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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60611	A sermon preached on the fourth Sunday in Lent, in the Cathedral Church of Norwich wherein is represented the great sin and danger of neglecting the Holy Communion / by W. Smyth, D.D. ...	Smith, William, b. 1615 or 16.	1680 (1680)	Wing S4282; ESTC R17812	17,831	42

to phrase it in the regulation of the Publick Worship and that can out of a tender Conscience question an innocent commanded Rite or Circumstance because it came not from the Mount that is from an immediate Divine Ordination and yet can dispense with the most substantial part of God's Worship though it be appointed and enjoyn'd by the special order and institution of Christ himself But to improve this my Argument in general against all that on any account dare turn their backs upon the Holy Sacrament I shall here endeavour to represent the full import of Christs passionate invitation as well as Command when he said Do it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in remembrance of me and it will be found to intimate these following motives to engage men to the constant Receiving it in that respect First in remembrance of me is as if Christ should say supposing him in his invitation to it to have a respect to his death and passion that were yet to come as undoubtedly he must be presumed to have can you have any consideration of what I have suffered for you at the hands of God and man can you remember the bitterness of my Agony the shame and sharpness of my death have you ever heard of my heavy complaint that my Soul was sorrowful even unto death or of that doleful complaint when I cryed lama sabacthani my God my God why hast thou forsaken me Have you any sense of the insolent reproaches the contumelious usage the bussetings and scourgings the shame and the pain of the Cross which for your sake I endured and then can you think there is not in all this enough to oblige you to attend to my passionate request to do this in remembrance of me in respect of my Sufferings But then secondly if what I have suffered for you be not sufficient to oblige you to this Remembrance of me yet methinks that the advantages which accrue to your selves by those Sufferings should engage you to do it Was not my bloud you must think your Saviour thus speaking to you O was not my Bloud the price of your peace and reconciliation with an offended and a displeased God Is not all the hope of the forgiveness of your sins founded upon it are not the mercies of the Covenant obtain'd and seal'd by it Is it not by the vertue of my death that I am made unto you Wisdom and Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption 1 Cor. 1. 30. and can you now pretend to have any value for those mercies or any estimation of my death that so dearly purchased them if when I call upon you to do this in remembrance of me and gratefully to shew that death of mine you refuse or neglect it But thirdly If these two Improvements of the Obligation can't prevail yet surely you will not be so unworthy as to resist my invitation when you can consider what an easie return it is that I expect at your hands for all this that I have suffered and done for you Had I commanded you to commemorate my Passion by Lancing your selves as the Baalitish Priests did or to represent my Death by cruelty upon your bodies Had I call'd upon you to engage in frequent tedious journeyings to a Jerusalem or to offer chargeable Sacrifices to me You might then have had some pretence to decline my invitation No it is only a thankful remembrance of me that I require of you and that to be expressed in an instance that could not have been easier if your selves had chosen it It 's only that which you do every day a short repast of the common necessaries of natural life Only you are advised moreover to lay aside your follies and to examine and judge your selves for what must undo you before you come It is only in an act wherein you may shew your greatest love to your selves when you are about to express it to me Thus in these three respects you may well suppose that Christ spake to you when he said do this in remembrance of me And can you after all this turn your backs upon so kind and so passionate an invitation O Ingratitude without parallel could you forgive any resemblance of it to any of your nearest relations The name of unworthiness was ever given in vain if it makes not his Character that can refuse or neglect that Office whereby he is thus kindly called upon to do This in remembrance of such a Saviour This is my Third Argument The Fourth Argument by which every Christian may be fully confirm'd in the truth of the three former which I have deduced directly from Scripture to prove the absolute necessity of receiving the Holy Sacrament is from an obligation that no Christian ought wilfully to depart from the declared Judgment and Practice of the Universal Church especially in a case so little subject to exception as is the necessity of Receiving the Blessed Communion Quod ab omnibus quod semper hoc Catholicum hoc Apostolicum that which hath been done and held by all Christians and at all times must be reputed truly Catholick and Apostolick saith Vincentius Lirinensis above twelve hundred years ago And to evidence that the constant usage of this holy Office was such the very Arguments that prove that there was ever any Christianity in the world do concurrently give testimony to it as being alwaies reputed one integral part of the Solemn Worship of God and an indispensable means of making Christian Profession And that the first Christians did daily receive the Holy Sacrament we have the Testimonies of St. Jerom and St. Aug. And therefore when it is said Acts 2. 46. that they were daily with one accord in the Temple the learned Dr. Hammond Paraphraseth that they daily received the Holy Sacrament in some upper rooms of the Temple In St. Austins time as he testifies it was in ordinary course administred once a week And when the Church afterwards thought fit to urge the necessity of receiving it at the three Solemn Feasts without which they were not to enjoy the name of Catholicks saith the Eliberine Council yet it was but as at the least and was not designed to exclude a more frequent usage of Administring and Receiving it at other times also Thus stands the case of Primitive and Universal practice and shall we now separate Christianity from its Catholicisme or shall we hope to go to Heaven out of Catholick Communion when we wilfully separate from it or dare we venture to travel in an untrodden path in which we have none to go along with us but a few male-contents that have nothing to guide them but a presumptuous and an enthusiastick opinion of their own private light or shall we suspect that God had so deprived his Church of the promised guidance of his Spirit as that all the Professors of Christianity should always have been engaged in such an unnecessary attendance upon this Institution or so mistaken when they advanced the reputation