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A fit guest for the Lords table. Or, a treatise declaring the true vse of the Lords Supper Profitable for all communicants, as a preseruatiue against all profanesse and sundry nouell opinions.
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Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.
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are of yeares and discretion and that by reason of one peculiar end to wit the annuntiation of Christs dcath and of the different circumstance of the action And albeit our Sauiour saith that none shall haue life in them vnles they eat his flesh and drink his Iohn 6. 53 blood yet it doth not follow that the sacrament of his body and blood should be giuen vnto infants for he speaketh not of saâ—ramentall eating and drinking but of that which is meerly spirituall or by faith Neither doth he there meane infants at all seeing they are vtterly destitute of actuall faith which none haue none can haue but those that haue discretion knowledge and vnderstanding This shall suffice for the first Doctrine a second followeth CHAP 17. SEcondly forsomuch as the Apostle commaundeth a man to examine himself I conclude that a mans principall and chiefest care must be to prepare and proue himselfe in porticular The reasons of this conclâ—sion are many First the Scriptures both heere else where doe proue it by expresse precepts Dauid saith Examine your owne heart HAGGAI saith Psalm 4. 4 Hag. 1. 5. CoÌ„sider your own waies in your harts PAVL saith Let euery man proue his Galat. 6. 4 owne worke And againe Proue your selues examine your selues know yee 2 Cor. 13. 5 not your owne selues Now the holy scriptures aâ—e Gods own oracles giuen by inspiration of God For these 2 Ti. 3. 16 and all the other holy men of God 2. Pet 1. 21 our selues in special that by our Vse 1 selues The lord wil haue meÌ„ diligeÌ„t to know the state of their flocks and biddeth theÌ„ take heed to their herds Pre. 27 23 therefore good cause haue we to be diligeÌ„t to know the state of our harts to take heed to our selues Shall meÌ„ prooue their oxeÌ„ try their horses shal not we proue try our selues shall an honest painfull sheepherd obserue attend vpoÌ„ his sheep shal he proue and veiw them diligently that he might haue a sound and fruitfull flock shall not we obserue and attend vpon our selues that wee might haue sound soules shal not we ponder prooue our hearts throughly that we might be fit to receiue Christ that wee might approoue our selues vnto God and present our selues vnto him as we vse to do at the Sacrament in the way of thankfulnesse as an holy and liuely sacrifice acceptable vnto him by Iesus Christ Shal men fit their cattell for faires and markets and shall wee dresse vp our selues when we go to feasts and publike meetings And shall we not prepare and fit our selues and trim vp our soules when we come to this spirituall banquet and market in which we set our selues before the great God and graund Commander of all the world and wherein Christ Iesus and his inualuable and all-sufficient merits are set before our eies and offered to vs which we may buy without golde without monie without marchandize and which wee may touch wee may taste we may eate and drinke faith freely without surfetting without fulnesse and yet to the full We can neuer be so full of them but we may well desire to feele them more to feed and fil on them still They are so sweeâ—e in the mouth and so pleaâ—ant in the maw so good of taste and so easie of digestion Finally shal we dresse vp our houses shall wee in our own persons see al things set in order when we are to receiue and entertaine some great man as the King some noble person or our Land-lord And shall wee not our selues labour to decke and dresse vp our heartes and to order all things aright within vs when wee meane to receiue the Sacrament yea to welcome and entertaine the King of glory the Lord of life on whom wee doe depend and by whom wee haue and hold our liues naturall spirituall and aeternall and the true title vnto and the right vse of all our lands and goods who is also our King to gouerne vs our Intercessour to sue for vs our Shield to protect vs our frieud to counsell vs our food to releiue vs and our God to saue vs. Yea we desire to bee fitly dressed and prepared therefore let vs ransacke proue our selues And let vs doe it our selues For wee can best doe it and it will be best done when wee doe it our selues The heart is best acqâ—ainted with it selfe and either is or should bee most faithfull to it selfe and more studious of her owne good then another either is or can be Thus much for the first vse Secondly this Doctrine serues to correct the curiositie of many men who spend much paines in examining iudging of others but neuer call themselues to a reckoning There are some as quicke sighted aâ— Eaglâ—s to discerne and spie out the sinnes of other men but as blind as Beetles when they haue to do with themselues But if it would please them to looke vpon themselues to turne their eyes into their owne breasts to examine and weigh themselues they would not haue so much leasure to censure and search others If they would take due true notice of themselues they would haue worke enough within doores and might well spare their curious inquisition and vnnecessarie prying into o ther men Wee haue yrons ynough of our owne in the fire we need not curiously and ouer-busily meddle with other mens least our own should be burnt in the meane time I doe not taske those that are called to examine others do containe themselues within the lists and limits of their callings but those onely that are curiously without any calling occupied in this worke or which are wholly taken vp with examining and preparing of others neuer thinking seriously of themselues or sildome and not so often as they should He which examineth others or councels theÌ„ to examine themselues sheweth them how to doe it and in the meane while forgets or le ts passe himselfe is like the man that directeth an other and erreth himselfe hee may bee a meanes of good vnto others as those were that built the Arke and yet perish himselfe if he take not heed as they did Thus much for this second Doctrine A third followeth CHAP. 18. ANd so let him eat In that the Apostle hauing exhorted vs to examine our selues before we come to the Lords Supper doth immediatly adde a newe Commandement or exhortation saying And so let him eate c. I gather these three Doctrines First that it is not sufficient for Doct. 3 a man to examine himselfe and so to rest but that he ought also to allow of himselfe to approoue himselfe to God and to his owne conscience and to be perswaded in his heart that hee may come For whatsoeuer is not of fâ—ith is sinne but no man hath any sure warrant out of Gods word to come vnlesse hee doe approoue himselfe before Proâ—ation without Approbation will stand