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A04377	Directions for the vvorthy receiuing of the Lords Supper with some few questions to the same purpose. By Robert Iension, Batchelor in Diuinity, and Minister of Gods Word, at New-Castle vpon Tine.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1624 (1624)	STC 14490; ESTC S119429	15,511	55

DIRECTIONS FOR THE WORTHY Receiuing of the Lords SVPPER With some few Questions to the same purpose By ROBERT IENISON Batchelor in Diuinity and Minister of Gods Word at New-Castle vpon Tine 1 Cor. 11.28 Let a man examine himselfe and so let him eate c. LONDON Printed for Iohn Harrigat and are to be sold at the Holy Lambe in Pater-noster Row 1624. TO MY CHRISTIAN Hearers of the Parishes of S. Nicholas and All-Saints in New-Castle vpon Tine especially to the yonger and ruder sort of them R. I. wisheth a competent measure of the Spirit of Wisedome and vnderstanding of the Spirit of Knowledge and of the feare of the Lord. WHat I now in heart and euer in my hearty and dayly Prayers vnfaynedly wish on your behalfe right deare beloued Brethren I am not as you know neither shall I euer God assisting be awanting to further by my dayly and best endeuours for you whether it bee by my Preaching or by my Pen though this latter finds enough to doe to prepare matter for your eares not eyes To which end as also for the publike good of many others I haue not beene vnwilling at the requests of some that these few directions following which nigh seuen yeeres since were at the earnest intreaty of a neere friend summed vp in haste should after they had also sounded in your eares see the light and passe euen rudely as at first when there was no purpose of publishing them they were written without any alteration vnder the publike censure of the world hoping yea earnestly desiring men would bring rather humble and hungring hearts than curious and catching heads to the reading of them that so they may indeed truely profite by them As I shall vnderstand these ruder older and hastier Meditations are accepted of I shall bee encouraged to greater further and fresher paines in publishing soone after what I hope will not bee vnprofitable to the Church of GOD whose Seruant I doe professe my selfe as also Yours in the Lord Robert Ienison From my House in New-Castle vpon Tine Ian. 12. 1623. To the Christian and carefull READER THou soule-sicke Christian solace gather hence Who art exil'd in sense from Cana'ns Land Lo heer 's a Briefe of that true Euidence Which God hath pen'd with his most holy Hand And lest some doubt possesse thy silly Soule That seale-lesse Blancks those Copies proue to bee Take comfort for th' inspir'd and sacred Roule Of Gods great Booke is sealed vnto thee With Graces rich inclos'd both more and lesse If thou to practise This thy selfe addresse Ad eundem Pacis Sacramenta licet signacula fiant Non nisi sint sacrâ mente recepta simul C. F. A BRIEFE DIRECTION FOR THE WORTHY RECEIVING OF THE Lords Supper CHAP. I. Three sorts of dueties are to be performed of euery worthy Communicant and three things especially are to be looked vnto THere must be an antecedent disposition in the receiuer and a performance of such duties as may prepare him There must bee a right behauiour in the performance of this holy action There are duties to be performed after CHAP. II. Of such graces as are needfull in euery worthy Communicant THis Sacrament being a most holy ordinance of God belongs not of right indifferently to all but to such onely as God doth accept and account as worthy in his Sonne Iesus Christ We are all of vs in our selues and by our corrupt nature altogether vnworthy to partake of any mercy and especially of that grace which is both offered and sealed vnto vs in the Sacrament Yet God in his Sonne Christ our Sauiour is ready to accept vs if we come clothed with the wedding garment of his righteousnesse putting it on vs by faith Faith then of necessitie is required in euery worthy Communicant Now true Faith as it is grounded vpon sound and sauing Knowledge so it is and must be accompanied with true Repentance and with the fruits thereof especially Charitie These foure graces then are necessary in euery worthy Communicant 1 Knowledge 2 Faith 3 Repentance 4 Charitie Neither must we onely haue them but we must know so much which knowledge is got by examination CHAP. III. Of Knowledge GOd would haue vs offer vp to him reasonable seruice as an acceptable sacrifice Rom. 12.1 And not like shéep each follow other without knowledge and consideration what we doe Knowledge is the beginning of all grace Prou. 19. 2. Acts 26.18 1 Tim. 2.4 And Ignorance is highly displeasing vnto God In this Sacrament knowledge is required that we may examine our selues 1 Cor. 11.28 The Rule of examination is partly the Law of God by which we are to examine our selues our repentance and obedience and partly the Gospell by which we must examine our faith These two as being the rules of our triall must therefore first be knowne We must then know what the Law will tell vs that howsoeuer we were made at the first in our first parents Adam and Eue in righteousnesse and holinesse according to Gods image yet now we are all of vs by our first birth corrupt children ouer-spred with the leprosie and leauen of sinne vnapt to conceiue or doe any thing truly good prone and readie to doe all euill and that accordingly we dayly bring forth and multiply the bitter fruits of Sinne by our actuall trangressions not doing what good we should doe and doing the euill we should not doe and that therefore in this regard we are all naturally as the slaues of Satan who rules in our hearts by Sinne so the children of death and heires of damnation The iust reward of our sinne being the wrath and curse of God and death of body and soule euerlastingly Yet we must further know what the Gospell reueales namely that Gods will is not such is his loue that we all should perish as we most iustly deserue but that we should be saued and come vnto the knowledge of the truth 1. Tim. 2.4 That is that all of all sorts beléeuing the Gospell should be saued the tenour and substance of the Gospell being comprised in these words Iohn 3.16 God so loued the world that he gaue his onely begotten Sonne that whosoeuer beleeueth in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting For the confirmation of which promise to vs wee must further know that God hath annexed and added seales which we call Sacraments whereof it is fit also we should haue some generall knowledge Sacraments therefore are outward and visible signes and seales of some inward inuisible grace Or they are holy signes ordained of God whereby the couenant of grace betweene God and the partie receiuing these signes is solemnely sealed confirmed and ratified This couenant of grace is that whereby God on his part First promiseth to be our God that is all in all vnto vs Gen. 17.7 and that we shall not perish as we had deserued but haue euerlasting life through and by Christ Iesus which none of vs deserues But withall as

in grace thus differing from Baptisme which is the Sacrament of our first birth or regeneration as bread therefore is for the sustenance of man and preseruation of naturall life in him so is Christs body and bloud spiritually for the encrease and nourishing of our faith and of Gods graces in vs. For thus in decay of grace we come to get assurance and féeling of it againe Christ is therefore called the bread of life Iohn 6.35.51 herein differing from common bread that it onely preserues life where life is once begun but Christ begins life in vs being set before vs in the preaching of the Gospel called the childrēs bread Mat. 15.26 And he is eaten by faith spiritually Ioh. 6.56 He also continues and preserues life in vs as bread eaten by the same faith sacramentally Consider bread and wine are also for our comfort and to make glad the heart of man Psalm 104.14 15. so also this Sacrament and therefore in our faintings and in our afflictions we are to haue recourse hither this bread being like that meale which Elisha cast into the pot to make the pottage wholesome whereof it was said before death is in the pot 2. Kings 4.40 and 41. When we sée both bread and wine consider that Christ is our perfect Sauiour and Redéemer both bread and water of life vnto vs so that we néed not saluation in whole or in part of any other 4 Consider hence also the necessitie of this Sacrament especially of the thing signified by this bread and wine for as without bread and wine or other moysture we could not possibly liue whereas we may well spare many vnnecessary dainties so without this body and blood of Christ and the merits thereon depending it is impossible for any either to liue the life of grace here or of glory hereafter When we sée the Minister set apart by prayer and consecration these Elements from a common to an holy vse which signifies Gods eternall decrée in sealing Christ to the worke of our redemption and saluation Iohn 6.27 Then further consider and meditate on God the Fathers excéeding great loue Who so loued the world that he gaue his only begotten Sonne Christ to redeeme it Ioh. 3.16 Which loue God setteth forth séeing that first of himselfe vnsought to Secondly he the partie offended should prouide a Sauiour and giue thirdly his onely beloued Sonne for vs Fourthly before we were Fifthly whom he foresaw to be vnable to helpe our selues yea Sixtly to be enemies vnto him Rom. 5.8 Oh wonderfull loue of God! how did Abraham loue God when for his sake he was ready to offer in sacrifice his onely sonne Isaak yet that was his duty God so requiring it How much more doth God loue vs that fréely yea contrary to our deseruings giues to death his onely Sonne Christ one ten thousand times better then Isaack And thinke if God so loued me how ought I to loue him againe how ought I for his sake to part with my dearest and darling sinnes c. When we sée the bread broken and the wine powred out then thinke on the death and passion of Christ and on those intolerable paines which he suffered both in body and also much more in soule not for himselfe but for vs and here also more specially meditate First on Christs speciall Loue to vs who would so willingly become our suretie and pay our debt to God which is death which we were neuer able to haue endured For greater loue then this hath no man when any man bestowes his life on his friends Ioh. 15.13 But Christ is that good shepheard who giueth his life for vs his sheepe Ioh. 10.11 How then must I meditate should this inflame my heart with the loue of this my Sauiour c. And how may I now rest assured that I shall be vndoubtedly saued for if when I was a sinner Christ died for me much more then being now iustified by his blood shal I be saued from wrath throgh him c. Rom. 5.8.9.10 Secondly considering his grieuous suffering and pangs for vs his hands and his féet boared his side pearced with a speare himselfe mocked and now sustaining in soule the wrath of his Father due to our sinnes meditate Didst thou swéet Sauiour suffer such torments for me and shall not I endure an euill word for thée and for the profession of thy Name Diddest thou on the Crosse taste Vineger and Gall for me and shall I liue in pleasure and delicacies faring deliciously euery day and so please my palate with excesse in delicious meates and wines Diddest thou die for me and shall not I die to sinne and thus shew forth in my selfe thy death Yea diddest thou die for me and shall not I be ready to lay downe my life for thy Names sake c. Thirdly consider also the cause of all this his suffering which was not any sinne of his but our sinne 2. Cor. 5.21 and thinke and say Lord when I looke vpon thée whom my sinnes haue pierced how should I lament for thée as one that mourneth for his onely Sonne and bee sorry for thée as one is sorry for his first borne Zach. 12.10 Nay how should I rather mourne for mine owne sinnes and hate them with a deadly hatred whereby I crucifie thée againe so louing a Sauiour my sinnes being the speare that pierced thee and the nailes that lastened thée to the Crosse How weighty are my sinnes and how great the desert thereof which could not be borne by me nor satisfied for by any thing I am able either to doe or suffer but onely by thy precious death and bloud-shed of thée my deare Sauiour and my God blessed for euer Shall I now henceforth account any sinne light or little which deserued such infinite punishment Oh my Sauiour possesse my heart with thy loue teach mee to loue thee perfectly and to hate all sinne which cost thee so deare c. When the Minister representing the person of God the Father comes towards thée to offer and giue to each the signes this Bread and Wine then first meditate and pray and say with the Centurion Lord I am not worthy thou shouldest come vnder my roofe and as Elizabeth said to Mary whence commeth this to me that not the mother of the Lord but the Lord himselfe should come to me Luk. 1.14 And with the blessed Virgin Luk. 1.38 Behold the seruant of the Lord be it vnto thee according to thy word and here secondly assure thy selfe of Gods especiall loue to thée in particular and take these signes as speciall seales and pledges of Gods speciall loue towards thee and here raise vp thy thoughts with this or the like meditation Lord whereas in thy Word thou offerest Christ to all beleeuers though thou namest none now I see thou meanest euen me poore sinner as well as any thou appliest and assurest vnto me thy generall promise as if my name were recorded in thy Word and written in that