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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66075	Counsels and comforts for troubled consciences contained in a letter, lately written to a friend / by Henry Wilkinson ...	Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1679 (1679)	Wing W2234; ESTC R34095	48,680	121

accompanies the Word and makes it effectual And the Word quickned by the Spirit 2 Cor. 10. 5. works wonderful things For it 's mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds * Eis comparat ratiocinationibus Philo sophorumquae Evangelio opponebantur Grot. casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it self against the kn●wledg of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ The Word of God is one piece of our Spiritual armour And Eph. 6. 17. take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God A sword is both an offensive and a defensive weapon And the Word is a two-edged sword Heb. 4. 12. For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword * Leviticus culter pervenit ad minim● quales sunt nerve in junctur is ad intima quales sunt medullae sic sermo Dei intima minima animi penetrat inque ea agit Grot. Isa 51. 21. De calamitatibus loquutus est nempe dubitent ut fideles non quin parata sit eis a Domino consolatio tametsi extrema quaeque patiantur Calv. in loc piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart The Word of God powerfully preacht may through the blessing of God meet with your particular condition and speak comfort to you For there is a particular and suitable word which frequently God directs his Ministers to preach and so to reach the hearts and conditions of the hearers One only Scripture I shall mention of the Prophet Isaiah Therefore hear now this thou afflicted and drunken but not with wine The meaning is that notwithstanding fore pressures and afflictions which they endured yet they should not doubt nor despair of Gods comforts there is a This i. e. a word of God to comfort the afflicted Keep close to the Word and be frequent in meditating of what you hear and in applving of it particularly to your own soul Sect. 19. 2. Receive the Lords Supper 2. To the diligent hearing of the Word of God you must join the receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper this is a great strengthning supporting and comforting Ordin●nce and you ought not to deny your self so great a priviledg which belongs to you As it 's a fault and a great one in many presumptuously and unpreparedly to come to the Lords Supper so it may be a fault in you who have knowledg to discern the Lords Body and your life is holy to debar your self of that choice Ordinance As you may not come unpreparedly without serious self examination so you may not stay away after due preparation For after a thorough ex●mination follows 1 Cor. 11. 28. participation But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. Neither should such who have right to this sealing Ordinance content themselves with seldom receiving but they should embrace fr●quent opportunities for Communicating at the Lords-Table they will find many things wanting in their faith and love and repentance and therefore they should come frequently to strengthen their faith and love and to renew their repentance and to renew their covenants with God and to walk more humbly and holily in all manner of conversation The Text saith For as Vers 26. often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come The Adverb there used is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that implys 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mr. Pemble on the Sacrament often that shews that we ought to do it often At other times we ought to have an habitual preparation but for receiving of the Lords-Supper we ought to have an actual preparation we ought to act faith love repentance and other graces Now because you find sin to be burdensome and loathsome and you account your self unworthy therefore you should not deny your self the Lords-Supper you ought the rather to come and to make haste unto Christ beseeching him to prepare you for the receiving of the Ordinance and to make it effectual unto you I shall give a distinction which I hope may give you satisfaction There is a Legal and an Evangelical Righteousness As for Legal righteousness to be exact and to perform the whole Law to a tittle none could do it but Christ alone and in a legal sense none of us can come worthily to the Lords-Supper for we all come short of our duty and when we have done all we can we must confess that we are unprofitable Luk. 17. 10. Isa 64. 6. servants and that we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags But there is an Evangelical righteousness and through Christs righteousness imputed to us we are accounted righteous and accepted of God and notwithstanding infirmities which we are sensible of and mourn for them if our hearts be sincere towards God we may expect a blessing of God upon the Ordinance For though we are not as of our selves any ways worthy of receiving so great an Ordinance yet the God of the Ordinance will be pleased to accept of the uprightness of our hearts Let us then make our addresses to God as Hezekiah did for the people concerning their failings about receiving of the Passover The good Lord pardon 2 Chron. 30. 18 19 20. every one that prepareth his heart to seek the God of his Fathers though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuary And the Lord hearkned to Hezekiah and healed the people 3. Labour to the utmost to be 3. Labour to be strict in the observation of the Sabbath Exod. 20. 8 9 10 11. conscientious and strict in the observation of the Sabbath day The fourth Commandment pre●ixeth a peculiar Memento for the observation of the Sabbath day Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the seven●h day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter thy man-servant nor thy maid-servant nor thy stranger that is within thy gates The Sabbath was to be observed the seventh day of the week from the Creation to the Resurrection of Christ since we are to observe the first day of the week in memory of Christs Resurrection and this is the Christian Sabbath commonly called the Lords-day On this day Christ rose from the dead on this day collection was to be made 1 Cor. 16. 1. Act. 20. 7. Rev. 1. 10. for the Saints on this day the Disciples came together to break bread and St. John was in an especial manner ravisht in the Spirit * Diem Dominicam vocat primam ●ebdomadis feriam qua Dominus a mortuis