that Mr H s is cleare beside the scope when he will have the feast there to be solemnized at the Lords Table belike because Luke calleth it a Supper so wise a man he is and so rationall a schollar in divine matters for he will have the invitation be as generall come ye all to the Lords Table But now he will contradict himselfe and speake against his owne experience He invites all and admits all to the Lords Table and who refuseth to Come But there the bulke of the Jewes mane light of the feast and their invitation to it and went their way they all with one Consent saith Luke made their excuse they had matters of more Concernment as they thought than that feast We read also how despitefully they used the servant sent to Call them in It is certainly the feast of the Gospell that meets with such opposition and as certaine it is That none of us Gentiles will Come-in to This feast neither to receive Christ there till we see need of Him and that He hath no need of us for we are in our owne eyeâ— being Convinced thereof by the Word and Spirit poore maimed halt and blind or if Luke 14. 21. Revel 3. 17. you please wretched miserable and naked being Convinced that such we are In we come then and not till then before thus Convinced Thus we stand out contradicting and Blaspheming and dealing as despitefully with the Lords Messengers now as once they did But you finde it not to be so with the Guests you invite to the Lords Table who refuseth to Come or who deales despitefully with you inviting them to Come we can name hundreds of those we thinke thousands who deale despitefully with the Lords Messengers that will not suffer them to Come to the Lords Table while they Contradict and blaspheme Christ offered them in the Gospell And so having cleared our way the sense and scope of this Parable we argue from it against this free admission to the Lords Table That they who turne their backes upon Christ offered to them in the Ministery of the Gospell must not be admitted to Communion at the Lords Table We take this to be so cleare to every one that hath not put out his owne eyes nor is blinded with light that to argue it further were to hold a Candle before the Sunne Yet this more we will say They that tread His most precious blood underfoote tendered unto them in the Gospell will deale with Him as swine like offered unto them at His Table not possible they should reject Him at one place and receive Him at another They goe from the place of hearing full of themselves they goe as full to the place of receiving Then it must needs follow that they loath the honey-Comb they trample it under-foote Prov. 27. as in the one place so in th' other You will say how doe we know that we are to hope well of all men they come to the place of heareing We answer you to that in anothers words to one that said he kept his Church so may your dogge too Yea but we heare so may your dogge too a sound Truely Sir this is not our English though yet we allow it knowing it to be a truth Alas Sir you know they were in the hearing place and they were hearing while they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulders and stopped their eares that they should not heare Yea they made c. Zach. 7 11. 12 They did not shutt the eare against audience but they did shutt the heart against Obedience hearing in Scripture account is obeying is beleiving if we obey not what we heare we are not said to heare as you know it is clearely made out to us from John 5. 37. 8. 47. by our Lords owne testimony And truely Sir you must if there be a must to doe your duty examine your people at this point whether they have through their eares received Christ into their hearts before you admitt them to the Lords Table But we may Contribute more to this hereafter onely this we have cleared in the 1 place against this your free admission to the Lords Table That they and they are the Greatest number must not have admittance thither that have refused Christ yea rejected Him in the Ministery of the Gospell for why should those tremenda mysteria be so prophaned why should those be be dealt with swine-like by swinish men worse than if trampled under-foote in the face of the Congregation SECT II. WE argue from the Covenant of Grace and mercy by Jesus Christ that He will be a God and a Father unto us very gracious for His Son's sake And that we may argue it more Clearely we should give our minds to Consider That there is an height and depth and length and breadth of grace love and mercy in this Covenant of God with us It is that which the Saints have laid up to use excellent Preston's words whereby he yet speaketh for the foundation of all their Comforts It hath been the Corner Stone upon which the Saints have been built from the beginning of the world to this day There is no ground we have to beleive we shall be saved no ground to beleive any promise of God shall be made good unto us that we shall have the price of the high Calling of God in Jesus Christ and those Glorious riches of the inheritance prepared for us in Him we say there is do ground at all but on this Covenant All that our Ministers teach us from day to day are but Conclusions of this Covenant they are built upon this God hath made a Covenant with us in Christ and we are in Covenant with Him He is our God in Christ and we His people through Him and have accesse to Him by one Spirit Now hence we argue THEY THAT ARE whoâ—y ignorant of all this and will be so turning their backes upon the meanes of Gods appointment whereby to make knowne this Covenant to the Children of Men and say in their heart the language whereof the Scripture speaketh We have made a Covenant with Hell and with death are we at an agreement these manner of persons thus sottish and brutish as we have heard have nothing to doe with the Seales thereof But thus sottish and brutishly ignorant are they for whome no other plea can be made for their admission to the Lords Table but that they were borne in England and Baptized there This therefore is our faith as to this point of admission That it is the duty of every faithfull Minister of Christ well and throughly to examine their people what knowledge they have of this Covenant at least what breathings they have after it and to make out their interest to it in the conscionable use of the meanes appointed by God for that Glorious end before they Give admission to the Lords Table or Bring their Children to Baptisme In our Earthly matters as Conveyances
the Spirit of Christ The saving knowledge faith in Christ and this by the preaching of the Gospell Thereby the Spirit flowes into the Heart and all with Him Faith the mother Grace with all her daughters all at once and all together While Peter yet spake the Holy Ghost fell on them all which heard the Word Acts 10. 44. 11. 15. The Case is Cleare The word preached is the Appointment of Christ to quicken the dead The Sacrament of His body and blood is His Appointment together with His Word to maintaine and quicken that life when to sence and feeling it is in a swound and fainting away This being a point of high concernment to be cleare in we crave leave to proceed farther in it in way of Answer to that may be gathered from the holy Scriptures against what hath been last said That the word of God where it is preached is the onely meanes in the Spirits hand of Conversion And indeed to mention it onely in passage here some Godly Ministers as is meet for us to judge doe ascribe conversion not to the act of receiving as the man of your perswasion doth and truely we thinke not one godly Minister in the world is of the same mind with you but to the exhortations and prayers in use at that time before and after the Sacrament is administred To this we shall speake hereafter in its proper place where we shall tell our perswasion as to that matter So we come to that we intend here 1. It is said Rahab the Harlot had faith and it saved her from perishing yet living out of the Church she could not heare the Heb. 11. 31. Word To this it is answered by our Perkins of sweet and pretious memory That where ordinary meanes faileth God can work extraordinarily by reports and rumours Josuah 2. 9 10 11. 2. It is said Pauls conversion was without the Word True it was very extraordinary immediate by the Lords owne Hand yet He would put an honour upon the word of His grace which He hath appointed for conversion He sent Ananias unto him vers 11. though the great work was don for behold he prayes And in the next Chapter Cornelius now converted must send for Peter 3. It is said 1 Pet. 3. 1. That the husband without the Word may be won True Without the word he may be gained to come to the word to heare it by the entreaties and perswasions of the wife frequenting the meeting place and by her good example and Christian carriage adorning the word which she had heard she might by the blessing of God win upon him to goe along with her to the place of hearing his body was drawn within the Church-doores without the word but his heart could not be drawn up to God without the word the Spirit of God and of Glory accompanying the same which is learned Bezaes interpretation there the summe of it And we conceive that we reade 1 Cor. 7. 16. fals under the same construction 4. Before we can put a close to this we would put a Question here and then put it to the holy Scriptures for resolution thereunto The Question is Whether an holy Discipline in private houses we meane a godly education there be not sufficient to turne the hearts of the Children to God and to worke in them a true actuall faith Before we enquire farther for resolution hereunto we would say this first That this ruling well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity workes marveilously upon them making such impressions upon the outâ—ard man as that they looke not as if they had been born dead in trespasses and sins Children under wrath as well as others Wee will proceed a little here to witnesse the honour we give to this Despised Discipline in families surely a family well Trained disciplined or Catechised is a very beautifull sight as is an Army well ordered all and every one keeping their ranks and doing their Duty A rulers walke before the ruled if according to the rule together with his exhorting comforting and charging every one of them as a Father doth his children is very winning and gaining upon the whole family to doe as the Ruler in cheife doth he being truely and indeed religious his very example is a command a Gâ—n 18 19. yea a compulsion b Gal 2. 14. to the ruled so as his whole family become religious too they give good hopes that way at least they seeme Jâ—h 24. 15. 〈…〉 so at the worst they oppose not for then they know they must be no longer there for a Ruler sits as in a Throne within his own house and scattereth away all evill with his eyes For the proofe hereof we entreat the Reader to consult with the Scriptures in the Margent We will note but one example of a Ruler whose carriage was so gratious in his family that he made not onely his family but his whole Court to be a Nurcery of Religion which may minde us what Philo Jud speaks of Joseph he made the Prison where he was a little Temple for the Spirit of God to dwell in And indeed it must be so He that knowes how to rule his own house well is in a good posture of spirit for publike rule The same wisdome and justice and holinesse for kinde onely more enlarged and extensive acts in eyther spheare and will regularly move in the little and the greater house The summe is A good Ruler who is norma publica is marvelously commanding for good as an evill example is marvelously compelling to evill Whence the complaints of our Godly Ministers in all ages which commands our mark and our mourning We will set downe here our excellent Burroughs his words upon Hosea 4. 25. Woe to such parents whose children if ever they come to themselves shall wish rather they had been of the generation of Dragons and off-spring of Vipers than begotten of such parents Adde hereunto worthy Mr Burges his words It is a woefull curse to be borne of wicked parents from whom the Children learne onely to curse sweare lie and rob prophane opposers of God and Godlinesse We will read M Baxters words also I know none on earth that play the Rest 3. 305. part of the Devill himselfe more truely than these men doe And if any thing that walks in flesh may be called a Devill I think it is a parent that hindereth his childe from salvation being carelesse of his education He goes on speaking terrible words to carelesse and negligent parents as the most are but our ears are sealed and our consciences sâ—ared we will not heare And so much to assure us that a pious education and holy discipline doth much where ever it is and the want of it doth much mischiefe but holy Doctrine doth all thereby the New Nature is wrought in young and old by God whereas by holy discipline our old nature is but painted and varnished over which
Lords Table for there you know the veriest varlet in the Towne if there be any such which perhaps you question may have admittance with his Children to Baptisme and if he please may come at the day appointed to the Lords Table as freely as you may come to an Inne and set up your beast in the stable And if you were questioned about your owne Towne where you give freedome enough to these fore-mentioned places the Font and the Table for you are of Mâ— Hs perswasion Wee beleive you could speake little of the good you have wrought among them by indulging that liberty to bring their Infants to Baptisme and anon after themselves to the Lords Table ignorant though they are some of them whome ye so freely admit as is ignorance it selfe Nay Sir to tell you our faith in these matters we verily beleive That Ministers generally all over the Nation having mightily obstructed their Gospell-worke in the Conversion of Sinners by suffering them to Come to the Table of the Lord there to receive Christ in the bread and wine before they could give any evidence they had received Him by the word of hearing we meane by the preaching of the Gospell You suffer them to step-over the Converting ordinance and admit them to the sealeing ordinance and now you may preach till your lungs are spent and doe no good among them Indeed this is our faith and which relating to such things that are the highest concernments of Gods Glory and good of His people we may not keepe in to our selves The great worke and buisinesse of preaching is you know to bring Christ and the soule together To call them in who are without then to confirme and strengthen them being brought in Now you should it is our faith waite Gods time till this be done till He hath by His Word and Spirit gathered a Church out of a Church we know this sounds harshly in your eares but why should it so till He hath gathered His Church out of your Church since you make it as wide as the little world in England till He hath taken them out of the world and added them to His Church set them in a safe * Act â— 4◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sure and immoveable state faâ—t upon their Rocke Christ as Mount Zion fast for evermore Doe you goe on now to doe your worke preach the Gospell and leave the Rest to God patiently waiting His time But in the meane time you shall never make us beleive had you the tongue of an Angell That wicked and unreasonable men for they have no faith which is the reason of the soule are the worse because they are denied the Seales of the Covenant But much worse which may be because they are admitted to pertake of those before their time for as once it was so it is now together with the bread and wine John 13. 2. 29. 30. the Devill enters them too and now see them in their walke and you see Devills incarnate no difference in their walke for as they see him doe so doe they onely they have flesh and bones so hath not he SECT IX IN the 9th place and so to tell you all that hath been to our best remembrance told us thereby to justifie your doings in Gods house as to the handing forth those sacred things there If the people may not be suffered to come to the Lord's Table to receive there as they expresse it They will not come to the place of hearing to receive the word there drive them from th' one place and they le drive you from th' other or if that they cannot doe they will not come at you or if they doe come they will cast your pearles whereof you are dispensers the word of God or Counsells thereof behind their backes they will not hearken to you Mat. 7. 6. To this we would reply these foure things and first by way of Question 1. How would this have sounded in the Apostles eares Commissioned by their Lord to preach unto the Heathen should these Heathen have sayd to the Apostles If ye will not Baptize us first we will heare none of your preaching We say how would this have been taken by the Apostles supposed those Heathen had spoken unto them these words Verily for so it seemes to uâ— the Heathen people now adayes speaking after the rate of those words before suggested speake the very same thing And how uâ—reasonable and wicked they shew themselves to be in so speaking is left upon your thoughts with this earrest request that your thoughts may be serious 2 We thinke it will be granted That the Gospell is the greatest Treasure or Talent of price that can be entrusted with the Children of men It is that which listeth up a people whether ye speake of a Nation or a man onely we allude to that in Job as High as heaven It is the rod of His pâ—wer the â—câ—ptâ—r of His â—ob 34. â—â— Kingdome the grand Instrument we will borrow that excellently Learned man's words whereby He accomplisheth all His 〈…〉 designes in the world whether they be for life or for death 2 Cor. 2. 16. He hath given that a right to take possession in His Name and authority of all that He will owne in any Nation under heaven Now if this be rejected by us we will have none of it unlesse upon our owne termes and order of our own appointment give us the Body and Blood of Christ first As if we would say give us the seales of the Covenant but for the Covenant it selfe opned unto us in the Gospell we will have none of that We were saying If the Gospell of the Grace of God be put away Acts 20. 24. Acts 1â— 26. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Maâ—h 21. 41. and driven with all our might from us as that which is most loathed by us or hatefull to us we shall be miserably destroyed anon as those Despizers for we are pointed at there But vestra res agitur You know your Lords order how tender He is of it and the judgement that is written shall be their portion who will remove the bounds that you may not doe like them Yee can take it into your Consideration and put it upon ours That if This Rich Talent we called the Gospell so laded with pearles be not used and improved first no other Talent can nor can we expect any other Talent given to us in mercy no more than we can another Gospell For the Lord doth not say as we foolishly may dreame and doe according as we have dreamed The man hath not improved his Talent nay he hath abused it What though give him another Talent No Take therefore the Talent from him and give Math 25. 28. it unto him which hath ten Talents The onely wise God will not doe as His unwise Stewards doe if He will owne them for His as to Gospell Administrations The man hath denied renounced his
more than touched upon three things specially the Word preached how they pressed to that place and listned to it when they came thither Secondly the Covenant of Gods free grace by Jesus Christ blessed for ever Thirdly Faith upon that we were the more large all beareing upon that being the hinge of all Now Sir this is our earnest desire That you with your Brethren would looke over this againe and lay your doctrines manner and practise before your people to that Standard for we choose to speake in that number And 1. Doe ye presse upon your people the necessitie of heareing and before you admit them to the Lords Table doe ye take time and place to search them to the bottome what they have profitted by heareing You know hereby they are hewen and made polished Stones and so fitted to be laid in the Lords building we trust you doe not doe as the Master of your Lord doth Polish your people at the Lords Table Surely they are to be made readie as those Stones were before they should have your admittance to 1 Kings 6. 7. Come thither And to proceed doe you aske what is that grace they must have before they can profit In our zeale for the Lords Christ yours and your peoples precious soules we shall question you in these grave points and so returne in all thankfullnesse your godly jealousies touching us and our way by putting it upon your thoughts what your way is with your people and how with them They with you walke therein You know but have you as you can made your people know it That preaching is the Chariot that carrieth Christ all about the Nationall Church we had almost said the world And the onely Appointment of God in the Spirits Hand to plucke them out thence as Lot out of Sodome It is the Ordinance sanctified of God for the begetting of faith in the beginning or Alpha of it so in the encreasings of it to the Omega or perfecting of the same It is that â—hereby that which is begun is perfected and that maintained which is begun It is that whereby the abundant riches of Grace through Jesus Christ are Conveyed unto us by Covenant we have said all 2 Tim 1. by Covenant life and immortality is brought to light by the Gospell preached the Ministery thereof there is not onely an unfolding of the gloriously excellent things of Christ but there is grace given by the Spirit to beleive them Thereby th' understanding that everlasting dore is opned to Jesus Christ Him that is true the true God and eternall life Now th' understanding closes with 1 Joh. 5. 20. Him or rather He by His Spirit with the understanding He is Truth The will and affections are drawn-out to Him also Oh how good is He to the Soule what a lovely object altogether desires By preaching all this is done it is the Chariot of the Cant. 5. Spirit it is the meanes that worketh faith which is the marriage of the Soule to Christ uniteth the soule to Him planteth it in Him maketh it one with Him And now she begins to know the abundant riches and glorious excellencies of Her Husband and the way of Conveyance of all these unto her by Covenant but still the first doore that is opned to all this is the eare and it is opned by heareing by heareing the eare is made able to heare we meane by the word the Spirit boreth it and now faith comes-in and fetcheth all-in the soule stands in need of Christ and all and all as sure as a Covenant of God with His people in Christ can make it Hold you to this still we meane hold your people to it faith comes by heareing it hath the stamp and institution John 10. 17. of God upon it and heareing by the word of God This was the ground of the Apostles faith not all the miracles they had seene John 2. 22. They Beleived the Scriptures and the word which Jesus had said Eph. 1. 13. The ground of the Ephesians faith also In whom ye also trusted after that ye HEARD the word of truth the Gospell of our Salvation The very end of all that is written touching Christ John 20. 31. and is preached of Him that ye might beleive c. Chaâ—ge this point home so your Lord Chargeth you and examine your people about their faith in God They will say they beleâ—ve Numb 22. 18. They will say as Balaam did My God and so will they say our God Hosea 8. 2 we know Thee Tit. 1. 16. Heare them now how they can make out what they say Doe they know Him whom they call theirs here you are like to find your people as grossely ignorant as were their fore-fathers of whome ye say saith our Blessed Lord That He is your God Joh. 8. 54 55. yet ye have not knowne Him We that have accustomed our tongues to lying ever since we were borne must not be credited in what we say till you have heard us making out what we say by giving a reason of the hope that is in us for truely thus it is with us for the most part We understand neither what we say nor what we affirme in God's matters Yea we commonly say we know the Father and the Son when we oppose the meanes appointed by God to convey this knowledge to us Now you shall doe well to tell us rebus sic stantibus That we are as well qualified to have Communion with Christ at His Table as a Wadd of dried stubble is to have Communion with a Consuming fire and doe no more enjoy Him there than midnight enjoyes the Sunne And that we doe indeed and in truth no more desire Communion with Christ the King at His Table or in any other place than darknesse can desire Communion with light or Beliall with Christ We are grossely ignorant of what we doe when we approach by your allowance the Lords Table It is not possible Fruimur Cognitis Ignoâ—i multa Cupido we can enjoy that we have no knowledge off or acquaintance with nor can our desires move towards an unknowne object Good Sir speake these things out to us your people we meane We are somewhat the larger here a point of so high concernment being Confident also of this very thing That you find your people cleane crosse to their Rule as your Brethren doe every where slow to heare and swift to speake for the Lords Supper We conceive the reason thereof to be this In a heareing place they cannot heare one word if it be the true word of God which is pleasing to flesh and blood it speakes death to their lusts if ever it speakes life to their soules Therefore they hate the word a killing word deadly because they love their lusts dearely They will have none of that meate which endureth to everlasting life none of the wine of the Gospell but as much bread and wine as you
with him both together and at one instant which may make us more observant of the words that follow which we borrow of our Learned Reinolds Was a beast slaine for touching the Mount and shall not a man of vile and beastly affections be punished for touching the Table where our Lord is present No we would say The vile and beastly Minister deserveth rather of the two to be punished who admitts alloweth yea invites men of Beastly and vile affections to come to That Table where the Lord is present The allowance of a thing done which was said before and cannot be too often said is as good as the Commission for the doing of it said our excellent Jewell We would adde to this the prayer of a good man Lord deliver me from mine other mens sinnes which I may have made mine if not by Command Councell or Consent yet by Connivance give me Repentance for them good Lord and forgive them It is a knowne saying and bids you beware for qui in conspectu populi male vivit quantum in se est omnes se videntes interficit He that sinneth in the open view of the people doth as much as in him lyes to murther all that looke upon him and behold him sinning The application is easie and summed up in this the Presumers and the Consenters shall be punished together and which shall receive the sorest punishment is not hard to determine The actions of the Rulers being the Rules for the Ruled We beseech you all by the mercies of Christ we would peswade you by the terrour of the Lord whose Stewards you are and by the blessing yee expect from in and upon the Ministery of the Gospell that yee would Consider these things and greater things than these as the Spirit called upon in the reading His word may suggest unto you and fully resolve you at this point That your great Lord and Master to Whome yee are shortly to give an account of your Stewardship will not endure to have holy things prophaned as if Common and uncleane Therefore this is our perswasion grounded upon the word of God and practise of His people Ye must appoint time and place where and when your people may give you the meeting there to know the state of your flocke which yee can never Phil. 2. 19. Col. 4. 8. know at such a distance in the publique place You cannot there in that publique place doe as Paul did and as you ought to doe You know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you as a father doth his Children every one of you he had them alone and apart sure there is a necessitie of it a Must for this yea though it were according to that offer or desire rather of your Learned Brother and Neighbour which is That all persons in a Christian Common-wealth should give an account of their Faith before they marry and become parents and why not before they are admitted to the Lords Table Wee professe heartily this were a notable expedient and would helpe much for the removeing of that Barr which hath letted and will lett till it be removed the admission of their Infants to Baptisme by Godly Ministers But wee may desire rather than hope that this Course will be taken That all before they marry and become Parents shall give an account of their Faith Though we conceive this Course ought to be taken with those who for nine Moneths have lived in uncleannesse That these should not be married the tenth moneth before they had made their Repentance as publique as their offence was For Certainly this ought not to be That a Couple be married to day and be made Parents tomorrow Surely They did not give an account of their faith This was done in the world the Nationall Church there in a Parochiall Church very few miles off from you for the part hath the same name with the whole and a part in this huge we had almost said monstrous Church is too great for such small things as these to be looked after Indeed Sirs ye must Contract and Epitomize your Church for if this Course were taken your Godly Brother prescribes here Notwithstanding you must have your private meetings with your people Surely after a serious debate betwixt your selves about these matters you will finde it we humbly conceive your onely way to Abridge and Contract your huge large volume of Beleivers who can shew no more for their faith but their Infant Baptisme into a little little volume they must and they will goe close together they will never be looked over else though every one of you had an hundred eyes taking one of an hundred and ten of a thousand and this may Comfort you in this troublesome and vexatious worke so flesh and blood will finde it yours and theirs That one believer indeed who can give a reason of the hope that is in him is more excellent than are an hundred of those who can alledge no more for the Cleansing of their hands and purifying their hearts but that when time was their faces were sprinkled with water Now when ye shall set upon this worke ye must we conceive appoint a set time and place to meete at Now because there is a spewing Cast upon these meetings in use onely as we conceive amongst the Brethren of the Congregationall way we meane all those that seperate from the world at the Lords Table for the word Independant is very unbecomeing Churches or Creatures it was Cast-in by the enemy and adversary of all righteousnesse we were saying because this way and these meetings lie open to much Obloquie from that wicked one the Father of lyes and all His Children as that these meetings are the Nurse or vis plastica the very fomenting Cause of errors and heresies besides it Chargeth the Holy Brethren with separation or making a schisme or Rent from their Brethren and so in a manner excommunicates them from their Company Wee intend with Gods helpe to speake something to this but because this part of our worke hath exceeded its proportion the gravity and weight of the matters here under debate and maintenance so requiring wee thinke it fitt to deferre it to the Last and to close with it and our Spirits if the Lord be pleased alltogether and all in one for wee intend to turne-in unto you after our manner at the end of our worke Now in the Close of this Chapter we would speake to the Christian Reader whose eternall good is full in our eye which makes us to bend after it night and day in our Reinolds words Though we may have our Minister's leave and free admission to the Lords Table yet let us not venter to receive such sacred things with unwashed hands as matters of meere Custome fashion or formalitie But let us looke unto that High Authority That ordeined them on that holy Mouth That Blessed them on That Arme of Mercy That exhibits them being ever assured That as Christ hath one hand of Bounty and Redemption which reacheth forth life to the worthy Receivers So hath He another of Justice and power ready to avenge the injuries and Contempt that shall be done to His owne holy Institution A little after he speakes to Ministers and people to Ministers Let not your hands againe play the Judas by delivering Him againe unto Jewish and sinnefull soules which will Crucifie againe unto themselves the Lord of glory To us the people Let not us take His pretious blood into our hands rather to shed it than to drinke it and by Receiving the body of Christ unworthily make it as the sop was to Judas even an Harbenger to provide roome for Satan Who is wise and he shall understand these things prudent and he shall know them for the wayes of the Lord are right and the Just shall walke in them but the transgressors shall fall therein That ye may be such we Commend you all to God and the word of His Grace which is able to build-you up and to give you an inheritance among all that are sanctified The Lord Jesus Christ be with your Spirits Grace be with you AMEN ⸪ FINIS