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A26721 Directions for the right receiving of the Lords Supper drawn up by way of question and answer for the use and benefit of the younger sort, especially the citizens of Exeter / by J.B. J. B. 1679 (1679) Wing B100; ESTC R3234 27,036 96

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is a Rule of Righteousness Secondly When it is Resolute without Doubting as Joshua's was Josh 24.15 And the Reason of it is Because Resolution is the foundation of all Religion And because of the fickleness of our Spirits there being in every one of us the same seeds which there are in others of apostatizing from the Living God Thus of Obedience The Tryal of Love Q. WHat is the Fifth Sacramental Grace to be examined before you come to the Sacrament A. It is Love Q. What is that Love you are to examine A. Our Love to God the Father Son and Holy Ghost and our Love to the Saints and to our Enemies Q. What signs have you of your Love to God A. 1. If it be a superlative Love to him above all the World and all the Creatures in it our Nearest and Dearest Relations even Life it self Matth. 22.37 Luke 10.22 Q. How else A. If it be with a fervent Love with all our heart and soul and mind and strength Deut. 6.5 Q. How else A. If it be with a Love of complacency and delight Psal 4.4 6. Psal 73.25 Q. How else A. If it be with a love of Assimulation it makes us like to him Holy as he is Holy 1 Pet. 1.15 Q. How else A. If it be an Obediential Love 1 Pet. 1.17 1 Joh. 5.2 3 4. Q. How else do you know you love God at your Father A. By this that he adopted me for his Child in Christ from all Eternity Ephes 1.5 Joh. 1.37 Q. How else A. By this That when ●he fulness of time was come he sent forth his Son made of a woman and made under the Law that we might receive the Adoption of Sons Gal. 4.4 5. Q. How else A. By this That by his Word and Spirit he hath wrought faith in me John 1.12 Q. How else A. By this that I have the nature of my Father and a desire and endeavour to be holy as he is holy 1 Pet. 1.15 Q. How else A. By this that my Desire and endeavour if to carry my self as a child towards him by studying and labouring to know him and love him and fear him and reverence and obey him and depend on him for all the good I stand in need of for soul and body me and mine this life and a better Psal 9.10 Q. How do you know the truth of your love to his Son the Lord Jesus Christ A. By this that I am willing to receive whole Christ and give up my whole self to Christ Q. How doth it appear that you receive whole Christ A. By this that I receive him on his own terms as my alone Lord Jesus Christ and my alone Mediator King Priest and Prophet Q. How do you know you receive him as your alone Lord A. By my renouncing all other Lords that command besides him and contrary to him and subject my self only and wholly to his command and service Isa 26.13 Q. How do you know you receive him as your alone Jesus A. By this my renouncing my own righteousness and desiring to be found only in his Ph●l 3.8 9. Q. How do y●u know you receive him for your alone Christ A. 1. By this that I am anointed with the same spiritual unction of his Grace 1 Joh. 2.27 2. By this that I labour to observe and perform those offices to which I was anointed sc to be a King to govern my Family a Priest to offer up Spiritual Sacrifices in it and a Prophet to teach and instruct them Rev. 1.6 Q. How do you know that he is your Mediator A. By this that I renounce all other Mediators as Angels and Saints and do whatsoever I do in his Name Mediation and Worthiness Col. 3.17 Q. How do you know you love him as your Prophet A. By this that I am willing to be taught and guided only by his Word and Spirit in my whole conversation and not follow any further than they follow him Joh. 10.4 5. 1 Cor. 11.1 Isa 30.21 Q. How do you know you love him as your Priest A. By this 1. My high prizing of his righteousness above my own accounting all my own as filthiness and but Dross and Dung Isa 64.6 Phil. 3.7 8. Q. How else A. 2. By my continual seeking unto him for all that pardoning purging and sanctifying Grace I stand in need of 1 John 1.6 Q How do you know you love him as your King A. By my desire to know his Laws and yield universal obedience to them Joh. 15.14 my continual fighting his battels against all his and my spiritual enemies 2 Tim. 4.8 and my dependance on him for power and victory over them Col. 2.15 Q. How do you know you give up your whol● self to him A. By this 1. My willingness to deny my self take up his cross and follow him Mark 8.34 and 2. By my desire and endeavour to glorifie him both in my soul and body 1 Cor. 6. l●st Q. How do you know you love the Holy Ghost A. 1. By this my giving up my self to be his habitation to dwell in and Temple to offer up Spiritual Sacrifices in 1 Cor. 6.19 Q. How else A. By my hearkning to and obeying his call to faith and repentance Isa 30.21 my nourishing and cherishing his holy motions and resisting the temptations of my spiritual enemies 1 Thes 5.19 and 1 Pet. 5.9 Q. How else A. By my living in the Spirit and walking after the Spirit Gal. 5.25 Rom. 8.14 Q. How else A. By my loving frequenting and delighting in those Ordinances wherein he manifests himself his Word and Sacrament Psal 84. 122.1 Q. How else A. By my entring on Duty in his strength Ephes 6.10 and giving him the whole glory of my ability 1 Cor. 15.10 Q. How else A. By still blessing him for those special gifts and graces acts and operations in my soul as saving illumination vocation regeneration consolation supplication and sealing me up to the Day of Redemption Ephes 4.30 Q. How do you know that you love those that are Gods and Christs and the Spirits A. By this that my Love is a Brotherly Love Heb. 12.1 Q. What is that Brotherly Love Love defined A. It is a Fruit of the Spirit in the hearts of the Regenerate whereby they are kindly affectioned one to another being careful to express it by endeavouring the good of others souls and bodies especially the Saints Gal. 6.10 Rom. 12.10 Signs of Love Q. What signs can you give me of the truth of your Love 1 Sign A. 1. The Rise of it When it ariseth from the Love of God to them 1 John 5.1 And the command of God to love them 1 Joh. 4.21 Joh. 15.12 17. Q. How else do you know the truth of your Love 2 Sign A. 2. By the Properties of it Q. What is one Property of true Love A. 1. The Purity of it when it comes from a pure heart 1 Cor. 6.11 1 Pet. 1.22 Q. What is
How else do you know the truth of your Repentance III. Sign A. By the Cure of it When the same means that humbleth the soul comforts the soul as The Hand of the Lord Hosea 6.1 And the Blood of Christ Ephes 2.13 14 15. Q. How else do you know the truth of your Repentance IV. Sign A. By the Fruits and Effects of it Q What is one 1 Fruit. A. 1. A Godly sorrow for sin 2 Cor. 7 10. Signs of Godly Sorrow Q When is your sorrow a Godly sorrow A. 1. When it is rather for sin against God than for Punishment from God Luke 15.21 Psal 51.4 2. When it is for one sin as well as for another 3. When it is for Sin in health and prosperity as well as in sickness and adversity Psal 38.4 5. 4. When it is for sin in others as well as in our selves 2 Pet. 2.7 8. 5. We may know it by those seven fruits of it in 2 Cor. 7.11 Q. What is another Fruit of true Repentance A. 2. An unfeigned Hatred of sin 2 Fruit. Q. When is your Hatred of sin an unfeigned hatred A. 1. When I hate it because it is contrary to the holy Nature and Law of God 2. When I hate all and every sin Psal 119.104 3. When I hate sin wheresoever I see it in others Psal 101.3 Rev. 2.6 Q. What is another Fruit A. 3. When it makes a man willing to take to himself 3 Fruit. and carry the shame of his sin so that God may be honoured Rom. 6.21 Jer. 31.19 Ezra 9.6 For it is that which God promiseth to his people Ezek. 16.60 61 62 63. Q. What is another Fruit of Repentance 4 Fruit. A. 4. An Universal forsaking and turning from all sin not only from the Action of it but also from the motions temptations and occasions of it Ezek. 18.31 Prov. 28.13 Q. What other Fruits are there of True Repentance A. These First of all A remembrance of sin so as to humble and abase our selves for it Psal 51.3 Psal 119.59 contrary to those in Jer. 8.12 2. Aggravation of sin as Paul 1 Tim. 1.13 3. A particular free and full confession of sin 1 Tim. 1.13 4. A Self-loathing for sin Ezek. 20.43 Job 42.5 6. 5. Self-cnodemnation for sin 1 Cor. 11.31 6. Satisfaction though not to God yet to men for the wrong done unto them Luke 19.8 7. A new life Ezek. 18.31 32. Mat. 8.9 10. 8. Growing still better 2 Cor. 7.1 9. An endeavour to bring others to Repentance Isa 2.3 Hos 6.1 Ezek. 18.31 32. Q. How else do you know the truth of your Repentance A. By the continuance of it V. Sign when it is a daily Repentance and continues from the first day we begin to Repent unto our last day Ephes 4.26 27. Thus of Repentance The Tryal of Obedience Q. WHat is the Fourth Sacramental Grace to be Examined before the Sacrament A. Our Obedience Q. What is Obedience A. It is either Legal or Evangelical Q. What is Legal Obedience A. Legal Obedience it is a perfect Legal Obedience defined compleat Obedience of the whole man by his own strength in his own person to the whole Law of God Q. What is Evangelical Obedie●ce A. It is an unfeigned desire Evangelical Obedience defined seconded with our earnest and uttermost endeavour in and by the Grace and strength of Christ to yield universal sincere and constant obedience to the whole revealed mind and will of God humbling us under our failings and defects and going out of our selves desiring to be found in the Righteousness of Christ and to be accepted only in and for and through the compleat and perfect obedience of our Lord Jesus Christ Sign of saving obedience Q. How do you know that your obedience is sound saving and acceptable Obedience 1 Sign A. 1. By the kind of it When it is an Evangelical or Gospel obedience Q. When is it a Gospel obedience A. When it is according to the Rules of the Gospel Phil. 1.27 Phil. 3.16 Q. What is one Rule of the Gospel A. 1. When it is done in the Name of Christ Col. 3.17 Q. What is another Rule A. 2. When it is done in Faith 1 Pet. 2.5 6. Heb. 11.6 Q. What is another Rule A. 3. When it is done in the strength of Christ Joh. 15.5 Q. What is another A. 4. When it is done in Love and thankfulness to Jesus Christ that hath done all for us 2 Cor. 5.14 15. And in Love to the Saints 1 Joh. 4.21 1 Cor. 13.4 5 6 7. Q. How else do you know the truth of y●ur Obedience A. 2. By the Rise of it 2 Sign When it is well Grounded Q. When is your Obedience well Grounded A. 1. When it is grounded upon the mind and will of God Psal 119.33 34. Q. When else it is well grounded A. 2. When it is grounded upon the Authority and the Command of God Psal 119 4 5. Q. When else it is well grounded A. 3. When it ariseth from an inward principle of Grace or Spiritual Life Psal 40.8 Jer. 31.33 Q. What is another sign of sound and saving Obedience A. 3. When the Example of it is 3 Sign The Life of Christ Joh. 13.15 1 Joh. 2.6 And the Life of the Saints Heb. 6.11 12. Q. How else do you know t●e truth of your Obedience A. 4. By the ends of it 4 Sign Q. What ought to be the ends of y●ur Obedience A. 1. The Glory of God Phil. 1.20 21. 1 Cor. 10.31 2. The Publick good 1 Cor. 10.33 Phil. 2.4 Q. How else do you know the truth of your Obedien●e 5 Sign A. 5. By the Qualities and Properties of it Q. What is the first property of true Obedience A. 1. It is Willing without Constraint 1 Chron. 28.9 Psal 110.3 Q. What is a second A. 2. It is cheerful without lumpishness Ps●l 122.1 Joh. 4.28 29. Q. What is a Third A. 3. I● is Diligent without Slothfulness Deut. 6.17 18. Jer. 17.24 25 26. Q. What is a Fourth A. 4. It is Zealous without Lukewarmness Rom. 12.11 Rev. 3.19 Q. Wha● is a Fifth A. 5. It is speedy without delay Psal 119.60 Q Wh●t is a Sixth A. 6. It is Sincere without hypocrisie Josh 24.14 Joh. 4.24 Q. What is a Seventh A. 7. It is Universal without Partiality and that in respect of the Subject and Object 2 Cor 5 17. Joh. 15.14 Deut 26 16 Psal 119.6 Q. What is the last A. 8. It is constant without Apostasie 1 Kings 8.40 Mat. 10.22 1 C●r 15.58 Rev. 2.10 Q. What other signs are there of the truth ●f Obedience A. These two first It is absolute 2. Other signs without demanding of God a Reason of what he hath commanded us As Abraham Heb. 11.8 And the Reason of it is Because God is the Soveraign Lord of all his Creatures and may Command what he will for his Will or his Law