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B07186	Sions svveets, or, The spouses spikenard; and mysticall myrrhe / by Thomas Barnes, preacher of Gods vvord at St Margretts in New-fifth-street. London..	Barnes, Thomas, Minister of St. Margaret's, New Fish Street, London.	1624 (1624)	STC 1477.5; ESTC S124289	64,452	85

as the Schooles would haue it He is not I say either of these wayes present in Baptisme But first to seale vnto vs our admission into the couenant of his grace and communion with himselfe and with his Saints r Act. 2.39 Gal. 3.27 Secondly to represent vnto vs and Sacramentally to show vs by the outward washing of Water the inward cleansing of our soules by his blood that is by iustification ſ Polan Synt. l. 6. c. 55. and by his Spirit that is by sanctification t Id. ibid. Ablutio per sanguinem Christi est iustificatio Ablutio per spiritum Christi est regeneratio Thirdly to put vs in minde of our repentance new obedience courage and care to show our selues his Souldiers by warring and fighting against the Deuill the world and the flesh So then you see that three wayes Christ is present in Baptisme 1. As a sealer of the mutuall couenant betwixt Him and his Church 2. as a representer of the benefits he will bestow on his Church if shee keepe her conditions 3. as a remembrancer of the duties shee owes to him if shee would haue him keepe his conditions Lastly to answere the third Question Qu 3. How Christ is present in the Eucharist How Christ is present in the Lords Supper We must know that he is not there Transubstantially as though the Bread and Wine were turned into the body of Christ flesh blood and bones as our adversaries the Papists hold nor yet Consubstantially * Existentia ve● absconsione corporis invisibilis in sub cum pane by an existence or hiding his inuisible body in with vnder the Bread as if there were no figure in the Sacrament as the Vbiquitarians hold u Chemnit Har. Evang. cap. 83. col 1586. At verò hinc inferre velle Ergo in Doctrina Sacramenti propositio panis est corpus meum etiam est figuratae hoc verò absurdissimū Christi ingenio prorsus contrarium est Vide etiam Col. 1587. 1588. but these wayes first to keepe vs mindfull of his death which he endured for vs in which regard some haue called the Lords Supper * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sacrificium a Sacrifice of remembrance Secondly to strengthen our faith in the assurance of the continuance of his loue and to ratifie the pardon of our sinnes our title of adoption our interest in grace our right to glory to our soules Thirdly to arme vs against Idolatry that partaking of the Lords Table wee may not communicate at the Table of Deuills ¶ 1 Cor. 10.21 Fourthly to preserue vs in the way of obedience Fiftly to assure vs of the resurrection of our bodies at the last day according to Christs owne speech x Ioh. 6.54 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternall life and I will raise him at the last day And lastly to signifie vnto vs and ascertaine vs of our vnion with himselfe as Paul declareth when he sayth The cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the communion of the bodie of Christ y 1 Cor. 10.16 Thus we see not onely THAT but also HOVV Christ is present with his Church in his holy and sacred Ordinances Let vs now consider to what end the Doctrine serueth and what vses it affoordeth which are divers Vse 1 First It informeth vs of the reason why Gods people doe so diligently frequent the house of God are so often present at his Ordinances to wit because they meete their husband their King their Sauiour in such places at such exercises If a poore man comming to a great mans house findes the Master of the house to bid him well come to beare him company to entertaine him with good cheere merry talke and kind invitations to come oftner would you wonder to see that poore man euer and anon at that rich mans Table So it is with the children of God A great many marvaile at them what they meane to run so to Sermons as they doe Once a day say they cannot content them but they must heare twice say they the Saboth cannot suffice them but they must out on the weeke day If Baptisme be administred they will not out of the Church by any meanes If there be a communion euery moneth they must be at it euery time as though once or twice in a yeere were not sufficient wee wonder at it Doe you so it is because you know not whom they see whom they finde present whom they meete withall here They see the King here even the King of heauen and earth And although they haue his presence in their houses shops fields walkes and closets yet they know here He is present after a speciall and peculiar manner to conferre with them about deepe secrets to carue bitts to them according to their necessities If they be erroneous in their iudgements they finde him here to informe them if scrupulous in their consciences they find him here to resolue them if they be drowsie in his seruice they finde him here to rowse them if fallen into any sinne they finde him here present to rayse them if heauie in their hearts here he is to accheere them if they haue mistaken their way here he is to direct them In these Ordinances they finde their faith strengthened the couenant of Gods grace sealed their vnion with Christ ratified their assurance of persevering in grace of raising from death and raigning in glory confirmed and what not Marvaile you then what they doe frequenting such places where the Word is Preached and the Sacraments administred What wife that loues her husband doth not delight daily to converse with him at his Table Marvaile therefore at thy selfe rather that thou and thy companions take no more delight in such places at such exercises then you doe and cease wondering at them who come hither to be recreated and accheered with the gracious presence of their great Bride-grome Albeit I deny not but some doe as the people in Christs dayes did follow him for the z Ioh. 6. loaues some for his miracles some for one corrupt end some for another yet there is an holy and chosen generation who follow him in his Ordinances because they know he Sitteth at Table in the same and doth communicate vnto them such gracious glaunces of his countenance as Reprobates are like neuer to partake off Vse 2 Secondly Is Christ present with his Church in his Ordinances What meane the Papists then to take vpon them so tedious a taske as to runne to Compostella to see his holy coate which they say is there though no man knowes how it came there and to Ierusalem to visit his Sepulchre Oh folly to be pittied if not to be derided Thinke they to finde Christ in his coate finde his presence in the graue Is this one of their meritorious actions See Christians see their simplicitie Christ sits not there is not so present there as he is in

Mill-stone were hanged about their neckes and they cast into the middest of the Sea I remember in the Booke of Ioshua how those * Ios 10 3-26 verses fiue Kings were served for Warring against the Gibeonites that were entred into league with Iosuah the Captaines trod vpon their neckes they were hanged vpon fiue trees against the Sunne And will not the great x Ios 5.15 Captaine of the Lords Host tread vpon THEIR neckes and punish THEM in his wrath that set against those that are entred not onely into league but also into contract with Iesus our spirituall Iosuah Be but a man a y Ios 9.27 Water-bearer to the Congregation of Israel or a z Psal 84.10 Doore-keeper in the house of God or like Iohn Baptist a Mat. 11.11 least in the Kingdome of heaven his wrongs shall be righted his cause shall be avenged What became of them that set against Daniel were not their bones broken and their bodies eaten with the teeth of Lyons b Dan. 6.24 How fared it with those that bound the three Children and cast them into the fiery Furnace were they not scorched to death with the fl●me of the fire c Chap. 3.22 Did not d Act. 12.23 Lice gnaw out the bowells and doth not a curse lie vpon the name of Herod who murthered Iames and imprisoned Peter the e Iam 1.1 1 Pet. 1.1 servants of the Lord Iesus Christ What end came Nero vnto that vnnaturall Monster who imbrued his hands in the blood of his owne mother wife kindred and others f Sueton in vita Neronis cap. 34. 35. that cruell Lyon as Paul calls him g 2 Tim. 4.17 who murthered and massacred the poore Christians If that be true which is storied of him his owne sword did he sheath in ●his owne blood and became his owne Butcher * Auson de 12. Caesar Matricidaque Nero proprio se perculit ense In times of later persecution amongst vs what fearefull endes did those butchers come vnto that slew the Saints Some had their gutts carried about the streets vpon Bulls hornes h Fox Martyr Olog edit Anno 1596. Pag. 712. Idem ibid. others dyed madde i Pag. 1904. Melanct. chron l. 11 p. 20. others were strucke dead with the immediate hand of God k Fox Mart. 1908. 1417 as they haue l 3 Ioh. 9. Diotrephes-like beene prating and inveighing against the members of Christ in their Pulpits And therefore I tell thee t is dangerous medling against the Saints it is fearefull to flout at them to backbite them slander them hate them devise practise mischiefe against them What longest thou to haue Sions King to breake thee in pieces and the m Revel 5.5 Lyon of the tribe of Iudah about thy eares Alas man if the rage of an earthly King as Salomon speaketh be like the roaring of a Lyon n Pro. 19.12 what shall Christ his wrath be against his owne and his Brides adversaries Is he thinkest thou a King onely IN his Church and To his Church to rule it by his Word and guide it by his Spirit and not as well a King FOR his Church to auenge the wrongs thou shalt dare to offer vnto it Oh fond wretch doe not deceiue thine owne soule Vengeance belongs to him and he will repay That therefore I may vse this point by way of counsell Deut. 32.35 2. Part of the vse to Sions enemies viz. Counsell or perswasion let me perswade a little with thee Doe no wrong to the Church of Christ or any member of the same Remember the charge that the Lord himselfe giueth Touch not mine annointed and doe my Prophets no harme o Psal 105.15 Touch them not with thy tongue shoote not out bitter words against them Touch them not with thy Pen frame no bitter writings against them touch them not with thy hand offer no violence vnto them touch them not with thy head invent no ill against them For what shall it availe thee to wrong them when as their husband Christ is a King * Motiue 1. Against this crueltie the King Christ bendes his wisedome and his power Ledere servos Dei Christi tuis persecutionibus desine quos laesos vltio divina defendit Cypr. Tract contra Demetr fol. 72. Motiue 2. To wrong the Church is vnequall and vniust dealing 1. With Christ himselfe A King I say and therefore wants no wisedome but is able to goe beyond thee beest thou as craftie in thy fetches as the Serpent was A King I say who wants no power but is able to confound thee wert thou as mightie in thy courses as euer proud Senacherib was and both his Princely policy and Kingly potency shall concurre and meete together for thy ruine rather then his Wife shall suffer at thy handes any more then what shall turne to her eternall well-fare Is it not a vaine thing for thee to attempt that which both the wisedome and power of Christ opposeth it selfe against Besides there is little reason nay it is against all reason that thou shouldest doe harme vnto the Saints for neither doth the Husband nor the Wife giue any iust cause vnto thee First for the husband and King himselfe What wrong did he ever doe thee Hath he ever dealt vnmercifully and cruelly with thee Is it not by HIS patience that thou art kept out of hell so long agoe so many wayes deserved by thee Is it not by HIS goodnesse and providence that thou hast health libertie peace prosperitie c Nay doth He not in the motions of his Spirit which thou quenchest in the ministry of his Word which thou despisest make most free and gracious offers of his owne precious blood to saue thy soule from euerlasting damnation saued thou mightest be if thine impenitent and vnbeleeuing heart did not reiect and set light by these offers Answere me by whom hast thou thy beeing life and moouing and euery good thing that thou doest enioy and is this the recompence of his kindnesse to abuse and despise his Wife his beloued Wife and persecute him in his members What an vniust and vnequall thing is this What Must HIS Wife of all other in the world be accounted factious seditious trouble-States traytors that speake against Caesar not worthy to liue in a Common-wealth c Seruest thou this King thus indeed for his goodnesse Oh iniury most horrible Oh wrong most intollerable which thou wilt neuer be able to answere when he shall p Apoc. 1.7 Mat. 24.30 come in the Clouds to avenge the blood of the Saints Againe 2. It is iniustice to the Church also As Christ himselfe on his part giues thee no iust cause to hurt his Church no more doth shee on her part for what iniury doth shee doe thee Shee refuseth indeed to run to the same excesse of ryot with thee Accountest thou this a wrong In this if thou hadst but eyes to