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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45132	An humble vindication of a free admission unto the Lords-Supper published for the ease, support, and satisfaction of tender consciences (otherwise remediles) in our mixt congregations / as it was delivered at two sermons upon the occasion of this solemnity in the weekely labours of John Humfrey.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1651 (1651)	Wing H3681; ESTC R28938	33,828	97

over in the doing My fift Reason I gather from the uniformity of the Service of God If all other worship lies in common it is an intrenchment upon the common liberty to put an enclosure upon the Sacrament Are all the commands of God universall why not doe this also if an unregenerate man cannot doe any thing that is acceptable to Christ but it turnes to sin non per se sed per pravam dispositionem subjecti and so is Damnable Pro. 28.9 and yet he is to doe his endeavour and not to be excluded neverthelesse ftom any duty why must there needs be an exclusion here upon feare of the like sin and condemnation Let our Independents answer why doe you allow a Syntax in the whole service of God besides and bring in a Quae genus of Anomalaes and Heteroclites onely at this ☞ Ordinance Let some of our Presbyterians answer how can wee admit of Children as Members of the visible Church being born of Christian parents unto Baptisme and yet turne away the parents of those Children from the Sacrament Those that have gone about to answer this had better happly have said nothing for our free course of Baptisme and a deniall of this is such a Seame-rent as will never be handsomly drawn up though stitcht together Neverthelesse in yielding the one they have granted the other My sixt Reason I lay down from my innocency in thus doing 1. I doe but my duty 2. I have no power to turn away any 3. I hope the best of all 4. I know God can turne the worst even at this ordinance if he please 5. I endeavour my utmost de jure that all come prepared 6. I humbly confesse all our sins as Hezekiah desiring true repentance and a pardon for all our omissions and so lastly I venture the issue all on God knowing that his ordinances are a sweet savour unto him whether we are saved or perish by them I might adde here more considerations very pressing from the command and good of comming from the evill of omitting this ordinance For the good of comming The Sacrament is a meanes and a pledge a means as well to receive grace as a pledge to assure us thereof Now suppose a poor soule wants grace whether shall he come but to the means of receiving it The ordinances are as the Baths there are many come to the Bath that are never the better for it yet as they are means of health they are open and free for all to come and make experience of them I conceive as much of the Sacrament and though we may scruple how an unregenerate man can receive it as a pledge yet as it is a means whereby grace is conveyed there is no difficulty For the evill of omission In the Law those that neglected Circumcision and the Passeover were to be cut off and in the Gospell Matt. 22. those that came not into the Feast were destroyed the Lord giving a reason ver 8. because they were not worthy Alas we make a scruple only of comming unworthily whereas they are most unworthy of all that come not in to the Supper we doe not finde any of the Servants durst refuse to call in all if they had left out any they might have bin worse served This one thing hath long stuck on my thoughts how shall we neglect a certain duty of administring or of comming to the Sacrament for fear of accidentall scandall or of committing an uncertain sin in the doing Is not this a kind of doing evill that good may come of it whose damnation is just Rom. 3.8 But I will say no more thus much shall suffice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will not give you my Reasons by the heape but by the weight I humbly commit them to you onely with this caution that no man take occasion from hence to presume for as the Israelites that were destroyed after they passed the Sea and drank of the Rock are set for a warning to the Corinthians so are they both set for a warning to us that wee daily examine our selves and come with reverence lest we being freely admitted by Gods goodnesse perish neverthelesse with them for our own unworthinesse The Second SERMON NOw for answering Objections 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Two things I must premonish you 1. Whereas common notions are like dishes where the same matter dress'd but in another way or variegated in the expression receives a severall relish and esteem in the palats of ordinary judgements you must pardon me the Liberty if at any time I be forced in the Cookery of the same sence to serve you in more words than enough to any Objection 2. Whereas many Godly in these times have a prejudicate opinion against this free Admission so that whatsoever may be said is not like to remove all scruples which are so much fastened on their Consciences thinking they have holynesse on their side we are to goe unto the Throne of Grace to pray the Lord to give us his Spirit of illumination to direct us in this truth which is able alone to convince and satisfie us And for me if I deliver what is not consonant to the holy Word I desire the Lord to blot out my Sermon with my sin that none of his Little ones may be offended by it but if it be the mouth of Truth too much kept in silence delivering nothing but the very doctrine and practise of Christ himselfe and his Apostles as one of his weakest servants does heartily beleeve I hope the Lord will give a blessing on it and send it out as a light into your hearts to discover those subtilties of Sathan whereby he would obstruct your comfort in the use of this Ordinance Objection 1. This Doctrine will take away the use of the Keyes Excommunicate Excommunication and leave us no Discipline in the Church Ans Unto this by way of Concession although it has been thought these censures belonged but to the Church untill they had a Christian Magistrate I grant First That there is a power of the Keys in the Church Secondly that the exercise of this consists in Excommunication And thirdly That the want thereof in the right institution is to be bewayled But by the way of satisfaction I Answer this Objection is grounded merely on false surmises about Excommunication which being removed as the fewell from the fire it will go out of it self 1 It surmises this Church-discipline to lye in a suspension from the Sacrament as if Excommunication were but an Excommunion Let us therefore know that these Church censures are punishments upon scandalous persons after a legall conviction whereby they are debarred from Christian society in generall lest they leven others by their example for els what is it to keep a prophane person from the Sacrament but to gratifie him who never intended at least never cared to come thither But now when men will take these keyes that were made to the great Church door opening and