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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67627	A box of spikenard: or A little manual of sacramental instruction and devotion especially, helpful to the people of God, at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper. With some other formes expedient for some peculiar occasions. The third edition, by Thomas Walmestry, Dean of Worcester.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing W881; ESTC R218419	28,612	228

from proceeding in judgement against his people Pillers to support the ruinous fabrick of the tottering societies of men to keep the world from ruine and destruction according to that saying I take it of the Jews Sine stationibus non consisteret mundus The world is held up by the Congregations of Gods people and if there be any charms to be had that may raise up our dry bones of this confused and distracted and demolished Church and Nation they must be had not from Councels or Armies but from the devout performances of the congregations of Gods people which may shew you the reason why I have been so earnest with you for your presence and assistance in these assemblies in these times of our calamity of non conformity Sure I am if the Devill trembles at any thing that can be done upon earth it is at the gatherings of holy Congregation and at the work that they have in hand And of all the holy actions of a Congregation the most heavenly excellent the most perfect glorious and comfortable is the Holy Solemnity of the Supper of the Lord which is as it were the summe and recapitulation of all other duties There the Covenant of Baptisme is renued and confirmed There the Word is administred and sealed There the Laws of God are owned and subscribed as the articles on our part in that treaty of Peace between God and us which is there presented and managed There the promises the articles on Gods part are made sure established particularly unto every faithful receiver which are promised in general in the Holy Book and the Gospel is brought home unto every devout soul with all the blessings thereof for look what the Gospel promiseth that the Sacrament sealeth and delivereth unto every faithfull receiver in particular Their solemn praise and thanksgiving is offered unto God in the thankfull memorial of the death and passion of Christ which is there presented unto us for that great redemption that he hath wrought for us There the sweet incense of most earnest prayers and holy desires are exhaled unto God And there we have our petitions granted subscribed and sealed with the blood of Christ There we offer up our selves in homage unto God and Christ that gave his Son and that offered up himself for us There we present our Almes and Oblations to the Lord that we may answer his Mercy and Compassion unto us in mercy unto others and devotion unto him There we binde up our selves afresh and more and more in the holy Communion of Saints with the Church triumphant in Heaven and militant upon Earth There we are confirmed in our Union and Communion with Christ and receive his body and blood inseparably united to his Divinity with all the benefits of his Death and Passion really and truly applied unto our soules that by the merrit of his death and sufferings our sins may be pardoned that by the merrit of his Righteousnesse our persons may be justified that we may be enlightened by the beams of his heavenly Wisdome sanctified by the holinesse of his heavenly Graces refreshed with the cordials of his heavenly Comforts that we may be strengthened by the might of his heavenly Virtue that we may be enriched with the riches of his heavenly Blessings that we may be crowned at length and saved by his heavenly Glory and Salvation And receiving Christ we have power in him to become the Sonnes of God John 1.12 And if Sons then heirs heirs of God and joynt heirs with Christ If so be that we suffer with him that we may be also glorified together Rom. 8.17 Yea we have God in him For in him dwelleth all the fulnesse of the God-head bodily Col. 2.9 We have the Father in him For he that acknowledgeth the Sonne hath the Father also and truly our fellowship is with his Father and with his Sonne Jesus Christ 1 Joh. 2.23 1 Joh. 1.3 And if we have the Father and the Sonne we have the Holy Ghost For hereby we know that he abideth in us by the spirit which he hath giveu us 1 Joh. 3.24 So that the whole blessing of the Apostle is upon us in the use of this holy Sacrament The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all Amen What shall I say it is visibile Evangelium a visible Gospel and if you use it as you ought to do it will be to you vivum Evangelium a living Gospel a working Gospell a Gospel in possession not in your ears but in your hearts Here all mercies are conveyed and sealed all graces are confirmed and exercised Here repentance is imployed quickened faith is actuated strengthned hope encouraged devotion enflamed charity kindled peace concord established if there be a heaven upon earth it is in the holy opperation of a congregation devoutly celebrating the holy Supper of the Lord. This is the Holy plaister or love-charm to make us in love with God and one another and to make God also in love with us The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or soveraign antidote against sin The food of life the viaticum of eternity The universal medicine for all our diseases and an Ark of safety against all our dangers And now by this you may know the reason why I have been so earnest with you of my Congregation not to neglect the blessed opportunities that God offers you for your addresses unto him in the use of this holy mistery and to prepare your selves thereunto and why I have offered you this help which is presented unto you in this ensuing Treatise The truth is that I finde my self under very great obligations unto you I have received much of the comfort of my life from you and the great tenderness love and care that you have shew'd unto me in my late sickness the recovery from which Low under God in a great measure unto some of you addeth unto the endearments that are upon my soul toward you and it lies upon me to do my endeavour to answer your love which God in his mercy inable me and direct me to do in such a way as may be most for your good and spirituall advantage and truly I think I am in the way for I cannot pitch upon any thing that can be done more summarily or effectually in order to all your good and happinesse than to assist you in that great and excellent performance of the use of the Lords Supper for since it is a duty of so great perfection and so comprehensive of the whole businesse of a Christian and so entitling us to the whole treasure comfort of the Gospel if I shall prevaile with you to be good Communicants I am sure I shal have then prevailed with you to be good Christians and then you must needs be both a holy and a happy people Now there are three things that I finde necessary to be done that

that he may stand with joy and comfort before the Tribunal of thy Sonne Christ Jesus and receive the blessed sentence of everlasting life and salvation give him a saving sight and sense of his sinns that he may mourn for them from the bottom of his heart and offer unto thee the sacrifice of a broken and contrite spirit which thou O God wilt not despise grant him that godly sorrow that worketh Repentance unto salvation not to be repented of let nothing be so grievous unto him as that he hath sin'd against thee his mercifull and gracious God the God of his life and of his being and of all the blessings and comforts that ever he hath enjoyed The God that didest not spare thine own Sonne but gavest him up to dye for him enable him to confesse his sins unto thee that he may mouth for his sinns and finde pardon from thee affect him with a perfect hatred against sin that he may hate it above death hell it self Help him to loath himself for all those offences that he hath committed against thee make him vile in his own eyes that he may be dear precious in thy sight and give him a true love unto thy Lawes and Commandements that it may be the joy of his heart to do thy heavenly will in all things and let the sense and horrour of the corruptions of his nature and the wickednesse of his life not drive him from thee but let it drive him unto thee that he may fly for refuge into the bosome of that rich mercy that thou hast opened unto him in the Lord Jesus Christ Help him to reforme every thing that is amisse and to give himself up wholly unto thee to seek thy glory and to do thy heavenly will in all things purge and cleanse his soul from all evill thoughts ungodly affections distempered passions from all sinfull inclinations whatsoever and fill him full of holy thoughts of heavenly meditations devour affections and good inclinations toward thee his God wean him from the world and from all the vanities thereof and from all the sinfull pleasures of the flesh that he may set his affections wholly upon thee and upon things that are above where Christ Jesus sitteth at thy right hand seal unto him his pardon in the blood of thy Sonn by the inward testimony and grace of thy spirit let thy spirit of adoption cry Abba father in his heart strengthen his faith unto an holy and comfortable assurance of his interest in Christ crucified and in all thy mercies towards thy people in him make him to know that though he is a miserable sinner in himself yet the Death and Passion of thy Son hath satisfied thy Justice for all his iniquities and that though he hath no righteousnesse of his own to plead unto thee yet the righteousnesse of thy Son is his Justification in thy sight Oh Transcribe the promises of thy holy Gospel upon the Table of his heart that they may be unto him the sure evidence of his eternal inheritance in heaven Oh let the Mediation and Intercession of thy Sonne Christ Jesus at thy right hand prevaile with thee for all those mercies and graces and heavenly blessings that are needfull for him And let the sense of thy great mercies toward him and of thy great love unto him in the Lord Jesus his Saviour enflame his soul with an holy and fervent love unto thee that he may love thee with all his heart and with all his soule and with all his minde and with all his strength that he may love thee above his life and above his soul and that he may be willing to part with all that is dear unto him for thee that nothing may be dear unto him in respect of thee That he may love thee in all thy perfections in all thy mercies and all thy works in all thy dispensations in all thy corrections that thou art pleased to lay upon him Help him to discover thy tender mercy and Fatherly loving kindnesse unto his Soul shining forth unto him through all the clouds of that sickness and affliction that is or shall be upon him from thy hand and to taste thy sweetnesse in all the bitternesse of his trouble give him some comfortable relishes of those incomprehensible joyes and delights that are in thee that as the Hart panteth after the water-brooks so his soul may long and thirst and faint and languish after thee make him sick of love toward thee which is the only true health of his Soul Blessed God furnish thy servant with true Christian love charity to all thy people for thy sake Help him to forgive al that have wronged him to love his enemies to blesse them that curse him to do good to them that hate him to pray for them that despightfully use him and persecute him Give him reconciled affections to all with whom he hath had any difference make him desirous to do good unto all and as much as in him lyeth to live peaceably with all men Direct him and incline him readily willingly to seek reconciliation and to make satisfaction in case he hath done wrong or given any just cause of offence unto any Help him to settle his estate according to the rules of prudence righteousnes and charity to shew mercy to the poor as thou enablest him and to order all his affairs with discretion Bind him up in the Communion of thy Church and in the fellowship of a spiritual love and of a heavenly life with thy people give him tender affections towards thy Church and to those that are thine in faith and holinesse that he may be known to be thy disciple by his love unto thy people Give him patience to submit unto thy chastisements that he may bear them with a christian minde make him with a child like affection to accept of thy correction and to kiss every rod wherewith thou smitest him for his good give him an heart wholy resigned up unto to thy heavenly pleasure that he may refer himself entirely unto thee to choose for him and to deal with him as thou knowest to be most expedient that he may entrust thee as his merciful father reconciled to him in Christ and as the alwise and all sufficient God with his life and soul and all his happiness and with all his relations and concernments And deal with him in all things tenderly and graciously according to those bowells of compassion that thou bearest to thy people Be thou health unto him in all his sicknesse strength unto him in all his weaknesse comfort unto him in all his distresse life unto him in death it self stand by him in all temptations and trials to keep him from fainting and to give him the victory in Christ Jesus that he may obtain the Crown of thy heavenly glory Binde up Satan and all his spiritual enemies that they may not be able to hurt him make thou all his bed in his sicknesse and