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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

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

the Lord are pure as the psa 12. 6 siluer tryed in a furnace of earth fined seauenfold The lawe of the Lord is Ps 19. 7. 8. perfect the statutes of the Lord are perfect All thy commaundements are Psa 119. 86. verse 140. true Thy word is prooued most pure Gold had need to be fined but Gods word is without all drosse And therefore it is the fittest rule for all our actions Sixtly The word of God is liuely and mightie in operation and sharper then any two-edged sword entreth through euen vnto the deuiding asunder of the soule and the spirit and of the ioynts and the marrowe and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart Heb. 4. 12. Therfore fit to be our Iudge and the Touch-stone of our tryall As in a * Non co●itationes solum et me●tis tuae consilia sed actiones etiam et vi●aeinslituta adeoque te ipsum tibi tanquam aliquod illustre specuiū oftendet et demonstrbit Mirrour or looking-glasse a man may discerne his face so by the word of God we may discerne our selues and see the faces of our soules As the Gold-smith doth iudge of gold by touching it with his stone so by viewing our selues by Gods word we may iudge of our states As the Corn-dresser may by his Fanne discerne the wheat from the chaffe so we by the word of God may distinguish betwixt vice and vertue and see whether there be more wheat of grace or chaffe of sin in the heape of our heart and whether the chaffe of fin and dust of corruption as ashes ●o the fire sōtimes as chaffe doth wheat doth * couer and ouer-lay the good corne of Gods graces and whether they be mixed together as light and darkenesse in the twilight When REBEKAH felt the twins strugling in her wombe she went to aske the Lord so when thou art in conflict with thy self when doubts arise within the womb of thy heart not knowing what to do or what to determine or think of thy selfe aske counsell of the Lord in his word and thou shalt in due time receiue an answere as by Oracle from heauen Dauid saith that the testimonies of the Lord were his Counsellours Ps 119 24. To conclude wouldst thou know whether thine examination and preparation be right and good then consider the word of God for it is the * mouth the tongue Vox summi sensu●que Dei quem fudit abalta mēte Deus the voice and sentence of the Lord the line of our loue the rule of repentance the squire of obeience the touch-stone of faith the determiner of truth and the surest Iudge both in and of our examination The word of the Lord is * Pro. 30. 5 Ps 59. 8. Lex Ctristi est lux Christiani et speculū humanae animae pure in it selfe and giueth light vnto the eies of those that search belieue and obey it It is as a bright shining torch or candle in a darke night lending vs light both to try our selues and to discerne whether our tryall be as it should be right and good And so much for the second generall point By what we ought to prooue our selues CHAP. 6. THe third point is of what things we must examin our selues For it were absurd for a man to seeke he knowes not what or to cast his angle into the water not knowing why A Magistrate cannot examine a man of nothing neither can we make tryall of our selues of nothing Examination presupposeth aswell the thing to be examined as the person vpon whome it is to be made The thinges then wherof we ought to examine our selues that we may come well prepared to the Lords Table are these especially which I will propound in order and do cōmend to your christian consideration They are in number eight First we must examine our selues concerning our knowledge for it is fit that euery receiuer should haue a three-fold knowledg First of God to wit that there is a God a Iehouah that there is but one God that he is a spirit that he is infinite for goodnesse mercy iustice wisedome power time and glory that he is the Creator and Gouernour of the world that he is distinguished into three persōs the Father begetting the Sonne begotten the Holy ghost proceeding from them both that these three are one in nature and essence and will but three really distinguished in their maner of subsisting the Father of himself the Son of the Father the holy ghost from both and this from all eternity finally that all these are one in worship will haue onely that worship performed to them which is prescribed in the holy scriptures and that in spirit and truth Secondly it is meete that he should not be ignorant of the three fold estate of man the state by creation the state of the fall the state of grace As first that man was created righteous and good yet mutably Secondly that he fel Eccl. 7. 31. voluntarily away at the suggestiō of the Deuill and so lost his originall purity and withal plunged himselfe into a gulfe of misery First in that he is become prone to all manner of wickednesse secondly in that he doth now dayly transgresse against God both by omitting good and committing euill Thirdly that he is now subiect to the curse of the lawe Gal. 4. 10. both in this life and in the end of it and in the life to come In this life in the body to diseases in his goods to losses in his good name to ignominie in the end of his life to death which hauing cut asunder the threed of life made a deuorce between the soule and body doth immediately set open Hell gate for his soule to enter in In the life to come in a dying life and a liuing death euen to euer lasting confusion of soule and bodie from the presence of God liuing alwaies like flesh in the waters of Gods wrath and neuer drowned liuing alwaies in Hell fire like a Salamander and yet neuer consumed alwaies in dying yet neuer dead alwaies aliue and yet alwaies dead Thirdly for the state of Grace we must first know that we are redeemed from this misery onely by Christ who fulfilled the law for vs by his death hath defaced death and sin the sting of death and satisfied for all our sins to the full Secondly we must know that we are regenerated by the Holy Ghost who is therfore called the Spirit of sanctification or holines It is he that by the fire of his operation Rom. 1. 4. eateth out the drosse of sin and purgeth our soules from wickednesse He is the water which washeth away the filth of our hearts and as salt he seasonethvs throughout with sauing graces If we either will well or worke well it is of the Lord onely who worketh in vs both the will and deede Phil. 2. 13 of his owne good pleasure