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A04166	Christs ansvver vnto Iohns question: or, An introduction to the knowledge of Iesus Christ, and him crucified Deliuered in certaine sermons in the famous towne of New-castle vpon Tine. By Thomas Iackson, Dr. of Diuinitie, vicar of Saint Nicolas Church there, and fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford.	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1625 (1625)	STC 14306; ESTC S107447	127,240	218

of the Iewes shall wee not heerein truely follow the true example of Christ if we doe the like On the contrary shall we not shew our selues to be none of his Disciples if wee vse or affect that liberty or singularity which hee neither did nor would vse although there were no authority in the earth to command him to conformity Lastly it may be obiected that many in the Primitiue Church who knew the Apostles practice better than the visible Church now doth did not receiue the Sacrament of Christs body and blood after the same manner as now we doe I am not ignorant of a scruple which many of the busie-brained Masters labour to instill into their Auditors heads though in other cases they can slight Antiquity at their pleasure yet in this case they haue been curiously Criticall to obserue out of the Fathers of the Greeke Church that they receiued the Sacrament 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is bowing indeed but not bowing their knees All this we grant for the Greeke Church at this day receiue the Sacrament standing on their feet yet bowing their bodies not their knees What is the reason To make a legge as we say or to bow the knee is a ceremony euen in expressions of ciuill courtesie ridiculous amongst them Howbeit they expresse their seuerall respect to their friends to their betters of what ranke soeuer as distinctly and curiously by seuerall manners of bowing their heads and bodies as wee can doe by making legges bowing the knee or kneeling vpon our knees And herein they are highly to be commended for reseruing a distinct kind of bending their bodies in expressing their submission towards God or Christ in their Liturgie or receiuing the Sacrament So then distingue loca concordant consuetudines Though the Greekes receiue the Communion standing and bowing their bodies whereas we receiue it with bended knees without bowing of our bodies yet heerein we fully agree that both we and they receiue it in the most decent and submisse manner for gesture or deportment of our bodies that we otherwise know or vse They receiue it standing and bowing the vpper part of their bodies because that is the best and most significant signe of subiection or submissiue obedience that is in vse amongst them wee receiue it kneeling because this is the best and most significant signe of submissiue obedience that is in vse or practice in these Westerne parts of Europe Did not some amongst vs poyson their naturall and ciuill affections with presumptuous conceits of extraordinary sanctity nature it selfe to whom our Apostle in like case a●pealeth would thorowly informe vs all that wee stand bound to receiue so great a blessing as in this Sacrament wee expect at the hands of our gracious God after the best and most submissiue maner of outward gesture and deportment that we know or can frame our bodies vnto 94. But if a man should aske Whether the rite or custome obserued in the Greeke Church or in our Church be in it selfe the more decent or significant or better befitting the vse or end of this Sacrament I dare confidently affirme that the ceremony or gesture obserued and commanded by our Church doth much better befit the vse and end of the Sacrament than the rite or ceremony obserued by the Greeke Church doth better than any other rite or manner can doe though otherwise as decent and sitting or more decent and fitting in all other parts of Gods seruice And my reason which I commend vnto your vnpartiall consideration is this that this Sacrament was not instituted in remembrance of the first institution of it or to represent the Apostles maner of receiuing of it but in remembrance of our Sauiours death and passion Whence I would request such as vrge our Sauiours example for a patterne of their behauiour or deportment at the Sacrament to looke vpon our Sauiours bodily gesture or deportment in the heat and extremity of his passion wherein hee presented himselfe before his Father in his agony and bloudy sweat in the Garden Being in this agony as St. Luke saith he presented these supplications vnto his Father Father if thou be willing remooue this cup from mee neuerthelesse not my will but thy will be done But after what manner or gesture of body did his perplexed soule vtter these earnest supplications 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 kneeling or fixing his knees vpon the ground 95. If I should haue spent the whole time alotted onely in exhorting or preparing you to the fit worthy receiuing of this Sacrament I could not haue said more or more to the purpose than the contemplation of our Sauiour in this agony doth at first view present vnto all of vs that will lay it to heart And it is in a word this that you would make his prayer commutatis commutandis a patterne for your prayers his gesture in presenting his prayers to his Father a patterne of your gesture or deportment whilest you celebrate the memory of his passion specially whilest you make application of the benefit of his passion to your selues by receiuing the visible pledges of his body bloud which I hope you doe not meane to receiue without feruent prayer that God will passe ouer your sinnes and not enter into iudgement with you You need not you may not interpose that condition in your prayer which our Sauiour did in his Father if it be possible let this cuppasse from mee So great was his good-nesse towards vs his louing kindnesse so tender that he purchased vnto vs better certainty and better assurance that our prayers may be heard than he had that his owne prayers should bee heard in this particular Therfore it was not possible that this cup should passe from him that it might be possible for it to passe from all and euery one of vs. Pray we then but let vs pray with bended knees euery man for himselfe and euery man for his fellow-Communicant Heauenly FATHER seeing thou art willing so to haue it let thy cup of thy wrath and displeasure passe from vs and let thy cup of thy blessing be euer amongst vs O cause not any of vs to drink of that bitter cup which thy onely Sonne our onely Sauiour hath swallowed for vs. Expose vs not good FATHER to those bloudy and grieuous conflicts with the powers of Hell and darkenesse which thy Sonne sustayned for vs. Oh lay no more vpon vs than thou shalt giue vs strength and patience through him and for him ●● vndergoe and vanquish Make vs to triumph as Conquerours in this victory ouer Hell and Satan ouer all the power of the enemy Thus praying whilest wee celebrate the memory of his agony and bloudy sweat with knees bended as his in that agony were on the ground and with hearts lifted vp to heauen where he now sits at the right hand of God My life for yours my soule for your soules if herein

CHRISTS ANSVVER VNTO IOHNS QVESTION OR An Introduction to the knowledge of Iesus Christ and him crucified Deliuered in certaine Sermons in the famous Towne of New-castle vpon Tine By THOMAS IACKSON Dr. of Diuinitie Vicar of Saint Nicolas Church there and Fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford IOHN 5. 39. Search the Scriptures for in them yee thinke yee haue eternall life and they are they which testifie of mee LONDON Printed by G. P. for Iohn Clarke and are to be sold at his Shop vnder Saint Peters Church in Corne-hill 1625. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER in God Richard by Diuine prouidence Lord Bishop of Durham my very honourable good LORD and Diocesan Right Reuerend and Honourable BEing here detayned vpon occasions made knowne in part vnto your Lordship I thought my selfe bound in duety and conscience to render an account as well of my time spent in this my absence as whilest I was present at my charge Though this I cannot for this time performe saue onely in part These papers which I now consecrate to your Honours protection containe onely the first-fruits of my Labours in that worthy and famous Congregation which it pleased your Lordship about a yeere agoe for which I euer rest yours bounden to commit vnto my trust Yet these being all that I took with me to peruse in my absence which I well hoped should haue beene much shorter these are all that I could at this time present your Lordship withal humbly beseeching they may bee accepted as an vndoubted pledge of my duty and obseruance to your Lordship and of my vnfaigned desire and resolution to set forward that worthy and religious Congregation from which I haue receiued much true comfort and many kindnesses in the wayes of truth as well by my pen in my absence as by my voyce whilest I am present So commending this Introduction to your Lorshippes patronage and your Lordship to the gracious patronage and protection of the Lord Iesus I humbly take my leaue From my Study in Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxon. Decemb. 20. 1624. Your Lordships in all duety and seruice THOM. IACKSON A briefe view of the principall parts of the Discourse following I. The meaning or purport of Iohns Question Art thou He that should come or doe we looke for another Math. 11. ver 3. Pag. 2 3 4. II. What did moue Iohn to make this Question Pa. 5 6 7 8. III. What satisfaction the answere heere made by our Sauiour might giue 1. To ordinary or indifferent Auditors Wherein are discussed Pag. 10. to the 19. 1. Wherein true blessednesse which our Sauiour here promiseth to all doth consist Pag. 20. Parag. 14. to Pag. 30. Parag. 19. 2. How the miracles heard and seene by Iohn● Disciples doe prooue that IESVS who wrought them was the Author and Donor of all these good things or degrees of goodnesse wherein true blessednesse in the opinion and iudgement aswell of Heathen Philosophers as of Christians doth consist pag. 30. parag 19. to pag. 40. parag 22. 2. Vnto Iohn Wherein are discussed 1. The manner how the faith of the Patriarches of the Prophets themselues was grounded vpō diuine predictions ratified by the euents answering vnto them That euen the Patriarchs and Prophets themselues might erre in their apprehensions or applications of Gods Word reuealed vnto thē vntill their apprehensions were rectified by new Reuelations or their applications corrected by the exhibition of the euent or effect fore-told pag. 43. parag 24. to pag. 66. parag 34. 2. The particular places of Scriptures from whence the Pharises had their prenotions concerning Baptisme and on which Johns faith or beliefe concerning our Sauiours person or office or his owne ministery was grounded with the signes of the time that did expound them pag. 75. para 37. to pag. 145. parag 66. 3. What correspondencie the two places of Scripture to which our Sauiour in this answer referreth Iohn haue with the former places wherein Johns faith was grounded and with the signes of the time or miraculous euents here related pag. 145. parag 65. to pag. 178. parag 81. III. How the generall Conclusion Blessed is he who soeuer shall not be offended in mee is inferred from the premisses What it is to bee offended in Christ. Which be the speciall rootes of this offence and how they may he auoyded Pag. 178. parag 81 to the end CHRISTS ANSWER vnto IOHNS QVESTION OR An Introduction to the knowledge of Iesus Christ and him crucified MATHEVV 11. VER 4 5 6. Goe and shew Iohn againe those things which ye doe heare and see The blinde receiue their sight and the lame walke the Lepers are cleansed and the deafe heare the dead are raysed vp and the poore haue the Gospell preached vnto them And blessed is hee whosoeuer shall not be offended in mee THis is life eternal saith our Sauiour Ioh. 17. v. 3. that they may know thee the only true God and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent The knowledge of the only true God and of Iesus Christ whom hee hath sent are so inwrapt and linked together that he which hath the later hath the former according to the saying of our Sauiour Hee that hath seene me hath seene my Father Ioh. 14. 9. This knowledge of Christ and of him crucified was all that our blessed Apostle Saint Paul esteemed or determined to know amongst the Corinthians and all that I shall desire to know amongst you and is as I hope if not the onely yet the speciall poynt which any of you desire to bee made knowne vnto you by my Ministery whether publike or priuate What it is to know Christ and the vertue of his Crosse which be the speciall or most vsefull branches of this knowledge and in what ranke or order the seuerall branches grow shall by Gods assistance and your desired patience be discussed at large hereafter in vnfolding of that fore-cited saying of our Apostle to the Corinthians in his first Epistle cap. 2. vers 2. Which if God permit shall be the maine subiect or theame of my meditations in this place You will giue mee leaue to make my entry or passage into a subiect so large so ample and so vsefull by degrees and leysure Now ere wee can attaine vnto the true knowledge of Iesus Christ whom God hath sent and of him crucified wee are to inquire vpon what grounds wee beleeue or know that the man Iesus whom the Iewes did crucifie whom wee preach and on whom we beleeue was hee whom God hath sent or he whom God before all Worlds had ordayned to send into the world For albeit God in sundry ages sent many messengers vnto his Church though such as he sent did come in person and discharge their function yet when we reade of Him that was to be sent or of him that was to come without further addition circumlocution or paraphrase we must take these as titles which may not be communicated vnto many as being truely