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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57733	The fire upon the altar. Or Divine meditations and essayes containing the substance of Christian religion	Rowe, Cheyne.	1679 (1679)	Wing R2061A; ESTC R218415	226,122	405

become the Sons of God even to as many as believed in his Name John 1.12 But he that eats not his Body and drinks not his Blood hath no fellowship in him he that doth eat and drink them hath Eternal Life The receiving then of him and believing in his Name being the qualification that makes us the Sons of God and his Brethren and that Text excluding all from that priviledge that do not eat and drink his Body and Blood sheweth that by receiving him and believing in his Name they eat him not by diminishing him by their Teeth or digesting him in their Stomach but by drawing Life from his Death by Faith and strengthning and maintaining that new Life which it hath from Christ by believing his Body to be crucified and his Blood shed for them and by the Bread and Wine is given to them And if we should understand this eating of Attrition or diminishing with the Teeth and the Drinking of taking by the Mouth into the Stomach by drops and digesting there then God should suffer his Holy One to see corruption For although we should suppose it did not corrupt in our body so long as we live yet when these vile bodies turns to Earth and rottenness then all that is in them must corrupt And the Text that excludes all that eat not his Body and drinks not his Blood would exclude all Believers from Adam until this Sacrament was Instituted by our blessed Saviour But if this eating and drinking be believing then Abraham and the rest of the faithful might eat and drink him as well as they saw his day For all of them eat the same Spiritual meat and drink the same Spiritual drink and receive their Eternal Life and Salvation from the same Jesus Christ And if we do by this eating find our penitent Souls to revive and live a new Immortal and Eternal Life from the belief of his Death and Passion for us his Body Crucified and his Blood spilt for us to give us Life then we eat his body and shall live for ever And thus the faithful people of God by eating the Passeover under the Law did eat Christ the true Passeover by eating that which was the Type of him whom it represented fide non ore at it is said all eat the same Spiritual Bread Of the Eucharist Meditation I feel a hunger in my Soul which neither Manna nor all the World can satisfie though I have all the necessaries and conveniences of Life yet I hunger and thirst as for Rivers of Water in a dry place Isa 32. Do thou then O blessed Saviour give me of the Water of Life out of thy Fountain The living Water and Blood that cometh from that Fountain of Living Water thy side upon the Cross which still is open to the House of Judah and Jerusalem and seals unto us all the promises upon which we live thou hast Instituted this Bread and Wine to represent thy Holy and blessed Body and Blood shed and broken upon the Cross and thereby givest them to the Soul that thirsteth for Eternal Life in thee Isa 32.4 Though my weakness of Faith should be such that I am not able to discern whether virtually or really they become such or whether they be consubstantiated transubstantiated or new-substantiated in their Natures by the blessing and the Faith of the Receiver or neither yet thus far thou hast enlightned me to know that all the promises are Yea and Amen in thee that thou hast Eternal Life and givest it and that by these Elements which signifie and exhibit thy Body and Blood to be eaten and drank by Faith Spiritually and for thy Body and Blood I eat and drink them but as separable for I fear least I should through unbelief receive but only the Bread and Wine and not thy Body and Blood which give Eternal Life which every one that hath that eateth thy Body and drinketh thy Blood and if an unbeliever or an unprepared impenitent person the worst of thy enemies he that betrayed thee or any other creature could but eat and drink of them they also would thereby have Eternal Life But thou alone hast power to give it to whom thou pleasest To thee therefore I address my Prayer when the Priest reacheth to me the Bread and Wine that thou wouldest reach to me thy sacrificed Body and Blood that was shed upon the Cross and make these Natural Elements to become those Eternal Aliments to me not by Faith in them but by Faith in thee who hast made them to signifie those and represent them which though I cannot discern by my senses I pray that I may by my Faith in thy Word which makes them operate as thy Body and Blood to me through thy benediction though materially I discern them not and give me thy holy Spirit that I may discern them Spiritually and eat panem Dominum if by looking up to thee we are saved what other thing can I understand this Mystery to be than looking up to thee on the Cross and shedding thy precious Blood for my sins which thou communicatest to us Of Holiness Meditations Mot. Holiness to the Lord shall be writ upon the Bells of the Horses Med. All the graces are so linked together like a golden chaine that they cannot be without each other This is a collective word and containes in it piety charity and humility and all that the first and second table of the law of God containes all the duty of man towards God his neighbour and himself It is the fruit of faith out of which Root this grace springs The necessity of this grace is laid down in this expression that without it no man shall see God the same is implied Psal 63.3 I have sought thee in holiness that I might behold thy glory The precepts are many that command us to get it in general and in the particular branches of it every commandment and precept in the Scripture are to this end Not any one minute of a Christian life nor any one action be it natural action of the body or civil gesture or behaviour but it must have holiness imprinted on it for in the Temple the candlesticks and the snuffers were of pure Gold and Christ came to perfect it and advance it therefore ' tls prophesied of his Kingdom that under it holines to the Lord shall be written upon the Bels of the Horses which inscription was on Arons miter The rights and ceremonies of purification under the law typified as much Although it be said that faith hath this and all other graces for its fruits yet there is a time when a child of God may not percieve in himself much nay scarce any life of Holiness Humility Patience Zeal Meekness Charity or other graces as in the Winter the herbs and Plants shew no life at all usually they are excited again by some extraordinary providence of God either in afflicting us or delivering us from some danger or affliction or by

temptations Therefore let not thy many graces and perfections cause thee to overlook thy insufficiency or despise the strength and subtilty of thine adversary who is compared to a roaring Lion but contninue thou instant in this duty and watch lest thou fall as they did And as Moses Noah Lot and David and other Saints have fallen Blessed is he that feareth alwaies If when we would do good evil is present with us much more is it present when we are about secular affairs And further Thou that art throughly sanctified consider what need thy graces have of continual watering that they may not wither nor decay for God who bests knows our needs would not have promised to water us every morning and every moment were there no need but because it is necessary he promised it and we are to beg that he would water us with his own teaching with his word and new dictates of the Spirit And make our soul as a watered Garden And a Garden inclosed and a Fountain sealed that no polluting thing may come into it to defile it and that he would quicken us in his statutes so that all men may be convinced of their necessity and thereby be moved to the performance of this so necessary so profitable and delightful a duty And to seek his face and his grace evermore and to be alwaies upon our knees at the throne of grace when we can other necessities there are which may move us daily to the duty as namely the burden of those sins which lie upon our consciences which whosoever hath felt knoweth how pressing it is and of how great importance the easement will be to his soul that God would speak peace to it And say to his soul that he is his salvation This guilt doth sometimes lye festering in the soul and doth not disquiet at all but woful is the state of it then He that is most speedy in his repentance will most easily find it as the Apostle Peter when he had sinned in denying his Lord and Master immediately went out and wept bitterly But David who lay in his guilt found it a sore burthen too heavy for him to bear Psal 38. And was almost consumed by means of God's heavy hand Psal 39.11 His chastisements made his beauty to consume away like as it were a moth fretting a garment But this brings him to confess his wickedness and be sorry for his sins ib. Psal 38.18 and to pray to God to help him v. 22. And God healeth him in his own time Though he suffer him long to lye under the burden that he may fear to commit the like again And that seeing his own sinfulness and unrighteousness he may seek his righteousness out of himself in Christ Jesus How many sudden and unexpected provocations and temptations do hurry men into the greatest sins that ever they committed in their lives as this of the matter of Vriah did David So that we must fear alwaies and watch and pray to God to keep us and work in us both the will and the deed that is good How many sad and unexpected accidents do we see daily befalling other men as good as wise as strong and as wealthy as our selves some by fire some by water some by shipwrack All the four elements by which we live and the very meat we eat and the drink we drink bring sudden and unexpected death and destruction upon unprepared and secure mortals Sometimes a Tyle falls upon their head of which death is caused sometimes they stumble and falling break a bone and so death cometh And a thousand waies more which no mans wisdom and strength can foresee nor prevent All which when we see them to befal others we know they might as well have befallen our selves if God did not keep us and deliver us from all evil and we must acknowledge with David Psal 41. Thou upholdest me in health And that he would be pleased so to do we call upon him as it is meet and necessary Consider whether this be not the end and purpose for which God suffers them to befal men for so it is intimated in that place of the Prophet In their affliction they will seek me early For God complains there how they had sinned and provoked him and had forsaken him but he would have them return by this means And this is intimated likewise from that of Daniel c. 9. v. 13. All this evil is come upon us yet made we not our prayers before the Lord our God that we might turn from our iniquities Whosoever hath been brought to extremity and found no means in himself to escape he knows this to be his refuge And if he hath obtained his deliverance at the hand of God and shall afterwards forget or neglect his worship he can ill expect that the Lord will be found of him at his time of need afterwards But this is too frequently done as it was by the rebellious Jews Isa 63.16 There they come saying Doubtless thou art our Father but when God shall shake them off and say unto them as he said to them If I be a Father where is my honour certainly they will be put to shame and silence and confusion of face Hence we may take occasion to consider the miserable and helpless condition of those who wholly neglect this duty and will only pray in their extremity Their own consciences it is to be feared will accuse them and tell them that they are of their Father the Devil and probably they will then seek to him too As Saul did when the Lord had forsaken him and the Lord may send them to their lusts which they have served But what spiritual extremities are the children of God often brought to when the Messengers of Satan are sent to busset them as the best may fear they may be And when these and the outward troubles concur to make up a fiery trial such as the holy Apostles experienced many times as they testifie viz. Without were troubles and within were fears and in many other parallel places is testified how are they put to it when Satan thus bruiseth their heel and they are afraid that he will bruise their head also because they seel no power in themselves for the present to bruise his with the two-edged sword of the Word When they find by experience That the Righteous shall scarcely be saved That the way to Heaven is narrow and found but of few The Devil like a roaring Lion rageth to devour them and they see not those that are for them and how strong and many they are and God hides his face and the light of his countenance and makes them as his enemies and seems to have forsaken them and though they have called long he hears not and their distracting griefs and pains are so bitter that they cannot consider of the daies of the right hand of the Most High Let these considerations enter into our hearts for if our case may happen