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A77605	Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether for a Congregationall, or a Presbyteriall way) are concerned. Or pills to purge malignants. And all prophane, ignorant, and scandalous persons. (But more particularly calculated for the meridian of Margarets Fishstreet-hill) from those grosse conceits that they have of their childrens right to baptisme; and of their owne right to the Supper of the Lord, &c. Also good councell to bad men. Or friendly advise (in severall particulars) to unfriendly neighbours. By Thomas Brooks, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious Gospel of Christ, at Margarets Fishstreet-hill.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1653 (1653)	Wing B4938; Thomason E684_28; ESTC R207067	29,466	37

should much rejoyce and blesse the Lord if he would be pleased to work such a thorow work of grace upon all your hearts as that I might without sinne dispence all the precious things of Christ to you Ah t is not a joy but a real grief to my soul that others han't that right and can't come to those Ordinances which God hath made so sweet and advantagious to me and many others of the sons of Sion Oh! how willing should I be and those that walk with me to give you the right-hand of Fellowship if we could but see that the Lord has taken you into fellowship with his blessed Self that so the Ordinance might be a cordial and not poyson to you I do professe before the Lord that I do from my soul forgive you the wrong and injuries that you have done me or attempted to do God has been good to me notwithstanding my failing towards him and my sins against him And the sense of his love and rich goodness makes my bowels to earn towards you Oh! 'T is a mercy more worth then a world to me that God hath given me such a frame of spirit as that I can pray for your souls and weep over your sins and that I am ready to serve you in all those waies wherein I may further the eternall welfare of your souls c. Lihnod lelammed Wee therefore learn that we may teach is a Proverb among the Rabbins I could have dealt with you in another way had I not intended the good of your souls Jer. 44.15 ult Acts 20.26 27. Ezek. 3.17 18 19. 1 Cor. 9.20 21 22. John 12.48 2 Cor. 5.10 Rom. 8.28 Micah 7.8 9 10. Jer. 20.9 10 11 12. Mal. 3.17 18. Isa 49. 4 5. Prayer is porta coeli clavis paradisi the gate of Heaven a key to let us in to Paradise Heb. 3 7-12 Nec Christus nec coelum patitur hyperbolen A man cannot hyperbolize in speaking of Christ and Heaven Omne bonum in summo bono All good is in the chiefest good Isai 1.16 17. Make use of me in any thing wherein I may serve you without sin and see whether I shall not be willing to act for your good notwithstanding all provocations to the contrary 5. For a close because I would not be over tedious I shall draw many things within a narrow compasse you may be confident that my end in writing is your due conviction and satisfaction that you may weigh my Arguments and clearly see that 't is not will nor humour c. but Conscience Reason and Religion that acts me If notwithstanding what I have said you shall continue in your malice envy hatred c. I shall have comfort in this that I have in all faithfullnesse freed my selfe from being guilty of the blood of your souls and in that I have declared to all the world my willingnesse to serve the interest of your souls in all chings wherein I may without sin And most confident I am that if what I have written do not better you it will be a witnesse against you when you and I shall meet before Christs judgement seat And confident I am that God will bring much good to me out of all the plots designs and actings that have been or that shall be by vain men against me And confident I am that the more you stir in any way of basenesse or wickednesse the more the Lord will make you to stink and the more contempt he will pour upon you and the more bright he will cause my innocency to shine and the more weighty shall be my Crowne in the day of Christ My desires for you before the Lord are these That you may have such a sight of your sins as may work you to kisse the Son lest he be angry and you perish when his wrath is kindled but a little And that you may not trifle away the day of grace and the things that belong to your eternall peace least God should swear in his wrath that you shall never enter into his rest Oh that in the light of the Spirit you may see Christ to be the greatest good the most desireable good the most necessary good the most suitable good to be a totall good an only good and an eternall good that so your souls may in good earnest fall in love with Christ and may cry out with that Martyr None but Christ none but Christ Oh none but Christ to save us and none but Christ to rule us none but Christ to justifie us and none but Christ to command us Oh that you may cease from doing evill and learn to do well that so you may be happy in life blessed in death and glorious in the morning of the Resurrection FINIS

work being to Preach the Gospel But if by burying their dead they mean that I wil not accompany their Corps to the grave being the last office of love that can be performed to the deceased person 't is notorious false all that know any thing of the Scripture can't but know that there is nothing in all the Book of God that will bear a Minister out to bury the dead as prophane ignorant scandalous persons would have them buried and therefore I don 't and I hope I shall never be so far left of God as to conform to the superstitious desires and customs of vain men Reader for a close thou mayest take notice That though I was ready to give in the fore-named Arguments Greater respect the Honourable Committee could not cast upon me nor greater contempt upon the prophane malignant Petitioners then not to put me to answer to the things objected against mee One of these prophane malignant Petitioners objected to me Judas his receiving the Supper of the Lord which I disproved yet this vain person as I have been inform'd boasted of victory John 13.30 Hilar Durand Piscator Beza c. compare Mat. 26. and Mark 14. together and you shall find that neither of them doaffirm that Judas was at the Lords Supper therefore we have no ground to beleeve that Judas was at that blessed Supper Luke 22.19 20. Mat. 26.26 27 28 29. in answer to the objections made by the Prophane Malignants in their Petition against me Yet the Committee in their wisdomes it seems did not judge it meet so much as to ask me a reason why I did not Baptize their Children give them the Lords Supper and bury their dead they well knowing that there is nothing more ordinary then for those to be bauling and crying out for Ordinances that have no right to them And that if upon the non giving of the Ordinances to such prophane persons they should eject Ministers out of their places they should quickly eject all those in the Nation that are most tender of the honour of Christ and that have been some of their best friends in the worst times Before I give the Councel intended to the Petitioners I judge it usefull in severall respects to batter downe that which most prophane ignorant malignant scandalous persons doe count their strong hold or their greatest Argument to prove it lawfull for them to receive the Supper of the Lord notwithstanding their prophanenesse and wickednesse and that is That Judas was admitted to the Lords Supper and that they are not worse then Judas no nor yet so bad Ergo. Now for the casting downe of this their imagined strong hold for the dispatching this their first born this their Goliah consider with me these following things 1. The Holy Ghost by the Evangelist John doth punctually and expresly tell us that Judas went out immediately after the sop That this sop was no part of the Sacramentall Supper both Fathers and School-men doe agree and many others in our own time who are men of great piety and parts Ergo. Did I know any thing of weight that could be objected against this Argument I would be so faithfull as to give an answer to it as the Lord should inable me to doe but I know nothing that ha's that strength in it as to weaken the truth asserted 2. Those to whom Christ gave the Sacrament he saith without exception This is my body which is given for you this is the cup of the new Testament in my blood which is shed for you and I will not drinke henceforth of the fruit of the Vine untill that day I drinke it new with you in my Fathers Kingdome Now I would willingly know Were hypocrites and reprobates known to us we ought to shut the door against them and will Christ open it surely no. how this can in the least measure stand with the wisdom holiness justice righteousness innocency and integrety of Christ to say this and promise this to Judas whom he knew to be an hypocrite reprobate a devil as himself calls him Joh. 6.70 71. chap. 13.10 11. If this be not to make Christ a false witnesse a lyer a deceiver c. I know not any thing 3. 'T is as clear as the Sun from that 22. of Luke 28 29 30. that those to whom Christ gave the Sacrament were such as did continue with him in his temptations Matth. 26.24 Mark 14.21 Joh. 6.70 Act. 1.25 1 Cor. 6.2 3. and such as Christ did appoint to them a kingdom and such as should set upon Thrones c. Now are there any so vain and foolish as to say that Judas did continue with him in his temptations Or that Christ did appoint to him any other kingdom then a kingdome of darknesse Or that he shall set on a Throne to judge others who shall at last be judged as a Devil 4. Quod non actibus sed finibus pensantur officia Duties are esteemed not by their acts but by their ends Judas was no wayes capable of any of those noble ends and glorious uses for which the Lord Jesus appointed this Sacrament he having no real love to Christ no experimental knowledge of Christ no faith to discern Christ to apply Christ to feed upon Christ to seal to Christ c. How could this Ordinance strengthen grace in his heart who was wholly void of grace How could this Ordinance confirm him in the love of God who was at that very time under the greatest wrath of God Maximilians Motto was Tene mensuram respice finem How could this Ordinance seal up to him the pardon of his sins who notwithstanding all the hell fire that Christ cast in his face yet would hold on in his sins and rather betray Christ into the hands of his enemies and his own soul into the hand of Satan then cease from doing wickedly c. That little wisdom that is in man will work him to forbear his work and suspend his act Coloss 2.3 where he sees his end will fail And will not those treasures of wisdome that be in the Lord Jesus much more work him to suspend his work where he sees plainly and cleerly that his end will fail him as in the case of Judas surely it will 5. Consider seriously whether it be in any degree probable that Jesus Christ would give his blood to Judas John 17.9 and yet not so much as lift up a prayer for Judas that Christ would do the greater thing for Judas Sanguis Christi clavis coeli Christs blood is heavens key And so Judas would have found had Christ given it to him and yet not doe the lesser that he should give his blood to Judas and yet not spend a little of his breath to save Judas from wallowing in his blood for ever Among men it would argue the greatest weaknesse that could be to deny the least favour where they have shewed the greatest favour