But without these how disguised and disfigured do people appear in Gods sight when they come before him with ulcerous sores uppon their consciences and in the uncleanly raggs of their own unrighteousness And if they shall come as men go now adayes with the halting feet of Newtrality eyes blinded through errors and ignorauce ears dear to Gods truth tongues dumb in his prayses with the wry-neck of aversness black-mouths through blasphemy blew-teeth of envy hands full of bloud and bribery They must look for no better welcome than the five foolish Vergins to whom the Bridegroom said Depart from me ye workers of Iniquity I know you not Or the guest here that wanted his wedding garment whom the King commanded to be bound in chains and cast into utter darkness where is weeping and gnashing of teeth But I would be loath to tire out your Attension with a matter of such ordinary Observation you are not unacquainted with the danger of unworthy Receiving which there is no way to prevent but by preparation before you come not by Renegation when you are called They that do so and absent themselves to prevent the danger of unworthiness in Receiving fall into another as bad and incur the Kings censure of unworthiness for Refusing who said unto his Servants the wedding is ready but they that were bidden were not worthy Which leads to the third partition of the text where the King sits in Judicature upon the Recusants Of whom there is The third Partition Observation how dangerous it is to refuse the grace offered in the word preached Zach. 7. Querela Censura The Kings Complaint and his Censure His complaint is that they were biden intimating that they came not or else why should he complain that they were biden when God sends to call us he looks we should come is grieved if we come not The son of God sighed that the tender of his Grace was not accepted Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem that killest and stonest the Prophets how oft would I have gathered thee as an hen doth her chickens under her wings and they would not come

for your absence and your pennyworths of Earthly Gain countervail the loss of Heavenly Grace Your buying bodily provision excuse the neglect of thy Souls nourishment Your gathering up Dross and Dung as St. Paul terms the riches of the World satisfie for your loss of Christ or what shall it advantage a Man to win the World by a Bargain and lose his own Soul by barring that of the means of his Salvation But so long as all these buying and selling farming and wiving may be done at other times the six daies God allowes for them the plea will not hold in his Court to excuse their absence who requires their presence at his Feast on another day and time set apart for the same No pretence of worldly cares and business can excuse them that are bidden These we have in the Text. Next these The Excuses of some in our time Of Military Men. we will weigh the excuses of some in our time The Military Mans in the first place who attends the service of War that disquiets the mind and therefore saies he must be excused Yet such came to John's Baptism the Sacrament of Regeneration and why not then to Christ's Supper the Sacrament of Nutrition If the War be warranted by God's Word and managed with a good Conscience they may eat Bread and drink Wine with the Priest after it to their comfort as Abram did with Melchizedec the Priest of the most high God Gen. 14.18 who brought him forth Bread and Wine and blessed him at his return from the rescue of Lot and the slaughter of Chedor loamer the Tyrant and the Kings with him But when 't is otherwise and the Conscience accuseth God's Word condemneth and Blood cryeth up for vengeance then let Men forbear for fear of Judas the Traitor's judgement Abi retro eum sacellis tuis qui lucris inhiaes saies St. Cyprian cujus manus sunt sanguinae plenae De Coena Domini Come back thou with thy bags full of spoyls whose mouth gapeth after ill gotten goods and whose hands are full of blood In this case an Excommunication is fitter than a Communion and an eight months exclusion from the Table and Temple both As St. Ambrose prescribed the great Emperour Theodosius for the good of his Soul after his rash Decree which cost the lives of 7000 Thessalonians Or such a strait penance as St. Cyprian injoyned the lapsed Christians De Lapsis whom he bids Orare impensius rogare to seek God by prayer more instantly and earnestly Diem luctu transigere vigiliis noctes fletibus ducere to spend the day in mourning and the night in watching and weeping Stratos adhaerere eineri cilicio sordibus volutari to lye and wallow in sackcloth and ashes Eleemosynis frequenter insistere quibus animae à morte liberantur to break off their sins Dan. 4.27 as Daniel said to Nebuchadnezzar by righteousness and shewing mercy to the poor Justis operibus incumbere quibus peccata purgantur and to make restitution and do good works whereby through God's mercy their sins may be purged and pardoned A course must be taken for this to make ready for the Communion or how shall Men ever think to be ready if they dye for the day of doom and dye they must there is no remedy and if they cannot be prepared to meet Christ in the Sacrament how shall they be able to look him in the face at the day of Judgement Next Excuse of Malicious Men. the Militant may come in the plea of the malicious who is vexed with Injuries Arrests Suits or Slanders and therefore saies he must be excused But how can he expect that at his hands Mat. 5.44 who commands us to love our Enemies gives not leave to live one day without Charity St. Paul limits Wrath within the time of Sun-set Eph. 4.26 Let not the Sun go down upon your Wrath and Christ our Saviour bids Agree with thy Adversary quickly and be reconciled to thy Brother Mat. 5.25 and so offer thy Gift at the Altar We daily offend God and would not have him angry with us shall we so soon and so long be angry with them that so seldome offend us We pray God to forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us and if we forgive not them that trespass against us how can we look to be forgiven all our trespasses at Gods hands If there be any then in whose heart lyes the venome of inveterate Malice or the poyson of Asps under his lips let him imitate the wise Serpent which leaves Venenum in latibulo casts up his Poyson and leaves it in his Den behind him when he goes to drink that he bane not himself So must the spitefull and malicious do leave his Venome of Hatred and Malice when he comes to the Sacrament that he drink not his own damnation and not return like the Dog to the Vomit to resume it again Catiline to make his Conspirators with him of one mind caused them all to drink to each other Bowls of Wine mingled with Mans Blood Much rather should that Cup of Wine which Christ hath mingled with his pretious Blood work that effect and combine our hearts in brotherly love After these we may take the Return of them which keep away for the cause of Schism and Heresy who answer with Contumacy say not so much as have us excused with them in the Text but with Corah and his Companions Numb 16. when they were sent for by Moses We will not come up Whos 's first Schism they made in the Church was for an example punished with such a Schism of the Earth that it rent asunder and they sank down into Hell It is not a causless separation from Christ's Body the Communion as St. Paul calls it or the Congregation that can excuse 1 Cor. 10.16 17. It excludes outwardly and which is worse separates inwardly and causes a substraction of the Spirit of Grace that is the Soul that enlivens the whole Mystical Body of Christ and so leaves the divided member in a dead or dying condition Augustin Membrum amputatum amittit Spiritum dum in corpore erat vivebat praecisum verò amittet Spiritum A member of the Church cut off by wilfull Schism or deserved Excommunication loses the Spirit While it remained in the Body it is actuated and animated by the Spirit but cut off the Spirit leaves it as the Soul doth the Limb divided from the Body Which is plainly seen in many of those self-conceited Separatists who because they like not to retain the knowledge they had of God in their minds Rom. 1.28 are given over of God to a reprobate mind as he did the Gentiles to do things not convenient These cannot if they would communicate and eat Christ's crucified Body unless they renounce and repent their erroneous and blasphemous opinions and return to the union