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A10135 The table of the Lord whereof, 1. The vvhole seruice, is the liuing bread. 2. The guests, any man. 3. The mouth to eate, faith onely. By Gilbert Primerose, Doctour of Divinitie, one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinary, and pastour of the French church at London. Primrose, Gilbert, ca. 1580-1642. 1626 (1626) STC 20392; ESTC S114083 64,701 238

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CHAPTER I. I. Christ nourisheth not till he be eaten II. Foure parts of this Text cōcerning the eaters the bread the manner and the fruit of the eating thereof AS BREAD or any other food how necessary how sweet how excellent soever it be is not vsefull for the preservation of the life of man till he eate it Even so Iesus Christ although he be the living bread which came downe from heaven as he hath said in the first part of this verse although he liue a celestiall and divine life and a Psal 45.2 be fairer then all the children of men giveth not life vnto the dead and preserveth not the life which he hath givē till he be eaten as he himselfe teacheth vs in this second part of this verse If any man eate of this bread he shall liue for ever WHERE he sheweth I. What persons may eate of this bread in these words any man 2. Which is the bread wherof they must eat if they will eate to liue Certainly it must be of this bread which is come downe from heaven 3. What necessitie there is of this eating and what is the manner thereof to be cōsidered in the word Eate 4. The fruit which he that eateth of this bread shall reape thereby he shall liue for ever The sence of these foure parts ioyned with the foure parts of the words going before is as if Christ had said b Tolet. in Loc. Si ergo panis sum manducāter pasco Si vivue sum vitam praesto si viuo vitam immortalem aternam ac coelestem viuere alios facio simili vita Et ideo si quis manducat hunc panem viuet in aternum If I be bread I feed him that eateth If I be living I giue life If I liue an immortall eternall and celestiall life I make others to liue the same life And therefore if any man eate of this bread he shall liue for ever As many words as many mysteries which are able of themselues to stirre vp your religious attention without further encouraging therevnto from me CHAPTER II. I. Christ is bread common to all II. To Gentiles and to Iewes according to the Prophecies III. And types of the Law IV. Fulfilled by the death of Christ and the preaching of the Gospell V. Exhortation to thankesgiving for this benefit TO speake first of the Guests which may come and eat ye may judge by these words of the Text If any man that this bread is not like vnto c Exod. 12.43 the Passeover whereof no forreiner nor hired servant might eate Neither is it like vnto d Exod. 29.33 the Shew bread whereof it was not lawfull for any to eate but for the Priests Levit. 8.31.32 Levit. 24.9 Mat. 12.4 As in it there is no leaven of sinne so is it like vnto e Exod. 12.19 the vnleavened bread of the Passeover whereof the stranger did cate as well as he that was borne in the Land As it came downe from the third heaven so is it like vnto the Manna which rained from the first heaven and was f Exod. 16.16 Num. 12.4 meat not onely to the children of Israel but also to the mixed multitude which came out of Egypt with them For any man may eate of it FIRST any man without exception of Nation Secondly any man without exception of any person in any Nation The Prophets did foretell The Types did figure Iesus Christ did affirme it should be so The calling of the Gentiles ever since the dayes of the Apostles sheweth that it is so g Act. 10.43 All the Prophets saith Peter giue witnesse vnto Christ that through his Name whosoever beleeveth in him shall receiue remission of sinnes Did not God say to Eue who is the mother of all living that h Gen. 3.15 her seed should bruise the head of the Serpent Did not Noah prophecie that i Gen. 9.27 God should enlarge or perswade Iaphet and that he should dwell in the tents of Sem Did not God promise to Abraham that k Gen. 22.18 in his feed all the Nations of the earth should be blessed He saith not l Gal. 3.16 in his seeds as of many but as of one And to thy seed which is Christ Did not Iacob foretell that m Gen. 49.60 vnto Shilo should be the gathering of the people Did not Moses forewarne the Israelites that because n Deut. 32.21 they had moved God to iealousie with that which is not God and provoked him to anger with their vanities he would moue them to iealousie with those which are not people and provoke them to anger with a foolish Nation Was not that o Rom. 10.19 Prophecie fulfilled in the Apostles dayes When the Apostle said to the Iewes at Ierusalem that p Act. 22.21.22.23 he was to goe vnto the Gentiles they lift vp their voices cast off their clothes threw dust in the aire and cryd Away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit that he should liue When the Iewes of Antiochia saw that he preached the Gospell to the Gentiles q Act. 13.45 they were filled with envie It was to the Messias that God said by David r Psal 2.8 Aske of me and I shall giue thee the Heathen for thine inheritance and the vttermost parts of the earth for thy possession It was to him also that he said by Esaiah ſ Esa 49.6 It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise vp the tribes of Iacob and to restore the preserued of Israel I will also giue thee for a light to the Gentiles that thou mayest be my salvation vnto the end of the earth Which words when the Apostle alledged to the Gentiles of Antiochia t Act. 13.48 they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord and as many as were ordeined to eternall life beleeued It was of the Gentiles that God said u Esa 65.1 I am sought of them that asked not for me I am found of them that sought me not I said vnto a nation that was not called by my Name Behold me Behold me For so is this passage applyed by the x Rom. 10.20 Apostle and must be expounded so Of them also God said by Hosea y Hos 2.23 I will haue mercy vpō he that had not obtained mercy and I will say to them which were not my people Thou art my people and they shall say Thou art my God This passage is so formall and cleare that by it both S. a Rom. 9.26 Paul and S. b 1 Pet. 2.10 Peter proved the calling of the Gentiles including them in the new covenant and not excluding the Iewes c Act. 13.48 who were first called and when d Rom. 11.25 the fulnesse of the Gentiles shall come in shall be called againe and saved with vs according to the Prophecie e Esa 57.19 Peace peace to him that is far off
is contained in this word of eating and sheweth vnto vs the nature and true action of faith which is to apply Christ vnto our soules so neerly that every one out of the true sence of this heavenly gift in his owne heart saith most truly as the Spouse doth m Cant. 2.16 My beloved is mine and I am his and as Thomas did n Ioh. 20.21 My Lord and my God according to the promise of the new Testament o Zach. 13.9 I will say It is my people and they shall say The Lord is my God Such was the faith of S. Paul when he said p Gal. 2.20 I am crucified with Christ neverthelesse I liue yet not I but Christ liveth in me And the life which I now liue in the flesh I liue by the faith of the Sonne of God who loved ME and gaue himselfe for ME. Such is the faith of every true Christian according to this saying of S. Peter q 2 Pet. 1.1 ye haue obtained like precious faith with vs. What seeke we by eating of our daily bread To liue What seeke we by eating of Iesus Christ To haue communiō with him that we may liue by him The Apostle saith that we liue by faith Therefore saith S. Cyprian r Cypr. de Coena domini Qnod est escacarni hoc animae est fides That which food is to the body the same is faith to the soule For the same cause S. Augustin expounding the words of my Text saith that ſ Aug. in Iohan trac 26 Credere enim ineum hoc est manducare panem vivum to beleeue in Christ is to eate the living bread This is not their exposition It is from Christ himselfe as we haue heard CHAPTER XI I. To eate Christ by faith it is no imagination as Papists say II. Neither is it an easie thing by nature III. It goeth beyond the whole reach of nature IV. Therefore we must aske it of God V. And although it be weake be assured that it will eate Christ IF THAT be true say Papists if to eate Christ be no other thing but to beleeue in him there is nothing more easie then to be saved What is faith An imagination in the braine that Christ hath saved vs. How easily may we imagine such a thing and so be saved by a fancie 1. Indeed if we did speake of eating of Christ as they doe it might be said most truely that there is nothing more easie What so easie to any man as to open the mouth of the body and to swallow downe that which entereth into it Is there any Papist that findeth any difficultie in it Yea they hold their eating of Christ so easie that they make it common not onely to bad as well as to good men but also to toades wormes dogs asses mice and other beasts 2. When they speake of faith as of an imagination they teach vs what they iudge and what they will haue vs to sudge of their faith They say that they beleeue in God Is their beliefe nothing but an imagination They call on God And t Rō 10.14 how shall they call on him in whom they haue not beleeved u Rō 14.23 For whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne What Will they confesse that their prayers and in a word all their most laborious devotion is nothing but an imagination Aske of them how they know that Christs body is in the Sacrament as big and as tall as it was on the crosse although such a thing came never in Christs mind they will answer that Christ hath said it and they beleeue it That beliefe indeed is nothing but a most fond imagination But will they call it so 3. A great many of their Doctors confesse that in the first part of this Chapter till the one fiftie verse Christ speaketh of the spirituall manducation of his body and recommendeth it vnto vs and some of the most learned amongst them confirme by insoluble arguments that the whole Chapter is of the same argument And dare they say that Christ recommended nothing vnto vs but imaginations 4. Since the beginning of the world there was never any man saved but by the eating of Christ The Apostle writeth of the fathers which were in the desert that x 1 Cor. 10 3.4 they did all eate the same spirituall meate and did all drinke the same spirituall drinke y Aug. de poenit cap. 1. to 9. Eundem non inuenio quomodo intellig am nisi cum quem nos The same which we eat drink not corporall in the elemēt but spirituall in the signification For they dranke of that spirituall Rocke that followed them and that Rocke was Christ Was that eating and drinking of Christ before he came into the world nothing but an imagination How many milliōs of Christians die and are saved before they can eate Christ in the Sacrament And yet without eating of Christ spiritually there is no salvation Are they also saved by imagination When we shall be called a Rev. 19.7 to the marriage-supper of the Lambe when b Mat. 8.11 we shall sit downe with Abraham and Isaac and Iacob in the kingdome of heaven when there c Psal 36.8 God shall satisfie vs abundantly with the fatnesse of his house and shall make vs drinke of the river of his pleasures shall that eating and that drinking also be nothing but an imagination As we shall eate him then so must we eate him now AND to eate him so now is not an easie thing is not an imagination To see our owne misery and the mercy of God our naughtinesse and his goodnesse our emptinesse and his fulnesse our folly and his wisedome our weakenesse and his power our shame and his glory displayed in Iesus Christ is it an easie thing Is it an imagination To know and to feele how worthy I was of his hatred and how wonderfull is that loue wherwith he hath loved me in his deare Sonne Iesus Christ is it an easie thing is it an imagination To runne vnto Christ to imbrace him to take hold on him to lodge him in our hearts to say vnto him as Iacob did d Gen. 32.26 I will not let thee goe except thou blesse me Or rather with David e Ps 73.28 It is good for me to draw neere to God I haue put my trust in the Lord God And therefore I will never let thee goe that thou mayest blesse me for ever To seeke and finde grace mercie peace life and salvation in him and therevpon to say f Psal 118.6.14 The Lord is on my side I will not feare The Lord is my strength and song and is become my salvation is it an easie thing Is it an imagination SVRELY the eating of Christ by this kind of faith goeth so farre beyond the power and reach of nature that g Math. 16.17 flesh and blood doe not reveale Christ to be the Sonne of