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A10036	The doctrine of the sacrament of the Lords Supper handled. And plainely layd open out of the 1. Cor. 11. 23.24. &c. Wherein the nature of this sacrament is faithfully discussed, the matter of it, together with the necessity of often receiuing, truly declared; the words of consecration embowelled, and errours with the cauills of papists soundly confuted. By Richard Preston preacher of Gods word at Rushden in Northamptonshire.	Preston, Richard, d. ca. 1624.	1621 (1621)	STC 20283; ESTC S115177	102,646	398

turne not vp their eyes to behold him whom they pierced neither doe they consider how he will come with glory and great power if they did then they would acknowledge him the great and powerfull Messiah But let not vs as they doe fixe both our eies vppon the basenesse of his first cōming but let vs with one eie beholde the glory of his second comming which shall abundantly counteruaile the humility of the first Thirdly false teachers that say the body of Christ is not in heauen only but in earth also in euery kingdome in euery citty in euery parish in euery loafe in euery piece of bread and cup of wine where the Sacrament is receiued But this is to destroy the nature of a true body which cannot bee in diuerse places at once Let vs therefore take heed of such deceiuers giue no place to their errour and trust perfectly that Christ sitteth at the right hand of the throne of Maiesty in heauen hauing no corporall presence elsewhere and that from thence he shal come at the last day to render vongeance vnto the wicked and to be glorified in his Saints Lastly godlesse mockers of Christs second comming whō Saint Peter speakes of 2. Pet. 3.3.4.5 to 10. who in regard of so long delay of his comming grow to deride and scoffe at the promise But herein how much do they forget themselues measuring the daies of Gods eternity by the scantling of our time Secondly how little do they consider the ends and reasons of the delay which are not the Lords forgetfulnesse or change of his purpose but his patience towards vs in walting for our repētance and the accomplishment of that number that he hath chosen to life of whom perhaps there are many as yet vnborne Vse 2 Secondly this second comming of Christ may bee a terrour to all the vngodly that haue put farre from them the euill day and despised the humilitie of Christ and his still voyce in the Ministerie of his Gospell they will not tremble now at his word to name their liues thereafter therefore they shall tremble to dust at the sight of his second appearance and not be able to stand Those that are now ashamed of him shall then be ashamed of themselues Luk. 9 26 when hee shall bee ashamed of them and as for those that daylie pierce him with the speares and nailes of their sinnes they shall bee sure to see him whom they haue pierced when themselues shall bee pierced with shame and sorrow to their endlesse confusion Oh consider this yee that forget Christs comming and speake peace to your soules why do you abuse his patience Why will you treasure vp wrath for your selues against the day of wrath Why will you fit your selues as fewell for the fire of that day when the Lord Iesus shall come from heauen 2. Thos 1.8 inflaming fire to render vengeance against all them which know not God nor obey the Gospell of our Lord Iesus Well if you will not be warned but you wil go on in sin know it that the party wonged by your sin is he who must come from heauen to bee your Iudge and to passe sentence of condemnation vpon you Vse 3 Thirdly do we looke that our Sauiour will come the second time from heauen Great reason then that wee should haue our conuersation in heauen and that in affection soule heart thought loue and desires wee should ascend thither Herein wee may learne a lesson of the children of this world Where is the Vsurers mind but where his siluer and gold is Where is the Husbandmans mind but on his tillage pastures barnes and where hee lookes for the fruite of his labours Where are the affections of the voluptuous and ambitious man but where the things are which his soule desireth And where should our hearts and soules conuersation be but in heauen from whence shal come our Sauiour euen the Lord Iesus Christ Oh let vs sayle ouer Iordan into the land of promise let vs go into heauenly Canaan and be Citizens there If wee count that our treasure is in heauen let our hearts also be in heauen there Christ is and thence we looke for him 2 Christ will not only come from heauen but hee will also come as man hee will visibly shew himselfe in his manhood that all eies may behold him This is plaine God hath appointed a day Act. 17.31 in the which hee will iudge the world in righteousnesse by that man whom hee hath ordained Againe in that Sermon of Peter before Cornelius Act. 10.42 the Apostle teacheth vs how that the man Iesus was ordained of God to be Iudge of quicke and dead In another place Mat. 16.27.25.31.26.64 The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father Paul enioyned Timothy to fulfill his charge vntill the time of the appearing of our Lord Iesus Christ 1. Tim. 6.14.15 which he shall shew Now the wisedome of God thought fit that Christ should visibly appeare and come as man Reas 1 1 Because Christ hauing in his manhood accomplished mans redemption and in it had bene iudged of the world It is meete that he should now manifest the glory of his manhood exalted aboue all Creatures shining in such brightnesse of glory as is fit for such a body as is vnited to the diuine nature Hence it is that we often reade this second comming opposed to his former wherein he pleased to couer and veile his glory which now he will reueale and make most splendent and beautifull Reas 2 2 It is certaine there shall be a day of iudgement and that the visible act of iudging shall bee ascribed to Christ as man because neither Father nor holy Ghost can assume visible formes being incorporeal and spiritual substances Neither could they make themselues of small reputation as Christ God-man did and their sides hauing neither bodie nor formes of bodies could not be pierced and therfore it is Christ alone whose body was broken and sides wounded for our sinnes that shal visibly in the forme of man appeare that mortall eyes may behold him Reas 3 3 Christ wil appeare as man in regard of his sheepe and selected children who as they are iustified by his first appearing in humility so shal they be glorified by his second appearing in his glorified body 4 Lastly hereby he shal shew his neare affinity vnto man in that he shall in his humanity be seene visibly descending in a Cloud as he was seene visibly ascending by a Cloud Vse 1 Vse Belike then Christ is resident in heauen and so shall be in respect of his humanity till the time of consummation when we may expect his second bodily appearance Is it not strange then men shold dreame of his humane presence perpetually vpon earth and that his humanity as well as his deity fills both heauen and earth What then is become of that which he spake in the daies of his flesh Mat. 26.11 Me shall ye not alwayes haue and It is expedient for you that I go away Ioh. 16.7 How is it that the Scripture bids vs feeke his body in heauen and thence to expect him Let vs content our selues with the simplicity of Scriptures and the truth thereof Vse 2 Vse 2. This may serue to terrifie the wicked there is a generation of Anaks house left still who go about to lay Pelion vpon Ossa who thinke because Christ at the last day will come to iudge the world in his manhood to be as good as he and to throw him out of the throne of Iudgement He is but the Carpenters sonne and shall he rule ouer vs But alas when that day comes they shall tune another song they shall quake and tremble and not be able to answere one word for a thousand Now like Iosephs brethren they stalke and strout it out in their brauery in their vaine power Shall he haue dominion ouer vs Come Gen. 37.8.20 let vs kill him but then they shall be troubled at his presence Gen. 45.3.50.15.16.17 and feare shall come vpon them they shall not be able to behold the glory of his face but shall fall downe before him and desire the hills to couer them His first comming was so base and himselfe so despised that euery one did ouertop him He was then in the forme of a Seruant Phil. 2.7.8 and cast off of euery man which our hellish Anakims and prophane Esaus take hold of and thinke him still the same But to their sorrow and confusion the Lord hath exalted him appointed him their Iudge and he wil as sure as the coate is vppon their backes come with thousands of his Saints to conuince them of all their vngodly Iud. 14.15 deedes and proud speeches that they in an vngodly maner haue spoken against him and will they nill they they shall bee slaine before him Luk. 19.27 Vse 3 Vse 3. Here is comfort for the godly who haue followed Christ in their regeneration who haue bene his brethren and sisters to do the will of his Father Hee will acquite them of all due and debt set them free from sinne and the rusty fetters of all their hard affliction As he was their elder brother in sanctification so hee will be for their saluation Now hee is for them to his Father an Intercessor Mediator Aduocate but then in his owne person manlike appearance he will bee a totall Redeemer Oh let vs comfort our selues and waite for the day of our redemption let vs lift vp our heads for ioy The regions are white to the haruest and the day commeth on wherein our Head shal shew forth both his owne and our glory who are his members and when it is come then the least among vs shall be knowne to bee the Kings Sonne FINIS

to water Sol. now may not water that passeth through a woodden or stony channell which it selfe is so vndisposed that it cannot receiue or haue any benefit of it make a whole garden fruitfull So it is in this Sacrament thogh it come throgh a woodden or a polluted vessell a bad Minister Ob. But by communicating with him Ob. wee communicate in his sinne Sol. Hee that receiueth the Sacrament at the hands of an Adulterer Sol. is not made thereby an Adulterer nor partakes of his Adulterie If wee either made him Minister or communicated with his insufficiency which our soules groane vnder some part of the guilt would sticke to our singers But wee communicate onely in the Lords ordinances so farre as hee is able to administer and iustifie not the lawfulnesse of his calling but that bee onely is in the place of a Minister whom wee cannot auoide vnlesse wee will put away the Lord in refusing his Sacraments Ob. But what say you to a dumbe Minister Ob. He is no Minister and therefore he can performe no ministeriall action His Sacraments also are no Sacraments Sol. For themselues Sol. I say their ministery it vnlawfull to themselues and without repentance a certaine matter of destruction 2. I cannot blame those who with their owne and the Churches peace do auoid them 3. We must distinguish betweene such a man and a meere priuate man for althogh they bee not good and lawfull Ministers of God yet because they come in the roome of Ministers by the election of the Church to whom God gath giuen power to ordaine them they are now publique persons and Ministers though not good ones 4. Being thus enabled by the Church to giue what they can and bound by being in the place of a Minister though hee come neuer so inordinately to administer Sacraments wee may receiue from him what hee can giue Ob. But how may I partake Ob. where open sinners are tollerated to receiue the Sacrament do not I partake in their sins Sol. Christ was content to wash in a common water Sol. in the flood Iordan hee feared no infection from it Though Naaman the Leper were washed there though the Pharises and Hypocrites washed there yet hee takes no exception contracts no vncleannesse So the wickednes of another communicant doth not preiudice him that is rightly prepared though hee communicate with him in the Sacrament yet not in his sinne No mans sinne can defile another or make Gods promise in vaine nor the scale of it to him that is no way accessary to it neither hath it power to hinder him from the Sacrament Do this in remembrance of me Here is the end of Christs commandement hee bids vs celebrare this Sacrament that wee may remember him not that wee should thinke him present with his body nor that the bread is turned or transsubstantiated for remembrance belongs not to things present and before the face but to things absent but that so often as we partake of this Supper wee might call his loue in sacrificing himselfe for vs to our mindes Our aduersaries leaue out this piece of Scripture as a thing pertaining to no purpose yet they are so necessary that without the knowledge of thē the Sacrament profiteth little Or if they do not leaue out these words yet they whisper them to themselues that no man may be the better for their doings and that the people may be kept still in blindnesse But the maine reason why they make these words out-casts and as without a father is because they make against their transsubstantiation If we do al in this Sacrament in remembrance of Christs body which was broken like the bread it is an argument that his body is not there For remembrance is as I sayd before of things absent we cannot be sayd to remember but rather to see that which is before vs. Let the Papists well remember themselues that they are out of the right way Christ is not bodily present in the Sacrament when he bids vs do this in remembrance of his body But seeing Christ doth in this his institution cōmand vs to celebrate his Supper in remembrance of him we may learne this lesson That Wee are very inclinable to forgetfulnesse Doct. else Christ would not so much haue pressed vpon vs this duty of remembrance He thought that we would not thinke of his loue towards vs vnlesse he had giuen vs a memento whereby we might be put in mind of it and indeede soone do we forget Christ without a speciall token of remembrance And that because Reas 1. 1. Our naturall corruption and vncleanenesse of our hearts and minds is such a cursed fruite of originall sinne as that it filles vs full of wicked thoughts and carnall meditations and makes vs cast off all care of Christ as if wee had nothing to do with him Reas 2 2. We haue no loue nor delight in him al our loue and delight is in worldly things and idle vanities If wee thought that all our spirituall treasure were in Christ and that with the gaining of him wee should gaine all heauenly blessings we could not so easily forget him But our hearts can harolie bee perswaded thereunto and all we gape after is nothing else but filthy lucre Reas 3 3. There is such pride of heart in euery one of vs through the vnthankfull abuse of our prosperity that we neuer minde Christ whereas store of benefits should lift vs vp to a perpetuall remembrance of the author and giuer of them on the contrary they so lift vs vp to a pride of our selues that we forget him So complaines the Prophet According to then pasture so were they filled Hose 13.6 they were filled and their heart was exalted therefore they haue forgotten the Lord their God Vse Seeing we are so forgetfull of our Sauiour Christ Vse that hath done so much good for vs as the world cannot comprehend Let vs labour not only to see this our sinne of forgetfulnesse but also to subdue it which that wee may performe with care and conscience let vs consider the grieuousnesse of it and the greatnesse of the punishment threatned against it The grieuousnesse of it appeareth by the Lords often forbidding of it Deu. 4.23 et 8.11 Take heede to your selues lest you forget the couenant of the Lord And againe Beware thou Jorget not the Lord thy God 2. Forget fulnesse is a kind of Atheisthe Psal 10.4.11 for they who are forgetfull haue no impression of God not his Sonne Christ engrauen in their heart minde and soule 3. It is the mother nurce of many sinnes it goth not alone but carrieth many sins with it whereof it commeth to passe that forgetfulnesse and transgressions are ioyned together as the cause and the effect It was the cause of the idolatry of Israell of her sacrifice to diuells Deu. 32 15 17 18. of her comtempt of Gods messengers of her selfe conceite of

Text if I be not much mistaken is truely and faithfully embowelled and withall so thorowly applied that Gods Church and people may thence reape much benefit Whatsoeuer it is I thought good to publish it and ●id many respects me mouing to commend the protection of it to your Ladiship 1. In respect of your zeale and loue to the truth therein imitating that patterne of piety the vertuous godly and holy Gentlewoman Mistris Mary Pemberton your husbands mother whom the whole countrey as I haue beene tolde hath highly esteemed for the soundnesse of true religion and for her cōstant perseuerance therein 2. In respect of your conuersation which I speake to Gods glory is such as may be accounted a mirror of vertue for to your greatnesse you ioyne goodnesse to your worthinesse good workes to your knowledge Christian kindnesse and benignity c. Besides your care to bring vp your sweet children the Lords blessings and his rich inheritance in the awe of the Lord is so great and continuall that no day ouer-slips you to sanctifie them Other godly and heauenly carriages wherby you haue adorned your holy profession and wherein you haue excelled many daughters that haue done vertuously shall praise you in the gates 3. In respect of your singular loue to al Gods Messengers welcoming them like Angells though but strangers into your house hereby a good euidence is ministred to your owne heart that you are translated from death to life 4. Lastly in regard of your countenance good will and fauour to mee which on my part is euery way vndeserued I must needes confesse that I am so deepely obliged vnto your Ladiship that the signification of my thankefulnesse doth in equity belong vnto you These are the motiues that drewe on this my presumption to dedicate this my poore labour to your Ladiship In publishing it I am sure to meete with the censures of carping readers who will taxe me much of rashnesse Yet let such consider that at the making of the first Tabernacle not only such as brought blew silk and purple and scarlet but euen the poorest sort that brought Goates haire and Rammes skinnes were accepted How meane soeuer it be if it may any way benefit Gods Church especially if it may be any small meanes to further you to the right vnderstanding of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to build you vp towards the Kingdome of heauen I shall gaine that I most desire Thus crauing pardon for my boldnesse I commend your Ladiship to the Grace of God who protract your dayes and yeares according to his graces bestowed on you and prosper and finish the good work that he hath begunne by adding that which is yet lacking to your faith and graces till he haue fitted you vnto and filled you with glory and immortality Amen Your Ladiships in all Christian duty to be commanded RICH. PRESTON Rushden March 19. 1621. The Epistle to the Reader CHristian Reader although I make little doubt but thou hast often either from thy owne experience beene brought to consider or by the mouthes of Gods Ministers hast bin instructed how wise wee are in casting for our temporall commodities and how carelesse on the other hand in the matters appertaining to God and our owne peace Yet suffer thy selfe once againe to be admonished of this point which may so beneficially be thought vpon A motiue whereunto I will not fetch any farther then from what thy eies looke vpon and thy hands handle Here is a Treatise the very title whereof doth draw thy respect to it as dealing in a Theme so weighty and needfull as is the meditation of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper This somewhat affecteth thee yet neuerthelesse thou are not ouer willing to part with thy siluer to purchase it vnlesse thou maist haue some good ground to buy a good penny-worth Well I discommend not thy temporary warinesse but wish thee sutable circumspection in spirituall businesses Sticke not gentle Reader to bestow two or three groates vpon a booke bandling so worthy a subiect as this present Tractate doth Let no preiudicate opinion fore-possesse thee when cursorily ouer-looking it as buyers vse to do thou findest not the margent and bottom of the leaues taken vp with quotations of old and new writers as if forsooth therefore it were of no worth Euery laced and garded robe is not the substantiallest neither is euery booke be painted with allegations most sound materiall The Author is farre hence as I am informed and wanteth opportunity to contriue his Epistle to the Reader My selfe requested by the booke seller according to the truth of my apprehension will say a little of the booke Thou shalt therefore Christian Reader if I bee not much deceiued finde a portion of Scripture familiarly and soundly opened by way of doctrine backed with reasons pressed on the conscience with applications able to moue affections if the fault bee not thy owne Thou shalt find a great aime according to the seuerall matters on seuerall occasions to build thee vp in holinesse and to plucke thee off from yeelding to such corruptions as thy own euil heart or the wicked times may too much incline thee to In a word thou shalt meete with signes of some graces and directions to other Christian practises and which I would not forget euery where where occasiō is offered thou shalt perceiue a true Protestant spirit breathing as if the times too much charitablenes toward Popery had by a certaine antiperistasis inkindled the godly Authors deuotion against it so much the more The numbers of men of which temper the Lord increase granting for one such tenne and for tenne an hundred that many hands pluckking a● and shaking the lofty Tower of Babylon at length it may fall downe 〈◊〉 deserued ruines and desolations Thus not making any greater preface to no great booke I recommend thee and al thy waies to our Lord Gods mercifull blessing in Iesus Christ Thine in the Lord Ez. Ch. March the 19. 1621. A Table of the principall Doctrines contained in this booke DOct. 1. Things amisse either in Church or in the course of our liues may be redressed and amended by the word of God page 2. Doct. 2. Gods Ministers receiue their orders from the Lord. page 24. Doct. 3. God alone is the Author of the Sacraments page 36. Doct. 4. Ministers are Gods stewards page 37. Doct. 5. People are to receiue that which is taught them as from God p. 46. Doct. 6. God is careful that the Sacraments should continue in his Church page 65. Doct. 7. Treason is an odious sinne page 71. Doct. 8. It is the property of wicked men to obserue secret times for their wicked practises page 78. Doct. 9. A Sacrament is an outward signe representing an inward grace page 85. Doct. 10. Christ is the bread of life page 92. Doct. 11. Christ is a full Redeemer page 98. Doct. 12. Christ is full and perfect nourishment page 104. Doct. 13. The outward