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A47647 The duty and benefit of frequent Communion, in a sermon preached at St. Peter's Church in Lincoln, upon Passion Sunday, 1688 by Walter Leightonhouse ; published at the request of many that heard it preached. Leightonhouse, Walter, 1656-1701. 1689 (1689) Wing L1032; ESTC R15852 16,500 36

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THE DUTY and BENEFIT OF Frequent Communion IN A SERMON Preached at St. Peter's Church in Lincoln upon Passion Sunday 1688. By WALTER LEIGHTONHOUSE A. M. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Huntingdon late Fellow of Lincoln Colledge in Oxon. and now Rector of Washingburgh nigh Lincoln Published at the Request of many that heard it Preached 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil Epist 289. ad Caesariam Patriciam Quotidiè Eucharistiae Communionem percipere nec laudo nec reprehendo omnibus tamen Dominicis diebus s●adeo hortor Aug. in lib. de Eccles Dogm LONDON Printed for W. Crook at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar nigh Devereux Court. 1689. Imprimatur Concio cui titulus The Duty and Benefit of Frequent Communion GUIL NEEDHAM Octob. 26. 1688. To the Right Honourable THEOPHILUS Earl of HUNTINGDON One of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council c. May it please your Lordship ALthough the following Discourse be for the most part built upon that Authority that needs no Patronage to defend it yet I no sooner agreed to the making of it Publick but I saw a necessity of affixing your Lordship's great Name before it Not to remind you My Lord of your Duty of which you need no Monitor but your own Active Piety but to let the World know That whatever of Worth it carries in it has had its Origen from your Lordship's Encouragement and Support and therefore must justly become your Votary I confess My Lord 't is too slender a signification of that unfeign'd and undelible Gratitude I owe to you but if your Honour please to make an Addition to your former Favours by the acceptance of this first Testimony of my Regards I hope My Lord if Success crown my undertakings to acknowledge them very shortly in some greater Instance In the interim the great Importance of your Publick Charge making me sensible that your minutes are sacred and that therefore 't would be a Piacle to invade them with a tedious Address I shall only add That the height of the Honour I most passionately aspire to is that my deserts may give me the Title of My Lord Your Honour 's most affectionately devoted and most humble Servant WALTER LEIGHTONHOUSE Octob. 30. 1688. LUKE XXII ver 19. This is my Body which is given for you do this in remembrance of me AMongst all those Blessings in which Mankind seems to take satisfaction there is none with which we are more deeply affected than Deliverance from Calamities For as the Passions of Fear and Grief are according to * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alcin. de Doctr. Plat. p. 72. Philosophers more impressive upon our Senses than those of Hope and Love so it must needs fall out that the release from the former will be more satisfactory than the completion of the latter For let our Hopes be buoyed up with the rapid Torrent of an expected Felicity and let our Love swim in the full Stream of our Desires effected the first is but the glimmering of Satisfaction and the latter quickly dies or grows languid by fruition But on the other hand let our Thoughts be benighted with the sad Apprehensions but of an imminent Danger with what a busie activeness do we bestir our selves to the evading of it And if by chance we lie under the heavy Pressures of a present Grievance with what regret do we shrink under our Burthen Curse our ill Faté and repine and murmur at the Author and Instruments of it All which being so What * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phot. Epist 46. Transports of Passion must we needs be in when we compare our past with our present state Impendent Danger on one hand exquisite without a parallel inexpressible Deliverance on the other effected without our assistance Faln Man grovelling in Sin and hastning to eternal Ruine a gracious God speeding our Rescue by his own Misery Here 's in one Scale Mankind distracted through Fears and rack'd with the sad Thoughts of a future state Here 's in the other an innocent Redeemer no less so through the sense of our Sins and Transgressions Here 's the Raptures of Joy succeeding the Pangs of Despair and Mercy seated where Judgment ought to have taken place Here 's Sin in one expiated by the innocent Death of another and here 's a kindness freely dispens'd which Men and Angels could not otherwise have purchas'd Here 's our Holy Jesus giving his Body for the Redemption of our Souls and requires nothing for the kindness but that we will not forget it This is my Body which is given for you This do * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for my Commemoration in remembrance of me Which words import as much as though our Saviour had said thus My beloved Friends and Followers that you were brought into a low miserable Condition by the Sin of your first Parents you cannot but be sensible and that you were out of a capacity of freeing your selves from those Chains of Darkness your are no less sensible which dreadful Condition of yours I your Saviour being touch'd withal was highly concern'd which way to snatch you out of this Fire of Affliction and seeing that nothing less than mine own Blood could effect it and that too by being shed upon an accursed and disgraceful Tree I resolv'd to go through that direful Scene and to offer up my Body as a Sacrifice for you of which this Bread which I now break is a Sign or Emblem Now I see you pretend as indeed you ought to have a great Value and Esteem for me your dying Saviour you seem very sonsible of my being cloath'd with Misery and wrinkled with sable Cares for your sakes And withal you seem to be desirous of some opportunity whereby by you may attest your Gratitude and thanksulness to me for those galling Calamities which I have suffered for your Redemption This you seem mighty zealous in and very desirous of for my part it is not any pleasure to me nor is it my desire to lay any severe * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plat. Dialog de reb divin p. 255. Task or heavy Impositions upon you but yet I am now about to leave the World and to die a bitter an accursed and shameful Death for the compleating your Salvation and I am unwilling I must confess that you should lock such signal Favours as these out of your remembrance and therefore I resolve to try whether these your great Pretences have any thing in them besides Ceremony and Complement I will lay one easie Injunction upon you which is this You see that I am now quitting this earthly Station and ascending to Heaven from whence I came so that I cannot afford you my bodily presence any longer however when I have left this World all ye that have any hearty respect for me be so kind as to meet lovingly together at my House and eat and drink this representative of my Body and Blood in my Name at my