Selected quad for the lemma: word_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
word_n	body_n	bread_n	institution_n	3,643	5	9.2522	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60170	A new naked truth, or, The sandy foundation of the Sacramental test shaken, by a warning-piece discharged from heaven against all sorts of persecutors wherein you may hold Christ crucified mystically and sacramentally, upon the cross of the sacramental penal test, with all the rest of the penal laws and tests attending thereon, and contributing thereunto / by Giles Shute ...	Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3709; ESTC R11222	67,483	56

from the beginning of Christ's Gospel-Church But this by the by But I am clearly for rendring unto Caesar the things that be Caesars and also to render unto God the things that are Gods. My dearly beloved Countrymen for so I will make bold to call you because I am an Englishman man born and therefore a Member of the Body Politick of the Nation Forasmuch as there is a great deal of stickling and strugling and sending and proving pro and con about these Penal Laws and Tests and much has been said for the continuance of them and much more has been said for the Abolishing of them insomuch that it is not only become a Table-talk but it is almost a National Text for all People to Comment and Preach upon therefore I shall single out one of these Tests to speak somewhat unto And that shall be the Sacramental Test and let us bring that to the Touchstone of Gods Word and let us take notice for what end that Ordinance of God was Instituted and Appointed and let us hear what God the Lord will speak unto us concerning this Sacramental Test And let God be true and every man a lyer Rom. 3.4 Should not a people seek unto their God To the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Isa 8. Now Gentlemen you shall have a Fair and Impartial Trial of this Test by the Word of God and by one of your own Articles of the Church of E. and there shall be none but clear and undeniable True Witnesses and not one Knight of the Post that swears for Bread among them all although their Late Fire of Persecution have bred whole swarms of those sort of Venemous Salamanders And the God who is Judge of all the Earth shall be the Judge between us which those that are Persecuters do own in Words though in Works they deny him Titus 1.16 They profess they know God but in works they deny him being Abominable and Disobedient and unto every good work reprobate A Persecuter while such must be such a person or else he cannot be a Judge and Lawgiver unto other Mens Consciences Now I say I will single out one of these Tests to speak somewhat unto namely the Sacramental Test that is so Universal a Test amongst them And let us try what that will afford us that so we may measure Hercules by his Foot. Now this Test was chiefly made and intended against all the Protestant Dissenters And for the better coming at the making an Upright and Impartial Judgment of this Test I shall do three things 1. The first thing shall be this I will lay down the Words of Institution of this holy and blessed Ordinance by our Lord Jesus Christ himself 2. And secondly I shall lay down the words of the Aposte Paul to the Church of Corinth and let us see what Light and Knowledge this will afford us in this matter which is that which the Test-Makers and the Test-Givers and the Test-Takers themselves do all profess to own and practice as well Ecclesiastical as Civil as well in their Church-Government as in the Civil State. 3. And thirdly and lastly I shall press into this service one of their own 39 Articles wherein they give the Definition of what a true Church is and then let us try this Sacramental Test by these Infallible Rules 1. First by the words of Institution by our Saviour Christ himself as it is laid down by three of the Evangelists Matt. 26.26 27 28. And as they were eating Jesus took Bread and blessed it and brake it and gave it to the Disciples and said Take eat this is my Body And he took the Cup and gave thanks and gave it to them saying Drink ye all of it for this is my Blood of the New Testament which is shed for many for the Remission of Sins Mark 14.22 23 24. And as they did eat Jesus took bread and blessed and brake it and gave to them and said Take eat this is my Body And he took the Cup and when he had given thanks he gave it to them and they all drank of it And he said unto them This is my Blood of the New Testament which is shed for many Luke 22.19 20. And he took Bread and gave thanks and brake it and gave unto them saying This is my body which is given for you this do in remembrance of me Likewise also the Cup after supper saying This Cup is the New Testament in my blood which is shed for you Thus you hear what our blessed Saviour saith by these three Witnesses in the words of Institution He did not say Do this to secure your selves in the Civil Government while you do Rob and Rape and Plunder and Imprison and Spoil your honest peaceable Neighbours But Do this in remembrance of me Here is not one word of making it a Civil Test to Insnare honest Men withall 2. But secondly Now we have heard the words of our blessed Redeemer Let us also hear the words of the Apostle Paul with a respect to the words of Institution of this blessed Ordinance of the Lord's Supper And also the threatnings that are Annexed thereunto against all Hypocritical unworthy Receivers that Prosane this Ordinance of the Lord's Supper 1 Cor. 11.23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you Hence you may observe by the way that Pastors or other Ministers of the Gospel ought to deliver nothing to the People but what they first Receive from the Lord and have his Word and Authority for so doing That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my Body which was broken for you this do in remembrance of me It was broken for you Believers and for none else but such as do believe and that shall believe as if the Apostle should have said And for what end and purpose why to remember Christ's dear love and compassion in Dying for poor sinners and to feed and nourish the new Creature and to stir up and excite all the Graces of the Spirit that is in the Believer unto a holy Commemoration of the blessed Effects of his Death to the Believer and also to commemorate the transcendent Love and wonderful Wisdom and Grace and Goodness of God and the great condescention of God in which all his glorious Attributes were ingaged in the contriving bringing to pass this unparallel'd Merciful Piece of work namely of Man's Redemption But pray note by the way that this is not a converting Ordinance as some by mistake would have it to be because no Man must partake of it before he is converted because that then instead of being converted by it he eateth and drinketh unworthily and so eateth and drinketh damnation to himself not discerning the

Lord's body And therefore it is that we are commanded to Examine our selves before we partake of it to see whether we be born of God and so are in a converted Spiritual state of Grace and also to try our selves whether we be in a Spiritual frame of heart that we may know whether Grace be in Act and Exercise in us or not But to Return to the words of Institution After the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supped saying This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood this do ye as oft as ye drink it in Remembrance of me for as often as ye eat this Bread and Drink this Cup ye do shew the Lord's Death till he come Here is not one word of making this Sacred Ordinance a Test to accommodate the Civil State withall but on the contrary as you shall hear by and by For the Apostle bringeth it in Argumentatively with a Wherefore Whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord That is instead of commemorating Christ's Death and Sufferings and all the Benefits that floweth unto us from that Fountain of his precious Blood They do eat and drink their own Damnation without unfeigned Repentance and God's Infinite Mercy for they do crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame whosoever shall eat thus unworthily whether Lord or Commoner let them look to it for God is no respecter of Persons for he that feareth God and worketh Righteousness and none but such are or shall be accepted with him O that all they that are thus Guilty may tremble to think what is a coming upon them for this great Abomination of profaning the Lord's holy Supper by a Law which I had almost said is a National sin because the major part of the Governing Party have been thus Guilty Though I do hope and also believe That there was many in both Houses of Parliament both of Lords and Commoners when this Snare was made that had neither heart nor hand in it But yet notwithstanding the major part of them must be for it or it could not have been made therefore I would not be found to grieve any of the Generation of the Righteous without a cause by condemning the Innocent with the guilty But as the Apostle saith Let every Man examine himself whether he be guilty or not But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. And here the holy Apostle is bringing it in again argumentatively by way of precaution for said he He that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth drinketh damnation or condemnation to himself not discerning the Lord's Body for this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep that is die For what cause was it why for profaning the Ordinance of the Lord's Supper And who was it the holy Apostle charged this Guilt upon why even upon some of the Corinthians that believed in Christ for he said some among you They were converted as to their Spiritual state they were in a state of Grace But yet notwithstanding that they were in a very carnal loose frame of heart They did eat and drink worthily as to their Spiritual state but yet nevertheless they did eat and drink unworthily as to their frame of heart and therefore God punished them with corporal sicknesses and death though they were free from Eternal Death and Condemnation by vertue of their Union with Christ and so in a state of Grace which can never be broken Rom. 8.1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus that respects the Spiritual state of the Believer who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit The former that respects the State and this later respects the frame of heart in the former they are alive to God and in the later they walk with God The holy Apostle Peter was in a very carnal frame of heart when he would have disswaded our blessed Saviour from suffering Matt. 16.22 23. Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him saying Be it far from thee Lord this shall not come unto thee But ne turned and said unto Peter Get thee behind me Satan thou art an offence unto me for thou savourest not the things that be of God but those that be of men That is he was in a carnal frame of heart in a sudden passion of misguided Love and Zeal he was carnally minded and our Saviour Christ said unto Peter in another place of Scripture When thou art converted streng then thy Brethren this could not be meant of his first conversion into a state of Grace for so he was converted long before that time But it is meant of his after-conversion unto a more Spiritual frame of heart which he should be in after he had denied Christ And the Apostle Paul said Are ye not carnal and walk as men when one saith I am of Paul and another of Apollos and another of Cephas That is walk as men walketh in a carnal unregenerate state not that they were so but they were even like such And the two Disciples were in a very carnal unbelieving frame of heart even on that very Day that our Redeemer rose from the Dead Luke 24.21 25 26. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel and beside all this to day is the third day since these things were done They looked upon themselves to be deceived in effect but mind what our Saviour said unto them and also to us in them Then he said unto them O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory As if he should have said Did not all the Prophets prophesie of my coming in the flesh and dying in the flesh and rising again in the flesh and did you not see it with your own eyes or might have done it and did not I tell ye so my self that am the great Prophet the head of all the Prophets and will you not believe me nor my Prophets nor your own eyes neither as if Christ should have said This was a very carnal frame of heart indeed and it is said To be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace Now there is a great deal of difference between being carnally minded and a carnal mind as much as there is between Light and Darkness or as there is between hardness of heart and a hard heart for the carnal mindedness in the believer brings a death upon all his Graces and spiritual Comforts he is as if he was in a carnal State with a respect to the comforting Evidence of it that all lieth dead and all the Graces of the Spirit lieth covered over with these Ashes of Carnality and that fills the Soul of the

in a Carnal Unconverted Dead State you came away with the Guilt of all your Sins faster bound and sealed up than they were before you came there and instead of diminishing and weakning your Sins you went away with your Sins increased and strengthened Now Pray Examine your selves Do you know what these things meaneth Or Are you wholly ignorant of them as old Nicodemus was when our Blessed Saviour Preached unto him the Mysterious Doctrine of Regeneration when he thought he must Re-enter into his Mothers Womb and be born again Joh. 3.4 Are all these things Riddles and Fancies unto ye Do you know nothing of this Matter Are you a stranger to it And are you wholly ignorant of it If you are I tell you plainly that you are no fit Subjects of this Blessed Ordinance but you did come unto it and partake of it unworthily therefore I will refer you to the Apostle Paul's Censure in this Case 1 Cor. 11. If you had not your Mind savingly Enlightned nor your Will Renewed and Changed nor your Affection Rectified and set upon right Objects viz. upon God in Christ And if you had not sanctifying saving Faith fixt upon Christ the only Mediator and Redeemer of Mankind 1 Tim. 2.5 And if you did not come with your Hearts broken for Sin and from Sin and behold a Crucified Saviour with all your Sins Crucified not one spared or Indulged And if you did not come there with a New Spiritual Understanding nor the whole Man sanctified throughout in Body Soul and Spirit But if you came to the Lord's Table ignorant of all this and in all your Sins then instead of receiving any Benefit by or from this Ordinance you do Eat and Drink Judgment or Condemnation to your selves not discerning the Lord's Body But it may be some will be so bold and hardy as to say This is very severe harsh Doctrine Why this is nothing but what I looked for and expected for it is what carnal Hypocrites and proud Persecuters do always judge of God's Holy Word and Righteous Laws and Pure Ordinances Institutions and Worship They judge that to be too strict and his Holy People to be too precise But if you will quarrel at the Severity and Strictness of this Doctrine you must quarrel with the Apostle Paul and the rest of the Apostles and Prophets Nay let me tell ye if you will quarrel with this Doctrine you must dispute the Cause with our Saviour Christ himself if you dare What dare not they do that dare to Crucifie their Maker that should be their Redeemer For the Apostle Paul delivered nothing of this severe harsh Doctrine but what he received first from the Lord 1 Cor. 11.23 There is his Mission and the Prophets spake as they were inspired by the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1.21 For the Prophecy came not in Old time by the Will of Man But Holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost You do find fault with the Severity of God's Laws against Sinners but you do not find fault with the Severity of your own Laws against his Saints and Servants and against your selves also For there the Severity of it will center at last for you have Laws in being which you are now contending for to have continued with us which are to force men to break and violate all these severe Laws of God as you count them and thereby to incur all the Penalties of them And who is severest the God of Mercy or you that are Men of this Cruelty There are very severe Laws made against any that should even dare to Counterfeit the King's Broad-Seal or to fix the Impress of it unto any thing which they have not His Majesty's Command and Authority for so doing it is punishable with Death by the Law for it is High Treason or if they should fix it to Blank Papers whereby Enemies might write what they please and so abuse and betray the King's Authority Why This Ordinance of the Lord's Supper is the Broad-Seal of Heaven it belongeth to the King of Kings and must not be affixed to or impressed upon any thing but what they have God's Authority for so doing Now for any Persons to take this Sacred Broad-Seal of Heaven and make it a common Seal namely to affix it to the civil State to Seal Men Commissions and Warrants for Places and Offices in the Government Civil Military and Ecclesiastical this is to make this Blessed Ordinance a common Seal 2. It is a making this Sacred Broad-Seal of Heaven a common Seal when they Seal a Licence to sell Ale with it by And Thirdly and Lastly They make this Blessed Ordinance of the Lord's Supper which is the Broad-Seal of Heaven a common Seal when at Festival Times as Christmas and Easter when whole Showles of poor ignorant Creatures comes to the Lord's Table that know not their Right-Hand from their Left in spiritual Things and have no saving Work of God wrought in their Souls by the powerful Operation of his Holy Spirit but are all it may be as ignorant as the very Parson that Exhibits it unto them These are all Blanks so they impress the Broad-Seal of Heaven upon Multitudes of Blanks so that the Evil One may come and write what he pleases after them O sad deplorable Condition for any poor Souls to be in And although you count this Doctrine severe and harsh yet no man can be ignorant of it because it is written in the Great Charter of Heaven 1 Cor. 11. He that Eateth and Drinketh unworthily Eateth and Drinketh Condemnation or Judgment to himself God hath threatned to execute severe Judgments and Punishments upon all Prophaners and Abusers of this Holy Ordinance And God hath Four Gracious Ends in threatning these Transgressions 1. It is to Deter and and Affright Sinners from violating these severe Laws as they call them that Persons should not be ignorant of them 2. God threatens because that Sinners might repent and prevent the Execution of those severe Laws 3. God threatens because he will leave the Sinner wholly without Excuse or Plea Every Mouth shall be stop'd And 4. and Lastly God threatens because the Glory of his Attribute of Justice shall appear to all the World when he Executes his Threatning upon the Guilty Impenitent Sinner every Mouth will be stop'd and all shall justifie God and say Righteous art thou O Lord and Just and Holy in all thy Ways Thus you see what a dangerous thing it is for poor ignorant carnal unconverted dead Sinners to rush upon this Ordinance Hand over Head without due Consideration of what they are going about to do But Secondly My Second and last Exhortation and Counsel shall be unto all sober Protestants both of Dissenters and others that are still hankering after the Onions and Garlick and Flesh-Pots of Egypt that are yet staying upon them that smote us And my first Exhortation unto all you shall be this namely Be not afraid to part with