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A73323 A fit guest for the Lords table. Or, a treatise declaring the true vse of the Lords Supper Profitable for all communicants, as a preseruatiue against all profanesse and sundry nouell opinions. Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657. 1609 (1609) STC 24308; ESTC S125561 48,877 192

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force thereof and making a profession but yet hating reformation They heare the word audible and receiue the word visible without examination or preparation Many cannot their ignorāce is so great many can but will not their corruption is so violent many can and make shew of wil but do not their negligence is so rooted many do examine themselues but yet very superficially minsingly as if they were to goe ouer a quag-mire And it may be well supposed that the most which do receiue come vtterly vnfit vnfurnished and eat and drinke to the dishonour of God and increase of their sinnes For Christ saith Mat. 20. 16. Many are called but few are chosen if the elect be few in comparison of those that are called then but a few in comparison can come prepared for it is impossible for any of the reprobate to prepare himselfe aright and to examine himselfe as God requireth seeing he wanteth true faith and refined affections Neither do all the elect come fit them selues because some that are elected are not as yet effectually called and conuerted and yet no doubt many of these presume to come And of those that do indeede beleeue come some without meet preparation now and then through negligence and obliuion of their duety as some in the Church of CORINTH did Therefore we must take heed that we do not as the most do If the most be peruerse or careles I must not be so If DAVID commit adultery and though PETER deny his Maister yet I must not For we are to liue by Legibus vinitur ●on ex●m plis Ex 23. 2. lawes and not by examples neither may we followe a multitude in or vnto that which is euill Thus much for the multitude CHAP. 4. THe third enemy to be auoided in this our examinatiō is the Church of Rome and that for two waightie reasons For first she is not the Church of God but a Sinagogue of Sathan not the Spouse of Christ but the Minion of the Deuil out of whose braine she did proceed as Minerua is fained to haue proceeded out of Iupiters She hath bewitched the world a long time with her sugred inchantments she hath made drunken the inhabitants of the earth with the wine of her fornication she hath corrupted and adulterated the holy Scriptures with her partiall blasphemous and rediculous interpretations Her allurements are pleasant her voice is sweet her face is amiable and as wisedome saith of the strange woman Her lippes drop as an hony Pro. 5. 3. 4. 5. combe and her mouth is softer then oyle but her end is bitter as woormewood sharp as a two edged sword her feete goe downe to death and her steps take hold on hell Therefore as the holy ghost saith in the case of indiscreet suertiship so let me speake concerning this Church Deliuer thy selfe from her as a Doe Pro. 6. 5. from the hand of a hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler Make her not thine vmpire thy Iudge thy Touch-stone Suspect her voice for she is long since deuorced from the Lord and hath long agoe contracted yea and wedded herselfe to the Deuil It is true indeede that she speaketh some truthes but therfore it doth not followe that all her wordes are true For euen the father of lies doth speake the truth sometimes and if all her words were false she could not haue so many friends Moreouer we do not belieue an harlot or noted Iyar when they speake the truth because they do speake it but because we knowe it to be so so we must not belieue that skarlet harlot when she speakes the truth because she saith it but because by Gods word we know it so to be we must therefore be wary try before we trust PLINY writeth of the Fox in Thracia that he will not passe ouer any riuer that is frozē before he try the thicknes of the yce by laying his eare close vnto it and so gessing how thicke the water is frozen so ought we neuer to approoue the sentence of that Church till we haue examined it by the word of God that so we may do with it as MOSES did Exo. 4. 3. with his rod which whilst it remained a rod he vsed it familiarly but when it was turned into a Serpent he fled from it Secondly the Church of Rome is haererical and erronious in the chiefest of those points whereof we are principally to make our examination as may appeare by the consideration of these her opinions following First concerning the sacrament it selfe her chiefest champions teach 1. that it dooth not onely seale and signifie but also properly conferre holines and righteousnes ex opere operato euen by the work wrought 2. That the entention of the Priest is essentiall to the sacrament so that if the Priests intention be absent when the words of consecration are read there is no sacrament so that the receiuers worship they knowe not what being ignorant of the Priests intention whose minde may wāder from his work though his tongue be on it 3. That the bread and wine by vertue of the words of consecration are truely turned into the very body and blood of Christ 4. That the true and substantiall body of Christ is truely receiued and eaten of All the Communicants though prophane and vnbelieuing Indeed they confesse that they doe themselues hurt therby 5. That this Sacrament is to be adored with deuine worship whersoeuer it is seene 6. That Christ in his owne person doth offer vp himselfe by the Priest to God the Father a true real and external sacrifice for our sinnes truely and properly and that vnder the formes of bread and wine but yet after an vnbloody manner Secondly concerning faith she teacheth that it is no confidence in Gods mercy or speciall application of Christs merrits to a mans heart in particular but a meere and pure assent vnto the word of God 2. That no man can in this life be certein of the remission of his sinnes by the certaintie of faith but onely by a coniecturall perswasion 3. That true iustifiing faith may be lost totally and for euer 4. That it is proud presumption in a man to say that he is certaine of present grace future glory Thirdly as touching repentance she teacheth 1. That it is a sacrament of the new testament 2. That cōtrition is a meritorious cause of the pardon of sins And for sinne it selfe she teacheth 1. That originall sin after Baptisme is so abolished that it neither hath the nature nor may properly haue the name of sin being now but as tinder apt to receiue the fire of sinne or as a punishment of sinne 2. That some sinnes mortall indeed are in their owne nature venial and being not properly against the lawe and loue of God that they are not perfectly and simply sinnes Lastly concerning the workes of obedience and loue she teacheth 1. That the works of righteous men do merrit