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A20154	The heauenly banquet: or The doctrine of the Lords Supper set forth in seuen sermons. With two prayers before and after the receiuing. And a iustification of kneeling in the act of receiuing. By Iohn Denison, Doctor of Diuinity.	Denison, John, d. 1629.	1631 (1631)	STC 6589; ESTC S109561	131,917	382

beene the Author of Reconciliation betweene God and man so he may be an effectuall reconciler of man to man that it may be said of him as it is of Iacob Gen. 32.28 Because thou hast had power with God thou shalt also preuaile with men Againe such is the excellency of this vertue that it graces seasons all others And as all Iosephs brethren were welcome for Beniamins sake so all Christian duties are accepted for Charities sake Otherwise if a man gaue all his goods to the poore 1. Cor. 13.14 and his body to the fire yet if he haue not loue it profiteth him nothing Againe whereas other vertues haue their period in this life Chrysostome saith Charitas inchoatur in mundo perficitur in coelo Charity is begunne on e●rth but perfected in heauen Whereas others euen the great cardinall vertues Faith and Hope 1. Cor. 13.13 doe vanish this excellent vertue of Loue remaines and vnites vs to God to Christ to the Saints and Angels for euer Yea such is the excellency of Loue that God himselfe is called Loue. Though he be iustice power wisedome truth whatsoeuer else is good yet it pleaseth him to be stiled especially by this Name as Saint Iohn saith 1. Ioh. 3.8 God is Loue. In a word as the fire from heauen gaue approbation to the ancient Sacrifices so this feruor charitatis this fire of Loue kindled in our hearts by the Spirit of God makes the Sacrament acceptable to God and comfortable to our owne soules And contrarily as God regarded not the sacrifice that was offered with broyles and teares of discontent Mal. 2.13 so will he not looke vpon that Sacrament which is receiued with an vncharitable heart or hand Hee that receiues the Sacrament in this kinde August serm ad infant de sacram as S. Austin saith receiues not the mysterie for himselfe but a testimony against himselfe Yet behold men dare yea doe come to the Sacrament with hearts full of rancour malice enuy bitternesse alas what comfort can such haue by comming Hierom writes Hieron li. 3. super epist ad Gal. that when St. Iohn was grown so old that he was faine to be led betwixt two and when through feeblenesse he was able to say no more yet would he still ingeminate this exhortation Filioli diligite alterutrum My little children loue one another And so say I my brethren that you may be worthy partakers of the blessed Sacrament Loue one another Lo beloued these are the Anchors you must cast forth these are the Interrogatories whereof you must examine your selues If vpon diligent examination you find in your selues a competent knowledge of those matters and mysteries afore mentioned a stedfast Faith in Christ Iesus serious repentance for your sins and vnfained loue to your brethren then need you not to feare the danger of vnworthy receiuing then need you not dread the strict examination of Almighty God Yea then may you offer your selues to his examination and say as it is in the Psalme Psal 26.2 Examine me O Lord and proue mee try my reines and my heart Then may you come to the Sacrament with cheerefulnesse and receiue it with comfort then shall the Sacrament be a meanes to build you vp in sauing grace in this life that you may be partakers of eternall glory in the life to come A Prayer before the receiuing of the Sacrament O Eternall GOD most gracious and louing Father in Iesus Christ I thy vnworthy seruant doe here humble my selfe and present my prayers before the throne of grace confessing from the ground and bottome of my heart that I am a miserable and wretched sinner If I stood guilty of Adams transgression onely the same were enough to condemne mee but behold my owne personall sinnes are exceeding many and grieuous they are great and heynous that I haue committed against thee in thought word and deed I haue neglected many blessed opportunities whereby I might haue glorified thy name and gained much comfort to mine owne soule and I haue committed many iniquities the least whereof were sufficient to plunge mee in the gulph of despaire Yea I haue deserued by my manifold sinnes to be depriued of all the fauours and comforts that I haue receiued from thy gracious hands to taste in a deepe measure of thy heauy indignation in this present life and to be subiect to eternall condemnation in the life to come But this is my comfort Lord that thou art a gracious and a mercifull God to them that are truly penitent and lay hold vpon thy Sonne Christ Iesus with a liuely faith In regard whereof I am bold to come vnto thee in his Name beseeching thee for his sake to haue mercy and compassion vpon me to pardon and forgiue me all my sinnes to clense me with his bloud and clothe mee with his righteousnes Strengthen good Lord my weake and feeble faith mortifie the corruptions of my vile nature giue me true and vnfained repentance for all my transgressions assist me with thy blessed Spirit agaiast Satans dangerous assaults and the Worlds vaine allurements Yea sanctifie me I beseech thee with that blessed Spirit of thine in soule and body and spirit that I may sanctifie thy Name in holinesse and righteousnes all the dayes of my life And forasmuch as thou hast ordained the holy Sacrament to be an especiall meanes of working these other graces in the hearts liues of thy seruants I humbly beseech thee for Christ his sake that thou wilt vouchsafe both now and at all times to blesse this thy holy ordinance to me and to prepare me for the worthy receiuing of it Lord open my vnderstanding that I may by the eye of faith behold thy deare Sonne and my blessed Sauiour the author and matter of this blessed banquet that my Soule may be imployed in the diligent meditation of these sacred mysteries that by partaking thereof I may find those sweet comforts wherewith my heart may be abundantly refreshed Lord make me able in this holy Sacrament to b●hold the death and Passion of my Sauiour and in his death and Passion his wonderfull loue and compassion and that the consideration thereof may kindle in my heart those excellent graces of loue and zeale to thy glory and may stirre me vp to compassion and loue to my brethren Make roome in my heart for the entertaining of Christ and grant me grace to receiue him into the house of my soule like the Centurion humbly and yet like the Publican cheerefully and ioyfully That by this heauenly foode I may haue thy mercies in Christ sealed vp vnto me that so I may be preserued to the glory of thy sauing grace through Iesus Christ my Lord and onely Sauiour Amen Amen Thanksgiuing after the receiuing of the Sacrament I Humbly thanke thee most gracious God and louing Father for all thy blessings benefits bestowed vpon me who am not worthy the least of all thy mercies

bee spilt then offer the bloud of Christ to a profane receiuer Againe 2. Seeing the vnworthy receiuing is so dangerous the same may stand vp like the Angell with the flaming sword Gen. 3.24 to keepe Adam from eating of the tree of life It may cause euery one to tremble who offers to come to the Table of the Lord with vnwasht hands 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theodor. Illo●a Consci Cyprian I meane with a foule conscience Those that come with hearts full of profanenes heads full of vngodly imaginations and hands defiled with wicked actions how vnworthy are they to be admitted to this blessed Banquet As Iehu said to Iehoram 2. Reg. 9. What hast thou to doe with peace so I may say What haue these to do with the Sacramēt Indeed the Sacrament is a robe to couer the penitent sinner but not a cloake to a wicked profaner of it to such a one it is like the forbidden fruit of Paradise Genes 3. the bane of the eater and like a faire bait swallowed with a deadly hooke the death of the receiuer Who being guilty would drinke of that cursed water Num. 5.22 which made the thigh to rot and belly to swell And who being guilty of grosse sinnes will dare without repentance to take that Sacrament which shall make him guilty of the body and bloud of Christ and become an occasion of his condemnation Who doth not condemne and condole the Iewes for that fearefull execration His bloud be vpon vs and our children Behold hee that receiues vnworthily the bloud of Christ is vpon him to his vtter destruction It is a pittifull thing when that curse befalls any Psal 69.22 Let their Table bee made a snare But that this holy Table should be made a snare to a Christian soule 't is very lamentable Reu. 1.7 It is said in the first of the Reuelation That euery eye shall see him euen them that haue pierced him Not onely Iudas that betrayed him Pilate that condemned him and the Souldiers that crucified him must appeare before him and come to their arraignment but also euery one who by vnworthy receiuing hath made himselfe guilty of the body and bloud of Christ must receiue his fearefull doome Mat. 26.24 Our Sauiour said of Iudas It had beene good for him if hee had neuer beene borne and I may say of such It had beene better for them that they had neuer beene partakers of the holy Sacrament for alas they haue eaten and drunken their owne damnation better had it beene for such to haue eaten some venemous thing or to haue drunke some deadly poyson for that had onely beene the death of the body but they by eating and drinking the Sacrament vnworthily haue damned and destroyed both soule body for euer Lastly this danger may admonish euery Christian to endeuour with all care and diligence to come worthily to the Sacrament Aug. ep 118. For as Manna was to euery mans taste according to his will so is the Sacrament to euery one according to his worthinesse Alas it will not bee enough to say to our Sauiour with them in the Gospell Luk. 13.26 VVe haue eaten drunke in thy company wee haue beene admitted to thy Table But wee must see that we come thither as we should For as the body abounding with euill humors the corporall food doth rather hurt then nourish it Chrys de prodit Iudae So the soule being fraught with vices this heauenly food doth rather kill then comfort it People will bee vnwilling that men should see them come to the Lords Table with foule hands and should they not be more carefull that God do not see them come with foule hearts A man would be loth to let a spake of fire all into a chest that hath rich costly clothes in it so should euery one bee loth that any sparke of corruption should enter into his heart when he is to receiue the body bloud of Christ The Communicants Ambr. de fac li. 5. cap. 3. as St. Ambrose saith must be familia candidata For as none vncircumcised was admitted to the Passeouer Exo. 12.44 so none of vncircumcised hearts should be partakers of the Lords Supper Augustin Hee must be of the body of Christ that eates the body of Christ Adam in his state of integrity had free liberty to take taste of all the trees of the Garden one onely excepted but after his transgression hee was iustly restrained So doth the Lord Iesus admit vs to his Table if we come worthily otherwise wee are no welcome guests vnto him Therefore as it was said to Moses Exod. 3.5 Put off the shooes for the place where thou standest is holy ground So let vs put off the shooes of our corruptions and then we may with comfort approach vnto the Table of the Lord. But here it may be iustly questioned Can any one be worthy of the Sacrament it being of such excellencie as hath beene shewed For answere whereunto we must consider that there is a two-fold worthinesse the one in act the other in acceptation The worthinesse in Act requires a proportionable correspondence betweene the Sacrament and the Communicant But this worthinesse I hope no man is so ignorant to hold so impudent to plead For as Origen saith euery one must say with the Centurion in this case Lord Origen hom 8 in diuers Mat 8.8 I am not worthy that thou shouldest come vnder my roofe And we doe truely acknowledge that wee are not worthy to gather vp the crums vnder the Lords Table In the Cōmunion booke The worthinesse in acceptation is when God in mercy without desert on our behalfe doth count vs worthy as it is in the 21. of Luke Luk. 21.35 Pray that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things And this must be our worthinesse when vvee come to the Table of the Lord. Now this gracious acceptation of Almighty GOD though it doe not challenge an absolute worthinesse yet doth it require a certaine fitnesse which in some degree we call a worthinesse And so also the word imports For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is opposed to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which some-times signifieth meet or fit Rom. 16.2 1. Cor. 16.4 Col. 1.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as meate is though it be d●gnum in the vulgar Latin 2. Thes 1.3 Bellar. de Euchar l 4 c. 18 as we fitly translate it in diuers places Yea the Rhemists though they make themselues slaues to the vulgar Latine yet in the second Epistle to the Thessalonians they haue so translated it Now what it is that makes a man fit or vnfit is duly to be considered Bellarmine labours to proue that no man is fit for the Sacrament but he onely who is free from the trouble or touch of conscience for any mortall sinne So that hee will haue onely those that are whole to come to the