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A64647 The great necessity of unity and peace among all Protestants, and the bloody principles of the papists made manifest by the most eminently pious and learned Bishop Usher ... Ussher, James, 1581-1656. 1688 (1688) Wing U178; ESTC R23183 27,278 20

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seeing we have faith and the quickening Spirit of Christ before we come thither To this I answer that the Spirit is received in divers measures and faith bestowed upon us in different degrees by reason whereof our conjunction with Christ may every day be made straiter and the hold which we take of him firmer To receive the Spirit not by measure Joh. 3. 34. is the priviledge of our Head we that receive out of his fulness Joh. 1. 16. have not our portion of grace delivered unto us all at once but must daily look for supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Phil. 1. 19. So also while we are in this word the righteousness of God is revealed unto us from faith to faith Rom. 1. 17. that is from one degree and measure of it to another and consequently we must still labour to perfect that which is lacking in our faith 1 Thes. 3. 10. and evermore pray with the Apostles Lord increase our faith Luke 17. 5. As we have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord so must we walk in him rooted and built up in him and stablished in the faith Colos. 2. 6 7. that we may grow up into him in all things which is the Head. Ephes. 4 4. 1. And to this end God hath ordained publick officers in his Church for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministery for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a persect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ Eph. 4. 12 13. and hath accordingly made them able Ministers of the Spirit that quickeneth 1 Cor. 3. 6. and Ministers by whom we should helieve even as the Lord shall give to every man 1 Cor. 3. 5. When we have therefore received the Spirit and Faith and so spiritual life by their ministery we are not there to rest but as new born babes we must desire the sincere milk of the Word that we may grow thereby 1 Pet. 2. 2. and as grown men too we must desire to be fed at the Lords Table that by the strength of that spiritual repast we may be inabled to do the Lords work and may continually be nourished up thereby in the life of grace unto the life of glory Neither must we here with a fleshly eye look upon the meanness of the outward elements and have this faithless thought in our hearts that there is no likelihood a bit of bread and a draught of wine should be able to produce such heavenly effects as these For so we should prove our selves to be no wiser than Naaman the Syrian was who having received direction from the man of God that he should wash in Jordan seven times to be cleansed of his Leprosie 2 Kings 5. 12. 13. replied with indignation Are not Abana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel May I not wash in them and be clean But as his servants did soberly advise him then If the Prophet had bid the do some great thing wouldest thou not have done it How much rather then when he saith to thee Wash and be clean So give me leave to say unto you now If the Lord had commanded us to do some great thing for the artaining of so high a good should not we willingly have done it How much rather then when he biddeth us to eat the bread and drink the wine that he hath provided for us at his own Table that by his blessing thereupon we may grow in grace and be preserved both in body and soul unto everlasting life True it is indeed these outward creatures have no natural power in them to effect so great a work as this is no more than the water of Jordan had to recover the Leper but the work wrought by these means is supernatural and God hath been pleased in the dispensation both of the Word and of the Sacraments so to ordain it that these heavenly treasures should be presented unto us in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power might be of God. 2 Cor 4. 7. As therefore in the preaching of the Gospel the Minister doth not dare verba and beat the air with a fruitless sound but the words that he speaketh unto us are Spirit and life God being pleased by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe so likewise in the administration of the Lords Supper he doth not feed us with bare bread and wine but if we have the life of faith in us for still we must remember that this Table is provided not for the dead but for the living and come worthily the Cup of blessing which he blesseth 1 Cor. 10. 16. will be unto us the communion of the blood of Christ and the bread which he breaketh the communion of the body of Christ of which precious body and blood we being really made partakers that is in truth and indeed and not in imagination only altho' in a spiritual and not a corporal manner the Lord doth grant us according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man that we may be filled with ad the fulness of God. Eph. 3. 16 19. For the Sacraments as well as the Word be a part of that ministration of the Spirit which is committed to the Ministers of the New Testament 2 Cor. 36 8. forasmuch as by one Spirit as before we have heard from the Apostle we have been all baptized into one body and have been all made to drink into one Spirit 1 Cor. 12 13. And thus have I finished the first part of my task my Congregatio homogeneorum as I call it the knitting together of those that appertain to the same body both with their fellow-members and with their Head which is the thing laid down in the express words of my Text. It remaineth now that I proceed to the Apostles application hereof unto the argument he hath in hand which is Segregatio heterogeneorum a dissevering of those that be not of the same communion that the faithful may not partake with Idolaters by countenancing or any way joyning with them in their ungodly courses For that this is the main scope at which St. Paul aimeth in his treating here of the Sacrament is evident both by that which goeth before in v. 19. Wherefore my deatly beloved flee from Idolatry and that which followeth in the 21. Ye cannot drink the Cup of the Lord and the cup of Devils ye cannot be partakers of the Lords Table and of the Table of Devils Whereby we may collect thus much that as the Lords Suprer is a seal of our conjunction one with another and with Christ our Head so is it an evidence of our dis-junction from Idolaters binding us to disavow all communion with them in their false worship And indeed the one must necessarily follow upon the other considering