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A82006	The great duty of communicating explain'd and enforc'd, the objections against it answer'd, and the necessary preparation for it stated With devotions to be us'd before, at, and after the Lord's Supper. By the author of The duties of the closet.	Dawes, William, Sir, 1671-1724.	1700 (1700)	Wing D455B; ESTC R229669	29,052	50

THE GREAT Duty of Communicating EXPLAIN'D and ENFORC'D THE Objections against it Answer'd AND THE Necessary Preparation for it Stated WITH DEVOTIONS To be Us'd Before At and After THE Lord's Supper By the Author of The Duties of the Closet LONDON Printed for Thomas Speed over against Jonathan's Coffee-house in Exchange-alley Cornhil 1700. Price 3 d. but 20 s. a hundred to those who give them away TO HIS PARISHIONERS Dear Neighbours IT being my design to settle a monthly Sacrament amongst you beginning from Easter-day now at hand I cannot satisfy my self without endeavouring by all ways in my power to dispose and prepare you for a constant attendance at it For which end I send you this little plain Book which contains the sum of all that is necessary for you to know and all that I have already Preached to you on this Subject And I most earnestly beseech intreat and require you as you will answer it at the Great Day when men must give a strict and severe account how they have us'd those means and opportunities of being acquaint●d with their Duty which have been offer'd to them especially by the hands of their Spiritual Teachers and Pastors to peruse and consider it with the same seriousness and concern for your Souls with which I call God to witness it was written And if it should not reach all your Scruples and answer all your Difficulties I beg of you that you will let me know wherein you shall remain unsatisfied that so I may give you such farther Helps and Directions as shall appear to be needful This as it will show your sincerity and honest desire of coming to the knowledge of the Truth as it is in Christ Jesus so will it likewise be the shortest and surest way of your coming at it it being impossible by Writing or Preaching to give the same exact and speedy resolutions to the doubts and difficulties of particular Persons as by verbal conferences wherein they have the satisfaction of puting their Case and hearing it answered in their own way May it please God of his Great Goodness so to excite direct and bless your Endeavours in this as well as in all Religious Matters that you may adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour in all things and by so doing Glorify God make your calling and election sure and fulfil the joy of Your most Faithful and most Loving Pastor Feb. the 20th 1699. THE GREAT DUTY OF Communicating c. CHAP. I. Of the Nature End and Design of the Lords Supper the benefits which Christians are made partakers of by receiving it and the obligations which they lie under to receive it IN order to a full and clear understanding of the Nature of the Lord's Supper we shall do well seriously and particularly to consider the Account which the Scriptures give us of our blessed Masters Institution of it And this by comparing together Matt. 26. Mark 14. Luke 22. 1 Corinth 11. we shall find in short to be this Our Blessed Saviour when he was eating the Passover with his twelve Apostles the evening before his Passion took Bread and gave thanks or blessed it and brake it and gave it to them saying Take eat This is my Body which is given for you This do in remembrance of me Likewise also the Cup after Supper 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 or the new Testament in my Blood which is shed for you and for many This do in remembrance of me For the better explaining of which words and ascertaining the extent of their Obligation we will distinctly consider these three things First What it is that is here commanded to be done Do this Secondly Who the Persons are that are concern'd to Do this Thirdly The end for which it is to be done in remembrance of me First What it is that is here commanded to be done and this can be nothing else than what our Saviour and his Apostles had been just then doing viz. taking Bread and blessing and breaking it and likewise taking Wine and giving thanks and partaking of and distributing both To this and every part of this action must the words do this necessarily refer because they immediately follow the doing of all this and no part of this is excepted in our Saviours command Those who are to provide and distribute are to provide and distribute both Bread and Wine for so had our Lord done and those who are to receive are to receive both Bread and Wine for so had the Apostles received And therefore the Church of Rome is inexcusable which directly contrary to our Lords Institution gives the Bread only to some Receivers without the Wine Secondly Who the Persons are that are concerned to do this and they are all Christians whatsoever By which I mean First All Successions and Generations of Christians that shall be in the World as long as it shall last For they being all equally concerned in the benefits of our Saviour's Death and Passion must according to reason be supposed to be equally obliged to keep up this Holy Supper in commemoration of them So that if we had had no Direction about this matter in Scripture the reason of the thing it self must then have taken place and that would have made this Supper perpetual But the Scriptures have not been silent in this point but have plainly told us that we are thus to shew the Lords Death till he come That is till his second coming to judge the World Secondly All sorts of Christians the Laity or People as well as the Clergy or Ministers of the Gospel For tho it is pretended by some that because our Lord gave the Bread and Wine only to the Apostles who were all Ministers and not any one Lay Disciple therefore he design'd this Supper only for the Ministers of the Gosspel but not at all for the People yet I think the contrary may very plainly be proved both from reason and Scripture From reason both because it appears most probable that the Apostles in the Institution of this Supper were the representatives of the people and not of the Ministers who were then much better represented by our Great High Priest Christ Jesus and whose Office it is plain he then alone executed and likewise because it is certain that the people who are as much partakers of the benefits of Christ's death as the Ministers have as great reason to commemorate 'em as they From Scripture both because it is evident from thence that the Apostles constantly administred this Supper to the people as to give one Instance for all we read Acts 2.42 where we have no less than three thousand Lay Converts at once receiving this Supper and likewise because we there find St. Paul spending great part of a Chapter in urging and directing the Lay Corinthians how they ought to receive 1 Cor. 11. 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is true indeed that the part which our Lord had in the institution of his Holy Supper viz. The blessing of Bread and breaking it and taking Wine and giving thanks and distributing both belongs only to the Minister of the Gospel because these are all special Acts and Exercises of the Ministerial Function and as such have been always reserved to them alone But the receiving of the Bread and Wine whe● broken blessed and offered to us is the common dut● of all Christians as well people as Ministers Thirdly The end for which this is commanded to be done in remembrance of me or rather in commemoration of me For so the word which we here translate remembrance sometimes signifieth and this indeed seems to be the most proper signification of it in this place For commemoration is a solemn act of remembrance and such an one no doubt our Saviour here expects from us We are always bound habitually to remember him but this his Supper is particularly design'd to excite in our Souls a present and actual remembrance of him of him that is of his death and Passion of his Body that was broken and his Blood which was shed for us For the Bread and Wine which are here administred to us were appointed by him as signs and representations of his Flesh and Blood as he himself tells us at his Institution of this Holy Supper This saith he speaking of the Bread is my Body which is given for you that is this is a sign or representation of my Body which shall very suddenly be offer'd up upon the Cross for you and again speaking of the Cup This is my Blood of the New Testament or the new Testament in my Blood which is shed for you and for many as if he had said the Wine which you now see in this Cup and which I commanded ye all to drink of is a sign or representation of my Blood which will be shortly shed to ratify or confirm the New Covenant which I have made between God and Man When therefore we eat of this Bread and drink of this Cup we must be sure to put both parts of our Lord's Commandment together and to fulfil both by doing it in remembrance of his Body that was given and his Blood that was shed for us And such a remembrance as this necessarily implies these two things First An acknowledgement of Christ for our Saviour and Redeemer For what else is it to commemorate his dying for us but to declare that we are sensible that our peace is made with God through the blood of his Cross and that we who before were all under sin and lyable to wrath aliens from and Enemies to God shall now not have our trespasses imputed to us but be saved from wrath through Christ and in the body of his flesh through death be reconciled unto God To declare I say and shew both to God and Man that our hope is only in the Lord Jesus who hath now appeared to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself and in whom alone we have redemption through his blood even forgiveness of sins This you see is what the Scripture means by Christ's Body being broken and his Blood shed for us and therefore all Christians who sincerely remember those must sincerely acknowledge this Secondly An acknowledgement of Christ for our Lord and Master For besides that by submitting to his Rites and Institutions we plainly declare our selves his Disciples besides that by acknowledging of and partaking in his Sacrifice we do according to the sense of all Nations own our selves members of his Church besides this I say by acknowledging Christ's dying for us we do manifestly acknowledge our obligations both to love and obey him To love him who hath so loved us as to lay down his life for us to obey him whose purchase we are who hath bought us with a price even the inestimable price of his Blood and has therefore a right to us as the Scripture tells us as a peculiar people to himself And this the Primitive Christians were so sensible of that they look'd upon every receiving of the Lords Supper to be a new tie and obligation a new vow and dedication of themselves to Christ And hence it was that the word Sacrament which signified among the Romans that Oath of Fidelity which their Soldiers took was given as a name to the Lords Supper because Christians were suppos'd to bind themselves there as it were by an Oath to Christ's Service The ends for which our blessed Lord instituted this holy Supper seem to have been these three First His Father's and his own Glory which could no way better be illustrated and extoll'd than by making all Christians whatsoever join in ascribing their Redemption and Salvation to them For this is at once to own both their power and wisdom and goodness which were so eminently display'd in these great works and likewise their Soveraignty and Dominion over us which are the natural effects of them Secondly The preserving the unity of his Church towards which nothing could contribute more than the frequent meeting together of its Members to acknowledge one hope of their calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of all above all through all and in them all and this is most effectually acknowledged by our being all partakers of that one bread for thus as St. Paul teacheth we being many are one bread and one Body And likewise their meeting to commemorate the noblest instance of Love that ever appeared in the world and consequently the noblest Example for Christians to follow the noblest motive to excite them to love one another Thirdly The good and edification of every particular Christian and this end will appear to be admirably well serv'd this way if we will give our selves leave to reflect a little on the benefits which every Christian is made partaker of by receiving this Holy Supper And First If we consider this Holy Supper only as a Commemorative Sign or sign to put us in mind of Christs dying for us yet even thus it will prove of vast advantage to us For this will naturally tend to inflame our Love and exalt our Gratitude towards him to confirm our Faith and strengthen our Hope in him and to fix and stablish our purposes of obedience to him All this I say will be the natural result even of a bare contemplation or remembrance of Christs having freely given up himself to death even the death of the Cross for us and of his having thereby procured remission of all our Sins and a promise of Eternal Life and Happiness to all those that obey him But Secondly If we consider it as it is the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ that is as it is to all faithful Christians an actual participation of the benefits of Christ's death and passion viz. of remission of sins of the hope of eternal happiness upon our obedience and of the grace