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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58902	A helpe to the willing soul, or, The communicants counsellor being a plaine and familiar discourse upon sundry maine truths, both doctrinall and practicall, requisite to be known, understood and observed by every Christian before his approach to the Lords table : composed mostly in reference to the rules and directions concerning sacramentall knowledge laid down in an ordinance of both Houses of Parliament of the 20 of October, 1645 / by Henry Searle ; for the benefit and edification of the inhabitants of Aldeburgh in Suffolk.	Searle, Henry, b. 1616.	1647 (1647)	Wing S2203; ESTC R15097	21,827	50

scandalous persons unto it Because the rarity of such instances would sufficiently shew that it is but meerly accidentall to the Sacrament to be a means to convert people from Sin and Satan to God and Christ and we must not gather ordinary and standing Practicall rules from accidentall providences and rare events Besides the very nature of the outward elements do plainly discover the nature of this Sacrament to be nourishing and not begetting And lastly if any were ever converted by this Sacrament their conversion surely was either by beholding the outward elements which are a visible word or by hearing the words of institution read or opened and prayer joyned therewith both which wee call the consecration of the Elements and not by actuall receiving the outward signes which will onely prove that unworthy persons ought to be suffered to see and heare but not prove that they ought actually to receive and partake of the Sacramentall elements Qu. But at least doe you not think that the by-past sins of a true beleever are pardoned in and by his meet partaking of the Lords-supper Ans No for if he be a true beleever his sins past especially if confessed to God and seriously repented of are pardoned Ezek. 18. 21 22. with God before he comes to eate and drink at the Lords Table Qu. If his sins committed bee pardoned before he comes to the Lords Table then what good can a beleever get by receiving that Sacrament Ans Though the sins past be pardoned to a Christian before hee comes to the Lords Table yet being a beleever and a worthy receiver he is by the Sacrament strengthened in a more firm belief of the pardon of his sins and also he is strengthened in a greater confidence that God will increase all saving graces in him Jud. 6. 36 37. c. Qu. How can the eating of a morsell of bread and the drinking of a little wine at the Lords Table strengthen the faith and make you more confident that God will increase all saving graces in you Ans In this respect the eating of the bread and drinking of the wine at the Lords Table doe strengthen and increase my faith and confidence Because I know that Christ did set apart bread and wine as tokens and pledges to assure me that as surely as a weak body is made stronger grows greater and is preserved alive by receiving meat and drink so surely shall my soul be made stronger in faith grow more and more in all saving graces and bee nourished up unto eternall life through my eating and drinking the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ by faith Joh. 6. 54. c. Qu. But doe worthy Communicants eat and drink the flesh and blood of Christ in the Sacrament Ans Yes worthy Communicants do eat and drink the flesh and blood of Christ at the Lords supper Joh. 6. 53 56. Q. How can we eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ seeing Christ is in heaven and we are on earth Ans Though Christ be in heaven and we on earth yet by faith we can reach him and by faith we doe spiritually eate his flesh and drink his blood Joh. 6. 35 47 48. Qu. But what is it to eat and drink Christs flesh and blood spiritually by faith Ans To eat and drink the flesh and blood of Christ spiritually by faith is to beleeve unfeignedly that as Jesus Christ doth spiritually unite himself to the outward signs of bread and wine so this spirituall presence of Christ in the outward signs doth bring along with it the merits and benefits of Christs active and passive obedience for the comforting strengthening and nourishing of my soul Qu. Is not Iesus Christ bodily present in the Sacrament Ans No Christ is not bodily present in the Sacrament for the Scriptures affirm that the heaven must receive him untill the times of restitution of all things Act. 3. 21. Qu. But are not the bread and wine changed into the very flesh and blood of Christ after the Minister has consecrated them that is after he hath read the words of Institution given thanks and prayed Ans The bread and wine after the words of consecration do receive a Sacramentall change in their use and effects because the worthy receiver by faith takes them as sacred and holy pledges and seals of Christs body and blood which before consecration were but common and ordinary creatures But in regard of their substance and materiality they remaine still the same as they were before without any change at all Qu. But does not Christ himself say of the Bread This is my body and of the Wine This is my blood and does not Christ speak true in so saying Ans Christs words in calling the bread and wine his Body and Blood are most certainly true in his own sacramentall and spirituall sense Joh. 6. 63. but not in a literall and carnall sense For if Christ had given his disciples his very flesh and blood to be eaten by their bodily mouths as they sate at the Table then he could not the next day have suffered upon the crosse which yet hee did Mat. 26. 26 34. comp with Mat. 27. 1. 46 50. Again if Christs body were materially present upon the Communion Table after the words of Consecration then he should bee in a hundred places at once for the Sacrament may bee and is many times administred in a hundred severall Congregations at one very time and so also we should make Christ to have a hundred bodies we still conclude therefore that Christ is not bodily but onely Sacramentally and spiritually present in the Sacrament Qu. But to return to our former matters Do all those that partake outwardly of this Sacrament of the Lords-supper receive the forenamed spirituall benefits thereby Ans No all those that partake of the outward signs do not receive the spirituall benefits for many come to this Sacrament of the Lords-supper not for the better but for the worse 1 Cor. 11. 17. 34. Qu. In what respect doe many come to the Lords Table for the worse Ans Many come to the Lords Table for the worse because by unworthy receiving thereat they become guilty of the body and blood of Christ and eat and drink their own damnation 1 Cor. 11. 27 29. Qu. How may unworthy partakers at the Lords table be said to be guilty of the body and blood of Christ Ans Unworthy partakers at the Lords Table are guilty of the body and blood of Christ because they are guilty of casting a sleight and contempt upon the body and blood of Christ which in that ordinance are represented unto them 1 Cor. 11. 20 21 22 29. Qu. How are unworthy partakers said to eate and drink their own damnation or judgment Ans Unworthy partakers at the Lords Table are said to eat and drink their own damnation or judgment because by that sin of unworthy receiving they do as certainly draw damnation or judgment upon themselves if they should