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<P>CHRISTIANS LIBERTY TO The Lords Table, Di&s;covered by eight <HI>Arguments,</HI> thereby proving, that the <HI>Sacrament</HI> of the Body and Blood of our LORD, doth as well teach to Grace, as &s;trengthen and confirm Grace, And &s;o is common, as well to the outward <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> as to the inward <HI>Chri&s;tian:</HI> Occa&s;ioned by the contra|ry doctrine, taught by a &s;trange Mini&s;ter in <HI>Woolchurch,</HI> on the 29^t^h of <HI>June</HI> la&s;t. By <HI>I. G.</HI> a Pari&s;hioner there.</P>
<BIBL>Matthew 26. ver&s;. 20.</BIBL>
<Q>Now when the Even was come, Je&s;us &s;ate down with the twelve.</Q>
<BIBL>Gal. 4. ver&s;. 16.</BIBL>
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Am I therefore become your enemy, becau&s;e I tell you the truth?</Q>
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<P>Imprimatur,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED> JAMES CRANFORD.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Humphrey Robin&s;on,</HI> and are to be &s;old at the three Pigeons in <HI>Pauls</HI> Churchyard, 1645.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD>TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL JOHN ROWLES E&s;quire, one of the Honourable Hou&s;e of COMMONS of the High Court of PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IT is above thirty yeeres &s;ince the Lord hath brought mee to be an in|habitant of <HI>Woolchurch;</HI> And for the greattr part of this time, the providence of God hath &s;o ordered it, that I have enjoyed your ac|quaintance, which hath been pro|fitable, both to the outward and in|ward man, although of late, by rea&s;on of your great and high imployments for God and man, there hath not been that per&s;onall &s;ociety as heretofore; yet I often &s;ee you to participate in the be&s;t and excellent places of &s;ound Doctrine, in the way of truth and &s;al|vation, which with the knowledge I have of you, hath often moved my heart and &s;pirit, to &s;upplicate the God of heaven for you, as for my &s;elf, to whom it hath plea&s;ed God to make his Truth &s;o known, as to make mee a childe of it above twenty
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yeeres &s;ince, which heavenly Principles had I &s;o heeded and improved as I ought, I might have been by this time a &s;trong man in Chri&s;t Je&s;us. How ever, Sir, I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e to you, Gods mercies have been more and abundantly greater then my own mi&s;eries; and notwith&s;tanding mine own naturall indi&s;|po&s;ition and unaptne&s;&s;e to the good and &s;treight way of the Lord; yet hee hath &s;o magnified his good will and compa&s;sion, as thereby to make mee one, though the lea&s;t of his Di&s;ciples, who therefore cannot, nay dare not, but &s;peak the things I have &s;een and learned of him, notwith&s;tanding the Cro&s;&s;e and per|&s;ecution that attend on the obeying and declaring the truth, a part whereof you may &s;ee, if you plea&s;e to take view of the&s;e few en&s;uing lines, where you may ob&s;erve, that the te&s;tifying to the abundant mercy of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t manife&s;ted in the Sacrament, as in the Word, even for this, many are offended and ri&s;e up again&s;t mee, and do as much as in them lies, to make the world believe, that though they know me, yet they know me not; &s;o as that I am &s;een, and not di&s;cerned: and yet I fear not for to &s;peak, though I care not to be known, except to you and the whole hou&s;hold of faith, to whom the Lord continue his love and goodne&s;&s;e, which &s;hall be ever the prayer of him, who is truly yours and theirs,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>J. G.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="introduction">
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<HEAD>An <HI>Introduction</HI> to the <HI>Arguments,</HI> &s;hewing the cau&s;e of their writing.</HEAD>
<P>_HEaring many corrupt doctrines delivered in <HI>Wool-Church</HI> by a &s;tranger, where I am a Pari&s;hioner, the knowledge of the truth moved mee to write the&s;e eight Arguments, below &s;pecified, thereby to vindicate Gods great Bounty and free Grace &s;et forth to man-kinde by the Sacrament of the Bodie and Blood of our Lord, as well as by the Word preached. His Text was the&s;e words of the Apo&s;tle, <HI>But let a man examine him&s;elf, and &s;o let him eat,</HI> 1 Cor. 11. 28. affirming, that the Apo&s;tle here by the name <HI>man,</HI> &s;pake only of a &s;pirituall man; and that the Scriptures do in no place call a naturall man by the name of a man, alledging <HI>Jer.</HI> 5. 1. to prove it, with divers other Scriptures: and affirmed, that naturall men, all of them always, are denominated by the name of bea&s;ts, as <HI>Serpents,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 15. 23.</NOTE><HI>Vipers, Wolves, Dogs, Swine,</HI> bea&s;ts after the manner of men, &amp;c. Now to deliver this without the due di&s;tinction the Scriptures make, is very fal&s;e, and contrary to our Lords own doctrine, <HI>Joh.</HI> 3. 5. <HI>Except a man be born again,</HI> &amp;c. meaning by the name <HI>man,</HI> a naturall man: as al&s;o the Apo&s;tle, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2. 9. Now &s;ee his doctrine as &s;trange to the Scrip|tures, as the Preacher was to mee; for it is beyond exception, that as our Lord, &s;o his &s;ervant means by the name <HI>man,</HI> naturall men. And as the mi&s;under&s;tanding of the Scripture is the ground of all errour and &s;chi&s;me; &s;o from the&s;e premi&s;&s;es he drew this &s;trange conclu&s;ion, that one in nature, and unregenerated, ought not to be admitted to the Supper of the Lord: and becau&s;e hee had no plain Scripture that forbids a naturall man, which hath received the faith, to believe and to be baptized, therefore he fal&s;ly affirmed, that <HI>John</HI> the Bapti&s;t, <HI>Mat.</HI> 3. 7. forbad the <HI>Phari&s;ees</HI> and <HI>Sadduces</HI> to come to his bapti&s;me; and &s;o argued from the le&s;&s;er to the greater, that if Bapti&s;me which is the le&s;|&s;er, ought to be denyed to impenitent men, much more the Sacrament, which is the greater, ought to be denyed naturall men; and this hee
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&s;ham'd not to affirm, although there be not one word in the Text of <HI>Johns</HI> denying the <HI>Phari&s;ees</HI> and <HI>Sadduces,</HI> and &s;o went on to &s;hew ma|ny Rea&s;ons why naturall men ought not to be admitted to the Lords Table: Fir&s;t, &s;aith hee, becau&s;e a naturall man cannot di&s;cern what the Sacrament &s;hewes forth: Secondly, becau&s;e all naturall men are Serpents, Vipers, Dogs, Swine, cruell and &s;avage bea&s;ts, to whom the holy and precious things of the Sacrament ought not to be given; for naturall men, &s;aith he, are no more capable of them, then the bea&s;ts that peri&s;h: Thirdly, becau&s;e all naturall men are forbidden to come, as Chri&s;t in another ca&s;e &s;aid, <HI>Mat.</HI> 5. 23, 24. <HI>If thou bringe&s;t thy gift to the Altar, and remembre&s;t thy brother hath ought again&s;t thee; go fir&s;t and be reconciled to thy brother, and then come,</HI> &amp;c. in which Rea&s;on this yong Mini&s;ter did not remember that our Lord here &s;peaks of a brother, not naming him a naturall unregenerated man, neither is it to be un|der&s;tood only of the Sacrament, for there we come rather to receive then give: Fourthly, becau&s;e, &s;aith he, every naturall man that comes to the Sacrament, is that man, <HI>Matth.</HI> 22. 11, 12, 13. that had not on the wedding garment, who therefore &s;peechle&s;&s;e was ca&s;t into utter darkne&s;&s;e; which if this be &s;o, then all the unregenerate elect in recei|ving the Sacrament, are in that ca&s;e and condition, &s;o that none of them by his rea&s;oning &s;hall be converted (if they receive the Sacra|ment) but condemned, which is bla&s;phemy to affirme, and all that have heretofore received it, before regeneration, &s;hall peri&s;h: Fifth|ly, becau&s;e who&s;oever giveth the Sacrament to a wicked naturall man, doth therein ca&s;t the childrens bread to Dogs: Sixtly, be|cau&s;e the Sacrament was ordained only to confirme Grace, and not at all for the begetting of grace: as bread is not given to beget, but to &s;u&s;tain a man: Seventhly, hee that comes to the Lords Table, being unregenerate, is that fathers &s;on, <HI>Mat.</HI> 21. 30. &s;aying <HI>Go,</HI> and <HI>went not.</HI> His U&s;es following, did aggravate his Doctrine and Rea&s;ons, as it follows: al&s;o he did affirm, that the damned &s;hall cry out of hell, to &s;uch Mini&s;ters as have delivered the Sacrament to &s;uch naturall men here in their life-time, and &s;hall &s;ay, Thou gave&s;t me my damnation in giving me the Sacrament; for I was blind and &s;aw it not, dead and di&s;cern'd it not, and therefore wo be to you that have given mee my eternall confu&s;ion and de&s;truction, with many more of the&s;e and the like &s;trange and fond expre&s;&s;ions of his own vi&s;ion, invented by his own brain, contrary to Gods truth; hee concluding the&s;e vanities with &s;uch a &s;eeming confidence as no man could contradict or gain|&s;ay,
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but a&s;&s;ured him&s;elf, that every one that heard him, were &s;atisfied with the cleere truth of this dark light, urging it on the Congrega|tion again and again with the&s;e or the like words.</P>
<P>Now I hope there is none but who are fully &s;atisfied, who&s;e impor|tunities for mi&s;takings, where no le&s;&s;e then an engagement to mee which under&s;tood their fal&s;ene&s;&s;e, to make the&s;e oppo&s;ing <HI>Grounds,</HI> pre&s;ently turning them into eight <HI>Arguments;</HI> proving thereby, that the Sacrament of the body and blood of our Lord, ought not to be denyed to any that receive the common faith and outward Bapti&s;me, except in the ca&s;e of excommunication, and in that re&s;pect the &s;piritu|all as well as the carnall may be excluded:</P>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> He that preacheth that the Sacrament of the Lords Table, doth not as well teach to the begetting of grace as the confirming of grace, hee is igno|rant of the nature of the Sacrament, and of the Word of God; but &s;o it was preached at <HI>Woolchurch</HI> on the <HI>29^t^h</HI> of <HI>June, 1645.</HI> Ergo.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> If by the preaching the Word, Chri&s;t crucified, be the means to beget grace, then the vi&s;ible manife&s;tation to the eye (as well as to the eare) of the &s;ignes if his death, are the means of begetting of grace al&s;o; But by the preaching of the Word to the eare, Chri&s;t crucified, is manife&s;ted or &s;et forth for the begetting of grace, <HI>Gal. 3. 1. 1 Cor. 1. 23, 24.</HI> Therefore the vi|&s;ible manife&s;tation of the &s;ignes of Chri&s;ts death are for the bagetting of grace al&s;o, <HI>1 Cor. 11. 26. Matth. 26. 28.</HI></P>
<P N="3"><HI>3.</HI> If Gods Word &s;ay, <HI>So often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, yee do &s;hew the Lords death till he come,</HI> then the Sacrament doth teach grace to be received by Chri&s;t, as well as confirm the grace already re|ceived; but the Apo&s;tle &s;o &s;aith, <HI>1 Cor. 11. 26.</HI> therefore hee that teacheth otherwi&s;e is ignorant of the Scripture, and of the nature of the Sacrament, as al&s;o it is proved, <HI>Luke 22. 19, 20. Matth. 26. 28.</HI></P>
<P N="4"><HI>4.</HI> He that teacheth, that who&s;oever giveth the Sacrament of bread and wine to a naturall man, although hee believe the Scriptures, and be bapti|zed, doth hereby ca&s;t holy things to Dogs and pearles before Swine, &s;uch a Preacher doth not under&s;tand the command of our Lord in that place, <HI>Matth. 7. 6.</HI> But &s;o it was taught in the place and time above &s;aid; <HI>Ergo.</HI></P>
<P N="5"><HI>5.</HI> Who&s;oever &s;o teacheth as afore&s;aid, doth either willingly or ignorant|ly, or both, te&s;tifie that Chri&s;ts practice was again&s;t his commandment, which is bla&s;phemy &s;o to affirm; but &s;o it was affirmed in <HI>Woolchurch</HI> in the time and place above &s;aid; <HI>Ergo.</HI> For hee gave the bread and cup to <HI>Judas</HI> amongst the re&s;t of the twelve, <HI>Matth. 26. 20.</HI> to the <HI>30^t^h ver&s;e, Luke 22. 14.</HI> to the <HI>22. ver&s;e, John 13. Mark 14. 17.</HI> to the <HI>25. ver&s;e,</HI> and
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in &s;o doing hee did not ca&s;t holy things to Dogs, nor pearles before Swine.</P>
<P N="6"><HI>6.</HI> If the Scripture &s;hew to us that all that had the common or hi&s;toricall faith to believe Je&s;us Chri&s;t come in the fle&s;h, had admi&s;&s;ion after bapti&s;me to the Lords Supper, and &s;o by and through the common gifts of Gods Spirit might examine them&s;elves, and di&s;cerne the Lords body, according to the Apo&s;tles meaning, <HI>1 Cor. 11. 28.</HI> then he that re&s;trains it to the &s;pirituall Chri&s;tian only, pre&s;umes above what is written; but at <HI>Woolchurch,</HI> the place and time above &s;aid, the re&s;traint was affirmed; <HI>Ergo.</HI></P>
<P N="7"><HI>7.</HI> If the Pa&s;chall Lamb to the <HI>Jewes</HI> were the &s;ame that the Supper of the Lord is to Chri&s;tians, then all Chri&s;tians are to have the &s;ame liberty as the <HI>Jewes,</HI> both outward and inward, carnall and &s;pirituall, <HI>Exod. 12. 47.</HI> But the Supper of the Lord is the &s;ame in effect as the Pa&s;&s;eover, <HI>1 Cor. 5. 7. Heb. 11. 28.</HI> of the which the carnall <HI>Jewes</HI> were to communicate as well as the &s;pirituall; <HI>Ergo,</HI> carnall Chri&s;tians may communicate as well as &s;pirituall Chri&s;tians.</P>
<P N="8"><HI>8.</HI> He that teacheth, that who&s;oever delivereth the Sacrament to a wicked unregenerated man, delivers to him his damnation, preacheth a devilli&s;h doctrine; for therein he condemneth the Lord of life, for the Word and Sa|craments are not properly the cau&s;es of mens damnations in them&s;elves, but ca&s;ually and accidentally; But &s;o it was affirmed in the place and time above|&s;aid, that who&s;oever delivereth the Sacrament to a wicked unregenerate man, delivers to him his damnation; <HI>Ergo,</HI> he that &s;o teacheth, preacheth a dam|nable and devilli&s;h doctrine.</P>
<P>The&s;e <HI>Arguments</HI> were delivered to the Preacher by the Clerk &s;ome two days after his Sermon, and the next Lords day after Prayer in the Pulpit, he did declare to the Congregation, that hee had received di|vers <HI>Arguments</HI> again&s;t the doctrine hee had taught them the Lords day before; and that they may the more cleerly be an&s;wered, &s;aith hee, I will make repetition of what I delivered before unto you ver|batim, and accordingly did repeat two thirds of his Sermon, or there|abouts: &s;ome of the &s;aid particulars hee in repeating, delivered with more caution then before, other things hee wholly omitted; and when he had fini&s;hed his repetition, then he drew forth the <HI>Arguments</HI> with <HI>An&s;wers</HI> written to every one, as he affirmed, although indeed and in truth, not any one of them were an&s;wered. And notwith&s;tan|ding his publike notice in the Pulpit, that who&s;oever would, might have copies, yet my importunitie the&s;e nine or ten dayes together can|not procure his An&s;wers, that I might make my Replication, thereby to open the Scriptures that prove my <HI>Arguments:</HI> As al&s;o to &s;hew the
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weakne&s;&s;e and invalidity of his <HI>An&s;wers,</HI> although I have promi&s;ed mo|ney for the writing thereof, and as yet hee will not avouch them, not|with&s;tanding his publike vaunting at the fir&s;t; yea, my importunity was &s;uch, as that he pa&s;&s;ed his faithfull promi&s;e to me before a friend in private, that within two dayes after I &s;hould have them; but I un|der&s;tood he was prevented by &s;ome pari&s;hioners, that in affection to|wards me are di&s;&s;ented, wherfore I am for&s;t to call them to mind by my memory, which he read written to the auditory.</P>
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<HEAD>His An&s;wer to my fir&s;t <HI>Argument.</HI></HEAD>
<P>To the fir&s;t, &s;aith hee, I an&s;wer, that the Sacrament of the Lords Supper doth not teach to the begetting of faith; for that is the proper office of the Word alone, <HI>Rom. 10. 17.</HI> &s;o then &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, <HI>Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God,</HI> and therefore not by the Sacrament, &amp;c.</P>
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<HEAD>My Replication to his fir&s;t <HI>An&s;wer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>In my affirming that the bread and wine, the &s;ignes of the Lords Body and Blood, do teach grace where it is not, as well as confirme grace where it is; I do not therein deny that <HI>faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God,</HI> but I affirm that the &s;ame Word is al&s;o taught and preached by the Sacrament. For the Text hee alledgeth, doth not &s;ay as he affirmeth, that it is the office of the Word alone, but the&s;e are the Apo&s;tles words; &s;o then <HI>faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.</HI> Now we mu&s;t ob&s;erve, that the term <HI>faith</HI> hath divers acceptations in the Scriptures; and for the clearing this point, I will ob&s;erve but two di&s;tinctions: Fir&s;t, as it is referred to God the Creator; and &s;econdly, as it hath re&s;pect to Je&s;us Chri&s;t the Saviour; and in both the&s;e re&s;pects the heart is as truly taught by the eye, by &s;eeing Gods works, as by the ear through hearing Gods Word. The fir&s;t di&s;tinction is fully proved by the Apo&s;tle, <HI>Rom.</HI> 1. 19. 20. becau&s;e that which may be known of God, is manife&s;t in them, (that is, to mankinde) for God &s;aith, Hee hath &s;hewed it unto them, for the invi&s;ible things of him from the creation of the world, are cleerly &s;een, being under&s;tood by the things that are made, even his eternall power and Godhead; &s;o that they are without excu&s;e: And that holy man <HI>Job,</HI> of whom God him&s;elf te&s;tifies, that hee was his &s;ervant, he was wel acquainted with this truth: <HI>Job</HI> 12. 7, 8. <HI>But ask now,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>the bea&s;ts, and they &s;hall teach thee, and the fowles of the aire, and</HI>
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<HI>they &s;hall tell thee; or &s;peak unto the earth, and it &s;hall teach thee, and the fi&s;hes of the Sea &s;hall declare unto thee:</HI> And again, two Apo&s;tles, <HI>Paul</HI> and <HI>Barnabas</HI> give in evidence to this truth at <HI>Ly&s;tra,</HI> &s;aying, <HI>Acts</HI> 14. 17. <HI>Neverthele&s;&s;e, he</HI> (that is, God) <HI>left not him&s;elf without witne&s;&s;e in that hee did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitfull &s;ea&s;ons, filling our hearts with food and gladne&s;&s;e;</HI> and again, S^t <HI>Paul,</HI> Rom. 2. 4. <HI>Or de|&s;pi&s;e&s;t thou the riches of his goodne&s;&s;e, and forbearance and long-&s;uffering, not knowing that the goodne&s;&s;e of God leadeth thee to repentance,</HI> (that is) to return to God? And for the further proof of this, the Prophet <HI>Da|vid</HI> is very ample and large, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 19. <HI>Day unto day uttereth &s;peech, and night unto night &s;heweth,</HI> that is, declareth, or preacheth knowledge, there is no &s;peech nor language where their voyce is not heard. And &s;econdly, that faith in Je&s;us Chri&s;t is taught vi&s;ibly by the eye, as au|dibly by the eare, the Scriptures do as clearly and plainly declare al|&s;o; for thus did all the &s;hadowes under the Law vi&s;ibly and openly teach and preach Chri&s;t as the Sacraments under the Go&s;pel; and this was the only objection of the <HI>Nonconformi&s;ts</HI> ever &s;ince King <HI>Ed|ward</HI> the &s;ixth his time, that none but God could put or impo&s;e upon his Church teaching &s;ignes or ceremonies, and &s;uch teaching &s;ignes, Sacraments or &s;hadows was circumci&s;ion, the Pa&s;chall Lamb, and all other ceremonies before Chri&s;t; And &s;o &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, <HI>Col.</HI> 2. 16, 17. <HI>Meats and drinks, Holy dayes and new Moons, or Sabbath dayes were a &s;hadow of things to come, but the body is of Chri&s;t;</HI> &s;o al&s;o the Sanctua|ry, the gifts and &s;acrifices, and the Prie&s;thood under the Law, &s;erve unto the example and &s;hadow of heavenly things, <HI>Heb.</HI> 9. And as Je&s;us Chri&s;t was thus vi&s;ibly taught by the eye to the heart under the Law, &s;o he is more clearly taught, preached and &s;et forth by the two Sacra|ments of Bapti&s;me and the Lords Supper, now under the Go&s;pell, which do as vi&s;ibly manife&s;t him as the Word doth audibly, and as the Rainbow in the clouds when it appeareth to the eye, doth cer|tainly teach the heart Gods perpetuall faithfulne&s;&s;e in his promi&s;e, &s;o the vi&s;ible &s;ignes of Chri&s;ts Body and Blood in the Sacrament, and are a lively ample vi&s;ible Sermon to us of Chri&s;ts death and pa&s;&s;ion, his giving him&s;elf for mans &s;alvation, and do teach and in&s;truct us to grace and mercy by Je&s;us Chri&s;t, as truly as the Word preached; &s;o that now it is cleer by what hath been proved, that if the vi&s;ible crea|tures teach the &s;ame truth in their mea&s;ure that the audible creatures do, then &s;o doth al&s;o the bread and wine &s;et apart to be received, that Chri&s;ts death may be commemorated, and they therein declare and
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preach al&s;o in their mea&s;ure the word of Grace, and promi&s;e the new and living way to life by the body of Chri&s;t: which &s;hal be further ope|ned by my Replication to his An&s;wer of the third Argument. And by the way take notice, that this my fir&s;t Argument is the &s;ame in effect that M^r. <HI>Perkins</HI> laies down in his fifth Principle, where hee makes the means to attain faith to be the Sacrament as well as the Word and Prayer; and &s;o al&s;o in the <HI>Directory,</HI> pag. 52. in the&s;e words, <HI>And we are to give thanks to God for all means of grace, the Word and Sacraments.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="answer">
<HEAD>His An&s;wer to my &s;econd <HI>Argument.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The &s;econd Argument hee denyed al&s;o, and gave no An&s;wer to the fir&s;t Scripture, <HI>Gal. 3. 1.</HI> but to the &s;econd Text, <HI>1 Cor. 1. 23, 24.</HI> where the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>Wee preach Chri&s;t crucified, unto the</HI> Jews <HI>a &s;tumbling block, and unto the</HI> Greeks <HI>fooli&s;hne&s;&s;e, but to them that are called of God, both</HI> Jewes <HI>and</HI> Greeks, <HI>Chri&s;t the power of God, and the wi&s;|dome of God;</HI> in which words, &s;aith hee, the Apo&s;tle doth not prove that Chri&s;t crucified doth convert <HI>Jews</HI> and <HI>Greeks,</HI> but that he is to one a &s;tum|bling blocke, and to the other fooli&s;hne&s;&s;e, but in the next ver&s;e, to them that are called of God, both <HI>Jews</HI> and <HI>Greeks,</HI> Chri&s;t the power of God, and the wi&s;dome of God; &s;o that hee affirmed this Scripture is nothing at all to my Argument, thus or to this effect, as my memory &s;erves me was his An&s;wer.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="reply">
<HEAD>My Reply to his &s;econd <HI>An&s;wer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A man can never preach truly, that doth not di&s;tingui&s;h of termes that differ rightly, for in the&s;e two ver&s;es, the Apo&s;tle &s;peaks of <HI>Jewes</HI> and <HI>Greeks</HI> in a twofold notion, that is, of both nations, of &s;uch as were ca&s;t away and reprobate; as al&s;o of &s;uch in both nations as were ordained and elected to eternall life; to the fir&s;t the preaching of Chri&s;t crucified, proved through their own wickedne&s;&s;e and oppo&s;ing the truth, to the one nation fooli&s;hnes, to the other people a &s;tumbling block, which notwith&s;tanding the &s;ame doctrine to the elected part of both nations through Gods grace working their hearts to receive it, became to them the power of God, and the wi&s;dome of God to their &s;alvations: And although the elect are here denominated the called of God, they are &s;o declared, becau&s;e the word of grace preaching Chri&s;t crucified had effectually wrought on them and called them: And &s;o al&s;o &s;hould from time to time call all others, of all nations, that are of the election of grace; &s;o that the Scripture is full and per|tinent to prove the Argument, as al&s;o the other Scripture, <HI>Gal.</HI> 3. 1. of
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which he made no mention at all, as my memory &s;erves me, although thereby the Apo&s;tle proves plainly to the <HI>Galatians,</HI> that the truth was effectually taught to them, by having Je&s;us Chri&s;t crucified evi|dently &s;et forth before their eyes among&s;t them, whereby the very &s;trength of the Argument is proved, that as the Word of Chri&s;t cruci|fied &s;poken to the eare teacheth, or is a means to work grace; &s;o al&s;o is the Sacrament of bread and wine, that doth teach, preach or ma|nife&s;t the &s;ame Chri&s;t crucified to the eye, by which the heart is infor|med as by the eare.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="3" TYPE="argument">
<DIV2 TYPE="answer">
<HEAD>His An&s;wer to the third <HI>Argument.</HI></HEAD>
<P>To this hee an&s;werd negatively al&s;o; and as I remember, found fault with the tran&s;lation of the Scripture alledged by me for the proof of my <HI>Ar|gument,</HI> and &s;aid, the words <HI>yee do &s;hew the Lords death, till</HI> &amp;c. is not truly tran&s;lated, for it &s;hould be, <HI>&s;hew yee,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="reply">
<HEAD>My Reply to his third <HI>An&s;wer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>This mans an&s;wer to this Scripture, is like the an&s;wer that an <HI>Arri|an</HI> made me not long ago, to another Scripture I alledged again&s;t his bla&s;phemous po&s;ition of <HI>Arriani&s;me,</HI> he maintaining that Chri&s;t was a meere man, and that to affirm a Trinity in Unity of the Godhead, was non&s;en&s;e and ridiculous, and contrary to rea&s;on, nature, learning and Scripture: Will you be judged by Scripture? &s;aid I, yes &s;aid he: where|upon I demanded what he thought of 1 <HI>Joh.</HI> 5. 7. <HI>There are three that beare record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Gho&s;t, and the&s;e three are one,</HI> here &s;aid I the Scripture affirms the Trinity in Unity. Oh, Sir, &s;aid he, the Text it not truly tran&s;lated, for the word in the originall is, <HI>they do agree in one:</HI> I pray, &s;aid I, what other acceptation hath the word, or how can you expre&s;&s;e it otherwi&s;e from the origi|nall; it is, &s;aid he, as truly to be tran&s;lated, <HI>they are one,</HI> as <HI>they agree in one:</HI> then &s;aid I, your own mouth is witne&s;&s;e, for by your own words you have confirmed the Text; &s;o I &s;ay to this Lingui&s;t, that in the Margin, <HI>&s;hew yee,</HI> &amp;c. is the &s;ame in the Text, <HI>yee do &s;hew,</HI> &amp;c. And therefore it is full for the &s;ame purpo&s;e for which I brought it, and plainly proves, that &s;o often as the Supper of the Lord is celebrated, the death of Chri&s;t thereby is manife&s;ted, preached, declared, and &s;hewed forth to the communicants, the beholders and participaters of the bread and wine the &s;ignes of the Lords Body and Blood; and this the Scriptures do cleerly and apparently teach and &s;et forth to us,
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if you con&s;ider the terms the Holy Gho&s;t u&s;es for that very end and purpo&s;e; as that of our Lord which I alledged for the proof of my Argument, <HI>Luke</HI> 22. 19, 20. <HI>This is my body which was given for you, this do in remembrance of me; al&s;o this cup is the new Te&s;tament in my blood which is &s;hed for you;</HI> where by <HI>body,</HI> we are to under&s;tand the bread that &s;ignifies his <HI>Body;</HI> And &s;o by cup, &s;ignifying his <HI>Blood,</HI> and in obeying his command to eat the bread, and to drink of the cup, the end and intent of eating and drinking, is to commemorate his death and pa&s;&s;ion, and &s;o often as we do &s;o eat and drink, wee participate of that which ma|nife&s;teth to us the new Covenant, which is the only means that God hath ordained for &s;alvation, proved to us in the&s;e words, <HI>This cup is the new Te&s;tament in my blood which was &s;hed for you,</HI> &amp;c. And by the apt lively vi&s;ible &s;ignes to the eye of bread and wine is preached to us the new and living way which hee hath new made and con&s;e|crated for us through the vaile, that is to &s;ay, <HI>his fle&s;h,</HI> Heb. 10. 20. yea, as apparently as it is preached and made known to the ears by words; and as S^t. <HI>Luke,</HI> &s;o S^t. <HI>Matthew</HI> hath it thus, <HI>This is my body, &amp;c. this is my blood of the new Te&s;tament,</HI> &amp;c. giving to the &s;ignes the very name of his body and blood, that who&s;oever readeth or &s;eeth the &s;ignes, may be thereby taught the benefit of Chri&s;ts death, thereby purcha&s;ing for man-kinde repentance and remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins, which as it is in his name preached to the ears by the word, &s;o manife&s;ted to the eyes by broken bread and powred out wine, for the eye and ear are equall in-lets to the heart; &s;o that it is cleerly proved, that the Sacrament of the Sup|per of the Lord doth as truly teach grace where it is not, as it doth confirm it where it is.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="4" TYPE="argument">
<DIV2 TYPE="answer">
<HEAD>His An&s;wer to my fourth <HI>Argument.</HI></HEAD>
<P>To the fourth Argument, hee &s;aith, the pa&s;&s;age in his Sermon concerning <HI>Matth. 7. 5.</HI> was but by way of allu&s;ion to that Scripture.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="reply">
<HEAD>My Reply to his fourth <HI>An&s;wer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>He did &s;o allude to that Scripture, as that hee confidently affirmed that all wicked and unregenerated men were Dogs and Swine, and who&s;oever did admini&s;ter the Sacrament to &s;uch, did therein ca&s;t ho|ly things to Dogs, and pearles before Swine; therefore I &s;ay &s;till, that he that &s;o teacheth, directly orindirectly, po&s;itively or con&s;equently, &s;uch a Preacher doth not under&s;tand the command of our Lord in <HI>Matth.</HI> 7. 5. neither did the Preacher by his &s;eeming eva&s;ion, an&s;wer
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the <HI>Argument,</HI> but it &s;tands &s;till in every part of its &s;trength again&s;t him; for in the Scriptures all naturall men are not called Dogs and Swine, but &s;uch as have been enlightened, and have been made par|takers of the Holy Gho&s;t in its common gifts, and having thereby re|ceived the truth in &s;ome mea&s;ure and efficacie, to be outwardly clean|&s;ed from the pollution of the world, through the knowledg of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and yet turn from the holy commandment given unto them, and become in&s;nared, intangled, and overcome again with the pollution from which they were wa&s;hed, and again lick up the filth they had vomited, the&s;e, and &s;uch as the&s;e, are Swine that wallow in the mire again, and Dogs that return to their vomit, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. 22. <HI>Heb.</HI> 6. 4, 5, 6. who, as they di&s;cover them&s;elves, the way of cen&s;ure and excommunication is to be u&s;ed with them.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="5" TYPE="argument">
<DIV2 TYPE="answer">
<HEAD>His An&s;wer to my fifth <HI>Argument.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Again&s;t my fifth <HI>Argument,</HI> bee peremptorily affirmed, that <HI>Judas</HI> was not with the twelve when the Sacrament was in&s;tituted and admini&s;tred; and fir&s;t, for the proof thereof, if my memory fail me not, he told the Con|gregation, that the tran&s;lators of the Bible had not placed the <HI>21.</HI> ver&s;e of the <HI>22.</HI> chapter of <HI>Luke</HI> in the right place, but they ought to have brought in tho&s;e words of that ver&s;e next after the <HI>16.</HI> ver&s;e. And who affirmed that &s;o it was in the originall, the Greek Te&s;tament: &s;econdly, hee affirmeth that our Lords giving <HI>Judas</HI> the &s;op, he gave him part of the Pa&s;&s;eover, <HI>Joh. 13. 30.</HI> who, as &s;oon as hee received it hee went away, and &s;o parted from the twelve before the Sacrament was in&s;tituted.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="reply">
<HEAD>My Reply to his fifth <HI>An&s;wer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Now, in &s;tead of an&s;wering my <HI>Argument,</HI> hee hath wronged the Scriptures, and abu&s;ed the tran&s;lators of the Bible; for &s;uch as have good skill in the Greek, &s;ay, that the&s;e words, <HI>and behold the hand of him that betrayeth me is on the table with me,</HI> in the Greek copy, is the 21. ver&s;e, and follows after the in&s;titution &amp; admini&s;tration of the Sacra|ment, as it doth in our Engli&s;h tran&s;lation. And that <HI>Judas</HI> was among&s;t the Apo&s;tles, and had equall participation with the re&s;t in the Pa&s;&s;e|over and Supper of our Lord, this is probable by the te&s;timony of all the Evangeli&s;ts, beginning with <HI>Matthew,</HI> and &s;o proceed according to the order of the Scripture, <HI>Matth.</HI> 26. 20. <HI>Now when even was come, hee &s;ate down with the twelve,</HI> among whom was <HI>Judas</HI> the traytor, ver&s;. 21. 23. 25. &amp; 26. who, after Chri&s;t had <HI>ble&s;&s;ed the bread, hee gave</HI>
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<HI>it to the Di&s;ciples,</HI> and ver&s;. 27. After he had <HI>given thanks, he gave the cup unto them, &s;aying, drink yee all of it,</HI> excepting none, no not <HI>Judas:</HI> And S^t. <HI>Marks</HI> te&s;timony is as cleere as this, <HI>Mark</HI> 14. 17. <HI>And in the evening,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>he came with the twelve, and as they &s;ate and did eate,</HI> ver&s;. 18. <HI>Je&s;us &s;aid, Verily I &s;ay unto you, one of you that eateth with mee &s;hall betray mee,</HI> that was <HI>Judas I&s;cariot. And as they did eat,</HI> ver&s;. 22: that is, Chri&s;t and his twelve Apo&s;tles, <HI>Je&s;us took bread and ble&s;&s;ed, and brake it, and gave it to them,</HI> that is, to the twelve, <HI>and &s;aid, Take, eat, &amp;c. And hee took the cup,</HI> ver&s;. 23. <HI>and wheu hee had given thankes, he gave it to them, and they all drunk of it,</HI> &s;aith the Text. Now who were they <HI>all</HI> but the twelve that &s;ate down with him? and thus cleer is S^t. <HI>Lukes</HI> witne&s;&s;e al&s;o, <HI>Luke</HI> 22. 14. <HI>And when the hour was come,</HI> &s;aith hee, <HI>hee &s;ate down, and the twelve Apo&s;tles with him.</HI> Ob&s;erve, here is <HI>Judas</HI> among&s;t the re&s;t, and the Lord bids them, <HI>deliver the cup amongst them&s;elves,</HI> ver&s;. 17. there's <HI>Judas</HI> &s;till, and in ver&s;. 19. <HI>Hee tooke bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, &s;aying, This is my body which is given for you, do this in remembrance of me,</HI> there was <HI>Judas</HI> &s;till: and in the 21. ver&s;. our Lord him&s;elf affirms it certainly, <HI>Behold,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table:</HI> &s;o that you &s;ee there cannot po&s;&s;ibly be fuller nor plainer words expre&s;&s;ed then the&s;e in&s;tanced, which prove <HI>Judas</HI> all this while with the twelve, both at the Pa&s;&s;eover and at the Sacrament. And la&s;tly, S^t. <HI>Johns</HI> witne&s;&s;e is as cleer as the re&s;t, if you compare them together, even all the four Evangeli&s;ts; for although <HI>John</HI> doth not nominate the in&s;titution of the Lords Supper, yet it is plainly included in the four fir&s;t ver&s;es of the 13. Chapter, in the&s;e words, <HI>And &s;upper being ended,</HI> which words briefly contain all the particulars that the other three Evangeli&s;ts at large &s;et forth, which is, that at the Supper of the Pa&s;&s;eover, our Lord in&s;tituted the Sacrament, the Supper of his Pa&s;&s;ion; yea, both of them before Supper was ended; and therefore it is &s;aid in the 4. <HI>ver&s;. hee ri&s;eth from &s;upper,</HI> that is, our Lord, and none el&s;e, <HI>and he laid a&s;ide his garment and took a towell,</HI> &amp;c. and with <HI>water wa&s;hed his Di&s;ciples feet,</HI> among&s;t whom he wa&s;ht <HI>Judas</HI> with the re&s;t, therefore hee &s;aid, ver&s;. 10. <HI>yee are clean, but not all,</HI> ver&s;. 11. <HI>for he knew who &s;hould betray him,</HI> and therefore he &s;aid, <HI>yee are not all clean;</HI> &s;o after he had wa&s;hed their feet, &s;aith the Text, and taken his gorments which hee had put off, when hee did ri&s;e from them, and was &s;et down again, that is with the twelve that had not ri&s;en from the table, but &s;ate &s;till all the while he wa&s;hed them, and after he was &s;ate down again, he exhorted
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them to humility and brotherly love; and that they &s;hould do one to another as hee had done to them; and that his example &s;hould be their pattern, &s;aying, <HI>If yee know the&s;e things, happy are yee if you do them, I &s;peak not to you all, I know whom I have cho&s;en;</HI> and then tels them of a Prophe&s;ie in the 41. <HI>P&s;alme,</HI> that one that did eate bread with him, <HI>&s;hould lift up his heel again&s;t him,</HI> that is, <HI>betray him.</HI> And the Apo&s;tles hearing it was one of them, (here is <HI>Judas</HI> among&s;t them &s;till) <HI>Peter</HI> beckned to <HI>John,</HI> to ask the Lord who, or which of them it &s;hould be, <HI>Je&s;us an&s;wered,</HI> ver&s;. 26. <HI>he it is, to whom I &s;hall give a &s;op</HI> or <HI>a mor&s;el,</HI> as it is in the margin, <HI>and he gave it to</HI> Judas I&s;cariot, <HI>the &s;on of</HI> Simon, <HI>and after the &s;op Satan entred into him.</HI> Now that wee may &s;ee the true nature and con&s;equence of the&s;e premi&s;&s;es, and the con&s;ent of <HI>John</HI> with the re&s;t of the Evangeli&s;ts, wee mu&s;t remember, that <HI>Matthew, Mark</HI> and <HI>Luke,</HI> all of them te&s;tifie, that before the Pa&s;&s;e|over, <HI>Judas</HI> went to the chief Prie&s;ts, and communed with them how he might betray the Lord into their hands, and agreed with them for thirty pieces of &s;ilver; &s;o that <HI>Judas</HI> from that time &s;ought his oppor|tunity, &s;aith <HI>Matthew,</HI> chap. 26. 16. and how he might conveniently do it, &s;aith <HI>Marke,</HI> chap. 14. 11. and he promi&s;ed, &s;aith S^t. <HI>Luke</HI> chap. 22. 6. to betray him cunningly and without tumult, in the peoples ab|&s;ence; therefore &s;aith S. <HI>John,</HI> chap. 13. 2. &s;upper being ended, the Devill now put into the heart of <HI>Judas</HI> to perform and make good his wicked bargain for his lamentable &amp; cur&s;ed wages, but as yet it was a little too &s;oon for the opportunity; and therefore our Lord ri&s;es from them, but there's no mention of their ri&s;ing, and he wa&s;hes them all, yet <HI>Judas</HI> is &s;till unclean, though wa&s;hed: and our Lord &s;its downe with them again, and now the time, the conveniency, voyd of multi|tude, it being night, and opportunity and all agree, and being trou|bled in &s;pirit, our Lord reveals the trea&s;on to the twelve, and upon their de&s;ire to know which of them it &s;hould be, hee declares it by giving him a <HI>&s;op</HI> or a <HI>mor&s;ell,</HI> for the fragments were not as yet taken away; and &s;o &s;oon as <HI>Judas</HI> had received it, the Devill then moves him to fini&s;h the trea&s;on, &s;o long before purpo&s;ed and agitated, and then quickly proceeds to execution.</P>
<P>I have been the larger in this <HI>Replication,</HI> becau&s;e I know many, of whom I dare not but judge well of, that are of opinion, that <HI>Judas</HI> was not with the twelve at the in&s;titution of the Supper of the Lord, and yet they all acknowledge, that hee ate the Pa&s;&s;eover with them, which makes mee the more wonder at their exception, becau&s;e the
<PB N="13" REF="9">
Pa&s;&s;eover &s;hadowed out the &s;ame body and blood that the bread and wine doth &s;hew forth, as in my Reply to his &s;eventh <HI>An&s;wer,</HI> &s;hall be more cleerely manife&s;ted; &s;o then notwith&s;tanding all you have &s;aid in your &s;eeming An&s;wer, the Argument &s;tands in force again&s;t you in all its parts, that who&s;oever affirmeth that they that give the Sacra|ment to wicked unregenerate men, ca&s;ts holy things to Dogs, and pearles before Swine, doth in &s;o &s;aying, either willingly or ignorant|ly, or both, te&s;tifie that Chri&s;ts practice in the ca&s;e of <HI>Judas,</HI> was again&s;t his commandment in <HI>Matth.</HI> 7. 5. which is bla&s;phemy &s;o to affirm, for our Lord did give the bread and cup to <HI>Judas</HI> among&s;t the re&s;t, as be|fore is more then probable; and in &s;o doing, hee did not ca&s;t holy things to Dogs, nor pearles before Swine. Now it is very true, the ignorant and &s;candalous are not fit to receive, yet there is no rule from God or man that forbids them, but the authority given to the Church to excommunicate them; yet however, they ought daily to be exhor|ted and admoni&s;hed to repentance and faith.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="6" TYPE="argument">
<DIV2 TYPE="answer">
<HEAD>His An&s;wer to my &s;ixth <HI>Argument.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I an&s;wer, &s;aith hee, the fir&s;t part of his Argument is not proved; and therefore my denying it is my an&s;wering it. To the &s;econd part of his Argu|ment, I an&s;wer, &s;aith hee, that I have proved in the beginning of my Ser|mon, that a man in Scripture, is alwayes under that name, to be under&s;tood a &s;pirituall man; &s;o that the Scripture hee alledges, is not to be under&s;tood of a naturall man, but of a regenerated &s;pirituall man: And &s;o as a natu|rall man cannot di&s;cern the things of God, neither can hee di&s;cern the Lords body, and therefore ought not to be admited to the Lords Table; and &s;o I have fully an&s;wered his &s;ixth Argument, &s;aith hee, if my memory faile mee not in the repetition, &s;ay I.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="reply">
<HEAD>My Reply to his &s;ixth <HI>An&s;wer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>To the fir&s;t part of the An&s;wer, I reply that I had thought he had &s;o well known the Scriptures, that when a man had &s;poke Scripture, it had been as good a proof as to have quoted the Text; and becau&s;e the want of quoting the Text is the cau&s;e, &s;ay you, the Argument is not proved, therefore reade and examine the Scriptures, and then tell mee if it be not proved: <HI>Simon Magus al&s;o believed, and was baptized,</HI> Acts 8. 13. who continned with <HI>Philip</HI> in the communion of all common ordinances; as the Word, Sacraments, Prayer, and the lay|ing on of hands, wondering to behold the miracles and &s;ignes which
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were done, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 18. who&s;e impenitent naturall e&s;tate the Apo&s;tle <HI>Peter</HI> doth declare notwith&s;tanding, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 21. And &s;o it was with <HI>Demas,</HI> Col. 4. 14. and <HI>Philemon</HI> ver&s;. 24. which Text &s;hews his like fel|low&s;hip and communion with Gods people in the common ordinan|ces, notwith&s;tanding in the 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4. 10. S. <HI>Paul</HI> &s;hews his carnality and wickedne&s;&s;e: and al&s;o S. <HI>John</HI> unmasks a great man, in high place in the Church, <HI>Diotrephes</HI> by name, 3 <HI>John</HI> ver&s;. 9. and as he loved, &s;o hee had preeminence, who was &s;o wicked, that hee would not re|ceive the Apo&s;tles of Chri&s;t, nor the brethren, and hindered and for|bad them that would, and excommunicated them through malice; here's a fal&s;e Chri&s;tian in great place and authority in the Church, even a carnall naturall man, and a prater again&s;t the Saints, the be&s;t of Gods people, and yet for all this, not denyed to partake at the Lords Table; for hee was the man that denyed others, in &s;uch a ca&s;e and condition were the fal&s;e Apo&s;tles, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 13. <HI>Rev.</HI> 2. 2. fal&s;e Prophets, 1 <HI>John</HI> 4. 1. fal&s;e Teachers, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. 1. and fal&s;e brethren, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 26. <HI>Gal.</HI> 2. 4. and the Apo&s;tles, the Prophets, the Teachers, the Brethren, although fal&s;e, yet all in common communion and fel|low&s;hip in the Word, Sacraments and Prayer, &amp;c. So that now you &s;ee the fir&s;t part of the Argument proved, which you would not &s;ee before. To the &s;econd part of his An&s;wer I reply, and as it con&s;i&s;teth of two parts, &s;o the Gentleman is mi&s;taken in both. And fir&s;t for the name <HI>man,</HI> he &s;aith that in the Scriptures, it is only to be under&s;tood of a &s;pirituall man, which to affirm, is fond and ridiculous, as before in the <HI>Introduction</HI> I have &s;hewed, and now more largely &s;hall be cleered, as <HI>Job</HI> 14. 1. <HI>A man that is born of a woman is of few dayes, and full of trouble,</HI> where <HI>Job</HI> means by the name <HI>man,</HI> every naturall man, as hee is born into the world: and &s;o &s;aith <HI>Eliphas</HI> the <HI>Temanite, Job</HI> 15. 14. <HI>What is man that he &s;hould be clean, and he that is born of a woman, that he &s;hould be righteous?</HI> And again, <HI>Job</HI> 5. 7. <HI>Man is born to trouble,</HI> or <HI>labour, as the &s;parks fly upwards;</HI> as al&s;o <HI>Eccle&s;.</HI> 7. 29. <HI>God hath made man upright, but hee</HI> (that is man) <HI>hath found many inventions,</HI> th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e and many other Scriptures make it cleer, that naturall men, as they are born of their mothers into the world, are called men, and there|fore the ground and foundation of his doctrine is fal&s;e, as the do|ctrine is fal&s;e: And &s;o likewi&s;e I &s;hall prove in the &s;econd place, that &s;uch a generall or unregenerate believing man, may di&s;cern ordinary bread and wine that is ordained to feed and &s;u&s;tain our natures, from the Sacrament of bread and wine that are &s;ignes of Chri&s;ts body and
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blood the only &s;pirituall food of our &s;oules, and &s;o communicate of them al&s;o in this different re&s;pect whereunto they are appointed; and to this doctrine the Apo&s;tle points in the&s;e words, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 22. <HI>What have yee not hou&s;es to eat and drink in?</HI> that is, for your ordinary food, for you &s;hame the Church of God, to come to the Table of the Lord to eat to gluttony, and to drink to drunkenne&s;&s;e, <HI>What &s;hall I &s;ay to you?</HI> &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, <HI>for this I mu&s;t reprove yee: for,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>the Lord in the &s;ame night he was betrayed, in&s;tituted the Sacrament of bread and wine,</HI> the bread to &s;ignifie his body, the wine his blood, which body was broken, and blood &s;hed, <HI>for you,</HI> that is, for mans &s;alvation, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 22, 24, 25. And our communicating in the&s;e, &s;hewes forth the Lords death, and keeps it continually in our remembrance; and therefore the bread and wine ought to be &s;o known, as to di&s;cern thereby the body of the Lord, to do it in remembrance of Chri&s;t, and thereby to &s;hew forth his death, and who&s;oever doth not &s;o communicate, is condemned in his own con&s;cience; for every man, naturall and &s;piri|tuall, are capable of this knowledge, of this di&s;cerning; and in this re|&s;pect and di&s;tinction, (the Lords Table differing from ordinary food,) may all naturall believing men receive it, even the elect before rege|neration, as others, having been baptized. And thus to know and di&s;tingui&s;h, is to di&s;cern the Lords body in one &s;en&s;e, as to eat Chri&s;ts fle&s;h, and drink his blood by ju&s;tifying faith is in a more excellent and &s;pirituall &s;en&s;e; &s;o that by this di&s;tinction, his an&s;wer is manife&s;ted to be no an&s;wer, and my Argument not at all di&s;abled, for this &s;en&s;e is not &s;trained, but true and proper.</P>
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<DIV1 N="7" TYPE="argument">
<DIV2 TYPE="answer">
<HEAD>His An&s;wer to my &s;eventh <HI>Argument.</HI></HEAD>
<P>It was to this purpo&s;e, that hee made two exceptions again&s;t this Argu|ment: Fir&s;t again&s;t the conclu&s;ion, that hee never heard before of a carnall Chri&s;tian; for, &s;aith hee, the Apo&s;tle in <HI>Rom. 2. 28, 29.</HI> &s;peaks of a car|nall <HI>Jew</HI> under the Law, and of a &s;pirituall <HI>Jew</HI> under the Go&s;pel, but ne|ver, &s;aith he, have I heard before of a carnall Chri&s;tian. And in the &s;econd place he &s;aid, that by his Argument, he would have all men admitted to the Sacrament, all without exception, fooles, idiots, and mad-men; nay, little children and all, for children were admitted to the Pa&s;&s;eover by the place hee alledges, &s;aith he, <HI>Exod. 12. 47.</HI> therefore I pray behold the weakne&s;&s;e and &s;illine&s;&s;e of this Argument; the&s;e, or the like, were his words.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="reply">
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<HEAD>My Reply to his &s;eventh <HI>An&s;wer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, for your exception again&s;t the terme <HI>carnall Chri&s;tian,</HI> I wonder you &s;hould be &s;o ignorant of the Scripture, and yet take upon you to be a Teacher, for to be <HI>carnall,</HI> is to be in the fle&s;h; and doth not the Apo&s;tle in one word re&s;olve the que&s;tion, <HI>Gal.</HI> 4. 29. <HI>But as hee that was born after the fle&s;h per&s;ecuted him that was born after the &s;pirit; even &s;o is it now,</HI> that is, in the Apo&s;tles time, and ever &s;ince al&s;o, as in all the &s;even Churches of <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> and in the Church of <HI>Corinth,</HI> 1 Cor. 3. 3. <HI>Are ye not carnall,</HI> &s;aith the Apo&s;tle? and al&s;o among&s;t us at this time, for one &s;pirituall Chri&s;tian, there is ninety nine carnall, and in the fle&s;h; and for you to expound <HI>Rom.</HI> 2. 28. to be a carnall <HI>Jew</HI> under the Law, and <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 29. to be a &s;pirituall <HI>Jew</HI> under the Go&s;pel, you have thereby written a monument of your ignorance; for look back to the 14, 15, 26. and 27. ver&s;es, and they will &s;hew you the mean|ing; but tho&s;e truths are beyond your capacity. You al&s;o &s;ay, I argue weakly and ignorantly, to argue from the liberty of the Pa&s;&s;eover to the liberty of the Lords Supper; for you &s;ay, if that be &s;o, then fooles and ideots, mad-men and children may be admitted, but this is your &s;imple and weak inference, and not mine; for reade again, and you &s;hal &s;ee that mine was this; if carnall men as wel as &s;pirituall men were admitted to the Pa&s;&s;eover, then carnall men as well as &s;pirituall might be admitted to the Sacrament, and the rea&s;on is, becau&s;e they are both &s;ignes of the &s;ame &s;ub&s;tance, agreeing with the Apo&s;tles doctrine, <HI>They did all eate the &s;ame &s;pirituall meat, and drink<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> the &s;ame &s;pirituall drink, and that rock was Chri&s;t,</HI> to them under their &s;hadowes, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10. 3, 4. and &s;o it is Chri&s;t to us under our Sacraments, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10. 16. 17. and this S^t. <HI>Paul</HI> preacheth for truth, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. 7. it being the very &s;ub&s;tance of my argument, <HI>Chri&s;t our Pa&s;&s;eover is crucified,</HI> or <HI>&s;lain for us,</HI> &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, of whom bread and wine are &s;ignes under the Go&s;pel, as the Pa&s;chall Lamb did &s;hadow forth under the Law the &s;ame Chri&s;t. And this Argument you have in no &s;en&s;e an&s;wer|ed at all; and therefore it &s;tands &s;till, proving that carnall Chri|&s;tians as well as &s;pirituall, may communicate in the Supper of the Lord.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="8" TYPE="argument">
<DIV2 TYPE="answer">
<HEAD>His An&s;wer to my eighth <HI>Argument.</HI></HEAD>
<P>This Argument hee &s;eemed to ju&s;tifie, and hee &s;aid, hee did not intend he &s;houd be &s;o under&s;tood, that who&s;oever delivered the Sacrament to an un|regenerated
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man, delivered unto him thereby his damnation; for the Sacra|ment was not &s;o in it &s;elf, but by rea&s;on of mans &s;in, ca&s;ually or accidentally it might prove &s;o, agreeing and making u&s;e of my own expre&s;&s;ions in the &s;ame Argument.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="reply">
<HEAD>My Reply to his eighth <HI>An&s;wer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Let all rea&s;onable men judge, whether my Argument be not a true and ju&s;t con&s;equence from his doctrine, he affirming, that the damned &s;hall cry out of hell to &s;uch Mini&s;ters that in their life-time gave them the Sacrament, and &s;ay, in giving them it, you gave me my damnati|on, &amp;c. wherefore wo be to you in giving mee my confu&s;ion and de|&s;truction, &amp;c. Wherefore I advi&s;e you hereafter, to con&s;ider what you &s;hould &s;ay before you &s;peak, and let your tongue be in your heart, and not your heart in your tongue; for, <HI>a Scribe in&s;tructed unto the Kingdome of God, is like a good hou&s;holder, that bringeth forth of his trea&s;u|ry things new and old:</HI> And the Me&s;&s;engers of the Lord, the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t, &s;peak not their own mindes, but <HI>the minde of God, and of Chri&s;t,</HI> as they have received it from above, who are, as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>like good workmen, and need not be a&s;hamed, rightly dividing the word of truth;</HI> for as the Sacraments, if they be not received for the better, but for the wor&s;e, through our own wickedne&s;s and di&s;obedience, will aggravate and increa&s;e our judgement and condemnation, &s;o of the like nature is the Word al&s;o, which is the chiefe&s;t means to beget or attain to grace; the Word preached it &s;elf, through the di&s;obedience of &s;uch as heare it, proves the &s;avour of death, as it is the &s;avour of life to them that believe and obey it, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2. 15, 16.</P>
<P>Now, when hee had read all my arguments, and his &s;eeming An|&s;wers to them, then hee told the people, that hee hoped now by this time they had &s;een, that as this Sophi&s;ter had charged him with igno|rance and fal&s;e doctrine, &s;o hee did hope they all &s;aw hee had by his an&s;wers proved me both ignorant and fal&s;e in my Arguments, and told the people, as before I have intimated, if any man plea&s;ed for their further &s;atisfaction, they &s;hould have copies of them, whereupon &s;ome di&s;&s;enting neighbours, not well affected to mee, nor well acquainted with the truth, did cau&s;e a note to be put up to him by the Clerk, to this effect, That &s;ome of the Congregation de&s;ired him to name the man publikely, to which hee an&s;wered at the fir&s;t &s;ight thereof, I am, &s;aid he, intreated to do that which I would not willingly do, for it is
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not an evill thing in any man to make objections but honourable, but pre&s;ently he audibly declared my name, &s;aying, hee is a man whom I know not, whereupon, many that wanted both charity and under|&s;tanding, laughed and whi&s;pered together, manife&s;ting contempt and &s;corn by nodding their heads, and by many other dumb-&s;hews, break|ing out afterwards into words, as the&s;e and the like words, <HI>that now he was fully an&s;wered, and his folly di&s;covered,</HI> &s;ome &s;aying, <HI>he de&s;erveth to be whipt,</HI> others, <HI>that I de&s;erved to be &s;et in the &s;tocks,</HI> others, <HI>that I meddled with that which I had nothing to do withall,</HI> they not knowing the Apo&s;tles commandment, <HI>As every man hath received the gift, even &s;o mi|ni&s;ter the &s;ame one to another, as good &s;tewards of the manifold grace of God,</HI> 1 Pet. 4. 10. And one of them to a friend of mine, &s;aid, <HI>Is this your friend that you have &s;poken &s;o much and &s;o well of? now you &s;ee him di&s;covered to be weake and &s;imple,</HI> and the like: another &s;aid, <HI>he is a foole, to meddle with that he under&s;tands not; for,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>he hath not the tongues, and without them it is impo&s;&s;ible he &s;hould under&s;tand the Scriptures:</HI> this man, although an <HI>Elder,</HI> did not remember, that the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>To one is given the gift of Prophe&s;ie, to another the gift of Tongues by the &s;ame Spirit,</HI> 1 Cor. 12. 10, 11. Another &s;aid, <HI>I was an enemy to all goodne&s;&s;e,</HI> and threatened me, <HI>I &s;hould an&s;wer it before Authority;</HI> &s;o I heard, and have born the defamings of many, among&s;t which &s;ome were my familiars. And between the Church and my hou&s;e, one told me, <HI>Now you are met withall, you are repayd now,</HI> to whom I an&s;wered, according to the old Proverb, <HI>one tale is good till another is heard;</HI> and the Scripture &s;aith, &s;aid I, <HI>he that is fir&s;t in his cau&s;e &s;eems ju&s;t:</HI> which opprobrious behaviours and reproachfull expre&s;&s;ious I have born w^t^h patience, both in the time of the a&s;&s;embly, and ever &s;ince, and &s;o will continue, without opening my mouth again&s;t them, and conclude with an exhortation to Mini|&s;ters and people, concerning the receiving the Communion.</P>
<P>For, although there be no rule in Scripture, that gives any one par|ticular Mini&s;ter order to re&s;train any from the Lords Table that be|lieve and are baptized, except the authority given to the Church in ca&s;e of excommunication, as at fir&s;t is &s;ignified; yet the Scriptures do plen|tifully te&s;tifie, that faithfull Min&s;ters ought to watch over the flock of Chri&s;t, to teach, in&s;truct and admoni&s;h the people, to learn, know and under&s;tand the meaning of all Gods ordinances, and in&s;tructed in our own e&s;tates and conditions, as <HI>John</HI> the Bapti&s;t exhorted the <HI>Pari&s;ees</HI> and <HI>Sadduces,</HI> Mat. 3. 7. and that except we be betterred by them, that which is ordained for our eternall life, will be found to be to our eter|nall
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death; and therefore Mini&s;ters ought to be apt to teach upon all occa&s;ions, <HI>in &s;ea&s;on and out of &s;ea&s;on,</HI> to &s;hew and open to the Congre|gation, what Prayer is in it &s;elf, and that the people ought to joyn their affections to the plain truth, hee &s;hould pronounce to God in his own and the peoples behalf: &s;o likewi&s;e that the Scriptures and truths ope|ned and di&s;covered by them, is no le&s;&s;e then the Word of God that &s;hall judge us at the la&s;t day; and therefore, that all attention &s;hould be given to it with feare and trembling, and that the end of our hearing &s;hould be to know &amp; obey it: &s;o al&s;o as touching the Sacraments, that of Bapti&s;mes to declare the doctrine of Bapti&s;mes, which the Scrip|tures cleerly teach and di&s;tingui&s;h of; &s;o al&s;o the Sacrament of the Bo|dy and Blood of our Lord, that for as much as it is Gods great mercy and goodne&s;s to give unto us tho&s;e vi&s;ible &s;igns of his body and blood, which are living repre&s;entations of his death and pa&s;&s;ion, and that as he is the propitiation of the &s;ins of the elect of God, called and ju&s;tifi|ed, who&s;e hearts are purified by faith in his blood, who thereby eat his fle&s;h and drink his blood &s;piritually, and &s;o have eternall life in them: So al&s;o Gods Word teacheth us, that his blood is the propitiation of the &s;ins of the whole world, 1 <HI>Joh.</HI> 2. 2. And therefore as every naturall man renders their &s;alvation, &s;o they are to examine them&s;elves, and prepare their hearts by repentance, &s;o to come to the Sacrament, as to finde Je&s;us Chri&s;t to become their &s;pirituall life, as he is life and food both, to &s;uch as are regenerated; &s;o that all and every mans coming to Gods Ordinances may be endeavoured to be for the better, and not for the wor&s;e: and al&s;o Mini&s;ters ought to have compa&s;&s;ionate affections towards the people, even as a Nur&s;e towards the Babe on her brea&s;t, and as a tender mother towards the childe of her womb, and in all their wayes &s;eek them, and not theirs, &s;o that all bitterne&s;&s;e and pride be avoided, and that the Congregation may &s;ee, that they &s;incerely &s;eek the &s;alvation of the people; and al&s;o the people mu&s;t know, that holy and faithfull teachers ought to be had in double honour, both by countenance and maintenance, that the glory of God, and mans &s;alvation be promoted; and thus and &s;o admoni&s;heth he that is the Lords and thine in him.</P>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>J. G.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q>The Prophets prophe&s;ie fal&s;ly, and the Prie&s;ts beare rule by their means, and my people love to have it &s;o, &s;aith the Lord,</Q>
<BIBL>Jer. 5. 31.</BIBL>
</EPIGRAPH>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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