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A03695	Life and death Foure sermons. The first two, of our preparation to death; and expectation of death. The last two, of place, and the iudgement after death. Also points of instruction for the ignorant, with an examination before our comming to the Lords table, and a short direction for spending of time well. By Robert Horne. Auspice Christo.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.; Horne, Robert, 1565-1640. Points of instruction for the ignorant. aut	1613 (1613)	STC 13822.5; ESTC S118515	156,767	464

helper Let vs reuerence the godly and honour the Lord and we shall stand inuincible in all oppositions or as mount Sion that cannot bee remoued but remaineth for euer Psal 125 1. Our death shall bee comfortable and our iudgement without rebuke wee shall benefit Christs church haue praise of God to whom Father Sonne and holy Ghost three persons and one immortall and onely wise God be rendred all glorie power and thanksgiuing now and euer Amen All glorie to God FINIS POINTS of instuction for the ignorant With An examination before our comming to the LORDS TABLE And A short direction for spending of time well LONDON Printed by William Hall for Francis Burton and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-yeard at the signe of the Greene Dragon 1613. TO THE Christian Reader the sauing knowledge of that truth which is according to godlinesse Tit. 1.1 * ⁎ * CHristian Reader this short Catechisme thus gathered and set downe for the helpe of the ignorant cannot bee called new but renewed for their sakes For I may say in thi● case as Salomon in his Ecclesiastes said in a like case What is that that hath beene that that shall be Eccles 1.9 And what is that that hath beene done that that shall be done and there is no new thing vnder the Sunne The portion of meate which is heere offered to the tasle of the simple is no other then that which he hath already tasted of if he haue tasted any thing of the things of God and it is but the substance of other Catechismes set before him in another kinde of seruice that is with some difference of Cookery and dressing which considering our too great distaste with one kinde of meate though neuer so wholsome if wee be continuallie fedde withit without diuersitie may not be without some good vse at least for some short time For the affections of men stand no lesse diuersly affected towards the variety of Gods gifts in deliuering one and the same matter then doth the stomacke towards the dressing of one and the same kinde of meate in a diuers maner by some alteration of forme and manner of doing it And yet it is no part of my meaning to hold vp the market of nouelty by any schey-seruice as tendeth rather to tikle the eare then to satisfie the sounder iudgement or to say any thing for those who make books like to the apparell which they weare and fashions that they are weary of when a newer comes Onlie hauing taught these Principles most of them to a few priuately and finding it more easie to print them then to write them for the surer keeping of them in their memories who had learned them and the good of some abroad that desired them I was not vnwilling thus to giue them content by the benefit of the Presse and of Printing Neither haue I done this far any want for there is store of Catechismes abroad to which this worme of mine is no way comparable and God hath dealt mercifully with our age for the meanes of knowledge but we famish spiritually at the full measure of these meanes either by not vsing them at all or not as wee should This mite of instructions I could haue made much larger but that I considered in my Cruse of store the vessels that I had to fill King 4.4.6 which could not well receiue more and so left pouring as I perceiued their filling Accept therefore Reader what is heere offered to thy gentlenesse and take it in as good part as it is meant vnto thee And so I command thee and thy grouth in godlinesse to the grace and assistance of Al-mighty God and rest Thine in all Christian good will ROBERT HORN POINTS of instuction for the ignorant WHat is true happinesse To know God Ioh. 17.3 Ier. 9.24 Luk 15.17 and to know my selfe Can you knowe God Not so plainely and fully heere as wee shall heereafter by face Exod 33.20 1. Cor. 13.12 but as hee hath reuealed himselfe vnto vs. How is that By his workes without vs and within vs Rom. 1.20 1.19 and by some description of his nature and effects in his word How doth the word describe him Generally thus ●xo 3.14 Ioh. 4.24 ●xo 34 6. Psa 90. 〈◊〉 1. Tim. 1 17. Isa 5.5 Psal 103 8 ●m 4.13 1 Pet. ● 19 Psal 99 1 2 ● Heb. 1 3 Act. 17 25 26 1 Iob. 5.7 Mat. 〈◊〉 16.17 2. Cor. 13 13. He is what he is And more particular thus a Spirit euery way infinite goodnesse it selfe Creatour Preseruer and Ruler of all things distinguished into three persons Father Sonne and holy Ghost So much for the knowledge of God What say you of the knowledge of your selfe It may bee considered before the fall or since What are you by creation in Adam before the fall A reasonable Creature Mat. 10.28 Ge. 1.27 Col 3 10 Ephes 4.24 consisting of soule and body made after the image of God in knowledge righteousnesse and true holinesse What are you since by Adams fall A sinner Rom. 3 9 10 Iob 14.4 Rom. 6 23 5.18.19 Gal. 3.10 and by sinne subiect to all kind of misery and punishments as to the death of my body and the death of my soule which is endlesse damnation What are your sinnes A guiltinesse in Adams first offence that is Rom. 5.12.18 7.18 Ier. 17.9 Gen. 6.5 Matth. 15.19 Rom. 7.5 a depriuation of all good thereby and a disposition of my whole heart to euery thing that is against the Lawe of God with innumerable corrupt fruits thereof in thought word and deede What doe you consider in Man thus falling His recouery to saluation and duty for it What say you of his recouery It may bee considered in the worker thereof or the meane of apprehending it What say you of the worker The worker or substance of it is Christ Iesus the Sonne of God 1. Iohn 2.1.2 Ioh. 1.14 Iohn 3.16 Philip 2.7.8 Galat. 4.4.2 Cor. 5.21 Iohn 1.12 who in Mans nature which hee tooke in the wombe suffered the death of the Crosse and fulfilled the Lawe for all that receiue him What is the meane wherby Christ is apprehended Faith Galat. 2.20 Acts 6.31 which is a speciall perswasion of Gods fauour in his word Ioh. 1.12 Luk. 2.29 Ephes 3.17 1. Cor. 1.30 Ioh 20.28 2. Tim. 1.12 wrought in my heart by the holy Ghost whereby I doe truely and in particular beleeue that Christ is made vnto me wisdome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption When doth this faith beginne to breede and take place in your heart When by Gods grace I begin to be touched in conscience for my sinnes Psal 51.17 Isa 55.15 Math. 5.6 Phil. 3.7.8 Math. 15.25.27 Mark 9.24 to hunger and thirst after Christ and his merits aboue al things in the world and against all doubtings doe begin to beleeue By what meanes is this wrought It is begunne ordinarily

of blood and water so strong and forcible that they ranne down his cloathes and streamed to the ground and yet to say Father not my wil but thine be done And shall we liue at ease in Zion and feed vpon the mountaines of Samaria that is desire an easie and pleasant life when his was so bitter to him and full of deadly troubles or thinke it much to feele a little of the sharpe aire when the whole storme was vpon him a storme so fierce and percing that it rent the vaile of his body from the top to the bottom and be vnquiet in a small shoure who are commanded to possesse our soules in the middes of our troubles when whole floods of his bitter passion could not carry him to the least vnquietnes in all his agonies bloody sweats Fourthly it is the triall of our faith tried or tried at all but where is gold better tried then in the furnace and faith which is more precious then gold where is it tried so as in aduersity or in the furnace of trobles The corage of a Souldier is more seene in warre then in peace and the skill of a skilfull Pilot better discerned in a storm then in a calme So the courage of a Christian is better knowne in the warre of the crosse and when the calme of the soule is turned into a storme of tentations then when the bodie is in health and the soule in no great aduersitie or when all things goe well with a man and he hath euen what heart can wish And as his courage so his wisdome may better be perceiued in a rough Sea then in a calme Riuer that is in a troublesome then in a quiet estate A reproofe to those Vse 1 who because they purge not themselues from an euill and faithlesse feare doe in the day of their trouble forsake their hope and say with the messenger who came from the King of Israel Behold this euil commeth of the Lord wherefore should I attend on the Lord any longer 2. King 6.33 as if there were any crown without a conquest or conquering but by that which is the victorie that ouercommeth the world the grace of patience and worke of faith in those who say with Iob in another place though the Lord kill vs we will trust in him Iob 13.15 as if they should say whatsoeuer comes we wil stil praise him and howsoeuer he doe we wil yet wait vpon him Psal 43.4 If God will haue Daniel to bee the ruler vnder King Darius Daniel must for a time be in the Lions den and the Kings seale must bee vpon it Dan. 6.16 So Gods children shall see their hope but first they must be committed to close prison and haue the seale of sicknesse set vpon the doore of their chambers out of which they cannot passe their soule shall be among Lions and the word of the Lord shall trie them before they goe out before Lazarus bee carried by the Angels to Abrahams bosome blessed Lazarus must bee laid at the Rich mans gate full of sores and diseases Luk. 16.20.22 So Gods children shal be freed from miserie in the kingdome where is no sorrow nor woe and passe from their bodie of death to the bosome of Abraham but they must first taste of the cup of miserie at the doore of death and bee filled with sores and prepared by sicknesse before they can put on this change All teares shall bee wiped from their eyes Apoc. 21.4 but then they must shed them here Also except the wheate corne fall into the ground and there die it bringeth forth no fruit Ioh. 12.24 So Gods children shall flourish for euer the seede of their bodies shall grow before the Lord in the garden of his presence but both it they must receiue this increase and preferment by the help of corruption It and they must be kept in the coffin of the earth and there putrifie as doth the seede of corne before there can be any putting on of the greene garment of the resurrection to eternall life For since the fall of Adam no man passeth to Paradise but by the burning Seraphins Gen. 3.24 nor to the holy Citie but by the Riuers of Babel which must enter into his soule And thus God will trie the patience of his children before hee worke their full deliuerance Much therefore are they to bee condemned who if they may not haue their heauen presently and in this life will rake into a hell of sinnes and world of lusts to haue those delights which they loue better then heauen the pleasures of sinne for a season and so forsake God to inherit desperation An admonition to store our hearts with faith Vse 2 hope patience and the promises of God in his word so shall we be in better case and likelihood to beare what commeth Also to look for trouble and when it is come to possesse it in patience not to breake the Lords bonds nor to cast the cords of his chastisements from vs by a mutinous and distempered soule For the tenure whereby wee hold heauen is the crosse and the great Indenture that is made betweene Christ and his Father runneth in this forme and stile of words All that will liue godly in Christ Iesu must suffer persecution 2. Tim. 3.12 In the drowning of the old world as the waters rose so did the Arke and in the deluge of this world the Arke of the faithfull soule should bee lift vp to confidence and arise to God as afflictions lift vp their waues That is as sicknesses and troubles and afflictions and the whole traine of hell fight against vs so we should fight against them by that victorie that ouercommeth the world 1. Ioh. 5.4 Christ vpon the Crosse as a Doctor in his Church did by his owne example and in his great patience then commend his truth vnto vs who relyed vpon his fathers deliuerance when the snares of death compassed him and the paines of hell caught hold of him and when hee found trouble and sorrow Psal 116 3. Luke 23.46 Esay saith Peace shall come Esay 57.2 but to whom to euery one saith he who walketh before the Lord. That is it shall surely goe well with him at the last who keepeth his vprightnesse and continueth to doe well who persisteth in his good course meeting the Lord in a readie heart and prepared soule Psal 108.1 and who when Christ saith I come quickly doth reply and make answer with all Saints saying euen so come Lord Iesus Apoc. 22.20 that is doe as thou hast said whatsoeuer pleaseth thee contenteth me Some tainted with hypocrisie can abide some short and small troubles but if they continue long and receiue encrease they forsake their patience and further their paine by beating the aire and themselues with their raging and vnquiet sounds till they cause the Lord to lay heauier penalties vpon them and to chaine them faster with linkes of longer and more perplexed troubles And so as the Bird that

Psal 1.5 Thus the doctrine standeth fast being proued in euery part particularly Other reasons may be giuen for further illustration The reasons And first there is great reason that Christ should be Iudge himselfe For he alone is the Sauiour and therefore he alone must be Iudge He that saueth his elect must condemne the world Secondly he is the head of his Church to saue it from harmes and to wring out the dregs of his wrath vpon their heads that harme it Eph. 5.23 Esa 63.1.2.6 And how can he thus deliuer his Church if he be not her Sauiour and thus be reuenged on his Churches enemies if he be not there Iudge Thirdly it shall be a day of ioy vnspeakable to the godly and of terrour importable to the wicked For the godly shall meet the Lord in the 2 1. Thes 4.17 aire The fornace that is appointed to purge the world and to consume sinners shall haue no power ouer such nor the smell of it come vpon them Dan. 3.27 The Iudge will be their Sauiour The witnesses the Angels the Saints and the great inquest of all the creatures will cleere them And who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect Rom. 8.33 The things that they shall be iudged off are condemned in Christ and the sting of conuiction is departed from them to his death who hath conquered all the power of the enemie The tribunall that face of it that is toward them shall put off feare and become a session-house of mercie and of plentifull redemption The sentence pronounced shall send them to their houses of ioy and blisse endlesse and their father will giue them the kingdome Luc. 12.32 But as the godly shal thus heare a most blessed sentence of absolution so the wicked shall then heare their iust sentence of seperation from God Where all things shall make them to melt away with an horrible dread and minister great matter of all feare and terrour in that day For first it shall be a most fearefull thing to see and consider the number of them without number that shall run hither and thither to hide themselues in the holes of the earth The place ground on which they must stand will be fearefull for it shall be all on a flaming fire The Iudge will be fearefull for God is Iudge himselfe The things that they shall be iudged off will be fearefull for their secret and darke vngodlinesse shall then euerie thought of it come to light and be iudged in the sight of fire in the sight of water in the sight of Angels in the sight of all the elements in the sight of men and presence of God the Iudge of quicke and dead on whose head are many crownes and who is clothed with a garment dipt in blood Apoc. 19.11.13 The witnesses will be fearefull which will be their owne griping conscience and Gods all-seeing prouidence the accusing Angels their offended brother and millions of creatures abused by them The bench will be fearefull for it shall be to them a tribunall of iudgment without mercie The sentence will be if any thing most fearefull as that which shall proceed against al vnrighteous persōs in the fearefull forme Go ye accursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the Deuil and his Angels And the fire that to which they are appointed shall haue no end of feare For this fire is a far other thing then the fire of the chimney the fire of Gehenna then materiall fire The vses of this point concerne the godly and sinners Vse 1 It is comfortable to the godly that Christ shall be Iudge and they who haue followed him in the regeneration may lift their head to their redemption at hand when he commeth who will iudge his people with equitie that is with sauour For he must be Iudge who hath communicated to all his seruants the sweete and louing names of his a Mar. 33. mother sisters brethren b Cant. 4.9 10.11.12 spouse c Iohn 15.14.15 friends Now we are his mother if we beare him in the wombe of our hearts by faith as Marie bore him in the wombe of her bodie And we are his brethren and sisters if we loue him as brethren and cherish him as sisters in his weake and despised seruants among vs. And if we keepe our selues to him alone by matrimoniall faithfulnesse we are his spouse wife And we are his friends if we doe whatsoeuer he command vs. We being these and doing thus what need we feare for if we be his mother may we not come to him with as great boldnesse and expectation of successe as did Bath-sheba to Salomon the naturall mother to her Sonne 1. King 2.19 If we be his spouse shall we feare to make him our Iudge who is one with vs in spirituall marriage and by the espousall of faith our husband and friend or will one kind brother feare to make another his Iudge Can he condemne vs to death who hath redeemed vs from death eternall He is our Iudge who also is our aduocate at his fathers right hand and maketh intercession for vs. Art thou afraide that thy Iudge will be vnmercifull O what a vaine feare is that seeing he is thy Iudge who condemned himselfe to saue thee from iudgement who emptied himselfe for thy filling bestowed and spent himselfe for thy restoring and gaue his life which passed out at all the gates of his bodic for the life of thy soule Can the sentence be sharpe that commeth from the throne of grace in the hand of a Redeemer from whom commeth saluation or will he who stood at the barre to deliuer vs go vp to the bench and sit downe in the throne to condemne vs Rom. 8.1 or shall we feare any longer when our aduocate is made our Iudge And when he who came to saue vs may saue or condemne But shall Christ bee iudge Vse 1 The other was not more comfortable to the Saints then this shall bee terrible to vngodly sinners For what a hart-breaking will it bee to the wicked and death beyond all kindes of death temporall to see him who is their chiefe enemie in chiefe place What comfort can it bee to a couetous man or woman to be iudged by him for auarice who limited all his cares to the present day and spake so much earnestly against the morrowes care Or to a proud person to haue him his Iudge who humbled himselfe as a child being God of maiestie and set the low doore of humilitie before the courts of his fathers house Or to fleshly persons to appeare at his barre of iudgement whose whole life was lead in temperance and commandement was that we should be sober Or to Whoremongers and Adulterers whom God will iudge Heb. 13.4 to receiue sentence of death or absolution from his mouth who himselfe was born of a pure Virgin and hath those for his followers who were not defiled with women Apoc. 14.4 Or to the vnmercifull to be

time they are sorrie for the losse and confesse it And thus great difference is to be put betweene the fals of Gods children and the breake neckes of the wicked who fall into death A comfort to repentant sinners Vse 2 For though their sinnes haue hurt them their repentance may heale them Ier. 18 8. Though they haue beene great sinners as Saul and Manasses were Yet if they bee repentant sinners neither they nor their sinnes can change the new testament that God will be mercifull to their sinnes and blot out all their transgressions Though their sinnes were many the matter is not how many their sinnes are but how penitent they be that are sinners and the more they are the greater is his mercie who hath forgiuen them But is this for the worke of repentance No but because the repentant soule doth by faith apprehend Christ in his promises and beleeue that vpon his true conuersion or comming home God will receiue him and the father welcome home his straying sonne Luk 15.20.22.23 Quest Some will say My sinnes were committed vngodlily Answ and with purpose of heart Say they were so now that you are sorie for them it is not iudged so and your mercifull God will take you as you are not as you haue beene A repentant sinner you are and as a repentant sinner you shall haue mercie at Gods hands Onely look that your repentance be sound so you may haue confidence for pardon that God will bee mercifull to your vnrighteousnesse and forgiue you your sinnes Ezech. 18.21.22.23.32 Luc. 17.4 Though your conscience be full of wounds the Lord who is your Surgeon hath plaister inough of his tender mercie and long compassions to heale them Though the debts you owe bee great summes Gods mercie is not stinted to any number and he that is infinite in his pardons will as soone and doth as graciously pardon many as few sinnes yea when the summe of them is growne to a great reckoning and maine totall And though like a wretched subiect you haue raised against Christ many commotions in his owne kingdome yet the King of the Kings of Israel is a mercifull King and when you come to him with true submission as Benhadads seruants did to the King of Israel with signes of submission 1. King 20.31.32 he will be as readie to grant your pardon as you to aske it Of all their vngodly deedes c. Secondly where the vngodly shall be called to their answere for all that they haue done we learne that all the deeds of the wicked shall be rebuked to damnation So saith the Apostle S. Paul where he sheweth that in the day of wrath the wicked shall be rewarded according to their deeds meaning by their deeds their euill deeds Rom. 2.5.6.8 And the same Apostle saith we shall receiue according to that wee haue done the godly for the good they haue done in Christ the wicked out of Christ for the euill they haue done in their owne bodie 2. Cor. 5.10 And S. Mathew the Euangelist saith as much where speaking of the comming of the Sonne of Man he saith when the Sonne of Man commeth in his glorie he shall giue to enerie man according to his deedes His meaning is the godly shall beare vnto iudgement the good deeds of Christ imputed to them and the wicked bring into iudgement the bad deedes of sinne properly theirs Math. 16.27 The like we read in the booke of the Reuelation or rather the same where it is said that all the dead shall be iudged according to their works The good for Christs righteousnesse and by it shall liue the wicked shall be damned for their owne vnrighteousnesse Quest Apoc. 20.11.12 But some may say if euill deeds deserue damnation why should not good deeds merit life I answere Answ It followeth not seeing that here good and bad workes cannot be opposed directly For our good workes are imperfitly and faultily good but our bad deeds are perfitly naught our good deedes are Christs in vs our bad are our owne and Satans our bad deeds because perfectly bad iustly deserue hell our good because so mixed with infirmities cannot merit heauen And now that bad deedes shall be rebuked in iudgement may further appeare by the reasons which follow As first The deeds of the wicked more harme the Church then words doe or thoughts can but words and thoughts shall be iudged therefore deeds much more els why doth Christ say that God will auenge his elect that crie day and night vnto him Luc. 18.7 Secondly these things saith Amen now if Amen say it the same Amen who is faithfull will doe it Apoc. 3.14 Amen hath said by his Seruants and in the Scriptures that he will bring euery work vnto iudgement Eccles 12.14 And therefore euerie vngodly worke deed of euery vngodly man shall be ludged Thirdly for this cause as hath been said the Lord will stretch out his hand in the rebuke of the vngodly as one that swimmeth spreadeth his armes abroad to enclose all before him The meaning is God will enclose so in the fadome of his second comming euery work of wicked man that no one shall escape the seuerity of his throne Esa 25.11 Fourthly if any wicked worke should not be iudged it were either because God could not and then were he not almighty or would not iudge it and then should he loose his righteousnesse But none can stand before his great power Ier 49.19 And he that is Iudge of the world wil iudge it with righteousnesse Psal 98.9 An instruction to doe good deeds Vse 1 seeing bad deeds shall be iudged to hell For though good deeds may not sit in the chaire of merit yet we must giue them their proper place They are not merits of eternall life yet they must be witnesses of our being in Christ Good workes cannot saue vs and yet if we doe not good workes we cannot be saued I speake according to the ordinary rule and of persons able to doe good workes not of infants nor what God doth extraordinarily as when he saued the confessing thiefe at the last houre and yet he not onely had faith but shewed it by diuers testimonies and effects of grace Luc. 23.40.41.42 Therefore though good workes cannot saue vs yet bad workes and the want of good may damne vs. They be euidences of our saluation though not causes As therefore he who holdeth a peece of land holdeth it by his euidence his euidence was not that that procured it but his mony so the good euidence of our saluation is in our sanctified liues the cause of it in Christs merits no other coine either of gold or siluer could purchase it at the hands of Gods iustice in our redemption 1. Pet. 1.18 wherefore as S. Iames saith If thou hast faith shew it by thy workes Iam. 2.18 so with the Apostle S. Iames I say If thou hast this hope let me see it in that euidence of thy good conuersation in Christ A terrour

by the preaching of the word Rom. 10.14.17 Acts 8.28 34.35.37 Iohn 16.23.24 Pron 29.18 Rom. 4.11 and it is confirmed by the same meanes as also by the reading of the word and the reuerent vse of praier and Sacraments What is Praier A speech to God through Christ Iohn 16.23 Iames 1.6 Phil. 4.6 with faith whereby I aske graces wanting and giue thanks for benefits receiued What is a Sacrament A visible seale of the Gospell fully assuring the faithfull of Christ by two effectuall instruments of grace Rom. 4.11 Gen. 17.11 1. Cor. 11.25 Then there be two Sacraments Yea. Which are they Baptisme 1. Cor. 10.1.2 12.13 and the Lords Supper What is Baptisme A seale of our entrance into the name that is Tit. 3.5 Matt● 28 19. Ephes 5.26 Church and couenant of Christ by washing with water What doth washing with water signifie in Baptisme That the blood of Christ washeth away sinne Coloss 2.11 12.13 Apoc. 1.5 1. Iohn 1.7 as water doth bodily filthinesse So much for Baptisme what is the Lords Supper A seale of our continuance and nourishment in Christ 1. Cor. 10.16 11.24.26 Ioh. 8.55 signified by Bread and Wine So much for Mans recouery to saluation what is his duty for it Psa 50.23 17● 12.13 P●m. 1.21 True thankefulnesse Wherein standeth that In new obedience which is Ephes 4.23.24 1. Pet. 1 15 18 Luke 1 74.75 Rom. 6.1.2.3.4 Galat. 1 6 Luke 1.6 Acts. 24.16 Tit. 2.11.12 1. Cor. 7.17 that man carry in his heart a constant purpose not to serue sinne any more and withall endeauour in his whole life to please God in all his commandements doing his dutie in his calling to God and man ECCLES 12.13 Let vs heare the end of all feare God and keepe his Commandements for this is the whole duty of Man An examination before our comming to the Lords table WHat do you cal the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Our growing vp with Christ by faith Ephes 4.15.16 1. Cor. 10.16 Math. 26.27 resembled in visible signes effectuall seales of bread and wine In comming to this Sacrament what is to bee considered by euery well prepared communicant The doctrine thereof and our endes of comming to it What say you of the Doctrine It is seene in the nature of the signes which are made Sacraments or in their vses What say you of the nature of the signes Their nature is to be seales of the body and blood of Christ Matth. 26.26.28 that is of the fruits of the same offered to vs by faith Where haue you the seale of Christs bodie In the bread Math. 26 2● Where of his blood In the Wine Math. 26.27 So much for the nature of the signes what say you of their vses They be such as concerne the Bread and Wine What is that cōcerneth the bread It is that which is feene in the breaking and giuing or in the receiuing and eating of it What doth the breaking of bread signifie The wounding and breaking of the flesh of Christ for vs. Isai 53.5 1. Cor. 11.24 What doth the giuing of it signifie The giuing of Christ the true bread Iohn 6.51 1. Cor. 11.24 for our spirituall nourishment What doth the receiuing of the bread signifie The receiuing of Christ with the hand of faith in our hearts Iohn 1.12 Ephes 3.17 as wee receiue the bread with our bodily hands Who are reprooued heere The Papists who say and beleeue that the substance of the bread is turned into the naturall body of Christ Bellarm. tem 2. text cont gen de sacr Euch. lib. 3. cap. 18. c. and that the people carnally receiue and eat their Maker What say you against this grosse opinion That a true naturall body such as Christs is Matth. 28.6 26.11 Heb. 10.13 Acts 3.21 1. Thess 4.16 cannot bee in two places at one and the same time to wit in heauen and bodily in the Sacrament So much for receiuing what doth the ea●ting of the bread signifie That as bread doth nourish our temporall and corporall life Iohn 6.54 so this is a Sacrament of our eternall nourishment in the life to come and of our spirituall in this life of grace which we haue heere So much for the vses of the bread what be they of the Wine They bee seene in the pouring out and giuing or in the receiuing and drinking of it What doth the pouring out of the Wine signifie The powring of the blood out of his holy body for our sinnes Matth. 26.28 1. Cor. 11.25 What doth the giuing of the Wine signifie Our full nourishment in Christ offered not in his body onely Iohn 6. ●5 Psal 104.15 but in his sauing blood What doth this teach That the Papists did and stil do 1. Cor. 11.25 Bellarm● Tom 2. tert comtr gen lib. 4 cap. 22. de Eutharqst c. with iniurious sacriledge detract from our assurance and Gods goodnesse one great helpe of our faith by taking from the common people the vse of the Cup. Somuch for giuing what doth the receiuing of the Wine signifie That possession is taken of whole Christ 1. Cor. 10.16 Iohn 6.56 1. Cor. 10.3.4 while after the receiuing of the bread wee by faith open our hearts as vessels to receiue the trickling drops of his blood that nothing be lost What doth the drinking of the wine signifie The applying of the comforts of Christs passion to our drooping soules Galat. 6.14 Phil. 3.8.9 as Wine reioiceth the heart of Man So much of the doctrine of the Sacrament what say you of our ends of comming to it They be before or in our comming What is that which is before our comming Our end before our comming is to satisfie the earnest desire that we haue Acts 8.6 ●●h 7.37.38 or should haue of receiuing the promises of God vnder seale What bee the endes in our comming Such as testifie our gifts or receipts What be our guifts Such as we giue to Christ the head or to the Church his mēbers What giue you to Christ the head A heart well examined concerning our estate before wee come 1. Cor. 1● 28 Luke 15.21 Math. 8.8 seriously meditating on Gods goodnesse in Christ and our own great vnworthinesse when wee are come What else An humble oblatiō of our selues Rom. 12.1 soules and bodies to him with thankesgiuing at our departure Wherein standeth the hearts examination In the examining of our knowledge faith loue repentance 1. Cor. 11.29 2. Cor. 13.5 Matth. 22.12 Eph. 4.28 Rom. 1 21. Heb. 13.18 thankefulnesse and works of our particular callings So much for that you giue to Christ the head what giue you to the Church his members A fellow-stone in the spirituall building 1. Cor. 10.17 12.13.14 Ephes 2.21.22 Ephes 4 12 16 that is a member to help to make perfect the body of Christ What doth this teach