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A77605	Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether for a Congregationall, or a Presbyteriall way) are concerned. Or pills to purge malignants. And all prophane, ignorant, and scandalous persons. (But more particularly calculated for the meridian of Margarets Fishstreet-hill) from those grosse conceits that they have of their childrens right to baptisme; and of their owne right to the Supper of the Lord, &c. Also good councell to bad men. Or friendly advise (in severall particulars) to unfriendly neighbours. By Thomas Brooks, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious Gospel of Christ, at Margarets Fishstreet-hill.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1653 (1653)	Wing B4938; Thomason E684_28; ESTC R207067	29,466	37

that are prophane ignorant scandalous or that are scoffers and mockers of all goodnesse c. to the Supper of the Lord is the ready way to turn the House of God into a den of theeves and to bring a dreadful doom both upon consenters and presumers as the Scriptures in the margent will make good Not onely the lack of the word and Sacraments saith Bilson but the abuse of either greatly hazards the weal of the whole Church If prophane ones be allowed to defile the mysteries and assemblies of the faithfull and holy things be cast to doggs Matth. 7.6 it will procure a dreadfull doom as well to consentaries as presumers Ergo 4. Because there are many horrid sins in their coming to the Supper of the Lord. 1 There is horrid pride Yet pride cannot climb so high but justice will sit above her else no man in his wickednesse would presume to tast of the Tree of Life 2 There is Rebellion and Treason against the Crowne and Dingity of Christ Their hands and lips adore him as Judas his did but their hearts and lives abhor him 3 There is theft and sacriledge Possidonius reports that all that took the gold of Tholosse perished in the possession of it Apply it They may say with Henry the 7th the cup of life is made my death if the taking away of the Communion Cup or Cloath c. be such horrible theft and sacriledge surely it is far greater theft and sacriledge to take that bread and wine that is set apart and sanctified by the Lord himselfe for a holy use 4 There is murther in the cruellest manner that can be for they kill two at once Christ and their own souls 1 Cor. 11.27.29 compared 'T was wickednesse in Julian to throw his blood in the face of Christ but for a wicked Communicant to take Christs own blood as it were from his heart and throw it into the face of Christ is most abominable and damnable 5. A gracious soul may say not only Credo vitam aeternam edo vitamaeternam I believe life eternall but I receive life eternall They want those qualifications that should fit them for this glorious Ordinance As 1 Experimentall knowledge 2 Faith without which they cannot see Christ nor receive Christ nor feed upon Christ nor apply Christ nor seale to Christ 3 Repentance from dead works 4 New obedience 5 Love to Christ and his Children 6 Holy thankfulnesse 7 A spirituall Appetite All which are absolutely necessary to fit souls for the Lords Supper Ergo. 6. Because such as are prophane scandalous scoffers and mockers Read these Scriptures Prov. 4.14 15 16. Ephes 5.14 1 Cor. 5.9 10 11. 2 Tim 3.1 2 3 4 5. The Heathen could say Qui aequo animo malis immiscetur malus est He that is well contented to keep company w th those that are naught is himself made naught Euseb lib. 3. c. 25. 1 Cor. 5. 1 Tim. 1.19 20. Mat. 18.15 16 17 18. 2 Thess 3.6 1 Tim. 6.3 4 5. c. are not fit for civil society how much lesse fit are they then for Religious societies Men that love but their names and credits in the world will shun the society of such vain persons how much more then should men that love their Christ and that love their precious souls shun such society Look as shelves and sands do endanger the Sea-man and as weeds endanger the corne and bad humours the blood and an infected house the neighbourhood So does the society of evill men endanger good men One said As oft as I have been among wicked men I returned home lesse a man then I was before Men that keep ill company are like those that walk in the sun tanned insensibly Eusebius reports of John the Evangelist that he would not suffer Cerinibus the Heretick in the same Bath with him lest some judgement should abide them both You may easily apply it to the point in hand 7. Because such persons as are prophane scandalous and wicked c. if they were in the Church they are by the word of God to be Excommunicated and cut off from visible union and communion with Christ and his Church therefore they are not to be admitted to the priviledges of the Church That wickednesse that is a sufficient ground for the casting them out if they were in is a sufficient ground to keep them out from polluting the glorious Ordinance of the Lord. 8. Mat. 26.27 28 29. 1 Cor. 10.16 17 c. Mat. 3.12 Because the Supper of the Lord is a Feast instituted by Christ only for his friends and children for those that have received spirituall life from him and that have union and communion with him But prophane ignorant malignant scandalous persons Luke 15 8. 1 Cor. 5.6 7. are chaffe which the fan flings out of the floor They be as dirt and dust which the besome sweeps out of the house They be as leaven which if let alone so wres the whole lump and therefore must be purged out They be as thorns and briers which must not stand in the middest of the corne Heb. 6.8 Rom. 3.13 Mat. 3.7 but must be stub'd up and burned They be as open Sepulchres out of which proceeds nothing but noysome savours Acts 28.3 4 5. They be as Vipers which must be shook off as Paul shook off the Viper that fastned upon his hand They be as ravenous wolves which every carefull John 10.12 watchfull shepheard must keep out of his fold They be as swine that will trample the choicest pearls under their feet Matth. 7.6 if they should be cast before them therefore Ministers must not hang Gospel-pearls in such swines snouts The Table of the Lord saith Chrysostome is that whereon the blessed carkasse is laid we must not suffer chattering Jaies to come thereunto for only high-flying Eagles are to feed thereupon nor cast them under such swines feet The fouler the chest is the more unfit it is to have a fair and precious Garment put therein and the filthier the soule is the unfiter it is to receive in this holy Sacrament I have read of a Jewel that being put into a dead mans mouth loseth all its vertue Such a Jewell is the Supper of the Lord it looseth its vertue when 't is put in prophane ignorant scandalous persons mouths who are dead God-wards and dead Heaven-wards and dead Holynesse-wards and dead Christ-wards Lastly these Petitioners say That I will not bury their dead To this I shall give this short Answer That if they mean that I would bury their dead after the old fashion Matth. 8.22 Nay 't is known to hundreds that 't is my practice after the dead is buryed to preach to the people that are met upon that occasion if so desired many grounds moving me thereunto I confesse it and shall only say that 't is most proper for the dead to bury the dead as Christ speaks my

were so wise and merciful to your own souls They were wont to say in former times Caius Seius bonus vir sed Christianus Caius Seius was a good man but he was a Christian You may easily apply it c. as to dwell upon these Scriptures Joh. 3.3 Jesus answered and said unto him Verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God Except men be first unmade and new made up again by the Spirit and Word except the whole frame of their old conversation be dissolved and a better erected there is no heaven to be had Heaven is too holy and too hot to hold Drunkards Revilers Mockers and such like as you may plainly see by comparing these Scriptures together 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Gal. 5.19 20 21. Jude 14 15. Revel 21.8 22.15 He that is truth it self and cannot lye hath said Without holiness no man shall see God Heb. 12.14 This I am sure of that all mans happiness here is his holiness and his holiness Chrysostem cals some holy men of his time aggelous earthly angels shall hereafter be his happiness You must in this life be holy or in the life to come you shall never be happy Seneca a heathen man saw so much excellency that morality put upon a man that he saith that ipse aspectus boni viri delectat the very looks of a good man delights one Oh then what a beauty and glory doth real sanctity put upon a man it makes him more excellent then his neighbour as Solomon speaks Proverbs 12.26 When Agesilaus heard the king of Persia Psalm 16.3 stiled the great king saith he I acknowledg none more excellent then my self unless more righteous none greater unless better But to hasten towards a close you may be very confident of these few things which I desire as you tender your own good you would seriously consider 1. That those waies of the flesh wherein now you walk will be bitterness in the latter end It was the saying of an ancient Philosopher Whosoever sinneth doth in that decline from his purposed end and is certainly deceived Hark Scholer said the Harlot to Apulsius 'T is but a bitter sweet that you are so fond of Ah your scoffing and mocking will prove but a bitter sweet at last Act. 5.38 39. chap. 9.4 5. Constantine the great Symbole was immedicabile vulnus ense rescindendum est When there is no hope of curing men must fall a cuting And so will God deal with sinners souls Therefore look about you sinners Isai 40.15 I laugh said Caligula speaking to the Consuls to think that I can kill you with a nod of my head And can't God do it with as much ease Rom. 14.19 Heb. 12.14 Luther said That in the cause of God he was content totius mundi odium impetum sustinere to undergo the hatred and violence of the whole world The Heathen Orator could say A recta conscientia ne latum quidem unguem discedendum a man may not depart an hairs breadth all his life long from the dictates of a good conscience Cant. 8.1 Psa 63.1 2 3. Rom. 14 1. chap. 15.1 1 Joh. 1.3 4. Luk. 23.24 Act. 7.39.60 Mat. 6.12 13 14 15. Tully said of Caesar nihil oblivisci soles nisi injurias That he forgat nothing but injuries Prov. 14.12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the waies of death Though sin doth come sometimes cloathed with a shew of reason and religion yet the end of it will be death Sin at last will betray your souls into the hands of Satan as Dalilah did Sampson into the hands of the Philistims Sinne makes the soul black with filth and red with guilt and then vengeance follows The Rabbins were wont to tell their Scholars to scare them from sin that every sin made Gods head ake but without sound repentance you will at last finde that every sin will make your hearts ake Oh that when you are tempted to sin you would say as Demosthenes the Oratour did of the beautiful Lais when he was asked an excessive sum of money to behold her I will not said he buy repentance so dear I am not so ill a merchant as to sell the eternal for the temporal 2. You may be confident that all your oppositions one way or other against the waies of God and against the people of God is a fighting against God who will be too hard for you when you have done your worst and what you get you may put in your eyes and weep it out again Those that strive for mastery with God God will over-master with a witnesse Isa 27.4 who would set the briars and thornes against me in battel I would go through them I will burn them together God can nod a soul to hell He can speak a soul miserable in a moment Who ever stood out against him and prospered There is such a neer union between God and his people between God and his waies that you cannot possibly oppose them but you oppose God himself who can presently cause the greatest arm of humane power to shrink up as you may see in his dealing with Pharoah Hamman Belshazzar and others c. Is a dry Reed able to stand against a consuming fire Is a worm able to overcom a Lion Is weakness able to overcom strength Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the ballance Behold he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing as the Prophet Isaiah speaks And what then is the poor creature that he should fight against an Almighty Creator Caesar told Metellus he could as easily destroy him as bid it be done So can God Who dares then engage against him 3. You may be confident that though I hate your sins yet I do don't hate your persons I am willing to live in love and peace with all men so far as I may without sin but I abhor compliancy with any man to the dishonour of Christ to the wounding of my conscience to the prophaning of holy things or to the prejudice and disadvantage of the truth 'T is below humanity to hate a man whose nature and similitude he may behold in the humanity of Christ Deum odit qui hominem odit He hateth God that hateth man I must love men but hate their vice It is said of Ephesus That they hated the deeds of the Nicolaitans their errors not their persons So Jacob cursed the wrath of his sons but blessed their persons So Paul 1 Cor. 4.15 and so do I through free mercy 4. You may be confident that I don't refuse the baptizing of your children and the giving you the Sacrament c. out of pride or envy or upon any carnal account in the world but onely upon the grounds that I have before laid down I take the searcher of all hearts to witnesse that I