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A10037	Duties of communicants, or a treatise, teaching such as purpose to receiue the sacrament of the Lords Supper how they may rightly carrie themselues, before, in, and after the action of receiuing. By R: Preston, preacher of Gods Word at Rushden in Northampton-shire.	Preston, Richard, d. ca. 1624.	1621 (1621)	STC 20284; ESTC S100877	48,394	185

true penitent cease from sinne and sinne no more for that repentance is vaine which after-sinnes doe defile It was the great commendation of the Niniuites that they turned from their euill wayes Ion 3.8 and from ●he wickednesse that was in their hands Neither must wee thinke it sufficient for vs to forsake some sinnes and retaine other some or to exchange one sinne for another but we must endeuour to forsake and sel all Mat. 13.44 not one cursed Amalekite 1 Sam. 15.3 that sighteth against our soule must be spared how deare so euer it be 1 Pet. 2.11 Cleanse your selues sayth the Apostle from all filthinesse 2. Cor. 7.1 both of the flesh and spirit Mortifie all your earthly members Col. 3.5.8 Psal 119.3 Psal 101.4 cast away all things that are displeasing to God worke none iniquitie none at all c. Fourthly we shall know wee haue repented if we bring forth fruits worthie the amendment of life if we studie and endeour nor to breake the least of Gods Commandements Psal 119.5.6 but haue respect vnto one and all If we p●t on the new man which after God is created in righteousnesse Ephes 4.24 and true holinesse if we seeke to please God in all things Psal 139.20.21 hating that which he hateth and louing that which he loueth and if we exercise our selues to haue a conscience voyd of offence towards God Act. 24.16 and man The third part of our Preparation stands in the tryall and examination of our selues whether we be reconciled to our neighbours and brethren this is as necessarie as the former and a true touch-stone to trie whether we be reconciled vnto God or no. The holy Ghost sayth in one of the Epistles of Saint Iohn that he is a lyar 1 Ioh 4.20 who sayth he loueth God and hateth his brother The true ground of this Reconciliation is the loue of God the Creatour All the loue of man must issue from the loue of God and all duties of the second Table must be performed in the first neither ought any creature to be loued so farre as it is an enemie and hatefull to God the Creator I hate the wicked that is so farre as wicked namely their practises not their persons There are certaine signes and tokens wherby our loue to our brethren and Reconciliation with our neighbours may bee rightly discerned The first is for a man to feele himselfe willing and readie to forgiue his neighbour any trespasse or offence he hath committed against him franckly or freely yea though he haue offended him often euen vnto seauentie times seuen times He that hath ten thousand Talents forgiuen him will not easily take his brother by the throat for two-pence The Commandement is to forgiue one another Ephes 4.32 euen as God for Christs sake forgaue vs. The example is Be yee mercifull as your heauenly father is mercifull Luk. 6.36 he forgiueth all freely perfectly he is first in forgiuenesse hee forgiueth and forgetteth too The forme of our petition of mercie is Mat. 6.12 forgiue vs as we forgiue others and the conditionall promise is if ye forgiue men their trespasses your heauenly father will forgiue you Mat. 14.15 c. Ob But I am daily prouoked Ob. and how shall I forgiue Sol Many in this case suffer their patience to be broken Sol. not bridling their anger and iudge meekenesse putting vp and not reuenging iniuries to be basenesse cowardise and weakenesse But the word of God tells vs Luk. 17.4 that we must forgiue our brethren though they sinne seuen times a day against vs that we must not be ouercome of euill Ro. 12.21 but ouercome euill with goodnesse this is bow arrow sword pistoll a surer conquest then many blowes The second note whereby we may discerne our Reconciliation with our neighbours is loue vnfained Rom. 12.9 Let loue be without dissimulation It must not be hypocriticall from the teeth outward and fawning but loue must come from a pure heart Let vs not loue in word 1 Ioh 3.18 tongue but in deed and truth Dissembling is euill in all things but it is worst of all in neighbourhood as the most contrarie● corrupting cause of friendship Things most excellent Corruptio optimi est pessima corrupted become the worse As there is nothing more excellent and comfortable to the life of man then true and vnfained loue so there is nothing more vile then when it is counterfeit and dissembled The third marke of Reconciliation with our brethren neighbours is Restitution to be readie and willing to satisfie them and to make amends for any wrong or iniurie done against them We haue a memorable example of it in good Zacheus who being conuerted stood forth in the presence of Christ and made this protestation If I haue taken any thing Luke 19.8 from any man by forged cauillation I restore to him foure-fold This also was the Law for theft Exod. 22.1 that if a man steale an Oxe or a sheepe and kill it or sell it he shall restore fiue oxen for the Oxe and foure sheepe for the sheepe And hereupon Dauid adiudged the man that had taken from his poore neighbour his only sheepe 2 Sam. 12.16 that he should restore him fourefold Ob But what if a neighbour be so poore Ob that he is no way able to make Restitution or amends Sol Then surely his pouerty may be dispensed withall Sol for as the Prouerbe is Where nothing is to be had the King must loose his right And necessitie hath no law But yet if a man be neuer so poore he must testifie his desire to restore if he were able and no doubt but it will be well accepted The fourth note is friendly speech A man that hath friends must shew himselfe friendly Pro. 18.24 no contentious nor rayling word must goe out of his mouth Ob But my neighbour deserues rather sharp Ob. then friendly words may I not reproue him Sol Yes Sol. but it must be in a friendly manner hauing warre with his vices but peace with his person Hee breakes not Gods peace nor the Kinges peace nor the Churches peace nor the league of true neighbourhood who hauing a good calling reproues but he that obeyeth not the truth to speake ill of an vndeseruing neighbour argues a deuillish minde to speake well of a good neighbour a ciuill minde to speake well of an euill deseruing neighbour a Christian minde In this case of friendly reproofe follow the direction of our Sauiour CHRIST Mat. 18.15 16.17 If thy brother offend against thee that is in thy sight for an offence committed before thee is a scandall vnto thee goe and reproue him betweene thee and him alone If he shall hearken vnto thee thou hast wonne thy brother but if he shall not harken vnto thee take vnto thee two or three that by

grow from perfection to perfection till we become perfect men in Christ Iesus Let vs continually pray with the Apostle Lord encrease our faith and let vs labour by all holy meanes of hearing the Word preached and reuerent vse of the blessed Sacrament to grow more and more in faith Let vs pray with the Prophet Psal 68.28 Stablish the thing O God that thou hast wrought in vs. And let vs labour to be daily more more grounded and stablished in euery grace that the Lord hath wrought in vs. And if alreadie we doe thus let vs comfort our selues in this that we doe as we ought and let vs hold on our good course vnto the end The third dutie after our receiuing of the Sacrament is that hauing gotten strength encrease of grace thereby both in our generall calling as Christians in the speciall calling wherein God hath set vs wee must walke worthie this badge of our high and honourable profession whereunto wee are called by glorifying God and edifying his Church This dutie is set downe in the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians where the Apostle exhorteth vs to walke worthie of that high Ephes 4.1 and honourable vocation whereunto we are called This made Paul goe vnto God in the behalfe of the Thessalonians as he sayth We pray alwayes for you 2 Thes 1.11.12 that our God would count you worthie of this calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodnesse and the worke of faith with power that the name of the Lord Iesus Christ may be glorified in you and yee in him according to the grace of God and our Lord Iesus Christ As we receiue our naturall foode that we may grow in strength or at least haue our strength preserued that so we may be able to vnder-goe our callings so in this Sacrament we receiue our spirituall foode that thereby gathering strength in the inner man we may be the better able to glorifie God by walking in our callings Mat. 5.16 Let your light so shine sayth our Sauiour that men seeing your good workes may glorifie your Father which is in Heauen And the ground of all this ought to be the loue of God in Christ therefore sayth Paul 1 The. 2.12 I beseech you that ye would walke worthie of God who hath called you to his kingdome And this we shall doe Rom. 12. ●1 1. when wee present our bodies a liuing sacrifice holy and acceptable to God and 2. when for Conscience sake we endeuour to keepe Gods comman If ye loue me sayth Christ Ioh. 14.15.21 keepe my Commandements For he that loueth my Cōmandements keepeth them is he that loueth me he that loueth me shall be loued of my Father and I will loue him and will manifest my selfe to him Reasons of this point first we professe our selues the children of God and true Christians it becommeth vs to manifest our selues so in our calling Secondly we are called to a kingdome which makes Paul stile this Calling Phil. 3.14 an high or supernall Calling Not so much because the Caller is heauenly but because the honour to which therby we are aduanced is indeed heauenly Hence also it is termed Heb. 3.1 the heauenly vocation not so much because the author meanes and manner is heauenly but because the state whereto we are brought is heauenly and glorious Ob Ob But how may I discerne this worthie walking Sol Sol. By these three signes the first is for a man to resist Sathan and all his temptations and neuer to make himselfe a drudge and a slaue vnto sinne any more The Apostle exhorteth the Ephesians to put on the whole armour of God that we may be able to stand against the assaults of the Deuill Ephes 6.11.12 for we wrestle not against flesh and bloud but against principalities and powers against the rulers of the darkenesse of this world c. What this spirituall Armour both offensiue and defensiue meaneth is further expressed in that Chapter Ver. 14.15 And for sinne let not that haue dominion ouer vs Rom. 6.12.14 for we are not vnder the law but vnder grace and wee may very well know that to whom we yeeld our selues seruants to obey 16. his seruants wee are to whom we obey whether of sinne vnto death or of obedience vnto righteousnesse The second is for a man to liue blamelesse and vnspotted of the world to auoid offence and to forsake that which is euill and not onely so 1 The. 5.22 but to abstaine from all appearance of euill S. Peter exhorteth vs not only to abstaine from fleshly lusts 1 Pet. 2.11 which fight against our soules but also to liue so 12. that our conuersation may be honest among the Gentiles and wicked men that they perceiuing our good workes may be prouoked to glorifie God in the day of their visitation S. Paul in three seuerall places of his Epistle to the Philippians perswadeth vs to liue vnrebukeable Onely let your conuersation be as becommeth the Gospell of Christ Phil. 1.27 that is so walke that it may appeare our life is framed after the doctrine of the Gospell and is answerable to our Profession Againe let vs doe all things without murmuring Phil. 2.14.15 and reasonings that we may be blamelesse and pure and the sonnes of God without rebuke c. And in another place Whatsoeuer things are true honest iust pure louely Phil. 4.8.9 of a good report and that are well fraughted with vertue and deserue prayse let vs thinke on them and doe them In all these places wee are exhorted vnto holinesse of life integritie of conuersation The third is for a man to abound in loue towardes his Christian brethren in mercy towards the poore members of Christ Loue of our brethren is the surest Euidence of our translation from death to life 1 Ioh 3.14 the Cognisance of a Disciple It is called that fauourable Ioh 13.35 well-wishing affection of Gods children one towardes another the speciall obiect of this loue are the brethren vnder that name come all that are partakers of like precious faith 2 Pet. 1.1 and spirit of Adoption with our selues The load-stone of this loue is brotherhood Mat. 10 42. Disciples are loued e● nomine because they are Disciples Gods children because they are Gods childrē stamped with his Image The manner of this loue is 1. naturall and kindly proceeding from selfe inclination no outward prouocations 2. Impartiall whether poore or rich 3. Feruent much water will not quench it And the fruits of this loue are 1. sociall conuersing one with another for mutuall comfort and edification 2. A fellow-feeling of miseries 3. a succouring of distresses and a chearful distribution to their present necessities Rom. 12.13 This last fruit of loue is peculiarly required after the receipt of the Sacrament for as GOD hath shewed his great mercie vnto