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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23830	A preparation for the Lord's Supper to which are added Maxims of true Christianity / written originally in French, by P. Allix ; Englished by P. Lorrain.; Préparation à la Sainte Cène. English	Allix, Pierre, 1641-1717.; Lorrain, P. (Paul), d. 1719.	1688 (1688)	Wing A1226; ESTC R5280	40,002	130

Is it possible that a Christian who knows that JESUS CHRIST designed the Celebration of the Eucharist for a publick Monument of his Death as of a most Signal Event worthy of all Commemoration should express any neglect of or indifference for this Sacred Feast The Primitive Church called the Faithful to it every Lord's Day looking upon the partaking of this Holy Sacrament as a Publick Profession of our Faith and the very Badge of Christianity And shall our remissness and coldness in Religion be a lawful Excuse for our absenting our selves from the Lord's Table when He himself invites us to it and affords us opportunities for it Some perhaps will fancy that they have a just pretence to abstain from Receiving because of differences or Law-suits they are engaged in But if CHRIST debars them his Table who are so unkindly disposed towards their Neighbours does not He teach us withal and point us at the Remedy that is to be found for the Cure of such Uncharitableness He tells us in this Case that he who is about to offer must leave his Gift before the Altar and go and first be reconciled to his Brother and then come and offer his Gift Mat. 5.24 And why this But to teach us that we must either wholly renounce our Religion or else put our selves upon faithful Endeavours to obey the Laws of it That a Profession of Christianity is both Erroneous and impious which is not accompanied with a Practice of the Duties it prescribes and that it is impossible for a Man with any fruit or benefit to perform the publick Requirings of it while its most important Precepts and Rules are neglected SECONDLY let it be observ'd That since Christians look upon the Celebration of the Eucharist as a convincing Proof of the Truth of their Religion it being a publick Memorial of Our Saviour's Death which was a most signal fulfilling of GOD's Promises and an Evident Character whereby CHRIST was to be known for the true Messias they cannot but find a Natural Obligation incumbent on them to become Christians indeed The Sacrament of Baptism is conferr'd upon us at a time when we know not the Nature of the Engagements we enter into nor the Justice and Extent of the Promises made in our behalves therein But he who receives the Lord's Supper ratifies before GOD and Man the Promises made in his Name at his Baptism And this he does in his own person as supposing he has now sufficiently examined the Truth of the Religion on he professes He is satisfy'd that his Parents have done him the greatest kindness imaginable by engaging him in GOD's Service from his most tender Infancy and that they did well to consecrate him to it for ever since it is in this Profession his whole Happiness consists and he now solemnly renews the Oath of his inviolable Obedience and Faithfulness to GOD which before he had done by his Sureties Can we thus reflect upon the Participation of the Eucharist and not conceive a most sensible sorrow for having acted contrary to the Laws of CHRIST and Our own Hopes Can we entertain this Notion of it and not resolve for the time to come more diligently to pursue Our Heavenly Calling and more exactly answer the Holy Design of the Religion we profess Certainly it is against Common Sense to pretend to be a Christian and yet to live like a Jew or Heathen It is ridiculous outwardly to acknowledge Laws more Holy and Divine than those the World is governed by and at the same time to follow the Customs and Manners of Worldly Men. All the Vices of the Age ought to find their Death in this Reflection as they do their Condemnation in the sacred Laws and Religion of Our Lord and Saviour WE come now to a third Reflection upon the Holy Communion which is no less plain and natural than the foregoing viz. That in this Sacrament we consider the Death of CHRIST as the Source of that Blessing GOD had promised and the Principle of all those He will hereafter impart to us This Notion sets before our Eyes the Curse we should inevitably have fallen under had not GOD reversed it Can any one seriously think of this Truth without praising God with all the Power of his Soul and returning the Fruits of a just acknowledgement to Him for the same O how dreadful a thing it is to be accursed of GOD Go ye Cursed into Eternal Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels And on the contrary how transporting and full of Comfort it is to be blessed by Him. JESUS CHRIST the Blessed of GOD has blessed us with all manner of Blessings He became a Curse for us that we might be made a Blessing of God in Him. Come sayes He Ye Blessed of my Father And by what other means can we be raised to this Bliss but by the Study and Practice of Holiness It was the Unhappiness of the Jews to fancy that all should partake of GOD'S Promises to Abraham who were descended from him after the Flesh But the Gospel acquaints us with these three Things 1. That Faith in CHRIST is the means GOD has appointed to make the Heathens partakers of this Advantage 2. That the Profession of believing in CHRIST is vain and deceitful where it is unaccompanied with an Holy Life Faith without Works is Dead It is but a pretended and false Profession 3. And Lastly That JESUS CHRIST will never own any for the Blessed of his Father but such as by their Works of Charity and Perseverance in Godliness shall have made good the Sincerity of their adherence to his Religion TO this we are further engaged by a fourth Reflection which we make upon the Father's giving his own Son for a Sacrifice to expiate our Crimes Here we see on one hand the Extream Aversion GOD has for Sin while on the other we discover the infinite Love He expresses to Sinners We have set before us the lively Image of that Abyss of Misery into which we had been plung'd had not GOD prepar'd this his Lamb who gave his own Blood and Life to redeem us Now our Hearts must be utterly obdurate and insensible not to make a most serious reflection upon on this Hatred GOD bears to Sin. We behold it punished in a most dreadful and affrighting Manner when GOD destroy'd the Old World by the Deluge and rain'd down Fire from Heaven on Sodom and the Cities that snar'd in her unnatural Lusts These Punishments were Marks of his Justice taking Vengeance of Sinners But how infinitely more terrible is GOD'S Detestation of Sin pourtrai'd in the Death of his Dear and Only Begotten Son whom we see smitten for our Iniquities and in all outward apparance forsaken of his Father St. Peter had not yet seen Him extended on the Cross nor heard Him uttering these doleful Words My God my God Why hast thou forsaken me Yet could not he when he saw Him only exposed to his first Reproaches forbear