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A04377	Directions for the vvorthy receiuing of the Lords Supper with some few questions to the same purpose. By Robert Iension, Batchelor in Diuinity, and Minister of Gods Word, at New-Castle vpon Tine.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1624 (1624)	STC 14490; ESTC S119429	15,511	55

The second duetie is when wee see our sin to consider how hatefull a thing it is in it selfe how abominable to God all good men that so wee may know it with a féeling of the burthen of it and with true sorrow that thereby wee should offend and shew our selues vnthankfull to so louing a Father and bountifull a GOD. Then must wee humble our selues in hearty and earnest Prayer vnto GOD confessing vnto him our sinnes our vnknowne sinnes generally our knowne sinnes particularly and that fréely without any excuse defence or hiding the least of them So did Dauid Psal 32. Psal 51. and withall wée must make earnest intreaty and deprecation to God in the Name and mediation of Christ Iesus who died for our sinnes that God would in mercy pardon them all and seale vnto vs the pardon of them by his Spirit and héere euery one must frame his confession according to his owne néede at the least in sighes and sobs of the heart and the secret desires thereof To this end where whiles men cannot in priuate so well pray of themselues may bee vsed such formes of prayer as may bee found in the Leitargie of the Church and in riuers godly Bookes framed for this particular occasion Lastly there must be in our repentance an holy and full purpose of heart and intendment of new obedience for time to come and a resolution with Gods helpe to withstand all sinnes and to vse care to preuent all occasions thereof CHAP. 6. Of Charity BEsides all these which respect God wee must also bee in loue and perfect charity with our neighboures If they haue offended vs wee must bee ready to forgiue them especially vpon their request and acknowledgement euen as God for Christs sake forgaue vs who had offended him and as wée our selues in the Lords Prayer desire to be forgiuen as wee our selues forgiue others And if we haue iustly offended others wee must seeke peace with them their loue and not be ashamed to acknowledge our faults This is so necessary that God will haue his seruice stay till it bee performed and without it will not accept our seruice and sacrifice He would haue vs leaue our offering Goe thy way and first bee reconciled to thy brother c. Math. 5.24 CHAP. VII Of Examination ALl the fore-named things are necessary in euery Christian at all times but especially when wee are to come to the holy Communion wee are to practise these dueties and to renew our faith and our repentance to examine our selues whether these graces bee in vs in truth and synserity or no according to 2. Cor. 13.5 1. Cor. 11.28 especially our Faith and Repentance Our Faith is true when first it is grounded namely on Gods Word and not on traditions or authority of men When wee find that Gods Word hath beene effectuall in vs and our selues altered thereby so that we remaine not still the same we were long since and if therfore we haue a loue and desire to Gods Word that by it our Faith may bee increased If our Faith be set on a right Obiect that is if it beleeue the same Word of God as well the threatnings of it as the promises especially if it truely rely vpon the mercy of GOD and merits of CHRIST By the fruites of it wee may know it if our Faith purifie our heart Act. 15 9. and if it work in vs an endeuour is please God in all things if wee can beleeue God and his Trueth euen before experience as did the Woman of Canaan Math. 15.22 and when wee feele not his presence yea if with Iob wée can trust in God though hee seeme to kill vs and bee our enemie These may suffice for the present Our repentance is then true First when wee are sorry not so much for punishment or shame of our sinne as that thereby we haue offended and displeased our louing God and Father Secondly when we are sorry and repent of all sin and doe not secretly desire to liue in or to inioy still any one pleasant sinne but resolue to leaue euery sinne for the loue we owe to God Lastly when wee presently and without delay so soone as wée see and know our sinne doe repent Sée Psal 119.59 60. I made haste and delayed not to keep thy Commandements Our Charity and loue to our brethren is then good and sound when wee loue them not in by respects for feare or profit and delight but as they are Christians and because God loues them they being his friends yea because we loue God so when wee wish them the best things as that they were partakers with vs of Christ and of life euerlasting when we can forget and forgiue priuate iniuries and hate not their persons but their sinnes c. ☞ Note If after examination wee finde these graces in vs though but weake yet wée may bée comforted and wée must come If we feele our selues vnworthy knowe that this sense and feeling of sin where there is no purpose to liue in sin is an argument of grace by our corrupt nature wee cannot discerne of our corruptions but by grace onely This Supper is a remedy for our weaknes and corruption Christ calling the weary humble and contrite vnto him Matth. 11.28 Luke 4.18 Wée must not looke so much to come perfect as to goe from it perfect that is more perfect and better then wée came If thou canst but desire that grace which thou wantest assure thy selfe of it God will giue it nay He accepts the desire for the grace it selfe For if lustfull desire after a woman be in Gods account adultery and the sinne it selfe Mat. 5.28 much more is the desire of any Grace in Gods acceptance the Grace it selfe desired God inclining as much to mercy as to iustice and as ready to take in good worth our good desires as to take the aduantage of our euill desires CHAP. VIII Of dueties to be performed in this holy Action OVr behauiour during the time of the celebration of this holy Action must be decent with all reuerence to the high Maiestie and presence of God and to his diuine Ordinance Now whereas the benefits and grace we receiue in this Sacrament are conuayed vnto vs as on Gods part by His Spirit so on our part by a kind of reasoning in the mind and an inference and vse-making from the collation or comparing conferring the outward signes with the things signified thereby Wee are therefore when wee come to the Table of the Lord not to suffer our minds to wander after impertinent matters but to apply our hearts to diligent attention and consideration reasoning with our selues and making vse of euery thing in this Sacrament which we behold as thus When we behold and sée bread and wine to be set apart to signifie vnto vs the body and bloud of Christ then must we further meditate and consider That this Sacrament is ordained for our spirituall nourishment and increase

DIRECTIONS FOR THE WORTHY Receiuing of the Lords SVPPER With some few Questions to the same purpose By ROBERT IENISON Batchelor in Diuinity and Minister of Gods Word at New-Castle vpon Tine 1 Cor. 11.28 Let a man examine himselfe and so let him eate c. LONDON Printed for Iohn Harrigat and are to be sold at the Holy Lambe in Pater-noster Row 1624. TO MY CHRISTIAN Hearers of the Parishes of S. Nicholas and All-Saints in New-Castle vpon Tine especially to the yonger and ruder sort of them R. I. wisheth a competent measure of the Spirit of Wisedome and vnderstanding of the Spirit of Knowledge and of the feare of the Lord. WHat I now in heart and euer in my hearty and dayly Prayers vnfaynedly wish on your behalfe right deare beloued Brethren I am not as you know neither shall I euer God assisting be awanting to further by my dayly and best endeuours for you whether it bee by my Preaching or by my Pen though this latter finds enough to doe to prepare matter for your eares not eyes To which end as also for the publike good of many others I haue not beene vnwilling at the requests of some that these few directions following which nigh seuen yeeres since were at the earnest intreaty of a neere friend summed vp in haste should after they had also sounded in your eares see the light and passe euen rudely as at first when there was no purpose of publishing them they were written without any alteration vnder the publike censure of the world hoping yea earnestly desiring men would bring rather humble and hungring hearts than curious and catching heads to the reading of them that so they may indeed truely profite by them As I shall vnderstand these ruder older and hastier Meditations are accepted of I shall bee encouraged to greater further and fresher paines in publishing soone after what I hope will not bee vnprofitable to the Church of GOD whose Seruant I doe professe my selfe as also Yours in the Lord Robert Ienison From my House in New-Castle vpon Tine Ian. 12. 1623. To the Christian and carefull READER THou soule-sicke Christian solace gather hence Who art exil'd in sense from Cana'ns Land Lo heer 's a Briefe of that true Euidence Which God hath pen'd with his most holy Hand And lest some doubt possesse thy silly Soule That seale-lesse Blancks those Copies proue to bee Take comfort for th' inspir'd and sacred Roule Of Gods great Booke is sealed vnto thee With Graces rich inclos'd both more and lesse If thou to practise This thy selfe addresse Ad eundem Pacis Sacramenta licet signacula fiant Non nisi sint sacrâ mente recepta simul C. F. A BRIEFE DIRECTION FOR THE WORTHY RECEIVING OF THE Lords Supper CHAP. I. Three sorts of dueties are to be performed of euery worthy Communicant and three things especially are to be looked vnto THere must be an antecedent disposition in the receiuer and a performance of such duties as may prepare him There must bee a right behauiour in the performance of this holy action There are duties to be performed after CHAP. II. Of such graces as are needfull in euery worthy Communicant THis Sacrament being a most holy ordinance of God belongs not of right indifferently to all but to such onely as God doth accept and account as worthy in his Sonne Iesus Christ We are all of vs in our selues and by our corrupt nature altogether vnworthy to partake of any mercy and especially of that grace which is both offered and sealed vnto vs in the Sacrament Yet God in his Sonne Christ our Sauiour is ready to accept vs if we come clothed with the wedding garment of his righteousnesse putting it on vs by faith Faith then of necessitie is required in euery worthy Communicant Now true Faith as it is grounded vpon sound and sauing Knowledge so it is and must be accompanied with true Repentance and with the fruits thereof especially Charitie These foure graces then are necessary in euery worthy Communicant 1 Knowledge 2 Faith 3 Repentance 4 Charitie Neither must we onely haue them but we must know so much which knowledge is got by examination CHAP. III. Of Knowledge GOd would haue vs offer vp to him reasonable seruice as an acceptable sacrifice Rom. 12.1 And not like shéep each follow other without knowledge and consideration what we doe Knowledge is the beginning of all grace Prou. 19. 2. Acts 26.18 1 Tim. 2.4 And Ignorance is highly displeasing vnto God In this Sacrament knowledge is required that we may examine our selues 1 Cor. 11.28 The Rule of examination is partly the Law of God by which we are to examine our selues our repentance and obedience and partly the Gospell by which we must examine our faith These two as being the rules of our triall must therefore first be knowne We must then know what the Law will tell vs that howsoeuer we were made at the first in our first parents Adam and Eue in righteousnesse and holinesse according to Gods image yet now we are all of vs by our first birth corrupt children ouer-spred with the leprosie and leauen of sinne vnapt to conceiue or doe any thing truly good prone and readie to doe all euill and that accordingly we dayly bring forth and multiply the bitter fruits of Sinne by our actuall trangressions not doing what good we should doe and doing the euill we should not doe and that therefore in this regard we are all naturally as the slaues of Satan who rules in our hearts by Sinne so the children of death and heires of damnation The iust reward of our sinne being the wrath and curse of God and death of body and soule euerlastingly Yet we must further know what the Gospell reueales namely that Gods will is not such is his loue that we all should perish as we most iustly deserue but that we should be saued and come vnto the knowledge of the truth 1. Tim. 2.4 That is that all of all sorts beléeuing the Gospell should be saued the tenour and substance of the Gospell being comprised in these words Iohn 3.16 God so loued the world that he gaue his onely begotten Sonne that whosoeuer beleeueth in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting For the confirmation of which promise to vs wee must further know that God hath annexed and added seales which we call Sacraments whereof it is fit also we should haue some generall knowledge Sacraments therefore are outward and visible signes and seales of some inward inuisible grace Or they are holy signes ordained of God whereby the couenant of grace betweene God and the partie receiuing these signes is solemnely sealed confirmed and ratified This couenant of grace is that whereby God on his part First promiseth to be our God that is all in all vnto vs Gen. 17.7 and that we shall not perish as we had deserued but haue euerlasting life through and by Christ Iesus which none of vs deserues But withall as