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A10135	The table of the Lord whereof, 1. The vvhole seruice, is the liuing bread. 2. The guests, any man. 3. The mouth to eate, faith onely. By Gilbert Primerose, Doctour of Divinitie, one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinary, and pastour of the French church at London.	Primrose, Gilbert, ca. 1580-1642.	1626 (1626)	STC 20392; ESTC S114083	64,701	238

and to him that is neere saith the Lord and I will heale him that is to say according to the interpretation of the Apostle peace to the Gentiles which f Eph. 2.12.17 were strangers from the Couenants of promise hauing no hope and being without God in the world and therfore were farre off and peace to the Iewes which had the Covenants of promise and in that respect had g Deut. 4.7 God nigh vnto them THE one and the other was figured by the burnt offerings h Levit. 11.11 the blood wherof was sprinckled round about vpon the Altar to teach the people that the bloud of the Messias was to be shed for the elect which dwell every where vpon the globe of the earth As when the high Priest did i Exod. 20.24 Levit. 7.34 Levit. 10.14 waue the waue offering and shake it to and fro and k Exod. 29.27 heaue vp the heaue offering he figured that which Christ said that l Ioh. 12.32 33. if he were lifted vp he would draw all men vnto him This he said signifying what death he should die WHATSOEVER was prophecied and figured hath beene punctually fulfilled Christ commanded his Apostles m Mat. 28.19 to teach all Nations What he commanded they did At his death n Mat. 27.51 the vaile of the Temple was rent in twaine from the top to the bottome to signifie that by the power of his death o Eph. 2.14 the middle wall of partition betweene vs and the Iewes is broken downe the enmitie is abolished and of twain we are made in him one new man Now the p Rom. 1.16 Gospell is the power of God to saluation to euery one that beleeueth to the Iew and to the Greeke Now according to the prediction of Christ q Mat. 8.11 many come from the East and West sit downe with Abraham and Isaac and Iacob in the kingdome of heaven and these many are r Rev. 7.4.9 of all Nations and kindred and people and tongues as well as of Iewes Now ſ Math. 15.26.27 the dogs doe no more eate the scraps of the childrens bread which fall from their Maisters Table But by a most mercifull wonder are of dogs made the children of God and sit with him at his Table The Iewes were first called to this glorious feast Vpon their refusall t Luk. 14.21 the poore the maimed the halt the blind are brought in This was and is to the Iewes a heart-breaking sorrow S u Act. 10.28 Peter himselfe at the first repined against it x Act. 11. ● 2.18 The rest of the Apostles the brethren that were in Iudea contended with Peter about it and when they were better informed they spake of it as of a great wonder S. Paul calleth it y Rom. 16.25.26 a mysterie which was kept secret since the world began for although that now by the Scriptures of the Prophets it is made knowne to all Nations yet the manner thereof that a Eph. 3.3.5.6 the Gentiles should be fellow-heires and of the same body and partakers of the promise of God in Christ by the Gospell not by the Law by faith not by Circumcision without any observation of Iudaicall feasts Ambros ib. fasts abstinences dayes and other elements of the Iewish discipline was not revealed to any of the Prophets was not made knowne in other ages to the sonnes of men was first reuealed vnto the Apostles and Prophets of their time by the Spirit Now our little children see it and know it more clearly then Abraham the Father of the beleevers then Dauid who spake so much of it then all the Prophets did THAT which was to the Iewes a heart-sorrow to the Prophets a booke sealed to the Apostles a mysterie to the first Christians of Iudea a wonder is to vs our salvation Shall it not also be our ioy and the matter of our thāksgiving b Rom. 9.23.24 God hath made knowne the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he afore had prepared vnto glory Even vs whom he hath called not of the Iewes onely but also of the Gentiles And shall not we hearken to the exhortatiō of the Apostle and c Rom. 15.9.11 Psal 117. glorifie God for his mercy As it is written O prayse the Lord all ye Nations Praise him all ye people For his merciful kindnesse is great toward vs and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever When Christ was borne in Bethlehem which is interpreted the house of bread to be the living bread to the dead the Angels of heaven who for their owne particular had no interest in his birth ioyned themselues in a great host to praise God saying and singing d Luk. 2.14 Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will towards men And shall not we who are these men for whom he is come we who feede every day on him sing prayse glory and honour to God who hath sent him to be our bread and hath called vs to eate of this bread Shall we not say and sing with Dauid e Psa 18.49 Therefore will I giue thanks vnto thee O Lord among the Heathen and sing prayses vnto thy Name CHAPTER III. I. All kinde of persons in any Nation may eate of the living bread according to the Prophecies and types of the Law II. And the doctrine of the Gospell III. Three vses of this doctrine IS f Rom 3.29 GOD the God of the Iewes onely Is he not also of the Gentiles Yea of the Gentiles also and of any man amongst Iewes and Gentiles without distinction of persons According to the prophecie of Esaiah g Esa 60.3 The Gentiles shall come to thy light and Kings to the brightnesse of thy rising Not Kings onely but Kings aswell as men of meaner sort but men of meane condition aswell as Kings h Psal 22.26.29 The meeke shall eate and be satisfied All they that be fat vpon earth shall eate and worship Vnder the Law there were sacrifices not onely for but also for poore men He which had not l Levit. 1.3.10.14 a bullocke of the heard to offer came with a Lambe or a kid of the flocke and was accepted And m Levit. 12.6.8 the woman which after her purificatiō was not able to bring a Lambe and a Pigeon for her oblation was quit for two turtles or two yong pigeons For Christ is a propitiatorie Sacrifice for rich and poore men and women And as all persons of all qualities which were bitten with the fierie Serpents in the wildernesse were healed when they looked vpon the Serpent of brasse which Moses had set vpon a pole according to the Word of God n Num. 21.8 Euery one that is bitten when he looketh vpon it shall line o Ioh. 3.14 15. Even so said Christ of himselfe must the Sonne of man he lifted vp that whosoever beleeveth in him should

THE TABLE OF THE LORD WHEREOF 1. THE VVHOLE SERVICE IS THE LIVING BREAD 2. THE GVESTS ANY MAN 3. THE MOVTH TO Eate FAITH ONELY By GILBERT PRIMEROSE Doctour of Divinitie one of his Maiesties Chaplaines in Ordinary and Pastour of the French Church at London LONDON Printed by I. D. for Nicholas Bourne and are to be sold at his shop at the Royall Exchange 1626. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE S ir IAMES FOVVLERTON First Gentleman of his MAIESTIES Bed-chamber c. RIGHT HONOVRABLE SOoner shall the heaven be without stars the stars without light the fire without heat the aire without moisture the Sea without agitation a faire meddow without grasse then the Church without the poisonous tares and noysome weeds of hellish heresies which springing vp with the wholesome and soule-feeding wheat the Lord Iesus hath sowed in the heavenly field of his Church hast to smoother it ere it grow to any beautiful and fruitfull perfection For a 1 Cor. 11.19 there must be heresies that they which are approved may be made manifest Therefore as God foretelling that b Zach. 1.18.19.20.21 foure hornes should arise to scatter Iudah Israel and Ierusalem foretold also that he had appointed foure Carpenters to fray them even so foreseing that by the ever-watching craft of the ever-waking divell the venemous seed of deadly errors should grow with the good corne of the Gospell to choake it he ordained diligent and faithfull 1 Cor. 3.9 Labourers to weed and plucke them out by the roote These Labourers are the Pastours of the Church who should be not onely d 1 Tim. 3 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apt to teach good and sound doctrine but also e Tit. 1.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apt to convince the gainesayers And certainely if it be the dutie of all Christians not onely f Athenag in legat pro Christianis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to speake of the truth but also to dispute for the truth How much more should the man of God the Doctour of the Church be g Aug. de Doc. Chri. lib. 4. c. 4. Veritatis propugnator erroris expugnator defender of the truth and over-commer of errour Never was there in the Church greater need of both then now that the Whoore of Babylon giues to the Kings and great men of the earth great bowles of her phyltres to drinke farre more dangerous then the waters of Aethiopia i Ovid. 15. Metamorphos Quos si quis faucibus hausit Aut furit aut patitur mirum gravitate soporem For assoone as they haue set that golden cup to their heads they are possessed with a dizzinesse and as if they had drunke a worse Nepenthé then that which k Homer Odys lib. 4. Helena gaue to Telemachus they forget their owne name of Christians and never speake of Iesus Christ but to seeke vnder a Herodian colour of worshipping him to kill him againe in his members Of what pestilent herbes that loue-drinke is made who knowes not How all those that call themselues Catholiques are bewitched with it who sees not Where these mishapen and ougly plants whose bane-giving liquor banishes the wisest men from their best wits doe grow who hath read in the seventeenth chapter of the Revelation of S. Iohn what is written of the woman arrayed in purple scarlet of the golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthinesse of her fornications of the name written on her forehead in capitall Letters MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH of the blood of the Saints wherewith she is drunken of the beast with seaven heads she sits vpon of many waters she rules over and will not affirme boldly that S. Hierome strayed not from the Truth when he said it is l Hierony ad Marcel linam viduam Rupes Turpeia the Towne builded on seaven Mountaines Rome even that Rome where in Hieromes dayes was the true Church the Trophies of the Apostles and Martyrs the true confession of Christ and was then decaying then beginning to be m Rev. 18. the habitation of devils the hold of every foule Spirit and a cage of every vncleane and hatefull bird There is the devils garden and his Gardener the man of sinne the Sonne of perdition whose emissaries runne abroad sowing every where the aconit of his most venemous doctrine the only Marchandise these Mountebankes of the fourth vow fetch from that dungeon of infernal fiends which being n Rev. 11.8 spiritually Sodom and Egypt hath nothing but faire shewes of rotten and stinking drugges like the o Ioseph de bello Iudaico lib. 5 cap. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apples of Sodom which at the first touching vanish away in smoake and ashes and worse then Egypt p Odyss lib. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aboūds in evill weeds hath few or no good hearbes Of these loathsome and infectious hearbs the best whereof is but Swines-grasse at my attendance at Court in Iuly last I laboured to grubbe vp with the hooke-weed of the word of GOD that poysonous Toad-stoole called Transubstantiation the last and the foulest master-piece of work of the divels husbandry and wherein he delights most because it is most like vnto himselfe For by it Ceres Bacchus are worshipped vnder the name of Christ poore Christians blind-folded by the Corybantes of Babylon are holden in hand that a round and thin crust of the breadth of a shilling is Christs owne selfe as big as tall as perfect a man as he was on the Crosse that at the Masse they see him that at Easter they eate with the mouths of their bodies his flesh bones blood and whole body that therefore they must worship that crust with the worship of Latria due to none but God So he makes them the greatest or at least as great idolaters as ever were in the world This seemed so barbarous to the Ambassadours of the Towpinambauts in Frāce not long since that although they be the most barbarous people of the world and eaters of mens flesh yet to the naturall light that hath remained in their brutish minds this went beyond all brutishness that reasonable men should eate that which they worship or worship that which they eate And certainely said they if Our God were as beneficiall to vs as your Christ is to you we would honour him the best we could but we would not eate him And one of them made a Proselyte by the Capuchin Friars of Paris being asked if he was now a good Christian Yes said he for every day for my breakefast I eate one of your Christs What I then preached in two Sermons both for the truth against this most abominable errour I haue set down in this little Booke which I dare to send abroad cloathed with the livery of your honourable most worthy Name that appearing to the common view with such a goodly face it may