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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87512	The want of church-government no warrant for a totall omission of the Lords Supper. Or, A brief and scholastical debate of that question, which hath so wonderfully perplexed many, both ministers and people. Whether or no, the sacrament of the Lords Supper may (according to presbyterial principles) be lawfully administred in an un-presbyterated church, that is, a church destitute of ruling elders. Wherein the affirmative is confirmed by many arguments, and cleared from objections, especially such as are drawn from the unavoidablenesse of mixt communions without ecclesiastical discipline. / By Henry Jeanes, minister of Gods Word at Chedzoy in Sommerset-shire.	Jeanes, Henry, 1611-1662.	1650 (1650)	Wing J511; Thomason E618_6; ESTC R202652	58,879	80

All these former Arguments receive weight and strength from this consideration That the exercise of Discipline is not a necessary antecedent unto the exercise of other branches of the power of Order to wit the power of Preaching Baptizing c. Therefore to say without proof that it is a necessary antecedent unto the exercise only of this Branch of the power of Order is Petitio Principii a meer begging of the Question The fifth Principal Argument is taken from the end of the Lords Supper The 5. Arg. à fine The principall ends of the Lords Supper have place in and do belong unto an Un-Presbyterated Church and therefore likewise the Lords Supper it self The consequence is made good from that Maxime in Logick Posito fine ponuntur omnia media ad finem The Antecedent is manifest from an enumeration of the ends of the Lords Supper It will be an endlesse work to go over them all I shall therefore out of them all select two The first is that which by Christs most expresse command is to be the end of this Sacrament And it is to celebrate the memory of Christs Death and Passion that unvaluable price of our double Redemption Redemption from hell and Redemption to glory This do in remembrance of me And doth it not become Christians to celebrate with a frequent shall I say nay rather with an eternal memory the Author of their Redemption Shall so great and glorious a work be buried in a grave of oblivion And shall that I mean the Lords Supper which is by divine institution a Pledge and memorial of this so incomparable a mercy be neglected and quite thrown aside if the government of the Church by the iniquity of the times be not setled in our times Christs death is to be remembred with a memory both of faith and gratitude even in an Un-Presbyterated Church Therefore the Lords Supper which was by Christ instituted for the commemoration thereof is to be celebrated in an Un-Presbyterated Church Secondly I shall argue from another end of the Lords Supper The spiritual growth and nourishment of Christians The Lords Supper is defined by Ames to be the Sacrament of the nourishing and growth of the faithful in Christ Whereupon he inferres that it ought oftentimes to be administred to the same persons In an Un-Presbyterated Church Christians ought to grow in grace to nourish and improve their graces all they can Why then should they be denyed that which Christ himselfe hath appointed as an help and means of this growth and nourishment Me thinks it is somewhat a strange kind of reasoning because the rod of Discipline is wanting the children should be denyed bread yea but you will say dogges will eat the childrens bread Why will you therefore starve the children because dogges without your default may snatch the childrens portion Shall the children be debarred as I may say their daily bread because it will become accidentally poyson unto dogges Hither may we referre these words of the Bramble Berrie As it is better for Gods sheep to feed upon pasture where some weeds grow rather then starve for want of food So it is better for Gods shepheards to suffer some weeds to grow in the sheeps pastures if they cannot prevent it then to starve their flocks yea and as it is better for the sheep to feed among goats rather then starve So it is better the shepheards should suffer the goats to feed upon the sheeps pasture though it should poyson them then for the sheep to be kept from it It being as I said out of their power to reforme it Hither you may referre that place of Beccanus sum Theol. Part. 3. Tract 2. Cap. 23. Quest 4. Hoc praeceptum divinum tum maxime obligat cum prudenter judicatur Eucharistiae sumptionem necessariam esse homini ad eum finem ob quem instituta est nimirum ad conservandam roborandam vitam spiritualem contra tentationes Ratio est quia hoc est commune Praeceptis affirmativis ut tunc obligent quando urget necessitas finis propter quem instituta sunt The sixt Argument is drawn from the Object of the administration of the Lords Supper The sixth Argument Ab Objecto such as have these qualifications which the Scripture requireth in those to whom it is to be administred and these qualifications are especially two First Right unto Secondly Need of the Lords Supper Now in an Un-Presbyterated Church there are many who have right unto and need of the Lords Supper why then should it be with-held from them Because they have right unto it the Minister is tyed to give it them by an obligation of justice because they have need of it the Minister is bound to give it them by an obligation of charity First Many have right unto it not only jus adrem but also jus in re not only a right in actu primo but also a right in actu secundo which rendreth the person actually and presently capable of the thing that he is intituled to That which giveth such a right in Foro Dei is Eaith but in Foro Ecclesiastico profession of the Faith Now in an Un-Presbyterated Church there are many who are Beleevers and Professors of the Faith Ego many that have right unto the Lords Supper And we may argue from the right to the administration Philip did so to the Eunuch in case of Baptisme The Eunuch said here is water what doth hinder me to be baptized And Philip said If thou beleevest withall thine heart thou mayst So may we say here is bread and wine c. Peter also thus reasoneth Acts 10.47 Can any forbid water that these should not be baptized which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we So may we say can any man forbid bread and wine that these should not receive the Lords Supper which have received the Holy Ghost and have in some degree all spirituall qualifications requisite in Communicants They have the word of promise which is the greater who can inhibit the signe which is the lesse They are Mr. Geree his words for the Baptisme of Infants They are faederati therefore they must be signati It is Mr. Marshals argument upon the same subject and mutatis mutandis applyable to our purpose Perhaps you will say you would willingly give Beleevers their right but prophane and scandalous persons will also intrude who have no right What if they do If you have no power or authority from Christ to keep them back by your self If you have used the utmost of your power to erect an Eldership in the Congregation if you have used your power of Order to the utmost for keeping them back by exhortation if you mourne for their intrusion wherein are you to be blamed Because they do wrong will you do no right And shall the Saints be debarred their dues because these wretches without your allowance seise upon what is undue that unto which they have no