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A26721 Directions for the right receiving of the Lords Supper drawn up by way of question and answer for the use and benefit of the younger sort, especially the citizens of Exeter / by J.B. J. B. 1679 (1679) Wing B100; ESTC R3234 27,036 96

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is a Rule of Righteousness Secondly When it is Resolute without Doubting as Joshua's was Josh 24.15 And the Reason of it is Because Resolution is the foundation of all Religion And because of the fickleness of our Spirits there being in every one of us the same seeds which there are in others of apostatizing from the Living God Thus of Obedience The Tryal of Love Q. WHat is the Fifth Sacramental Grace to be examined before you come to the Sacrament A. It is Love Q. What is that Love you are to examine A. Our Love to God the Father Son and Holy Ghost and our Love to the Saints and to our Enemies Q. What signs have you of your Love to God A. 1. If it be a superlative Love to him above all the World and all the Creatures in it our Nearest and Dearest Relations even Life it self Matth. 22.37 Luke 10.22 Q. How else A. If it be with a fervent Love with all our heart and soul and mind and strength Deut. 6.5 Q. How else A. If it be with a Love of complacency and delight Psal 4.4 6. Psal 73.25 Q. How else A. If it be with a love of Assimulation it makes us like to him Holy as he is Holy 1 Pet. 1.15 Q. How else A. If it be an Obediential Love 1 Pet. 1.17 1 Joh. 5.2 3 4. Q. How else do you know you love God at your Father A. By this that he adopted me for his Child in Christ from all Eternity Ephes 1.5 Joh. 1.37 Q. How else A. By this That when ●he fulness of time was come he sent forth his Son made of a woman and made under the Law that we might receive the Adoption of Sons Gal. 4.4 5. Q. How else A. By this That by his Word and Spirit he hath wrought faith in me John 1.12 Q. How else A. By this that I have the nature of my Father and a desire and endeavour to be holy as he is holy 1 Pet. 1.15 Q. How else A. By this that my Desire and endeavour if to carry my self as a child towards him by studying and labouring to know him and love him and fear him and reverence and obey him and depend on him for all the good I stand in need of for soul and body me and mine this life and a better Psal 9.10 Q. How do you know the truth of your love to his Son the Lord Jesus Christ A. By this that I am willing to receive whole Christ and give up my whole self to Christ Q. How doth it appear that you receive whole Christ A. By this that I receive him on his own terms as my alone Lord Jesus Christ and my alone Mediator King Priest and Prophet Q. How do you know you receive him as your alone Lord A. By my renouncing all other Lords that command besides him and contrary to him and subject my self only and wholly to his command and service Isa 26.13 Q. How do you know you receive him as your alone Jesus A. By this my renouncing my own righteousness and desiring to be found only in his Ph●l 3.8 9. Q. How do y●u know you receive him for your alone Christ A. 1. By this that I am anointed with the same spiritual unction of his Grace 1 Joh. 2.27 2. By this that I labour to observe and perform those offices to which I was anointed sc to be a King to govern my Family a Priest to offer up Spiritual Sacrifices in it and a Prophet to teach and instruct them Rev. 1.6 Q. How do you know that he is your Mediator A. By this that I renounce all other Mediators as Angels and Saints and do whatsoever I do in his Name Mediation and Worthiness Col. 3.17 Q. How do you know you love him as your Prophet A. By this that I am willing to be taught and guided only by his Word and Spirit in my whole conversation and not follow any further than they follow him Joh. 10.4 5. 1 Cor. 11.1 Isa 30.21 Q. How do you know you love him as your Priest A. By this 1. My high prizing of his righteousness above my own accounting all my own as filthiness and but Dross and Dung Isa 64.6 Phil. 3.7 8. Q. How else A. 2. By my continual seeking unto him for all that pardoning purging and sanctifying Grace I stand in need of 1 John 1.6 Q How do you know you love him as your King A. By my desire to know his Laws and yield universal obedience to them Joh. 15.14 my continual fighting his battels against all his and my spiritual enemies 2 Tim. 4.8 and my dependance on him for power and victory over them Col. 2.15 Q. How do you know you give up your whol● self to him A. By this 1. My willingness to deny my self take up his cross and follow him Mark 8.34 and 2. By my desire and endeavour to glorifie him both in my soul and body 1 Cor. 6. l●st Q. How do you know you love the Holy Ghost A. 1. By this my giving up my self to be his habitation to dwell in and Temple to offer up Spiritual Sacrifices in 1 Cor. 6.19 Q. How else A. By my hearkning to and obeying his call to faith and repentance Isa 30.21 my nourishing and cherishing his holy motions and resisting the temptations of my spiritual enemies 1 Thes 5.19 and 1 Pet. 5.9 Q. How else A. By my living in the Spirit and walking after the Spirit Gal. 5.25 Rom. 8.14 Q. How else A. By my loving frequenting and delighting in those Ordinances wherein he manifests himself his Word and Sacrament Psal 84. 122.1 Q. How else A. By my entring on Duty in his strength Ephes 6.10 and giving him the whole glory of my ability 1 Cor. 15.10 Q. How else A. By still blessing him for those special gifts and graces acts and operations in my soul as saving illumination vocation regeneration consolation supplication and sealing me up to the Day of Redemption Ephes 4.30 Q. How do you know that you love those that are Gods and Christs and the Spirits A. By this that my Love is a Brotherly Love Heb. 12.1 Q. What is that Brotherly Love Love defined A. It is a Fruit of the Spirit in the hearts of the Regenerate whereby they are kindly affectioned one to another being careful to express it by endeavouring the good of others souls and bodies especially the Saints Gal. 6.10 Rom. 12.10 Signs of Love Q. What signs can you give me of the truth of your Love 1 Sign A. 1. The Rise of it When it ariseth from the Love of God to them 1 John 5.1 And the command of God to love them 1 Joh. 4.21 Joh. 15.12 17. Q. How else do you know the truth of your Love 2 Sign A. 2. By the Properties of it Q. What is one Property of true Love A. 1. The Purity of it when it comes from a pure heart 1 Cor. 6.11 1 Pet. 1.22 Q. What is
Acts 2.37 4. By working in him a holy despair or hopelesness of being freed from it by any thing that he can do or suffer Q. How doth the Gospel produce Faith How the Gospel does produce Faith A. Four wayes 1. By discovering of Christ the Remedy 2. By convincing the soul that he is an Alsufficient Remedy for him as well as for others Joh. 16.8 3. By working in him a high prizing of him above all other things in the world 1 Pet. 2.7 4. A Resolution to sell and part with all for him Luke 18.22 True Faith is known by three sorts of Signs Q. How do you know that you have truth of Faith A. By the Antecedents Concomitants and Consequences of it I. The Antecedents Q. What are the Antecedents or those thing● which go before Faith A. 1. A sight and sense of our want of Christ and need of Christ and of the worth of Christ Joh 12.46 Luke 19.10 Mat. 11.28 Q. What else goeth before Faith A. 2. An earnest desire of an Interest in him above all other things Revel 22.17 1 Cor. 2.2 Q. What else goeth before Faith A. 3. A willingness and readiness to part with every sin and any thing for Christ Luke 18.22 II. The Concomitants of Faith Q. What are the Concomitants of Faith or those things which accompany it A. 1. An emptying of the soul of it self and taking it wholly off from its own Righteousness to rest and rely only on the Righteousness of Christ for salvation Phil. 3.7 8 9. Q. What else A. 2. A Receiving of Christ upon his own terms in all his Offices not only as his Jesus but also as his Lord and Christ his Mediator King Priest and Prophet Rom. 13.14 Acts 16.31 Acts 2.36 Q. What else A. 3. Believing of and closing with the whole mind and will of God Act. 24.14 Q. What else A. 4. A particular application of Christ and the Promises in him Joh. 20.28 Q. What else A. 5. Union and Communion with Jesus Christ in all that is his 1 Cor. 6.17 1 Joh. 1.3 4. Q. What else A. 6. Peace and Joy and Hope in believing Rom. 5.3 4. Rom. 15.13 Q. Have all true Believers this Peace and Joy in Believing A. Yes in the Root but not in the Fruit in the Cause but not in the Effect 1 Pet. 1.6 7. Q. Is it every kind of Peace and Joy and Hope that evidenceth Faith A. No but only that Peace and Joy that ariseth from a fore-going trouble for sin Acts 16.28 29 30. compared with vers 34. And such a Hope as purifieth the heart and life from the love of sin 1 Joh. 3.3 Q. What else accompanyeth Faith A. 7. A Combate and conflict with Corruption especially with unbelief Gal. 5.17 Mark 9.24 III. The Consequences of Faith Q. What are the Consequences of it or those things which follow Faith A. They are Divers In respect of God and of Christ and of the Spirit and of the Word and of the World and of our Selves and of Others I. In Respect of God Q. What doth Faith work in respect of God A. 1. Thankfulness to God for Jesus Christ and all his mercies in him Psal 103.1 2. 1 Pet. 1.3 4 5. Q. What else A. 2. Repentance from dead works Acts 19.18 19. Mark 1.15 Q. What else A. 3. Love to God Gal. 5.6 1 Joh. 4.19 Q. W●at else A. 4. Prayer to God with boldness and confidence Zech. 12.10 Ephes 3.11 12. Q. What else A. 5. An endeavour to walk with God and approve our selves to his all-seeing eye as Enoch Heb. 11.5 and Moses vers 27. Q. What doth Faith work in respect of Jesus Christ II. In respect of Christ A. 1. It makes him Precious to the Soul 1 Pet. 2.7 Q. What else A. 2. A Conformity to him 1 Joh. 2.6 Q. What doth Faith work in respect of the Spirit of Christ III. In respect of the Spirit A. A care not to Grieve him Ephes 4.3 and vers 30. Q. What doth Faith work in resp●ct of the Word of God IV. In respect of the Word A. A high prizing of it and an endeavour to profit by it Rom. 10.13 14 15. 1 Pet. 2.2 Q. What doth Faith work in respect of the World V. In respect of the World A. A contempt of it and Victory over it 1 Joh. 5.4 Heb. 11.24 25 26. Q What else A. A bold Confession and profession of it before the World Rom. 10.10 Q. What doth Faith work in respect of Others VI. In respect of others A. An unfeigned Love to all especially to the Saints Gal. 5.6 1 Job 4.20 21. Col. 1.3 4. VII In respect of our selves Q. What doth Faith work in respect of our Selves A. 1. It purifieth the heart from the Love of all sin Acts 15.8 9. Q. What else A. 2. A thorow change of the whole man 2 Cor. 5.17 Q. What else A. 3. Humility and lowliness of mind Rom. 3.27 1 Cor. 15.9 10. Q. What else A. 4. Contentation in every estate and condition Phil. 4.11 12. Q. What else A. 5. Patience in Suffering from and for God James 1.2 3. Q. What else A. 6. Growth in Grace Rom. 1.16 17. 2 Thes 1.3 Q. What else A. 7. Perseverance in Grace in well-doing and waiting upon God Heb. 3.12 13 14. Rev. 2.10 Isa 28.16 Thus of Faith The Tryal of Repentance Q. WHat is the Third Sacramental Grace to be examined before you come to the Sacrament A. Repentance Q. What is Repentance A. It is a special Gift of God Repentance defined wrought by the Spirit in the Ministry of the Word arising from knowledge of and faith in the mercy of God in Jesus Christ working godly sorrow for sin and a thorow change of heart and life from the Love and Reign of all sin to the life and power of Godliness Acts 26.18 2 Cor. 5.17 Rom. 6.11 12 13 14. Q. What signs can you give me of saving Repentance A. We may know it Signs of true Repentance 1. By the Rise of it 2. By the extent o● it 3. By the Cure of it 4. By the Fruits and effects of it and 5. By the continuance of it Q. How by the Rise of it A. When it ariseth from a sight and apprehension of Gods mercy and goodness in Christ This made Mary to Repent I. Sign Luke 7.37 38 and 47. And this made David to Repent Psal 130.3 4. And this made Peter to Repent Luke 22.61 62. And this made the Israelites to Repent Hosea 6.1 2. And this Motive to it the Lord useth in Isa 55.6 7 8 9. Q. How else do you know the truth of y●ur Repentance II. Sign A. By the Extent of it When the whole man is set against all sin When it is inward in the soul as well as outward in the Body Joel 2.13 Jer. 4.14 When also it is for all sins one as well as another Ezek. 18.30 31. Q.