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A10036	The doctrine of the sacrament of the Lords Supper handled. And plainely layd open out of the 1. Cor. 11. 23.24. &c. Wherein the nature of this sacrament is faithfully discussed, the matter of it, together with the necessity of often receiuing, truly declared; the words of consecration embowelled, and errours with the cauills of papists soundly confuted. By Richard Preston preacher of Gods word at Rushden in Northamptonshire.	Preston, Richard, d. ca. 1624.	1621 (1621)	STC 20283; ESTC S115177	102,646	398

seruice of himselfe Helps and meanes of obedience And that we may walke in the way of obedience let vs vse these helpes 1 Make conscience of the least duty as knowing that omission of duties shall receiue sentence against them Mat. 25.42 as well as commission of euill 2 Looke what thou art called vnto and in thy calling what is most needfull and that doe wisely preferring the generall calling before the speciall and heauenly things before earthly Mat. 6.33 3 Keepe thy selfe in readinesse to euery good work knowing that thou hast alwaies one iron in the fire a soule to saue an Election to make sute 2. Pet. 1.10 which requireth all diligence 4 Suffer thy selfe to be guided by the rule and square of Gods Word it is a Lanterne a light to guide thee and the word of grace that will teach thee to deny all vngodlinesse and worldly lusts Tit. 2.11.12 and to liue soberly righteously and godly in this present world 5 Hee that would doe all that God commands must not only take occasions offered but euen seeke them and watch thē as beeing glad to obtaine them 6 Let not the Lord finde a time wherein hee may say to thee as hee did once to some standing in the streets Why stand you here gazing all day but say to thy soule as Dauid did to his Sonne Salomon Vp and be doing There is no time wherein God and thy neighbour and thy selfe the Church or Cōmonwealth or thy family or the Saints abroad broad call not for some duty from thee Oh lay vp these rules and they will be excellent helps to set thee forward in the way of obedience Notes of obedience Quest But how may I know that I am obedient vnto Gods Commandements Quest Sol. 1. Sol. God loues truth in the inward parts and refuseth all that obedience which followes not sanctification of the spirit Examine now thy inward parts and see whether there bee such a change in thee as thou canst ioin the subiection of thy soule with the obedience of thy body 2 Examine thy selfe whether the loue of God constraines thee or the prouocations of men compells thee to obedience a free horse needs not the wand nor one willing to obey needes no coactions nor faire encreatings 3 Examine thy manner of obedience whether it be a cheerful and a willing obedience that repineth not as giuing God too much that deuiseth no excuses as Saul when he did but halfe the Commandement 1. Sam. 15. that seeketh no delayes I made haste Psal 119. delayed not to keepe thy righteous iudgements 4 Doest thou make conscience of the least Commandement as well as the greatest and of all the Commandements as well as one obeying the Commandement of faith in the Gospell as well as the Commandement of the actuall and morall law obeying the Commandement as well of doing good as of abstaining from euill And lastly doth thy obedience hold out and neuer shrink away then surely thy obedience is sound and thou art a true and faithful Disciple doing whatsoeuer thy Lord and master hath commanded Ioh. 15. Thus much in generall of this Commandement of Christ in these words This doe c. That which Christ in particular commanded was the celebration of this Supper This do as you haue seene mee doing before you Celebrate this my Supper according to my institution Obserue Doct. the celebration of this Sacrament is imitatorie the Minister and receiuer haue nothing therein difficult or miraculous for then Christ would not haue imposed it vppon them for imitation workes of wonder are impossible to simple men they must bee left vnto diuine powers That which our Sauiour commanded heere is such a thing as both may and ought to be done Hee did not bid his Disciples turne the bread into his body or the wine into his blood that is a matter that went beyond their skill and had beene a strange miracle indeed but as hee tooke the bread and wine gaue thankes for them brake the bread and powred the wine distributed them amongst his Disciples and commanded that they should eate and drink of them so would he haue both Minister and people to doe in imitation of him This may serue to reproue the Papists Vse that add so many gawds to this Sacrament which Christ neuer instituted that Lay people cannot see Christ through them This institution left to our imitation is made an oblation and a sacrifice by them Christ said Doe this but not offer this for hee offered not his body nor his blood at this Supper yet they make this Sacrament an Offering an Expiatory Propitiatory and a satisfactory Sacrifice for the sinnes both of the quicke and dead which doth much weaken the vertue of Christs death and crosse the word of Gods Spirit teaching vs by his Apostle that with one offering Christ hath consecrated for euer them that are sanctified Heb. 10.14 so as this Sacrament cannot be a Sacrifice The offering of his body was but once made to take away the sinnes of many Ver. 10. Heb. 9.28 neither did Christ leaue it to vs that wee should vnderstand it as a Sacrifice knowing that then wee could neuer imitate him Besides they make the Sacrament a veile to hide Christ by their trashy additions Christ said Doe this that is eate drinke c. But they goe further they must put on their masking apparell Albes girdles copes tunicles deacon subdeacon they must haue their ceremonies as censers balles candles candlesticks paxes pixes corporasses corporasse clothes superaltaries Altars Altar cloathes chalices cruets napkins they must vse strange gestures turnings returnings gaspings gapings kneelings crowchings crossings knocking 's winckings starings kissings lickings noddings nosings washings weepings with confessions prostrations commemorations consecrations coniurations pausations and a thousand other abominations All which are strange things and nothing concerne vs in the celebration of Christs Supper 2 Here also may be reprooued all too curious Ministers that runne more vpon circumstance then substance putting as much vertue in the outward robes and vestiments as in the matter of this Sacrament But Christ bids vs not put on this apparell or that piece of linnen all that he gaue in charge was they should administer this Supper as he did to his Disciples 3 Here may bee reprooued many receiuers who make many a quaere at the behauiour of the Minister not regarding the efficacy of this Supper to bee of God Ob. Some say Ob. how may I communicate with a wicked Minister or with what comfort Sol. The wickednesse of the Minister may somewhat lessen the comfort Sol. but neither diminish the perfection of the Sacrament it selfe nor hinder the efficacy thereof to vs seeing the efficacy depends onely on the promise of God and the faith of the receiuer Ob. But how can he be a means of conueying grace to me Ob. that is a gracelesse man Sol. Grace is compared

of the beleeuing Christians vnder the barbarous Turke Metellus Sequanus Botholome-Casas a Bishop in Spaine Mr. White in his way to the Church digres 50. and blood-sucking Spaniard these particulars are grieuous to bee borne but to this spirituall captiuitie they are nothing For in these the very soule is sore vexed This was our slauery and from this hath Christ redeemed vs and that not in part but fully from the power of darkenesse vnto the light hee gaue vs the voyce of his Gospell to enlighten our vnderstandings Luk. 4.18 preached deliuerance to vs poore captiues 2. Hee redeemed vs from sinne vnto holinesse Iohn 14. by leauing behinde him his comforter in his Disciples for our instruction and regenerating vs by his blessed Spirit 3. From the power of the Law he performed most exact and absolute obedience thereunto Lastly from Satan and eternall death by paying a price by giuing himselfe a ransome by yeelding to the death of the Crosse and suffering the sharpest sorrowes and deepest agonies thereupon Thus Christ Iesus by the bruising of his body and the losse of his blood is become our perfect and full Redeemer Vse 1 1 In that Christ Iesus tooke both bread and wine did wholly bestow himselfe and became our full redeemer this may teach vs worthily to esteeme so great a benefit and to magnifie the Name of God who hath done so great things for vs saying with Zacharie Luk. 1.68.69 Blessed be the Lord God of Isaael who hath visited and redeemed his people And certainly howsoeuer this benefit bee esteemed of carnall men nothing worth yet they that haue once tasted the sweetnesse therof do contemne the wealth of all the world and count it but dung in comparison of it And therefore they are carefull to stand fast in that liberty wherewith Christ hath made them free Gal. 5.1 and hauing once escaped from the filthinesse of the world they are loath to be entangled again therein 2. Pet. 2.20 Vse 2 2 This may teach vs obedience to our Sauiour Christ Hee hath bought vs with a price 1. Cor. 6.20 let vs therefore glorifie God in our body and spirit Great is the benefit we haue receiued by the shedding of his blood much duty therefore wee owe vnto him Hee hath looked on the poore estate of his seruants Let vs therefore with the Prophet Dauid cry vnto him Behold Ps 116.16 I am thy seruant and the sonne of thine hand-maid He being the spotlesse and immaculate Lamb suffered not for himselfe but for vs Let vs therefore carefully auoyde sinne Gal. 5 24. and crucifie the flesh with the lusts thereof Againe in that Christ tooke bread then wine both bread and wine We learne That In Christ is full and perfect nourishment Doctr. 3. for as bread and wine are the ful nourishment of the body so the body blood of Christ are the ful and perfect nourishment of the soule of euery beleeuer Hence could the Prophet Dauid say Ps 114.15 Bread is giuen to strengthen the heart and Wine to nourish it No man can desire more this is full nourishment Wisedome also calleth for the simple and those that want vnderstanding Come I haue furnished my Table Pro. 9.2.5 eate of my bread and drinke of the wine that I haue mingled Here is also full nourishment and a Table richly furnished with good cheere But our Sauiour who is the wisedome of his Father in plaine tearmes speaketh of himselfe Ho euery one that thirsteth c. Is 55.1.2 Why doe you spend your money on that which is not bread Come buy and eate that which is good and let your soule delight it selfe in fatnesse and drinke yee of the Cup that I shall giue it shall bee be in you a well of water springing vp to euerlasting life Ioh. 4.14 so as you neither shall hunger nor thirst any more Heere then wee see that Christ is perfect nourishment Ob. But how is Christ perfect nourishment Obiect when as they that haue tasted of his sweetnesse hunger and thirst after him the more I answer that it is true the more a man feeles Christ Sol. the more he desires to bee possessed of Christ and the more grace he hath the lesse hee thinkes hee hath But for hunger and thirst wee must vnderstand them either for want of meate drink or as desire after meate and drinke Now hee that hath tasted of Christs merits and felt the sweetnesse of his body and blood shall neuer hunger and thirst that is shall neuer want or be so wholly destitute as hee was before he tasted though in the meane time he may be said to hunger and thirst touching his desire of Christ and yet no sooner shall hee desire Note but hee shall bee releeued and refreshed for Christ whom he hath tasted already shall be in him a Fountaine springing and ready to satisfie him in the midst of his desire 1 This may teach vs to hunger and thirst after Christ Iesus Vse 1. beeing vnto our soules both bread and drinke and to labour for a sense and feeling of both Men that are punished with penury and want of foode meate drinke bread c. they are maruailously griped and pained at the bottome of their stomacke they will not sticke to goe farre to market to buy their prouision yea the paine of hunger is so great that we reade of some who against nature haue eaten their owne children and the flesh of their owne armes But the truth is the most of vs are not acquainted with this spirituall hunger and thirst wee are like the Gadarens that would haue more swine and hogges and lesse of Christ or like the Israelites that hunger after the flesh pots of Egypt the things of this life worldly meates and drinkes which shall perish with the vse thereof and after riches and wealth Isa 5. how wee may ioyne house to house land to land If it were not so we should feele the want of Christ our foode we would not loath it as the Israelites did their Manna wee would not keepe away from it though it were further off vs then it is wee would trauaile to it and buy it seeing it is offered freely without money or money worth Oh therefore Isa 55. if we looke to bee saued and to taste how sweete Iesus Christ it let vs labour for this hunger and thirst after him For vnlesse wee bee touched with the feeling of our owne wants 2. grieuously pained for it 3. and vehemently long after Christ hee will neuer be our foode and nourishment 2 This may also serue for the consolation comfort of Gods children if they eare this bread Vse and drinke this wine that is if they be partakers of Christ by faith then they shall obtaine with Christ all things else remission of sinnes peace of conscience wealth length of daies grace and glory THey shall drinke to satisfie and

as good so this is as good that vnder these signes you receiue the vertue of Christs body blood by faith as if you did eat his body and drinke his blood indeed Ob. 3. But Christs calling is making Ob. 3. hee called bread his body therefore it is his body Sol. God called the Lamb the Passeouer Sol. is it therefore made the Passeouer or a signe of the passouer He called Circumcision the couenant was it therfore made the couenant or but a sign of the couenant So Christ called himselfe a Vine not that hee made himself a Vine but to signifie vnto vs that as the branches are in the Vine so the faithfull are in him here he calleth bread his body not that it was vpō the word spoken made his body but because it is the Sacrament signe figure of his body Ob. 4. Then it seemeth that there is nothing in the Sacrament but bread and wine Ob. 4. Sol. Not so Sol. In the Sacrament there is more thē the bare Elements Christ saith his body is there Paule saith that it is the communion of the body and blood of Christ therefore this bread goeth beyond common bread for it doth not only nourish the body as it did before but also it bringeth a bread with it which nourisheth the soule not so as the nature of this bread is changed that remaines but the vse of this bread is changed Ob. 5. But Christ is omnipotent and Almighty Ob. 5. hee can turne bread and wine into his body and blood and therefore he doth Sol. 1. It is an olde rule that from can to will there neuer followeth any good argument Sol. 2. God is not called Almighty A posse ad velle non sequitur argumentum because hee can doe all things but because hee is able to doe whatsoeuer his good pleasure is to doe There are certaine things which God cannnot do as for example God cannot deny himselfe he cannot lye hee cannot saue the reprobate and condemne the Elect Whatsoeuer is contrary to his Word that cannot God doe But for Christs body to be really in the Sacrament is contrary to Gods Word therefore God cannot doe that Ob. Ob. 6. 6. But Christ saith himselfe Behold Mat. 28.20 I am with you vnto the end of the world Sol. Sol. It is true Christ is with all his Elect vnto the end of the world spiritually but not corporally he is present among his Elect by his Spirit and grace but not with his naturall body Wheresoeuer two or three are gathered together in my name saith Christ there am I in the middest of them This promise of Christ and such like promises are to be vnderstood not of the corporall presence of Christ here in earth but of his spirituall presence by grace Let the Papists obiect for their transubstantiation what they will yet the truth is this the substance of the bread still remaines in the Sacrament it is not turned into the body of Christ And therefore let vs ground our selues in this That as Christ dwelleth in vs so he is present in the Sacrament and must be eaten of vs Christ dwelleth in vs spiritually by faith Eph. 3.17 therfore hee is spiritually present in the Sacrament and must bee eaten by faith Thus much of Christs promise in these words This is my body Which is broken for you Here is set downe and expressed the benefit and fruit of Christs promise the faithfull Disciples and in them all the Elect are made partakers of the benefit of his death and passion for hee gaue himselfe for their redemption hee had nothing else to giue he might haue said with Peter Gold and siluer haue I none Act. 3.6 neither by any other meanes could he saue his people and therefore He laid down his life for his sheep Ioh. 10.15 he suffered that they might be saued he was accused as guilty that they might bee innocent and hee dyed that they might liue Learne That None but the Elect haue benefit by Christs death and passion Doct. he hath put out the hādwriting of ordinances which was against them hee hath fastned it to the crosse hee hath closed vp the streigth and narrow inclosure of circumcision and broken downe the partition wall for their entrāce into his fathers house the priuiledges benefits of Christs death doe onely belong to the faithfull Heb. 9.12 By his blood he entred in once into the holy place obtained eternal redemption for vs that is for the faithfull and none other As Zachary saw in the heauenly vision two Oliue trees dropping oyle through the pipes into the bolles of the golden Candlesticke Zach. 4.2.3 So Christ this Oliue tree doth not conuey his graces to any by the vertue of his death which is as the pipe but to those that belong to the golden candlesticke of his Church Christ is only the Sauiour of his body Eph. 5.23 Reas 1 1 It was not Gods purpose that Christ should dye for all men for if he had how comes it to passe that some are damned already and others that haue no faith shall be damned hereafter either Gods purpose to saue thē is frustrate or else God cannot doe it and so something should resist the power of God which is blasphemy to thinke Secondly if God had such a purpose to saue all men and then after seeing the incredulity of man shold change his minde then the execution of Gods will should depend vpon the vncertainty and instability of the euent which doth derogate much frō the al-sufficiency of God and therefore we say that Christ suffered for none but such as haue their garments dipped in the blood of the Lambe Reas 2 2 Christ died for none but those for whom he prayed and they were none but the faithful Ioh. 17.9 as for the world he neuer prayed for it Yea further for whom Christ giueth himselfe to those hee giueth his Spirit to abide with them and to seale vp their saluation to their owne soules for the Spirit letteth them know the things that are giuen them of God But the world cannot receiue him for the world seeth him not nor knoweth him Ioh. 14.16.17 and much lesse can it receiue him Reas 3 3 For whom Christ gaue himselfe to them hee alwayes tendered his loue but hee euer shewed his loue abundantly to the faithfull He loued his Church saith the Apostle and therefore he gaue himselfe for it Eph. 5.25 And againe He loued vs and gaue himselfe for vs. Reu. 1.5 Now what is meant here by Vs all man-kinde or any of the wicked Nothing lesse but by it wee vnderstand Gods deare children and Saints Such as are washed from their sins Ver. 6. and are made Kings and Priests vnto God 4 If Christs death had beene effectuall for all men then it had beene impossible for any man yea the reprobates Cain Iudas and