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A77514	Two treatises: I. The saints communion with Jesus Christ, sacramental, spiritual, and celestial; wherein ministers and Christian are excited to a conscientious administration, and participation of that, of late-time, in many places, too much neglected ordinance, the sacrament of the Lords Supper; wherein that great controversie of a free admission is debated. II. Acquaintance with God; the nature of it opened, the practice perswaded, encouraged, directed, cautioned. / As it was lately delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel there.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing B4735; Thomason E1547_1; ESTC R209457	66,672	237

a pledge of their heavenly communion Sacramental communion Such is this Sacramental communion in the Supper First A sign representing it So it doth A sign representing the heavenly communion and that most lively specially as that Ordinance is now administred unto you and received by you in this Congregation where your sitting at the Table and there eating and drinking of the Sacramental Bread and Wine together Sitting at the Table a Mystical ceremony representing the communion of the Saints in Heaven carrieth with it a more lively representation and resemblance of that heavenly communion which one day you hope to have with Jesus Christ and with his Saints and Angels then any other form or manner of Administration doth or can do So much is not obscurely insinuated unto us in those expressions which our blessed Saviour is pleased to make use of in describing and setting forth that heavenly communion which he doth by sitting Matth. 8.11 Many shall come from the East and from the West and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Accumbent sit down A metaphor taken from feasts or banquets where men of different conditions sit down together so having a civil communion one with another So do the guests whilest the servitors stand by as the story tell us Martha did while Lazarus with the rest sate at table with our Saviour Joh. 12.2 And so again by eating and drinking at the Table Luke 22.30 I appoint unto you a Kingdom c. That ye may eat and drink at my Table 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 At my Table An expression questionless derived from his last Supper which he had then administred where his Apostles sate down with him eating and drinking at his table Thus they then celebrated the Passover not standing which gesture was appropriated unto that first Passover in Egypt because they were to eat it in haste as Moses tells them Exod. 12.11 but sitting their ordinary table gesture as the Evangelists Matthew and Mark both express it Matth. 26.20 Mark 14.18 And in the same posture they celebrated the Eucharistical Supper sitting and eating and drinking at the Table Which was to them a representation of that heavenly communion which there he promiseth they should have with him in Heaven shadowing it out not onely in the actions of eating and drinking but also in the posture of sitting and eating and drinking at the table A gesture not subject to any just exception Which I desire it may be the rather taken notice of for the satisfying of such as make a scruple of the like manner of administration at this day Which being so conform and agreeable to the Primitive pattern cannot I am sure upon any just ground be quarrelled with Secondly As this Sacramental communion is a sign Sacramental communion a pledge of celestial so a pledge of the heavenly communion As a sign representing it so a pledge sealing assuring it to all the worthy receivers of that Sacrament And upon this double account amongst others it ought not to be neglected but conscientiously attended upon where it is according to Christs Institution held forth But Christians may not rest here External communion not to be rested in in such an external communion This Judas had he followed his Master in an outward profession as well as the rest of the Apostles he heard his word he participated with him in the Passover and for ought I know in the Supper also Yet had he nothing to do with this promise being first a Traytor to his Master and after his own executioner he went 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to his own place as St. Luke tells us Acts 1.25 that is to that Hell which was a place more fit for him then that wherein he was among the Apostles and a place to which for his treachery and perfidiousness he was by God justly designed as that Text is commonly and I think properly expounded See then that we go further that we have an inward spiritual Inward spiritual communion to be sought after Rom. 6.5 invisible mystical communion with the Lord Jesus That being ingrafted into him not onely Sacramentally as all persons baptized are but really and truly united to him by faith and love we be made partakers of his Spirit which may transform us into his Image Eph. 3.17 That Christ may dwell in our hearts being present in us by the influence of his Grace and Spirit communicating to us the vertue of his death and resurrection Phil. 3.10 whereby we may be inabled to die unto sin and to live unto righteousness shewing forth his vertues expressing his life imitating his obedience in doing and suffering the will of our heavenly Father not onely hearing but receiving his words as the Apostles are said to do John 17.8 not onely eating of his bread and drinking of his cup in the Sacrament which many do upon earth who shall never eat or drink at his table in Heaven but that we eat his flesh and drink his blood applying the merits of his death unto our selves unto our justification looking up to him and by faith hanging upon him for a continual supply of his Spirit whereby we may be strengthned in the inward man Eph. 3.16 2 Cor. 3.18 and changed from glory to glory growing from grace to grace until we shall all come in the unity of the Faith and knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ as the Apostle speaketh Ephes 4.13 Having such a communion with this our blessed Lord and Saviour here in his Kingdom of grace upon earth we shall have a blessed Communion with him in his Kingdom of glory in Heaven where we shall drink of this fruit of the Vine new with him to all eternity Which honor and happiness may he vouchsafe to every of us To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be praise and thanks giving now and for ever Amen FINIS Acquaintance WITH GOD THE Nature of it opened The Practice Perswaded Incouraged Directed Cautioned As it was lately delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth By John Brinsley Minister of the Gospell there London Printed by R. I. for Tho. Newbery at the three golden Lyons in Cornhil To the right Worshipfull the Lady ANNE WENTWORTH at her house in Somerleyton in the County of Suffolk Madam I Can not I may not forget those respects which my selfe some years since found from your late honoured Husband and your selfe how during my exile in the late difficult times from the * Great Yarmouth place to which God first called and hath since returned me you were pleased to provide me a residence and subsistance in your neighboring * The Island of Lovingland Patmos where for some time I exercised my Ministery first as a Teacher in a * Lownde Village near you and

drink for any bodily nourishment or refreshment having no more need of meats or drinks nor yet in a way of social communion onely for the confirming of the Faith of his Apostles in the certainty of his Resurrection he shewed them what he could do So as he did there as it were eat and not eat drink and not drink Even as speaking to his Apostles after his Resurrection Luke 24.44 he tells them These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you Why was he not then with them when he thus spake to them Yes but not as formerly when he conversed with them in a terrestrial and temporal life So he ate and drank with them now but not as formerly Quià id non nisi veluti per transennam fecit non ducit in numerum Maldon This was not in him now any natural action and therefore he overlooketh it as being a thing by the by Telling his Apostles that he would not any more thus drink with them until that day when he should do it in the Kingdom of his Father Quest The fruit of the Vine how drunk in Heaven Q. But how saith he that he would then do it What is there any eating or drinking in Heaven Answ Answ Not literally Not so This is a conceit for Mahumetans not so Christians Eating and drinking are for Earth not for Heaven Even as our Saviour answering the carnal reasonings of the Sadduces against the Resurrection tells them That in the Resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the Angels of God in Heaven Matth. 22.30 In the state of glory Gods Saints shall live an Angelical life no more subject to any bodily necessities or infirmities Not standing in need of marriage or yet of meats and drinks The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink saith the Apostle speaking of the Kingdom of Grace Rom. 14.17 much less the Kingdom of glory where there is no need no use of either and therefore away with all such gross and carnal imaginations For our satisfaction taking notice But mystically and metaphorically that these phrases of eating and drinking are in Scripture used in a double sense Sometimes literally and properly sometimes mystically and metaphorically And both these ways is this word Drinking used in this verse In the former part of it properly for natural and corporal drinking in the latter part metaphorically for mystical and spiritual drinking And what we say of the act we may say also of the object The fruit of the vine which our Saviour did drink of as in the Passeover so in his Supper was natural Wine that which here he promiseth to drink of is Mystical and Spiritual The same word used in two different senses in the same sentence Neither let any here stumble at this so sudden a change of the sense That the same words should be with one and the same breath in one and the same sentence used in two different senses This being no unusual thing in Scripture no other then what we finde often practised by our Saviour himself Non solàm sine vitio sed cum magnâ etiam oraiionis elegantiâ Maldon ad loc and that not onely without any absurdity as Maldonate notes upon it but with a special elegance and accurateness of Speech Thus speaking to that Disciple who being invited to follow him desired that he might first go and bury his Father be assistant unto him in his decrepit age and perform his last office to him when he should dye Let the dead saith he bury their dead Matth. 8.22 Let them that are spiritually dead bury them that are corporally dead Those who are dead in sin bury those that are dead for sin So again speaking to the Woman of Samaria Joh. 4.13 14. He tells her Whosoever shall drink of this water shall thirst again But whosoever shall drink of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst Where in the former part he speaketh of natural water such as she gave him In the latter part of mystical and spiritual water viz. The Grace and Spirit of Regeneration And so are we to understand that passage Mark 10.15 where our Saviour blessing the children which were brought to him tells his Disciples That whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little childe he shall not enter therein Where by the Kingdom of God in the former part we are to understand the Doctrine of the Kingdom the Gospel In the latter part the Heavenly Kingdom Eternal life and glory And the very like do we here meet within the Text. Drinking of the fruit of the Vine in the former part it is to be understood properly of natural wine in the latter part mystically of spiritual wine And so much is not obscurely insinuated in that Addition Celestial Glory called New Wine which is here put to it where it is called New Wine Until I drink it new Thus the Spirit of God in Scripture is wont for the most part as it were emollire Allegorias Solent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aliquo additamento emolliri Grot. ad loc to soften Allegories which otherwise might seem hard by some such additaments As the Apostle speaking of Christ and his blood he calleth it Spiritual drink and him a Spiritual rock 1 Cor. 10.4 Thus Saint Peter speaking to beleevers he tells them That they as lively stones were built up a spiritual house an holy Priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifice 1 Pet. 2.5 In like manner the Spirit speaking of Rome or the Roman Empire where the Bodies of Gods Saints should lie slain he stiles it That great City which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt Revel 11.8 Not literally but mystically and such is this Wine which our Saviour saith here he would drink of in his Fathers Kingdom not natural but mystical wine which he therefore calleth new Even as the Church of God whereof Old Jerusalem was a Type is called The New Jerusalem Revel 21.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Not the earthly but the Heavenly Jerusalem Jerusalem which is above as the Apostle calleth it Gal. 4.26 Even thus our Saviour speaking of Celestial glory Wine an embleme of Celestial Glory Vide Grot. ad Text. and happiness here he calleth it New Wine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Wine of another kinde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Grotius explains it Intellectual Spiritual Wine Wine Thus the Rabbinical Jews were wont to set forth eternal life by wine kept from the beginning of the world from the first Creation And the like expression the Spirit of God may be conceived sometimes to make use of In that 55 of Isaiah v. 1. Christ is brought in making Proclamation Ho every one that thirsteth c. Come and buy wine and milk Under those two words comprehending all spiritual and heavenly blessings Grace and Glory And thus do some understand