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A16541	Two sermons, for these who are to come to the table of the Lord With diverse prayers fit for the necessities of the Saincts at diverse occasions. Carefully digested by Mr. Zacharie Boyd, preacher of Gods word, at Glasgovv.	Boyd, Zacharie, 1585?-1653.	1629 (1629)	STC 3449; ESTC S119278	44,800	136

* If wee doe well this day must be vnto vs all a very painefull day even a day of Battell against all the pleasures that ever wee had in sinne since we could discerne good from ill In this day wee must trye and search carefully all the secrets of our hearts * This is the time wherein wee must keepe an Assise against our selues both for to judge and condemne our selues * In a word wee must all take such paines in sifting out all our bypast iniquities that the LORD may say of vs as hee said of the woman that broke the Boxe of ointment vpon his head Shee hath done what shee could Good Brethren and Sisters What yee can doe doe What yee can not doe pray GOD to doe it and to pardon you your impossibility * I beleeue said that poore man with teares that is all that I can doe but I beleeue not as I should and therefore LORD helpe thou myne vnbeleefe Let vs all bee earnest to intreat GOD to giue vs grace to doe what wee can doe and what wee can not doe that hee would pitie vs and pardon vs. I reade that in the dayes of Hezekiah a number of the people which had not cleansed themselues did eate the Passcover otherwise then it was written But what befell them I pray you Many of them were troubled with sore sickenesse * But how were they cured of these diseases It is said that Hezekiah prayed for them The good LORD said hee pardon every one that prepareth his heart to seeke GOD the LORD GOD of his Fathers though hee bee not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuary Now what was the fruite of that prayer This was it The LORD hearkned to Hezekiah and healed the people That which the Passover was to them the LORDS Supper is vnto vs even a Sacrament appointed by GOD for the sealing vp of our Salvation If wee eate this supper otherwise then it is written let vs looke for diverse diseases For this cause saith the Apostle Many are weake and sickely amongst you and many sleepe that is die Let vs therefore as we would desire our bodies health and our soules Salvation prepare ourselues to meete the LORD to morrow There is none of vs I confesse that can prepare himselfe according to the preparation of the Sanctuary nor cleanse himselfe according to its purification No Soule can bee so well prepared and purified as GOD in his Sanctuary requireth * But this I dare be bold to say that the good LORD shall pardon every one that prepareth his heart to seeke GOD though hee bee not so cleansed as the purification of the Sanctuary requireth GODS word is plaine that GOD is mercifull Hee hath sworne by his life that He deligteth not in the death of sinners * He hath sent his word for to tell vs that If wee will judge our selues wee shall not bee judged * Yea such is his mercy that while wee are chastised with sicknesse or death for our carelesse preparation he maketh all that to worke to our well for when wee are judged wee are chastened of the Lord that wee should not bee condemned with the world Now good people not knowing if ever after this yee shall heare or I teach another Preparation Sermon in this place let me conclude all with that adew of S t. Paul said to the elders of Ephesus at Miletum I commend you to GOD and to the word of his grace which is able to build you vp and to giue you an inheritance amongst all them that are sanctified Passe the rest of this day in a serious meditation of your owne miserie and of the bloodie agonie of IESUS our Master who out of loue to vs hang vpon a cursed tree for to purchase vnto vs the everlasting blessings of his Father To whom with the Sonne of his loue and with the Spirit of Comforts bee Glory and Majestie Dominion and Power now and ever Amen A SERMON FOR THE DAY OF THE SACRAMENT IOHN 6. v. 27. Labour not for the meate which perisheth but for the meate which endureth to everlasting lyfe which the Sonne of man shall giue vnto you for Him hath GOD the FATHER sealed THIS TEXT in my former Sermon was divided into a Fast and a Feast First heere is a Fast and then a Feast The fast is from carking care Labour not for the meate which perisheth Fast from that The feast is for the soule a banket of meate which feedeth to life everlasting Feast vpon that Take paines and labour for it This whole TEXT seemeth to runne vpon a Sabbath of rest and vpon fore working and labour The first part is a Sabbath and rest from labours Labour not for the meate which perisheth The second hath a commandement of worke Labour for the meate which endureth to lyfe everlasting As for GOD his Sabbath which is a discharge of labour a resting from toiling I read in Scriptures of three sortes therof First there is one on earth enjoyned by GOD his law a day of rest In it saith GOD thou shalt doe no manner of worke This is the lawes Sabbath The second is the Gospel Sabbath which is a continuall resting from carking cares This is enjoyned heere labour not for the meate c. This precept is for our whole lifetime * There is not one day of the weeke that GOD will dispense with any for to labour in this sort The third Sabbath is in●o the heavens an eternall rest from all worldly toiling and sweat of browes the paines of sinne of all that are there is said that they are blessed yea saith the spirit for thy rest from their labours As there bee three sortes of rest first of the law secondly of the Gospell Thirdly of the HEAVENS so there bee three sortes of labour first there is one enioyned by the law a labour laide vpon all the sonnes of Adam to them it is enioyned sixe dayes in the weeke to winne their meat with the sweat of their browes * Cursed is that meat which is not sawsed with sweete Bitter is that bread which is not sweetned with the sweete of browes The Second labour is Gospell labour a continuall labour Labour for the meat which endureth This is enjoyned in the second part of this Text This is our spirituall exercise painfull to flesh and blood in the best The third labour is Heauenly which shall bee our exercise in the life to come * That labour shall bee sweete without sweate pleasant without paine This labour is an everlasting praising of GOD without ceasing which is so easy and so pleasant to the praisers that Scripture calleth it a resting from our labours It is of the second sorte of labour whereof wee haue heere the command it is an Evangelicall labour which is heere commanded by the LORD labour saith hee for the meate which endureth to

duetie but let them not labour for to keepe that which hath Wings * I compare all worldly things in mens hands to a Wild Sparrowe put into a Child his hand Hee will hold it by the wing and whiles by the foot and whiles by the neb But in the meanetime while hee is least aware it flieth out of his hand and for all the annuell of his pleasures yea both for stocke and brocke hee hath nothing left but a regrate of losse * So long as worldly thinges are stobfeathered and haue as wee say but the padocke haire they will lye still into our hands for a space they will tarie with vs But tarrie a little till their feathers bee growne and they shall take themselves to their flight * Some are more prime running away with the Tewcheit or lapwing so soone as they are hatched They leaue not so much behind them as the shell wherein they were contained When the foolish man thinketh to find a full nest all the birds of his hope are away and not so much as the shell of appearance left behind * Mercifull God what a stupiditie is this wee see this dayly and yet wee can not considder wee see others make such losse wee see all sorts of things perire to perish and passe thorow and yet wee think that what wee haue shall for ever tarrie with vs. * I compare most men to keene players at Cardes and Dyce They see others spend all their packe before them and yet they can not dreame that their packe can perish This folie is seene in a greater matter more worthie to be laid to our hearts * Wee heare of death dayly and will not bee wakened out of our immortall dreame If men would well considder the mortalitie of this life and how it is but a vapour and as a tale that is told they would not so toile for a tale labouring night and day with carking cares for things which shall perish and flie away as a dreame One word before I end Dearely beloved yee haue heard how I in my weake measure of gift haue beene like * Iohn the Baptist this day preparing the way of the LORD by removing out of your hearts the thornie cares of all worldly things that to morrow yee may bee worthy communicants and that the KING of Glory may enter into your hearts Now I exhort you in the name of IESUS that this whole day ye carefully and painefully labour in the preparation of your hearts that to morrow yee may bee worthie guests at the table of your LORD Labour this day I intreat you to search out all your sins of thoughts words works whereof yee are guiltie since yee can remember * Labour to search what good or ill intentions yee haue for times to come and what sorrow yee haue for your bygone ill spent lyfe Labour labour in this This is GOD his worke and woe to him that shall doe it negligently * Wee must first then labour for to trye out our sinnes after that we haue found them out wee must mourne for them wee must confesse them abhorre them detest them and wrestle with GOD in prayer till hee seale vp the pardon thereof into our hearts * Wee must in this our preparation day labour to shake off vs all the old clouts and ragges of our sinnes and to put on vs all our spirituall jewels that therewith bee-beeing decked wee may come to morrow to the royall feast of the great King * Brethren and Sisters I intreat you to considder that this day of our preparation must be a day of painefull labouring with God for his favour for the sanctifieng of our soules that worthily wee may come to that royall feast seeing CHRIST and his ANGELS will bee at the table for to behold and considder vs to morrowe wee must this day carefully wash deck and trimme ourselues that wee may be pleasant in their presence where such heavenly eyes shall behold us All this day must bee spent in such labour * If idlely we neglect this duetie wee haue to feare a more painefull labour viz. laborare morbo the hard labour of God his wrath and of many painfull and fearefull diseases yea and death it selfe For this cause saith the Apostle Many are weake and sickly amongst you and many sleepe The LORD graunt that everie one of vs may in sinceritie of heart labour to prepare and purifie our selues and that according to the purification of the Sanctuary Amen Amen A WATCH-WORD FOR ALL COMMVNICANTS BEFORE THEY come to the supper of the LORD AS for you Brethren and Sisters that are to communicate to morrow yee shall see the remembrance of that which the Sunne in the Heavens could not behold for doole viz. the bloody passion of our LORD * This passion was so sore that the Sunne the eye of the world overclouded himselfe and as it were winked vntill the vnspeakable torments of CHRISTS death were past then were the Heavens covered with a vaile of sacke then the earth shooke * The stones the bones of the earth were rent at the racking of the bones of GOD the rememberance whereof should make hearts of stone to cleaue asunder To morrow deare Brethren and Sisters we are for to eate with Christ * Yea tomorrow wee are for to ●ate of Christ who is both the feast and the Feast-maker To morrow wee are all for to sit at his table where he will narrowly behold and clearely consider the faces of our soules and therefore wee must take care this day that our Soules bee washen and baptized with the truest teares of repentance * I read of Iames and Iohn while they were vnchristned men for to speake so that is not baptized they desired the one to sit at CHRISTS right hand and the other at his left But the LORD told them that before such sitting downe it behoved them to bee baptized with the baptisme of afflictions Hee and hee onely that is partaker of this Baptisme to day shall bee made partaker of GODS Supper to morrow As for these that are not baptized with teares of griefe before they sit downe at Table the LORD hath sworne that they shall not partake of his feast * They may well eate panem Domini the LORDS bread but they shall never taste panem Dominum the LORD bread It shall therefore bee our wisdome that everie one of vs bee busie to prepare his owne heart to decke trim his soule before hee approach vnto this TABLE for to appeare before his GOD * As Ioseph was trimmed and powled before he would appeare before Pharaoh so must euery soule haue the Wedding garment before it present it selfe before the LORD at his Banket Take heede what I say This day is our preparation day A day wherein wee must provide that wherewith wee must come before the LORD to morrow