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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08365	A dialogue between a pastor and parishioner, touching the Lord's Supper. Wherein the most material doubts and scruples about receiving that holy sacrament, are removed, and the way thereto discovered to be both plain and pleasant. Very usefull for private christians in these scrupulous times. With some short prayers fitted for that occasion, and a morning and evening prayer for the use of private families / by Michael Altham, Vicar of Latton in Essex.	Altham, Michael, 1633-1705.	1687 (1687)	Wing A2933AB; ESTC R172247	65,705	236

Christ Jesus a serious and unfeigned repentance of all our sins a stedfast purpose of leading a new life and being in Charity with all men This I take to be St. Pauls meaning in this expression and if you thus discern the Lord's Body you will certainly find the blessed effect of it in the spiritual nourishment of your Soul unto Eternal Life And thus have I performed the second part of my Promise to you by showing you how you ought to demean and behave your self at God's Table Pashioner Sir You have infinitely obliged me by the pains you have taken to furnish me with such good rules and directions I pray God to give me grace to observe and follow them I shall God willing do my endeavour and I beg your Prayers for my assistance But there is one thing more yet which you were pleased to promise me viz. some Directions how to behave my self after I have received this holy Sacrament And these also I would willingly take along with me when I go from hence Pastor I confess I am your Debter by Promise as to this also and shall endeavour to discharge my self of that Debt by giving you some short and plain rules how to carry your self afterwards 1. When you go away from this holy Sacrament you ought to carry along with you a deep sense of those great obligations which God Almighty hath laid upon you therein You ought to retire not only into your Closet or some private place but into your self and there meditate of the great mercy and goodness of God the Father in sending his Son to be your Mediator and Redeemer and of the great condescension and infinite kindness of God the Son in taking upon him your nature and submitting himself to Death even the Death of the Cross for your sins You ought often to think of that great honour you have received in being admitted not only to feast with God and Christ but to feast upon Christ the true Christian Sacrifice In a word you ought by serious thoughts and meditations of what you have been about to imprint upon your minds a due sense of God's goodness and thereby take a prospect of all that happiness which you either do enjoy or may obtain by complying with and being obedient to the command of the blessed Jesus in this particular 2. Having thus imprinted these things upon your mind you must endeavour thereby to work it into an humble and grateful frame When you reflect upon your former sins and present unworthiness you will find cause sufficient to be humbled for them and when you consider God's greatness in himself and his goodness towards you you will find good reason to be thankful for the favours you have and daily do receive from him Let it be your care therefore always to cherish due sentiments of divine goodness in your mind that so you may be ready upon all occasions to praise and glorify his great and holy name for it Can you remember how kindly you have been invited how courteously received how nobly and friendly entertained by the blessed Jesus and yet be unthankful I cannot believe that any one who pretends to Christianity can so far forfeit his Religion and reason too can be so much lost to all the sentiments of piety and humanity at once as to be guilty of so gross ingratitude Unthankfulness in Divinity is an odious crime and Ingratitude in Morality is no better So much was it abhorred even by the Heathens that it became a Proverb among them Call a man ingrateful and you have said the worst you can of him Be not you therefore guilty of that against God which the Heathen looked upon as so great a reproach among themselves Consider that heavy charge which God draws up against Israel Isa 1.2 3. Hear O Heavens and hearken O Earth saith the Lord for I have nourished and brought up Children but they have rebelled against me The Ox knoweth his owner and the Ass his Master's Crib but Israel doth not know me my people doth not consider Let the consideration of God's so deep resentment of this crime in his own people teach you and me to beware of it Let us recollect our selves and call to mind all those incomparable favours and benefits which God from time to time hath bestowed upon us and the advantages of this holy Feast in particular that so our minds may be always ready to make grateful acknowledgments thereof 3. When by these or the like Meditations you have wrought your mind into such an humble and thankful frame Your next work will be to evidence the truth and reality of that temper by actions sutable thereunto We do not expect to find grapes on thorns nor figs on thistles For as a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit so neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit saith our blessed Saviour Matth. 7.16 17 18. And thence he concludeth Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them v. 20. The best evidence therefore of a worthy Communicant is to be taken from his way of living afterwards If he make Conscience of what he doth if he make it his great care and business to live holily towards God and righteously towards all men it is a good sign of the goodness of his condition But if notwithstanding the obligations which have been laid upon him at this holy Feast he return with the Dog to his Vomit and the Sow that was washed to his wallowing in the Mire if he still adhere to his old sins and take pleasure in his former wickedness it is an evidence that he still remaineth in the gall of bitterness and that without a timely repentance and reformation his portion will be with Hypocrites in Everlasting Burnings It is good counsel which St. Paul giveth us Col. 2.6 As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him Thereby intimating that our returns ought to be sutable to favours and benefits which we have received The holy and righteous God loveth holiness and righteousness in his people and expects it from them When by our Baptism we were at first admitted into Christianity we entered into Covenant with God That we would renounce the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful desires of the flesh that we would believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith And that we would keep God's holy Will and Commandments and walk in the same all the days of our life Now our continued profession of that Faith into which we were baptized is indeed a daily repetition of that Promise but as often as we receive this holy Sacrament and feast with God upon this holy Sacrifice we solemnly renew our Covenant and do thereby engage our selves to perform the Conditions thereof To sum up all in a word therefore If you would know what is expected from you after you have been admitted a Guest at God's Table It is briefly this