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A47298	An help and exhortation to worthy communicating, or, A treatise describing the meaning, worthy reception, duty, and benefits of the Holy Sacrament and answering the doubts of conscience, and other reasons, which most generally detain men from it together with suitable devotions added / by John Kettlewell ...	Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.	1683 (1683)	Wing K369; ESTC R14112	224,392	528

them to erect among themselves standing Courts by consent when the Power being in Heathens hands they could not otherwise be supplied in their own Body with Seats of Judgment 2. It appears also from another Place in St. James wherein he makes mention of them And that is Jam. 2.2 3 4. If there come into your Assembly or Synagogue a man with a Gold Ring c. Into your Assembly i. e. your Judicial Court where the respect of Persons was not to be permitted That the word here rendered Assembly or Synagogue signifies sometimes more particularly Court Assemblies and Judicial Consistories appears from Mat. 10.17 where our Saviour tells his Disciples of being delivered up to Consistories and scourged in their Synagogues i. e. in their Judgment Halls And so also Mat. 23.34 And that it ought to signifie such Consistories and Court Assemblies which were then used both in Ecclesiastical and Civil Affairs in this place appears both from the thing it self and from several particulars here spoken of these Assemblies which seem so to determine it The thing it self I say seems so to require it For in these Assemblies St. James condemns all Respect of Persons and discrimination of Rich and Poor by giving Honour according to Peoples Qualities which was unlawful only in Judicatures but is a Duty in Conversation and Common Carriage For it is an Apostolical Precept to give Honour to whom Honour is due Rom. 13.7 And those Servants who have believing Masters are forbid to with-draw any thing of their Respect presuming upon their Spiritual Kindred or to Honour them the less because they are become their Brethren in being Believers 1 Tim. 6.2 So that although in Judgment-Seats not mens Qualities but Causes only ought to be respected yet in other Assemblies a regard may be given to their Persons and 't is commendable so to do And several Particulars here spoken of these Assemblies seem so to determine it For the Offenders here taxed with Respecting Persons in them are said to have a Foot-stool which belongs to Chairs of State and Judicatures to give Evil Judgment to pass Sentence against the poor M●ns Cause without deliberating on it or debating it and to transgress the Law in making a difference according to mens Qualities particularly in bidding the Rich to sit and the poor to stand which was expresly forbid by a Canon of the Jews to all that sate in Judgment all which shew that Courts of Judicature are the Assemblies here specified The Offenders here taxed I say for respecting Persons in these Assemblies are said to have a Foot-stool For so the Apostle expresses himself v. 3. Ye have respect to him that wears the gay clothing and say unto him sit thou here in a good Place and say to the Poor stand thou there or sit here under my Footstool And this is a probable intimation of their Dignity and Authority in the place where they sate for Foot-stools ordinarily are Appendages only of the Chairs of Great Persons who have Power and Superiority over others as of Princes on their Thrones and Judges upon Tribunals They are said to give Evil Judgment i. e. to pass Sentence on the wrong side as he is like to do who tries not Things but Persons and determines from By-respects not from the merits of the Cause which is to be decided By this respect of Persons says he ye are become Judges of Evil Thoughts i. e. you give Evil and Perverse Judgments v. 4. They are said to pass Sentence on the Poor mans Cause without deliberating on it or debating it Ye say to the Rich saith he sit thou here and to the Poor stand that at a distance there and ye are not doubtful or debate his Cause in or among your selves but are Judges of evil Thoughts or give perverse Judgments for so the words are most naturally rendred and not as we do are ye not partial in your selves and Judges of Evil Thoughts v. 3 4. And this shews plainly that their respect of Persons was expressed in Judicial Process in giving rash Sentence in favour of the Rich without ever staying to hear the Plea or weigh the Reasons of the Poors Cause They are said to transgress the Law in this regarding Persons and treating them differently according to the difference of their outward State and Condition when in this different carriage towards Rich and Poor ye have respect of Persons says he ye commit sin and are convinced of the Law which plainly forbids such practice as Transgressours v. 3.9 And this seems clearly to restrain it to their Court-Assemblies For in Judgment there is a Law forbidding all respect of Persons Ye shall not respect Persons in Judgment but you shall hear the small as well as the great Deut. 1.17 and Levit. 19.15 But there is no Law that forbids it yea rather since St. Paul injoins us to give Honour where Honour is due and directs Servants to pay never the less but rather more Reverence to their Masters because they are Believers and would not have Confusion introduced but Order kept in the Church as well as in other places there may seem enough not only to warrant but to recommend it in all other Cases Besides what is still a further Evidence of this point they are said particularly to transgress the Law in bidding the Rich to sit and the Poor to stand v. 3 9 which as a great man observes was a thing expresly forbid by a Canon of the Jews to all that sate in Judgment For that required in all Suits and Judicial Tryals betwixt Rich and Poor that either both should stand or both should sit which is a thing as he adds that the Jews observe at this day in hearing Causes for then if one presuming upon his quality take a Seat the Judge presently says to the other sit thou down also And thus I think it appears that the Assemblies which in this intricate place St. James mentions are Court-Assemblies and Judicial Consistories both because the Nature of the thing seems to require it since in them he forbids all respect of Persons which elsewhere is not prohibited and also because several particulars here spoken of them seem so to determine it For they are said to be such Assemblies wherein is a Foot-stool the usual Appendant to Chairs of State and Seats of Judgment wherein men were Judges of Evil Thoughts i. e. judged wrong and gave perverse See●tnce wherein they Condemned the Poor mans Cause without deliberating on it and debating it wherein to respect Persons was against a plain Law forbidding it as we find there is a very express one in Judicial Proceedings but none at all nay rather the contrary in all other Cases and lastly such wherein to bid a Rich man sit and a Poor man stand was a transgression of a Precept as in Court Assemblies it plainly is being against an express Canon of the Jews in Judgment By all which I suppose it

Eating and Drinking not being to satisfie Hunger but for Sacred Ends 't is fit we come to it with a suitable and a Sacred Carriage and in that consists the Worthiness of the Usage Were it onely a Feast on Common Food we should behave our selves worthily at it by thanking God for it and being Temperate But being a Feast wherein Religion is concerned and whereat we are to remember the Death of our Lord and to Seal the New Covenant with God and a League of Love with all the Christian World to the doing this worthily and as 't is fit we should there is more required For we deal very unworthily in remembring the Death of our Lord if we are not thankful for it and in ratifying the New Covenant with God if we are not sincere in it and in promising Love to all the Christian World if we are in enmity and hatred These Religious Ends must be answered with a Religious Temper and a Devout Carriage and then they are treated as they ought and as their Worth requires This is signified by several Copies which in 1 Cor. 11.27 read not barely Whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup OF THE LORD VNWORTHILY but whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup of the Lord VNWORTHILY OF THE LORD i. e. in a way unworthy of him which clearly shews the Unworthiness to consist in the want of those Tempers wherewith 't is sit our Blessed Lord who is commemorated in it should be treated And this the Apostle plainly intimates when he places the unworthiness of Eating in not Discerning or rather Discriminating the Lords Body and putting a difference between it and Common Food by a different Carriage and Behaviour at it He that eats and drinks unworthily says he eats and drinks Damnation to himself for such unworthy usage which lies in his not discerning or rather not discriminating the Lords Body 1 Cor. 11.29 Thus doth a worthy Eating of the Sacrament consist in answering its Sacred Ends with Sacred and suitable Carriage and Dispositions And therefore that we may see what Behaviour is worthy of it 't is fit we run over those several Ends and inquire what Tempers every one of them requires of us Those Ends are Three 1 st To Remember Christ our Blessed Lord and Saviour and particularly his Dying for us which call for Love Joy Gratitude Obedient Resolutions and such like Tempers 2 ly To Confirm the New Covenant with Almighty God which is not worthily done by us unless we come to it in Sincerity and Faithfulness and with full Purpose and Performance of that Repentance and Obedience which we profess and promise 3 ly To Confirm a League of Love and Friendship with all our Brethren and Fellow-Christians which requires that we lay aside all Envy Hatred and Malicious Thoughts and come to it in Peace and Forgiveness of all that have any ways offended us If we Believe all these things which Christ our Great Prophet has revealed to us and our Faith shews it self in these Tempers and carries us on to these Performances we are Worthy Communicants and have that Faith which will render us welcom Guests at the Lords Table and acceptable to him at all other times 1 st One End of our Eating Bread and Drinking Wine at the Lords Supper is to remember Christ not onely as our Prophet and Teacher which I do not make a Distinct Head now because the Belief required to that is exercised thro' the whole Action and falls in at all the other but as our Blessed Lord Saviour and Benefactor and above all his Benefits particularly to remember his Dying for us and this to do it worthily calls for Love Joy Gratitude Resolutions of Obedience and other such like Tempers The Remembrance of any thing absent and long since past brings it back into our Minds and gives a sort of Presence to it And therefore when things are brought to our Remembrance they should work upon us and affect us as if they were before us When we remember our Saviour Christ then we must bear the same Mind towards him as we should if we saw him and were conversing with him and that will consist in these Things that follow We must Honour him and resolve to Obey him as he is our Lord and Master and Love him and Delight in him and give Thanks to him as he is our Friend and Benefactor and be humbled under the sense of our own Vnworthiness and abhor our own Sins as they brought him to bleed and die for us and resign up our selves both Souls and Bodies to his Vse as we are bought with his Blood and are thereby become his own Purchase 1 st In Eating and Drinking in the Lords Supper we are to remember Christ as our Lord and Master and to do that worthily we must remember him with Honour and Reverence and with mindfulness of his Commands and Resolutions of Obedience which are Duties we owe and should pay to him were he present with us 1 st We ought to remember him our Lord and Master with Honour and Reverence These Tempers Lordship and Authority always call for whensoever they are lodged in any Persons A Son honoureth his Father saith God and a Servant his Master if then I be a Father where is mine Honour and if I be a Master where is my Fear Mal. 1.6 Honour the King says St. Peter and Servants be subject to your Masters with all fear 1 Pet. 2.17 18. And Render to all their Dues says St. Paul as Fear or Reverence to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour is due Rom. 13.7 But when this Authority is in the most absolute and full Degrees and is joyned with the highest Excellencies and tempered with the most Endearments and guided by the most surpassing Goodness as it is in Christ Jesus it calls for them most especially For he is every way wonderfully accomplished and has all those Endowments in their greatest Perfection which of right can challenge or are fit to excite them For he is boundless in knowledge he understands all things and infinitely wise in Counsel able to suit Means to every End and bring about every Purpose and surpassing in Might so that he may do what he pleases and holy in all his ways and faithful in all his Promises and just and equitable in all his Dealings and Glorious in his Divine Essence being the very Brightness of his Fathers Glory and the express Image of his Person and Supereminent in Power having all Authority in Heaven Earth put into his hands and yet in the midst of all these Excellencies and the height of all this Greatness which are apt to puff us up with Pride and Contempt of others he is unspeakable in Love and wonderful in Condescensions vouchsafing to leave Heaven where he was Equal to God and be made in fashion of a mean Man for our sakes and unwearied in

doing Services and most prodigious●y free in Bounty and Kindness giving his own Hearts Blood to purchase Heaven and Eternal Life for us for all which Height of Excellencies and Plenitude of Power and Depth of Love he is most profoundly Reverenced and dearly Prized and highly Exalted by Glorified Saints and the pure and immortal Angels All these adorable Excellencies are in their utmost Perfection in our Lord and Master Christ Jesus and their Merit calls for all the Honour and Reverence which he can possibly receive from us And this accordingly God has expresly required of us He hath committed all Judgment to the Son that all should honour the Son even as they honour the Father Joh. 5.22 23 and highly exalting him hath given him a Name above every Name that at the Name of Jesus every Knee should bow of things in Heaven and of things in Earth Phil. 2.9 10. He incomparably deserves our utmost Worship and Reverence and has a most absolute Claim to them so that we must needs treat him with the most submissive and respectful Carriage and should deal most unworthily by him and do what utterly misbecomes us if we should do otherwise Thus must we Remember our Lord and Master Jesus Christ with Honour and Veneration if we would do it in such sort as is worthy of him Nay we must not onely Honour and Reverence him our selves but if we would deal worthily by him seek to make him Honourable and promote his Honour among others We must be ready always to plead his Cause and to vindicate his Precepts and to side with his Servants and express a just Distaste against those who transgress his Commands themselves and much more against those who set up for the Party of Disobedience and seek to draw in others who prophane his Ordinances or lightly and irreverently use his Name or any ways vilifie any Person or Thing which he ought to be Glorified and Honoured in And this we shall be sure to do if we have any high Esteem and Zeal of Love and affectionate Concern for him For when these are strong in them every Servant will perform this Office to his Master and every Man to his Friend they will not sit still and tamely hear his Name abused or see his Commands sleighted his Interest opposed his Children or Dependents injured his Appointments disparaged or his Person any way traduced or disgraced without expressing a Discreet and well-tempered Zeal in his Cause and concerning themselves in a sober and just Vindication This I say they ordinarily will do as I am sure they always ought to do when they have an high Esteem for any Man And if thro' lowness of Spirit or Cowardise of Temper they draw back from the Trouble or Hazard they are like to run in his Vindication they are very much wanting to their Friend or Lord and deal unworthily by him So that if we would deal worthily by our Friend and Master Jesus Christ we must neither dishonour him our selves nor if we can help it at least not without expressing our dislike of it suffer it to be done by others And therefore to make this Sacramental Remembrance worthy of him it must not onely be in shewing Honour and Reverence to him our selves but in a readiness to maintain his Honour and promote his Interest among others also 2 ly We must Remember Christ our Lord and Master with mindfulness of his Commands and Resolutions of Obedience This is another Temper which Lordship and Authority over us call● for For the most proper Duty of Subjects towards their Sovereigns and of Servants towards their Masters is Obedience or a Carefulness to perform whatsoever they injoyn and require of them Put them in mind says the Apostle to be subject to Principalities and Powers and to obey Magistrates Tit. 3.1 And Servants obey your Masters in all things not with eye-service but in singleness of heart fearing God Col. 3.22 And Why call ye me Lord Lord says our Saviour and do not the things which I say Luc. 6.46 Thus is Obedience the great Duty which we owe to all Masters and Governours that have Authority over us We must neither forget the Commands they have left with us nor knowingly transgress them but carefully call them into our Minds and conscientiously practise them when we do And this we are then especially bound to if they are not onely our Masters but our Dearest Friends and Noblest Benefactors also For these are Names that add new Bonds and higher Obligations which will have a great force so long as there is any thing of Ingenuity left in us And therefore since our Blessed Master Jesus is not onely our Rightful Lord and Governour but withal our most surpassing kind Friend and Benefactor we ought in all Duty and Gratitude to be mindful of what he desires and to do any thing that he would have us and we deal most undutifully and unworthily by him if we do otherwise So that this also is another Instance of the Worthiness of this Remembrance to be mindful of the Laws which he has given us and to think of them with a Readiness and firm Resolution to obey These are the things then which must render our Remembrance worthy of him under this Relation When we Eat and Drink in Commemoration of Christ our Lord and King we must Honour and Reverence him our selves and be concerned to maintain his Honour and promote his Interests among others and be mindful of the Commands he has left with us and ready and resolved to obey them 2 ly In Eating Bread and Drinking Wine at the Lords Supper we are to remember Christ as our most kind Friend and Benefactor and to do this worthily we must remember him with Love of him and Delight in him and grateful Resentments and hearty Thanks for all the Kindnesses which we have received from him 1 st We must remember him our most kind Friend and Benefactor with Love and an hearty Affection for him This is due to him as he is our Gracious Lord and indeed in every Relation that he stands in since in all he is most wonderfully winning and obliging For even there he seeks our own Good in every thing he commands us and treats us with much gentleness and encourages every thing that is well in us and pities our unavoidable Infirmities and bears our many and high Provocations with invincible Patience and sends Messengers of Peace to entreat and sue for a Reconciliation with us upon any Difference tho 't is not his Interest but ours and tho' not he but we are the Offenders and when he is forced to punish doth it always with the greatest reluctance but when he can take an occasion to reward doth that with the greatest Joy and Chearfulness all which are strangely ingaging and must needs constrain all ingenuous Tempers to be heartily in Love with him But our Love is due to him more especially as he is our most kind Friend