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A20154	The heauenly banquet: or The doctrine of the Lords Supper set forth in seuen sermons. With two prayers before and after the receiuing. And a iustification of kneeling in the act of receiuing. By Iohn Denison, Doctor of Diuinity.	Denison, John, d. 1629.	1631 (1631)	STC 6589; ESTC S109561	131,917	382

spake to Elias Vp and eate come with cheerfulnesse to this holy table I doubt not but some of you haue found much heauenly comfort by receiuing the Sacrament So that you are able to say with the Psalmist Psa 66.16 Come and I will tell you what the Lord hath done to my soule Yet for your further comfort I must wish you to remember that the banquet is onely begunne in this life which shall b● perfected in the life to come When Christ shal● say in heauen as it is in the fift of the Canticles Cant. 5.1 Come my friends eate and be merry Now the Spouse hath Christ in sacramento but then she shall haue him sine velamento Bern. de Coena Domini now she rec●iues him in mystery then she shall enioy him apparantly Hic dulce praeludium illic nuptiale conuiuium Here is but the first course like the preludium to a song but there shall be the banket kept with all ioy and heauenly harmony Lastly for as much as Christ is offred to vs in the Sacramēt it shall be very necessary that we examin whether h●uing receiued the Sacrament we haue receiued Christ Because as Saint Augustine saith Aug. cant Faust Mani lib. 13. c. 16. Et tract 59. in John there are many which eate panem Domine but not panem Dominum They receiue the outward signes but not the inward grace I will therefore deliuer a few but infaillible markes wherby wee may know whether wee haue receiued Christ First where Christ is receiued he workes mortification in the soule of the Receiuer abates the strength of those corruptions which otherwise would be potent and violent So saith St. Paul in the eight to the Romans Rom. 8.10 If Christ be in you the body is dead because of sinne but the Spirit is life for righteousnesse sake As a good corrosiue eates away the dead flesh so the body and bloud of Christ doe eate away the fleshly corruptious of dead workes Therefore Chrysostome Chrysost in Gen. hom 1. calls Christ curatorem animarum the Curer of soules And indeede where Christ comes he makes a threefold cure he cures the heart the hand the tongue He banisheth euill motions out of the heart Bern. de Aduent serm 5. bindeth the hand from euill actions and bridleth the tongue from euill speeches A second note of our receiuing Christ is our viuification quickning of our soules to liue the life of God For as the body of the dead man 2. Reg. 13.21 by touching the bones of E●zeus receiued life So by touching and tasting of the body of Christ our soules that were dead in trespasses doe liue the life of grace and our selues are quickned to the performance of all Christian duties Ber in Cant. serm 17. For vnxit Deus vt vngeret therefore was he anointed with the oyle of grace that of his fulnesse we might receiue grace for grace Ioh. 1.16 both the grace of remission and the grace of sanctification so that we are able to lay with Saint Paul Gal. 2.20 Now I liue no more but Christ liueth in me A third note of our receiuing Christ is our alienation and estranging from the world according to that of St. Paul in the third to the Colossians Col. 3.2 If you be risen with Christ set your affections on things that are aboue The young man that onely came to Christ would not part with his wealth bring commanded Mark 10.22 but Zaccheus hauing receiued him into hi● house makes a voluntary offer of dispersing to the poore and making restitution Thus if we haue receiued Christ in our hearts the World will be crucified to vs and wee to the World The greatest pleasures and profits of the world will bee dung and drosse euen vile in our estimation in respect of him and the heauenly comforts wee receiue from him 4 Whosoeuer receiues Christ in the Sacrament receiues him into his heart as Zacheus did into his house ioyfully O blessed Iesus saith Bernard Luk. 19.6 Ber. in Cant. serm 32. how oft when thou camst vnto me didst thou comfort my wounded conscience by powring vnto it the oyle of gladnesse As the Sunne arising vpon our Horizon makes it cheerefull glorious so the Sun of Righteousnesse when it ariseth vpon the Horizon of a sanctified heart causeth it to reioyce with ioy vnspeakeable glorious Yea all the blessings of God are made comfortable to vs 1. Pet. 1.8 as it was with those happy conuerts who did eate their meate together with gladnesse and singlenesse of heart Acts. 2.46 For vbi Christus ibi Angeli ibi lux ibi coelum Chrysost in Mat. ho. 49. Where Christ is there are the Angels there is the light of Heauen there is Heauen it selfe Yea the priuiledges are excellent we obtaine by receiuing Christ For as it is a meanes of our adoption so it is a pledge of our eternall saluation As many as receiued him Ioh. 1.12 to them he gaue this prerogatiue to be made the sonnes of God Rom. 8.17 And if we be sonnes we are also heyres yea coheyres annexed with Christ And as the Israelites had a taste in the wildernesse of the fruits of Canaan Nu 13.24 which afterwards they did enioy more plentifully in that promised Land So haue we in the wildernes of this present world the first fruits of that glory which hereafter we shall enioy in the celestiall Canaan more aboundantly for euer A fift note of receiuing Christ is our thankefulnesse of heart stirring vs vp to cheerefull obedience Dauid hauing receiue● r●●●efe from Barz●llai giues this charge to his sonne Salomon Shew kindnesse to the Sonnes of Barzillai 1. Reg. 2.7 So Christ Iesus furnishing vs with this heauenly foode may iustly chal●enge at our hands all that wee can doe to manifest our thankefull hearts for such a singular benefit As the King●y Prophet saith VVhat shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits bestowed vpon me Ps 116.12 So must we consult all the faculties of our soules and enquire with what we may present our Sauiour Christ for this great mercy and our conclusion must be his resolution I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thank●sgiuing Vers 17. and call vpon the Name of the Lord. Thus if vpon the receiuing of the Sacrament we finde in some measure the strength of sinne abated grace augmented our affections estranged from the world our soules filled with heauenly ioy and our hearts stirred vp to vnfained thankfulnesse then may we with maruellous comfort assurance conclude that we haue truely receiued Christ And to such a Communicant I may say as our Sauiour said to Zacheus Luk 19.9 This day is saluation come into this house THE FOVRTH Sermon The Forme of the Sacrament 1. COR. 11.26 For as often as ye shall eate this bread and drinke this cup c. HAuing spoken of the Author

to saltem semel in anno Concil Trid. sess 23. can 9. to require that at least once a yeere the people receiue the Sacrament But in this variety of practice we must for our better guidance obserue the circumstances of necessity conueniency and vtility For the first t is true that we haue daily neede of the remembrance of Christs death and consequently of the Sacrament As our bodies haue daily neede of nourishment by our corporall food so haue our soules by our spirituall Yet must not this be the onely guide or ground of our receiuing but we must also haue respect to conueniency For seeing there is required a due and diligent preparation for the receiuing of this Sacrament the same must moderate our necessity so that we should as well look to our fitnesse as our need But yet in the third place the due consideration of the inestimable benefit and comfort we obtaine by receiuing the Sacrament must stirre vs vp so oft as with conuenience we may to bee partakers of this blessed banquet that if it were possible we might euery day be fit to communicate as St. Ambrose doth exhort Sic viue vt quotiaie merearis accipere Ambr de sacra l. 5. c. 4 That so we may as neere as our fraile nature will permit resemble those bless●d spirits who are exercised incessantly in singing Halleluiahs without wearinesse But it is obiected that as familiarity breedes contempt so frequent receiuing may cause a disestimation of the Sacrament To which I answere First it is not like that what God hath ordained as a meanes to increase and kindle zeale should bee a cause to coole or quench it And if it be an occasion onely diuine ordinances must not be neglected for humane corruptions Secondly albeit amongst some men much samiliarity hath this effect yet it is not so amongst those who are wise and intimate for their daily familiarity confirmes their bond of loue Thirdly though we may weary men by often comming to their tables yet the often we come to the Lords Table the better welcome wee are so that we come prepared without which preparation I say not once a yeere but euen once in our liues is too oft Therefore Saint Chrysostome speaking of some who once a yeere would be sure to come whether prepared or vnprepared because of the festiuall time Chrys ad ●op Antioh hom 64. doth iustly checke them and cry out thus against their practice O consuetudinem O praesumptionem O euill custome O vise presumption In a word Satan will endeuour to keepe vs both from preparing and communicating but we ought so much the more diligently to stirre vp our selues to preparation and receiuing the Sacrament Thus hauing satisfied that qu●stion concerning the time wee will now consider the particular end of celebrating the Sacrament which is the shewing of Christs death as his death is an Epitome of the Gospell Neuer did God set so remarkable remembrances vpon any thing since the foundations of the world were layd as he hath done vpon the death and Passion of our blessed Sauiour the heauens were darkened the earth trembled the graues opened the vaile of the Temple rented the dead were raised and therefore it is no maruell that he hath ordained the Sacraments for a memoriall thereof to the end of the world Now as men who haue payed debts in diuers particular summes will be carefull for their discharge to keep the particular acquitances So euery part of Christs death beeing as a particular acquittance for the debt of our sinnes it will be very expedient for vs to take notice thereof and to lay them vp carefully in our hearts for our comfort When we speake of the death of Christ we must not consider it as the expiring of his soule onely but his death with all the concomitants of his Passion And though his whole life was a continued passion yet will I onely obserue those things which he suffered the night that he was betrayed and the day that he was crucified And this I will consider in fiue generall passages as it were fiue tragicall Acts hauing in them many dolefull Scenes 1. His agony in the garden 2. His apprehension in the same 3. His appearing before the high Priest 4. His arraignement before Pilate 5. His execution at mount Caluary It commonly falleth out 1. His Agony that before a great storme the heauens are obscured with clowds and the skies ouer-cast with a melancholy darkenesse So before the storme and tempest of our Sauiours extreme troubles sorrow and heauinesse doe ouer-shadow his soule not suffering the Sunne of comfort to shine vpon the Sonne of righteousnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 26.37 Mar. 14.13 1. The Euangelists say that when he came into the Garden of Gethsemane he began to be sorrowfull and grieuously troub●●d and amazed so that himselfe complained 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat 26.38 My soule is very heauy ●●en vnto a●ath Is it not strange that hee who is the onely comfort of euery Christian soule should haue his soule so sorrowfull troubled and amazed Yea 2. such was his extensiue and intensiue feare and sorrow that hee intreated his Disciples to tarry there and watch with him Mat. 26.38 Great was the discomfort of Naomi vpon the losse of her husband and her sonnes yet not so great but that she could want the company of Ruth Ruth 1.15 yea perswade her to depart But so great is the discomfort of our Sauiour that he cannot tell how to want the comfort of his Disciples 3. How grieuous this conflict and how bitter this cuppe of affliction was Mar. 14.35 Heb. 5.7 may appeare in that he cast himselfe prostrate on the earth in prayers and supplications with teares and strong cryes that the cup might passe 3. times he ingeminates that petition Father if it be possible let this cup passe 2. Sam. 12. Yet can he not heare of Nathans Dominus transtulit the Lord hath taken away the cup of affliction but rather Iobs Dominus abstulit Iob 1. the Lord hath taken away his comfort If the beginning of the cuppe be so irkesome Lord how bitter will the bottome be 4. The greatn●sse of Christs horror and heauin●sse was manifested by a miraculous effect the like was neuer heard of that is his sweating drops of bloud yea those drops were not guttae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lu. 22.44 but grumi not small drops issuing forth of the subtill pores but great ones and that not sparingly but euen running downe to the ground Whereas the bloud in the case of f●are sorrow Non solùm oculis sed membris omnibus fleuisse videtur Bern hebd pavos s●rm 4. should haue had recourse to the heart as it were the center and the castle contrary to the course of nature it disperseth it self through the dilated pores so that not onely the eyes of Christ did weepe but all the parts of his