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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14105	A matter of moment: or, A case of waight As great as euer was any, to be pleaded and examined in the hall of the heart and conscience of euery Christian at all times, before the receiuing of the Lords Supper. Touching that waightie charge of the Apostle Paul, in the I. Cor. II.28. Let euery man examine himselfe, and so let him eate of this bread and drinke of this cup. Set forth dialogue wise.	Tye, William.	1608 (1608)	STC 24414; ESTC S101785	23,867	76

curious art and cunning diuision For your demaund therefore this knowledge doubtlesse I cannot sée where it can begin with that profit and order that it ought else The degrees of knowledge before the receiuing of the Lords Supper then at mans creation for the first degrée thereof And therefore before I doe presume to come vnto the Lordes supper I must find my selfe to know particularly in order to this effect The first degree The first that in my first Parents Adam and Eue the Lord God created mee and all mankinde in soule according to his owne image and likenesse Gen. 1 in righteousnesse and true holinesse in body without fault or blemish in a word both in soule and body a most glorious creature furnished with all heauenlie and glorious prerogatiues able of my selfe to doe the will of my God without any kinde of contradiction Mans first estate glorious or check which might come from any imperfection either of soule or body which was my first estate The second degree of knowledge The second That because good reason it was I should acknowledg a Lord aboue my selfe euen my almightie and mercifull Creator therfore the same my Lord God gaue me an easie commaundement to kéep and obey Gen. 2 namely that I should not eate of the fruit of one onely Tree in Paradice the tree of the knowledge of good and euill vpon paine if I did eate to dye the death The third The third degree of knoledge that the consideration neither of the infinite goodnesse and mercie of my maker neither of my most perfect and free estate neither of the easines of the commandement nor yet the punishment threatned for the breach of it could make me bolde me fast by God and to the obedience of his cōmandements But wretch that I was I must needs forsake my maker and subiect my selfe vnto the obedience of the Diuel my destroyer and so accordinge to his damnable wil and word I must eate of the forbidden fruite Gen. 3 of the Tree of knowledge of good euil Wherby indéed I came to the knowledg of the good lost the euill found for so the Diuell iug●ingly meant which I least thought ●f wherby I lost al former good glo●y perfection and freedome both of ●ody and soule and found all man●er of euill ignominy imperfectiō ●hraldome both of body and soule whereby I made my selfe vnable in euerie part euer afterward also to kéepe the commandement of my God or to steppe any righteous steppe at all whereby in a word I did cast my selfe downe headlong from the top of all happines into the depth of all misery in this life and into the infernal gulfe of endlesse torment damnation in the world to come Mans second estate wretched which was my second estate and of al mankind Obiect Before you go any further I pray you suffer me one word It seemes to me that this knowledge of mans first and second estate makes little to the worthy receiuing of the Lordes Supper because it belongs not vnto the same Ans I doe not say that these my two former estates are any part of the Lords Supper or that they belong either to the benefit or vse of the Supper it selfe but that the knowledge of them must bring mee by order vnto the knowledge of the benefite and vse of the Lords Supper For before I can truely know and confesse any benefit and restoring in Christ I must first knowe and confesse that I was in miserie before I doe flie vnto Christ for succour I will first knowe some reason why and that I haue néede of succour and what driues me vnto Christ Now the Law Rom. 3. which layes before me my miserie sinne vnrighteousnes and eternal damnation because I cannot now through my fall and disobedience kéepe it It is saith the Apostle a Schoolemaister or Vsher Gal. 3. which sendes mee vnto Christ for righteousnes and saluation in him And therefore these two former estates are as it were the Alphabet A B C or first entrāce where I must first begin in the schoole of God and which I must first knowe out of his word before I can come either orderly or profitably vnto any riper knowledge of that good benefit which is offered me in Christ so cōsequently in his holy supper Obiect I doe now see your course and order right well it is right plaine and profitable I pray you go on vnto the fourth point Auns The fourth point of knowledge which by examination of my selfe I must find my selfe to knowe before I come vnto the Lords Supper The fourth degree of knowledge is to this effect Namely that the Lord God on the one side because hee would and must haue his iustice satisfied for my sinne and the sinne of all mankind which iustice requireth that as true and very man had sinned against God so of necessitie true and very man must satisfie his iustice with death and tormentes both of body and soule for that sinne according to the sentence of his iust word G●n 2. Mans third last estate restored by Christ And of the other side because hee would in this his iustice become mercifull vnto man too hath in his rich wisdome caused his only sonne being very God to take my nature vpon him and to become also very man who in the same his humane nature might satisfie GODS iustice for my sinne by death and tormentes due vnto mee for the same and by vertue and power of his God-head might be able to sustaine and beare in his flesh the wrath and punishment might bee able to deliuer me also from the same and might repaire in mee and restore vnto mee againe that righteousnesse life and blessednesse which I had lost by my fall and disobedience which his mercie the Lord first set a broach in Paradice after that hee published the same by his Patriarkes and Prophets Thirdly he shadowed it out by sacrifices and ceremonies of the Lawe and lastly fully accomplished it by the same his owne only sonne The fift poynte of knowledge The fift degree of knowledge which by examination of my selfe I must finde in my selfe beefore I come to the Lordes Supper is that as GOD doth thus offer and reach out his hande of mercie vnto mee Ephe. 2 so likewise I must haue another hand to take it it is my parte to apprehend As God hath a hand to giue so we must haue a hand to take to take and lay hold vpon the same with the hande of faith as the onely instrumentall cause of my saluation least it bee alledged against mee I would Math. 23 but you would not Sixtly and to come neerer the matter before I come vnto the Lordes Supper by examination of my selfe I must finde my selfe to knowe The sixt degree of knowledge that the Lorde God hath ordayned and instituted helpes and