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A40709	The general assembly, or, The necessity of receiving the communion in our publick congregations evinced from the nature of the church, the Word of God, and presbyterian principles, in a sermon / lately preached in the Cathedral Church of Exeter by Francis Fullwood.	Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693.	1667 (1667)	Wing F2504; ESTC R35476	18,644	34

THE General Assembly OR The Necessity of Receiving the Communion in our Publick Congregations evinced from the Nature of the Church the Word of God and Presbyterian Principles IN A SERMON Lately Preached In the CATHEDRAL CHURCH of EXETER By Francis Fullwood DD. Luke 22. 19. This do in remembrance of me 1 Cor. 10. 17 One Bread and one Body Canon decim Apostolorum Omnes fideles qui ingrediuntur Eccl●si●m Scripturas ●uliunt non autem p●rs●verant in ORATIONE n●c Sanctam COMMVNIONEM p●rcip●unt ve ut inquietudines Eccl●siae Commovent Conven●● Commun●one pr●v●ri London Printed by E. Cotes for James Collins at the Kings Head in Westminster-Hall 1667. To my Worthy Brethren the Ministers that yet Consent not in point of Conformity AMongst the many strange and sad Distempers of this poor Ch●rch I think there i● none of more sad or strange observatio● than th● Prodigious neglect of the Lords Supper After several Essayes and other Methods i● my Place and Calling used to redress it at length these words burst out If they seem somewhat warm I pray you mistake not my zeal and charity which o●ght to be so for spite or malice or any evil passion though indeed to me while I labour to be faithful and to commend my self to every mans Conscience in the sight of God It is a very small thing to be judged of you or of mans Judgment Yea let me be bold and caution you also my Brethren that you who have stood it out so m●nfully heretofore against the Independent Separation take heed of falling your selves and of drawing your Friends unawares with you into the Gulf of Brownisme by your private Meetings and private Communions Let me at le●gth if there be yet need perswade you to deal like Christians and honest Men if not ●ike Ministers and when your Friends desire your advice about Communicating wi●h us do not intimate your dissatisfaction when you cannot speak it or by solemn silence barden them in sin and be●ray them to the Laws when you may save them from both Let me conjure you if there be any regard due to the King to the State to the Church to the Laws yea to t●e Command and Ordinance of Jesus Christ our Lord both yours a●d ours or to the souls ●f those you seem to love or your own Credit and Reputation d● as some of y●ur B●ethren I hope have done already d●a●●o●e●ly candi●ly fai●hfully and l●t your Fr●ends by y●ur seasonab●e advice and good example know that it is not th●ir conce●n to despise or cl●mour Dignities and Government or any longer to neglect their known duties but rather speed●ly and h●artily to endeavour in their p●aces to reform that wh●ch they complain of and to do their duty and receive the SACRAMENT It is not my business to accuse you there is one that accuses you even Moses the Law without you and the Law within you and that I bear no ma●●ce in my heart agai●st you I have this Testimony I am ready to r●ceive the COMMUNION with you Farewel HEBR. 12. 23. To the General Assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven THis Epistle you know was written to the Hebrews that is the Christian Jews who were mix't in their principles as well as name and though Christians were somewhat Jewish They saw a necessity of the Gospel and did profess it but seem'd to retain a smack of the Law not as yet wholly purged from the Idol of their Tribe the leaven of the Pharisees the old leaven of the first dispensation Besides they had many friends even the body of the Jewish party of the other perswasion and some of these were become their enemies for Christs sake and the Gospel and persecuted them for their present Conformity So that considering the persecutions of their enemies the perswasions of their friends and the easie Bias of their own somewhat legal inclinations we may believe they were in no little danger Hereupon the Infusions of the Gnosticks who pretended to knowledge and prudence above any others the bold and private whispers of these false teachers assault and charm them with all Advantages they at first incline them to much Caution then Stagger their faith and now they have prevailed with divers among them to lo●k back yea to d●aw back and forsake the Christian ●ss●mblies that were then as publique as the Heb 10 ult c. 10 v 25. times would ●ea● This was the occasion of this Medicinal Epistle the scope whereof is consequently to confirm and secure them in the Truth the Necessity and the incomparable Excellency of the Gospel especially against any Jewish pretensions to the Contrary the last of these viz. The excellency of the Gospel you have in a most Elegant and splendid manner by a very particular Collation of the Mosaical and Christian state displayed in the Text and Context First He draws the shade and black estate of the Law to which as Christians they were not come For ye are not come unto the mount that might not be touched and burned with fire Nor unto blackness and darkness and Tempest c. vers 18 19 20 21. Then he sets by it that which exceeds in glory the 2 Cor. 3. Gospel State to which as Christians they were come vers 22 23 24. but ye are come to Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable Company of Angels To the General Ve●s 22 23 24 25. Assembly and Church of the first born and to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the Mediator of the New Testament and to the blood of sprinkling which speaks better things than that of Abel That part of this Notable enumeration that is chosen out for our present discourse seems to lie as the Corner-stone on which all the rest on both sides lean and depend yea 't is marvelous to observe the weight and Emphasis the Apostle here lays upon it and by how many mighty and glorious words he endeavours to commend this one and the same thing to us for what can we possibly understand by Mount Sion but the Christian Church What by the City of the living God but the same Church What by the Heavenly Jerusalem but the same Church still and lastly what by the General Assembly in the Text but as the Text it self explains it the Church of the first born And indeed it is the Apostles plain intention by all this and much more to instruct and perswade us that our being come to this Church as his Phrase is is the Radical priviledge of Christianity and that all other Evangelical priviledges are but branches or fruits of this the Sum is by our being come to the Church of Christ we are come to the fellowship of the General Assembly of Saints on earth and in heaven of Myriads of Angels of Jesus the Mediatour and God himself the