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A10135	The table of the Lord whereof, 1. The vvhole seruice, is the liuing bread. 2. The guests, any man. 3. The mouth to eate, faith onely. By Gilbert Primerose, Doctour of Divinitie, one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinary, and pastour of the French church at London.	Primrose, Gilbert, ca. 1580-1642.	1626 (1626)	STC 20392; ESTC S114083	64,701	238

the living God but the Father which is in heauen and it is as difficile yea as impossible to beleeue in Christ as to resolue to be a Martyr for Christ Therefore the Apostle conioyneth them as two most wonderfull rare gifts of God saying h Phil. 1.29 For vnto you it is given in the behalfe of Christ not onely to beleeue on him but also to suffer for his sake Yea he saith that God displayeth the same i Eph. 1.19.20 might of his power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead to make vs beleeue WHEREFORE let vs all cry to God with David k Psal 119.18 Open thou mine eyes that I may beholde wondrous things out of thy law Let vs all pray for our selues as the blessed Apostle did for the Ephesians that l Eph. 1.17.18 the God of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of glory may giue vnto vs the spirit of wisdome and revelation in the knowledge of him the eyes of our vnderstanding being inlightened that we may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints AND when we haue received this faith from aboue let vs acknowledg the weaknesse of it cry to the Lord with teares as did the Father of the lunatick child m Marke 9.24 Lord I beleeue helpe thou mine vnbeliefe and with the Apostles n Luk. 17.5 Lord increase our faith Yet resting still assured that as the Pilots trembling Diall in a shippe tossed to and fro with the waues of the tempestuous Sea looketh straight to the North Pole as the shaking hand of a poore man sicke of the Palsey stretcheth it selfe forth to receiue the rich almes of a bountifull King and as a dying man will open his wanne and withered mouth to let downe the restoratiue whereby his life is restored So our trembling shaking and weake faith will in the midde● of the most tempestuous and blustery Sea of temptations fasten her eyes vpon Christ receiue him and eate him that in the middest of death and in the belly of the graue we may be saved by him CHAPTER XII I. The eating of Christ by faith is possible II. It is not hindred by the distance of time III. Nor of place IV. It may be fitted to all the similitudes which expresse our vnion with Christ V. It is decent VI. It is profitable CHRIST said to the father of the Lunarike child o Marke 9.24 If thou canst beleeue all things are possible to him that beleeveth Then say I to him that beleeveth it is possible to eate Christ by his faith I say more that to eate him so is decent and glorious vnto Christ and most profitable to the eater If there were any impossibility in this eating it should come either from the distāce of time or from the distance of place We eate him as dead And wee reckon from his death 1625. yeares which is a long time He died in Golgotha which is far removed from vs and we must goe to his crosse eate him there From thence we must goe vp to heaven where he now is and feed vpon him there Between the heavens where he is and the earth where we are the distance is almost infinite Behold now how all that is not any impediment to faith To BEGIN by the distance of time Between the promise made to Abraham and Christ there is 1927. yeares and he had eyes not in his head but in his heart to see Christ as Christ said p Ioh. 8.56 Abraham reioyced to see my day and he saw it and was glad From the first Passeover which was kept in Egypt till Christ there is 1497. yeares At that time q Heb. 11.27.28 Moses by faith kept the Passeover for sooke Egypt and endured as seeing him who is inuisible At that same time the Fathers in the desert r 1. Cor. 10 3.4 did eate the same spirituall bread and drinke the same spirituall drinke which was Christ How but by faith For Christ is ſ Rev. 13.8 the Lambe slaine from the foundation of the world in the efficacy of his death towards all the faithfull which were from the beginning So the Apostle saith that t Gal. 3.1 Christ is euidently set forth before our eyes and is crucified among vs Crucified certainely to the eyes of our faith which seeeth the things past from the beginning of the world and all those that are to come till the end of the world For u Heb. 11.1 faith is the substance of things hoped for and the euidence of things not seene it giveth a being in the heart to that which hath no being in the world and maketh visible that which is inuisible AND THEREFORE the distance of place also cannot hinder it For although we traile these our mortall bodies on the earth yet x Phil. 3.20 our conversation is in heaven and our y Heb. 6.19.20 hope is an anchor of the soule both sure and steadfast and which entereth into that within the vaile whither Iesus Christ as forerunner is entred for vs. There by faith z Eph. 2.6 wee sit together with him There our faith seeth him eateth him imbraceth all the promises of God in him O the most wonderfull efficacy of faith It seeth all things past and to come It imbraceth the two ends of the world It flyeth backward to Golgotha and according to the saying of Christ a Math. 24.28 Wheresoever the carkasse is there will the Eagles be gathered together like a spirituall Eagle it stoopeth vpon him hanging on the Crosse It fastenth her clawes vpon his wounds it drinketh the blood streaming out of his side it feedeth on him with a greedie stomacke and leaveth him never till it be satisfied and because it is vnsatiable and never hath enough of him it leaveth him never Forthwith and at the same instant it flyeth aboue all the visible heavens it entreth boldly into Gods closet it b Rev. 3 2● sitteth downe with him in his throne and raigneth with him most gloriously in heaven THE EATING of Papists cannot be sitted to any of the other similitudes this can to them all By what is Christ our head and we his members He the vine and we the members By his Spirit and by our faith By what is he the foundation and we the Temple built on him By his Spirit and by our faith By what doth he giue himselfe to be our Garment By his Spirit By what doe we put him on By our faith By what is he borne in our hearts By his Spirit By what are we borne againe made new creatures in him By our faith By what are we washed in his blood By his Spirit and by our faith By what doth he wed vs to himselfe that we may be his wife By his Spirit By what doe we espouse him that he may be our husband By our faith By what