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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09965	Foure godly and learned treatises Intituled, I. A remedy against covetousnesse. II. An elegant and lively description of spirituall death and life. III. The doctrine of selfe-deniall. IV. Vpon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. Delivered in sundry sermons, by that late famous preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, Iohn Preston, Doctor of Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinarie to his Majestie; master of Emanuel Colledge, and sometime preacher of Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.; Preston, John, 1587-1628. Three sermons upon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. aut	1633 (1633)	STC 20222; ESTC S115040	185,075	475

nor for all that hee was able to doe and why because they thought that Christ that God was able to doe them more hurt and more good Now take any Commander in the world when you regard not the punishment nor the reward that he is able to inflict or to give you his authority is gone Now when you set up Christ and thinke so of Christ you are ready to obey him and obey him rather than any other Therefore consider with thy selfe this and consider seriously aske thy heart the question what is that thou settest up to bee thy chiefest Commander For there are three great Cōmanders in the world that divide all mankind betweene them almost And that is wealth and estate worldly credit and honour to live in esteeme pleasures and delight Now thinke with thy selfe when any of these three great Commanders come with any command contrary to that which Christ commands thinke with thy selfe what thou wilt doe in such a case what wast thou wont to doe looke to past experience looke backe to thy former wayes see what thou wast wont to doe thinke with thy selfe when such a Command comes what thy heart reasons upon if concupiscence if a strong lust if a strong impetuous desire come and bid thee to doe something which is contrary to that which Christ would have thee to do what art thou ready to doe in such a case If thy profit the mainetenance of thy estate thy liberty thy wealth thy convenience in this world come and command thee to doe one thing and thy conscience which is Christs vicegerent come in his stead and command thee another thing what art thou ready to doe in that case So when thy credit thy honour and reputation thy vaine glory shall come and bid thee do one thing and Christ shall bid thee doe another what is thy resolution what art thou wont to doe By this thou shalt know whether thou settest up Christ as the chiefe Commander in thy heart or no whether thou givest him thy chiefe throne whether thou exaltest him for God in thy heart you know when you exalt him for God every thing then yeelds if in truth he be set up for God in thy heart Therefore consider what it is that thy heart sets highest whether thou exaltest him most whether when any of these threatning crying commands come thou canst give them an absolute denyall and say with thy selfe I will not obey you and if they threaten imprisonment or disgrace and losse of life and if I doe not obey such a lust I shall be wrung and pincht for it I shall lose such delights well I am resolved to beare all this On the other side when they shall come with faire proffers you shall have this honour and this advancement and this convenience If thy heart can say now I will have none of you for I see it is a command contrary to his that is above whom I have set up for my chiefe Commander whom I resolve to obey whom I take to be greater than all the friendship in the world than all the profits pleasures and credits in the world I say thus examine thy selfe what thy heart is toward Christ what it is to his command and let mee touch that by the way thou must also shew thy obedience to Christ in thy obedience to others My beloved there are indifferent things that are in themselves not of moment one way or other whether we doe them or not doe them and though the omission of them in themselves be nothing yet when it shall bee of contempt and neglect of those that are set in superiour place over you in such a case you ought not to doe it this is a rule and a true rule in divinity that indifferent things may be omitted except in two cases in case of scandall and in case of neglect and contempt of authority therefore when there is neglect when men shew contempt for that cause it is to be done though for the other it is not to be done This I touch but by the way that you may consider it in your particular occasion Now my beloved you see these five things by which you may know if you have tooke Christ or no yee know when a man comes to examine himselfe whether he be a fit man a man that hath any right to come to the Lords table hee must consider whether hee bee in Christ otherwise hee hath nothing to doe either with this priviledge or with any other Now to bee in Christ there must as I said goe a double act there must be one on thy owne side there must be one act on thy part to take him and there must be an act on his part there goes out a strength and a vertue from him by which hee takes thee and comprehends thee The time is past I cannot proceed further onely remember this that hath beene said to you and examine your selves by it whether you bee in the truth whether you make Christ your chiefe Excellency your chiefe Treasure your chiefe Ioy your chiefe Refuge your chiefe Commander if thou finde that thou hast done this if thou finde thy heart wrought to such an act as this to take Christ in such a manner then thou hast Christ thou art in him then thou hast a right in him and maist come with comfort but if thou have it not then I must charge every one of you in the name of Christ Iesus in whose authority we come that you meddle not with such holy mysteries My Beloved you know what I have often told you there is a necessity laid on men to come to the Sacrament you know hee that neglected the Passeover was to be cut off from the people It was a very great sinne so it is to omit the Sacrament you have diverse Sacraments every Tearme and if your businesse hinder you from one you may come to another yea there is a necessity lyes upon you to come but yet we must give you a double charge one that you omit it not and another that you come not hither unlesse you be in Christ What hast thou to doe that art a profane person thou hast nothing to doe with Christ thou that art yet a stranger to him that thou shouldest thrust in to the Lords table thou ought'st not to doe it if thou dost thou eatest and drinkest thine owne damnation in stead of thy salvation The Second Sermon AND so now wee come to the Vse and that is that there is an Act of Christ to make an union betwixt us that we may be his and he ours there is an act of his that is there is a certaine power or vertue comes from him even as there doth from the Load-stone to the iron that drawes thee to him there goes out a vertue and power from him as to the woman that touched the hemme of his garment that healed her bloody issue such a power goes out from Christ to