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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41720	The communicants guide directing the younger sort, which have never yet received, and the elder, and ignorant sort, which have hitherto received unworthily, how they may receive the sacrament of the Lords Supper to their souls comfort together with a treatise of divine truths, collected out of ancient and moderne divines / by R. Gove ...	Gove, R. (Richard), 1587-1668.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1452; ESTC R17638	26,688	79

THE COMMUNICANTS GUIDE Directing The younger Sort which have never yet Received and the Elder and ignorant sort which have hitherto Received unworthily How they may Receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to their Souls comfort Together With a Treatise of DIVINE Truths Collected out of Ancient and Moderne DIVINES By R GOVE Sometime Preacher of Gods Word at Henton St. George in Sommerset 1 CORINTH. 11. 29. Hee that Eateth and Drinketh unworthily Eateth and Drinketh Damnation to himself LONDON Printed by J. G. for Richard Royston at the Angel in Ivie-lane 1654. To all those that do desire to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper worthily and to their Souls comfort ESPECIALLY To the younger sort which have never yet received and to the elder and ignorant sort which have hitherunto received unworthily R GOVE Who can do very little yet desireth to doe very much for the good of their Souls DEDICATETH These his Sacramentall instructions following A CATECHISME Short for Memory and plaine for Capacity containing the Grounds and Principles of the Christian Religion in generall Which every one should know that desires to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper worthily and to his Souls comfort QUESTION OF what Religion are you Ans. Of the Christian Religion Q. What Religion is that Ans. That which teacheth a Man to looke for salvation only by Jesus Christ Q. Where is this Religion taught you Ans. In the Holy Scriptures which are the written Word of God and containe all things needfull for our salvation Q What are the principall things and those most necessary to salvation which are taught us in the Scriptures A. They are two the one is what we are bound to know and the other is what we are bound to practise Q. What are we bound to know A. God and our selves Q. What must wee know concerning God A. We must know three things 1. that there is a God 2. What a one this God is and 3. What he hath done Q. How doe you assure your selfe there is a God A. 1. Gods Word reveales it 2. Gods Workes confirme it and 3. mine owne conscience doth assure me of it Q. What a one is God A. God is a Spirit most glorious in Nature three in Persons and one in Essence Q. What hath God done A. Hee hath decreed with himselfe from all eternity how all things shall be he made all things in the beginning and hee hath ever since sustained them and disposed of them Q. Thus much of that which we are to know concerning God tell me now next what we are to know concerning our selves A. We are to know three things 1. What we were 2. What we are and 3. What we shall be Q. What were we A. We were all in our first Creation perfect and happy Q. What are we A. We are all by nature sinnefull and miserable but by grace in Jesus Christ as many as God doth call are made righteous and happy Q. What shall we be A. Those amongst us that are good shall be everlastingly blessed in Heaven and those that are wicked shall be everlastingly tormented in Hell Q. And thus far touching our knowledge tell me now next what is required concerning our practise A. There is required in us all a care so to lead our lives as that thereby God and our Christian profession may have praise we comfort and others profit Q. How may we so leade our lives A. By ordering them according to the prescript rule of Gods Word set downe partly in the Law and partly in the Gosspell Q. What doth the Lord require A. Piety towards God Charity towards our Neighbours Sobriety towards our selves and Mercy towards all other living Creatures Q. What doth the Gospell require A. True faith and unfeigned Repentance as our only remedy for the breach of the Law Q. How are these Graces to be begun continued and perfected in us A. By faithfull and fervent Prayer by a due hearing and reading of the word and by worthy receiving of the Sacraments Q. How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in his Church thus to be received of us A. Two onely Baptisme and the Lords Supper Q. What is the use of Baptisme A. By Water washing the body to assure us that the bloud of Christ being applied to the Soule of the believer clenseth him from all his sins Q. What is the use of the Lords Supper A. To be a signe a seale and pledge unto us that Christ Jesus is given for us and to us for the nourishing and preserving of us unto eternall life JOH. 13. 17. If ye know these things blessed are ye if ye do them THE Communicants Guide Directing The younger sort which have never yet received and the elder and ignorant sort which have hitherunto received unworthily how they may Receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper worthily and to their Soules comfort Question WHat must he doe that would Receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper worthily and to his Soules comfort A. He must doe that which is required of a worthy Receiver before he commeth to receive whilest hee is Receiving and after he hath Received Q. What is required of a worthy Receiver before he commeth to receive A. There is required a serious and solemne preparation of himselfe Q. Wherein doth that serious and solemne preparation of a Mans selfe consist A. It consisteth in two things First in a solemne sequestring and setting apart of some convenient time wherein hee may betwixt God and his own Soule meditate on that which hee is about to doe and secondly in doing that which may prepare him for it Q. What time is fittest to be set apart for this businesse A. The whole time from the warning given of a Communion to the very time of receiving it should take up some of our thoughts touching the same but especially we should spend some part of the day immediately foregoing it in that businesse by retiring our selves from other company into some private place if it may be to performe the same and by withdrawing our minds for that time from all other businesses Q. What are the duties which in this time thus set apart a mam is to perform that he may be rightly prepared A. They are two The first is examination and the second is Prayer Q. Concerning what must a man examine himselfe A. He must examine himselfe whether he have in him those things which ought to be in a worthy Receiver Q. What are those things A. They are especially five First knowledge Secondly Faith Thirdly Repentance Fourthly Charity and Lastly an hungring and thirsting desire after Christ and the benefits of his death and passion Q. What knowledge ought there to be in a worthy Receiver A. There ought to be in him besides a competent knowledge of the grounds and principles of the Christian Religion in generall a more particular knowledge