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<P>THE DOCTRINE <HI>Of the</HI> SACRAMENT, With the right u&s;e therof Ca|tichi&s;tically handled by way of Que&s;tion and An&s;wer.</P>
<P>By M^r. CHARLES CHANCY &s;ometimes Mini&s;ter of <HI>Ware.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>G. M.</HI> for <HI>Thomas &V;nderhill</HI> at the &s;igne of the Bible in <HI>Wood-&s;treet,</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>THE DOCTRINE Of the SACRAMENT.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Q. _WHat is it to receive?</HI></P>
<P>A. It is to lay hold on Chri&s;t by faith.</P>
<P><HI>Q How doe we receive by faith in the Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P>A. As it is the nature of faith to apply and re&s;t up|on other Promi&s;es in the ju&s;tification of a &s;inner,
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Gal.</HI> 3.22. <HI>Heb.</HI> 11.13.</NOTE> &s;o to receive by faith in the Sacrament, is in the act of receiving to apply and rely upon the Promi&s;es that concern each Sacrament,</P>
<P><HI>Q. What are the Promi&s;es that concerne the Sacra|ment of Bapti&s;me?</HI></P>
<P>A. He that believes and is baptized &s;hall be &s;aved,
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mar.</HI> 16.16.</NOTE> as many as are baptized into Chri&s;t, doe put on Chri&s;t,
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Gal.</HI> 3.27.</NOTE> and the very word of in&s;titution, when we are baptized in the name of the Father, Sonne, and Holy Gho&s;t,
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 28.19.</NOTE> include a Promi&s;e, that all the Per&s;ons in the God head doe enter into covenant with us to wa&s;h away our &s;ins.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What are the Promi&s;es that concerne the Sa|crament of the Lords Supper?</HI></P>
<P>A. They are plainly laid downe in the words of
<PB N="2" REF="3">in&s;titution, this is my body which is broken for you,
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.24</NOTE> this is my bloud of the new Te&s;tament, which is &s;hed for you and for many for the remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 26.28. <HI>Luk.</HI> 22.20.</NOTE>,</P>
<P><HI>Q. What is the meaning of that promi&s;e, this is my body which is broken for you?</HI></P>
<P>A. It is as much as if Chri&s;t &s;hould &s;ay in parti|cular to every faithfull receiver, as &s;urely as I deliver and give this bread unto thee, &s;o I be&s;tow this my crucified body, with all the merits of my death upon thee.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What is the meaning of the other promi&s;e this cup is the new Te&s;tament? &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>A. It is as much as if Chri&s;t had &s;aid in particular to every believing receiver, as &s;urely as I deliver this cup unto thee, &s;o I doe make good and a&s;&s;ure the whole covenant of grace unto thee and &s;eal the free pardon of thy &s;ins unto thee by my precious bloud.</P>
<P><HI>Q. When are we to apply the&s;e promi&s;es to our &s;elves?</HI></P>
<P>A. E&s;pecially in the very act and time of receiving, we are to apply the&s;e promi&s;es by faith, and &s;o wee are to draw comfort from them afterwards.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What is meant by the word Bapti&s;me?</HI></P>
<P>A. It &s;ignifies dipping or wa&s;hing in water, and is applied to &s;ignifie that dipping or wa&s;hing which is u&s;ed in the fir&s;t Sacrament of the new Te&s;tament.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What is the benefit of the Sacrament of Bap|ti&s;me?</HI></P>
<P>A. The benefit of the Sacrament of Bapti&s;me is
<PB N="3" REF="3">the &s;ealing to the true beleever, and the a&s;&s;uring to him all the benefits of Chri&s;t that concerne his rege|neration or new-birth, as in particular, the putting on of Chri&s;t
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Gal.</HI> 3.26.</NOTE>, the wa&s;hing of his &s;oule from &s;ins
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 5.26.</NOTE>, the pardon of his &s;ins
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Lu.</HI> 3.3. <HI>Act</HI> 22, 16.</NOTE>, fellow&s;hip with Chri&s;t in his death
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 6.3, 4.</NOTE>, eternall life and &s;alvation
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.21.</NOTE>.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What doth the Sacrament of Bapti&s;me binde the party baptized unto?</HI></P>
<P>A. It binds him by a &s;olemne oath or vow when he commeth to yeares of di&s;cretion, to enter into a &s;ure covenant with Almighty God, and to perform the condition of the covenant of grace
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 17 7, 9.</NOTE>, which is faith
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Act</HI> 8.36, 37, 38. <HI>Act.</HI> 2.38</NOTE>; as al&s;o to repent him unfainedly of all his &s;ins
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 3.5.</NOTE>, to walke in newne&s;&s;e of life
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 6.4.</NOTE>, to walk in love and unity with his bretheren
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.13.</NOTE>, to give up him&s;elfe to labour for &s;aving knowledge and a good con&s;cience
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.21.</NOTE>, and to live altogether for the obedience, wor&s;hip and &s;ervice of the holy and undivided Trinity
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 28.19, 20.</NOTE>.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What are the duties required to the right recei|ving of the Sacrament of Bapti&s;me?</HI></P>
<P>A. Some are required of the Parents, others of the infant baptized when hee comes to yeares, o|thers of the Congregation pre&s;ent at this Sacra|ment.</P>
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<P><HI>Q. What are the duties required of the Parents of the party baptized?</HI></P>
<P>A. They are to humble them&s;elves for the cor|ruption they have conveyed to the infant,
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Job</HI> 14.4.</NOTE> and &s;eek for the pardon of it, they mu&s;t call to remembrance Gods gracious and free covenant
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Act.</HI> 2.37, 38, 39. <HI>Gen.</HI> 17 7, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE>, and &s;o get a&s;&s;u|rance that they them&s;elves are within this covenant, they mu&s;t pre&s;&s;e it by hearty and fervent prayer
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 1.27.</NOTE> and renew their covenant with God in behalfe of them|&s;elves and their children, and to offer them&s;elves and their children unto God to be his obedient &s;ervants and children all their dayes
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 1.28.</NOTE>.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What are the duties required of the Infant bap|tized when he comes to yeares?</HI></P>
<P>A. As he is to know that the vertue of bapti&s;me is not bounded only to the time of receiving this Sa|crament, becau&s;e it is a &s;eale of the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of faith
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ro.</HI> 4.11.</NOTE>, and of Gods covenant which is everla&s;ting
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ier.</HI> 32.40.</NOTE>, &s;o he is &s;till to make u&s;e of his Bapti&s;me, both as a bond to binde him to performe all the former du|ties, and as a &s;ure ground to apply all the former be|nefits of the pardoning and wa&s;hing away of his &s;ins, and to comfort him&s;elf that the Lord will be his God in the wor&s;t times
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 17.7.</NOTE>, and all &s;ufficient for him
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 17.1.</NOTE>, in providing all nece&s;&s;aries for his body and &s;oule, and deliver him from all dangers, and certainly &s;ave his &s;oule
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.20, 21.</NOTE>, and rai&s;e up his body to eternall life at the la&s;t day
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg"><HI>Col.</HI> 2.12.</NOTE>,</P>
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<P><HI>Q. What duties are required of the a&s;&s;embly at this Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P>A. They are to abide till the Sacrament of Bap|ti&s;me, and all other publike duties be ended
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezek.</HI> 46.10.</NOTE>, to joyn in prayer and thank&s;giving to God for it
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Act.</HI> 22.16.</NOTE>, to re|member their owne covenant with God and their former breaches of it with unfained &s;orrow and re|&s;olution to keep it afterwards.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What are the duties required for the right recei|ving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper?</HI></P>
<P>A. They are of 3 &s;orts, &s;ome concerne our pre|paration to that Sacrament, &s;ome that holy di&s;po&s;i|tion that is required in the time of receiving, and o|thers our holy carriage afterwards.</P>
<P><HI>Q What are the duties required for our due pre|paration to this Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P>A. They are e&s;pecially two,
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.28.</NOTE> thorow examination of our &s;elves, and a right behaviour afterwards.</P>
<P><HI>Q. Wherein con&s;i&s;ts the thorow examination of our &s;elves before receiving?</HI></P>
<P>A. We mu&s;t try our &s;elves concerning tho&s;e &s;e|verall graces that are required to the right receiving of the Supper of the Lord, whither they are truely wrought in us or not, which are &s;ound knowledge
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.29.</NOTE>, &s;aving faith
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 4.11. <HI>Mark.</HI> 16.16.</NOTE>, true repentance for all our &s;ins
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.31.</NOTE>, un|fained obedience
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Pro.</HI> 9.5, 6.</NOTE>, entire love to God and man
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 5 25. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.13.</NOTE>, earne&s;t hunger and thir&s;t after Chri&s;t
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ioh.</HI> 7.37 <HI>Lu.</HI> 22.15.</NOTE>, and la&s;tly the
<PB N="6" REF="5">&s;incerity and uprightne&s;&s;e of our hearts
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Chr.</HI> 30.18, 19.</NOTE>.</P>
<P><HI>Q. How may we know that our knowledge is &s;ound and &s;ufficient to receive?</HI></P>
<P>A. By the mea&s;ure and properties of it.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What is the mea&s;ure of &s;ound knowledge requi|red?</HI></P>
<P>A. A Chri&s;tian mu&s;t know all the principles of the doctrine of Chri&s;t, which are chiefly the&s;e
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Heb.</HI> 6.1.</NOTE>, he mu&s;t under&s;tand the 10. commandements with the &s;pirituall meaning therof, to work repentance from dead works, and he mu&s;t be able to conceive the true meaning of all the Articles of our Chri&s;tian faith, to|gether with the nature, u&s;e and end of each Sacra|ment.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What are the marks or properties by which our knowledge may be tryed?</HI></P>
<P>A. Sound knowledge makes a Chri&s;tian humble
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3.18. <HI>Pro.</HI> 26.16.</NOTE>, and ready to render a rea&s;on of the hope that is in him with all meekne&s;&s;e
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.15.</NOTE>, and willing to receive e|very truth revealed out of the word of God
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 6.5.</NOTE>, and carefully to put in practice what&s;oever hee knoweth already
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Iohn</HI> 2.3, 4, 5.</NOTE>, and painfully to increa&s;e the knowledge already attained
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Prov.</HI> 2.3, 4, 5. <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 6.3.</NOTE>.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What are the marks the Scripture gives of &s;aving faith?</HI></P>
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<P>A. Saving faith in the lea&s;t degree is ever wrought and pre&s;erved in the heart by the word of God prea|ched
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom</HI> 10.14.</NOTE>, whereby wee are weary and heavy laden with &s;ins,
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 11.28.</NOTE>, and utterly rid of all confidence in our owne righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 10.3, 4.</NOTE>, and re&s;tle&s;&s;e in de&s;iring after Chri&s;t till we finde comfort in the promi&s;es of the pardon of our &s;ins
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 6.5.</NOTE>, withall it mak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s us to looke at &s;in as the greate&s;t evill, and the grace of Chri&s;t as the greate&s;t good in the world
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Heb.</HI> 11.24.&mdash;28.</NOTE>, it purifieth and clean|&s;eth the heart
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg"><HI>Act.</HI> 15.9.</NOTE>, will, thoughts and affections from all love and allowance of &s;in, and &s;o works inward &s;anctification
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"><HI>Act.</HI> 26.18.</NOTE>, it wra&s;tles again&s;t temptations of un|beliefe
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mar.</HI> 9.24. <HI>Lu.</HI> 22.31, 32.</NOTE>, and works by love of God and our brethe|ren
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg"><HI>Gal.</HI> 5.6.</NOTE>.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What are the marks and tryals of true repen|tance?</HI></P>
<P>A. True repentance may be knowne by our wil|lingne&s;&s;e and gladne&s;&s;e to have any &s;in di&s;covered
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;a.</HI> 141.5.</NOTE>, and hearty love of tho&s;e that di&s;cover and reproove it
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.13.</NOTE>, an inward godly &s;orrow for all knowne &s;ins, as they are a breach of Gods comma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dements and are di&s;plea&s;ing unto God
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 7.10.</NOTE>, a for&s;aking of all known &s;ins
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezek.</HI> 18.5, 6. <HI>&amp;c. P&s;a.</HI> 119.3.</NOTE>, out of a perfect hatred of them, &amp; care to avoid all the occa&s;ions of them
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 7.11.</NOTE>, &amp; an univer&s;all turning to God
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut.</HI> 30.10.</NOTE>, and con&s;tant cleaving to him in all his revea|led will, and the practice of all knowne duties of obedience.</P>
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<P><HI>Q. What are the tryals of unfained obedience?</HI></P>
<P>A. Vnfained obedience may be known thus, that it is grounded only on the word of God
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Eph.</HI> 2.10.</NOTE>, and not on the traditions and inventions of men
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mar.</HI> 7.6, 7.</NOTE>, that it hath re&s;pect to all Gods commandements without partiality or exception
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;.</HI> 119.6.</NOTE>, that it aimes alwaies at a right end, the prai&s;e and glory of God
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Phil.</HI> 1.11.</NOTE>, and not at any private advantage, that it is alwaies accompa|nied with zeale
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Gal.</HI> 4.18.</NOTE>, humility
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mich.</HI> 6.8.</NOTE>, and con&s;tancy
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;.</HI> 106.3.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>Q. How may we know whether our love to God and man be intire?</HI></P>
<P>A. We may be &s;ure that our love to God is intire if that no commandement of God be grievous unto us
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>John</HI> 5.3.</NOTE>, if it weanes our hearts from the love of the world
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>John.</HI> 2.15. 1 <HI>John</HI> 4.20, 21.1 <HI>Iohn</HI> 5.1. 1 <HI>John</HI> 4.12.</NOTE>, and if it make us love the children of God.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What are the markes of entire love to Gods chil|dren?</HI></P>
<P>A, Entire love to Gods children makes us love godly men for godline&s;&s;e &s;ake
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>John</HI> 1.2.</NOTE>, that is, it will make us love all the Saints
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 1.15.</NOTE>, whether rich or poor, &s;tran|gers or kindred, and that con&s;tantly
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Pro.</HI> 17.17.</NOTE>, and commu|nicates it &s;elfe in doing good to their &s;oules and bo|dies
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Joh.</HI> 3.17, 18.</NOTE>.</P>
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<P><HI>Q. How may we know entire love to our Neigh|bour?</HI></P>
<P>A. Entire love to our neighbour will make us willing to forgive wrongs
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Col</HI> 3.13.</NOTE>, and to &s;eeke peace,
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 12.18.</NOTE> and to make &s;atisfaction if wee have wron|ged them
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 13.10.</NOTE>, it will cau&s;e us to love their &s;oules, and not &s;uffer &s;in to lye upon them,
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Lovit.</HI> 19.17.</NOTE> it will make us to overcome evill with good,
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 12.17, 20, 21.</NOTE> by heaping of|fices of love upon them.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What are the tryals of our earnest hunger and thir&s;t after Christ?</HI></P>
<P>A. True hunger and thir&s;t after Chri&s;t will make us &s;eeke him with our whole heart in the diligent and con&s;tant u&s;e of all the meanes,
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Prov.</HI> 13.4.</NOTE> &s;o that nothing el&s;e will &s;atisfie us without Chri&s;t,
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;.</HI> 73.25.</NOTE> it longs after Chri&s;t for him&s;elfe, &s;o as to part with any thing for him,
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 13.44.</NOTE> and to be content to have him upon the har|de&s;t conditions,
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Phil.</HI> 1.21. <HI>Phil.</HI> 3.8.</NOTE> it is ready to entertain with great thankfulne&s;&s;e, what&s;oever mea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es or me&s;&s;enger &s;hall bring him home unto the &s;oule,
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 10.15.</NOTE> it &s;eeks after him for holine&s;&s;e
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 51.1.</NOTE>, as well as for happine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What are the tryals of the &s;incerity and upright|ne&s;&s;e of our hearts?</HI></P>
<P>A Sincerity and uprightne&s;&s;e of heart &s;hewes it &s;elfe in the reformation of our delightfull and bo|&s;ome corruptions
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;alme</HI> 18.23.</NOTE>, and carefull endeavour to finde
<PB N="10" REF="7">them out, and gladne&s;&s;e when they are di&s;cove|red
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 119.59. <HI>P&s;alm</HI> 141.5.</NOTE>, by the denyall of our &s;elves in parting with any outward comfort, to keepe a good con&s;cience
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Iob</HI> 27.2. <HI>Heb.</HI> 11.24, 27.</NOTE>, by making con&s;cience of the fruit|full performance of holy duties
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 12.11.</NOTE>, e&s;pecially in &s;ecret
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 6.6.</NOTE>, and l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tly an earne&s;t de&s;ire and indea|vour of growth unto perfection
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg"><HI>Phil.</HI> 3.12.&mdash;14.</NOTE>.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What duties are required of a Chri&s;tian after examination that he may fini&s;h his preparation to the Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P>A. If hee &s;hall finde any of the&s;e graces to be wanting in him hee is bound for the pre&s;ent to ab&s;taine from the Sacrament
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex. Chapter</HI> 12.48. <HI>Numbers</HI> 9. from the 6. to the 12.</NOTE>, if he doubt whi|ther they be wrought in him or not, hee is like|wi&s;e to ab&s;ent him&s;elfe
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Romans</HI> 14.23.</NOTE>, unle&s;&s;e his con&s;cience by &s;ome meanes may bee re&s;olved and &s;et|led, that hee hath them; if hee &s;hall finde them wrought in him, though in much weake|ne&s;&s;e, hee is to repaire to this Sacrament for further &s;trength
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Chro.</HI> 30.18, 19.</NOTE>, yet with practi&s;e of other duties &s;till required to preparation,</P>
<P><HI>Q. What are the duties required of a weake Chri|&s;tian after examination?</HI></P>
<PB N="11" REF="7">
<P>A. Hee is carefully with bitterne&s;&s;e of &s;pi|rit to remember the manifold rebeilions of his unregene<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ate e&s;tate
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;alme</HI> 25.7. 1 <HI>Timothy</HI> 1.13.</NOTE>, the wants and weake|ne&s;&s;es of his pre&s;ent e&s;tate
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Romans</HI> 7. The whole Chapter.</NOTE>, that &s;o hee may &s;tirre up earne&s;t de&s;ires and thir&s;t after Chri&s;t in the Sacrament, and hee is to renew his faith in Chri&s;t
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Hebr.</HI> 11.28.</NOTE>, and his repentance for all knowne &s;innes, e&s;pecially committed &s;ince his former receiving, and his love to God and man, and he is to renew his re&s;olutions and purpo&s;es of bet|ter obedience to God for the time to come
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 1.16, 17, 18.</NOTE>.</P>
<P><HI>Q. How is a Chri&s;tian to renew his faith in Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>A. Hee mu&s;t labour to &s;ue out a new pardon of his &s;innes
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Chro.</HI> 30.6.</NOTE>, e&s;pecially that mo&s;t trouble the peace of his con&s;cience, and pre&s;&s;e the promi|&s;es that concerne the Sacrament
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.24.</NOTE>, and the death of Chri&s;t
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Iohn</HI> 1.7.</NOTE>, by Prayer and Meditation &s;trive again&s;t carnall rea&s;on
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn</HI> 6.38.</NOTE>, the grea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;t e|nemy of Faith, bewayle his unbeleefe
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mar.</HI> 9.24.</NOTE>, pon|der and weigh well the nature of the Sacra|ment, that it is Gods oath to &s;ecure his promi&s;es unto us
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg"><HI>Heb.</HI> 6.16, 17.</NOTE>, and a pledge and &s;eal of the righteou&s;nes of faith
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 4.11.</NOTE>, and con&s;ider Gods Commandements to receive and injoy the merits of Chri&s;ts death offered to us in this Sacrament
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.24.</NOTE>.</P>
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<P><HI>Q. How is a Chri&s;tian to renew his d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ires after Christ in the Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P>A. Hee that would renew his de&s;ires, or hunger and thir&s;t after Chri&s;t mu&s;t acquaint him&s;elfe tho|roughly with his owne wants and emptine&s;&s;e
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Prov.</HI> 27.7.</NOTE>, and take heed of a pre&s;umptuous imagination of more grace then hee hath attained unto
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Revel.</HI> 3.16, 17.</NOTE>, he mu&s;t have a thorow view of the wonderfull excellency and fullne&s;&s;e that is in Chri&s;t
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn</HI> 4.10. <HI>Col.</HI> 1.19.</NOTE>, and the promi&s;es,
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.4.</NOTE>, and the worth of Gods favour and loving kind|ne&s;&s;e that is better then life it &s;elfe
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 63.3.</NOTE>, and his owne utter in&s;ufficiency to bring his heart to a|ny true hunger and thir&s;t after the&s;e things
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg"><HI>Phil.</HI> 2.13.</NOTE>.</P>
<P><HI>Q. How is a true Chri&s;tian to renew his repen|tance?</HI></P>
<P>A. He mu&s;t examine him&s;elfe &s;trictly concerning particular &s;ins, e&s;pecially mo&s;t lately committed
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.31.</NOTE>, &amp; by the &s;erious con&s;ideration of them, &amp; the circum|&s;tances of them, to renew a more bitter &s;orrow for them
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Lam.</HI> 3.40.</NOTE>, he mu&s;t renew his free particular and humble confe&s;&s;ion of them
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 7.6.</NOTE>, with hearty prayer for the pardon of them
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;.</HI> 51.1, 2.</NOTE>, and &s;trength again&s;t them
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.8.</NOTE>, make re&s;titution and &s;atisfaction in ca&s;e that hee hath wronged any one to the utmo&s;t of his pow|er
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke</HI> 19.8.</NOTE>.</P>
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<P><HI>Q. How is a Chri&s;tian to renew his re&s;olution of better obedience?</HI></P>
<P>A. He is with humble acknowledgement of his owne weakene&s;&s;e
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;.</HI> 119.106.</NOTE>, to re&s;olve without further delay,
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;.</HI> 119.60</NOTE> to walke in new obedience (God a&s;&s;i|&s;ting him with his grace) and to this end hee is earne&s;tly to crave &s;trength from God that hee would inable him therunto
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;.</HI> 119.117.</NOTE>.</P>
<P><HI>Q. How is a Chri&s;tian to renew his charity before receiving?</HI></P>
<P>A. He is out of due con&s;ideration and &s;ence of Gods love to him in Chri&s;t, to get his heart infla|med with love to God
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.14.</NOTE>, and man
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>John</HI> 4.11.</NOTE>, to forgive injuries freely, if any man hath wronged him
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 4.23.</NOTE>, and to &s;eeke reconciliation with others, if he hath given them any occa&s;ion of offence
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 5.24, 25. <HI>Rom.</HI> 12.8.</NOTE>.</P>
<P><HI>Thus farre of the duties before receiving.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Q What are the duties required of a Chri&s;tian in time of receiving?</HI></P>
<P>A. Fir&s;t, every one is to give diligent atten|tion to that which is publikely done not onely when he him&s;elfe is to receive, but during the whole action
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Corin.</HI> 14.16.</NOTE>, to behold and looke upon both the e|lements them&s;elves
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Exodus</HI> 24.8.</NOTE>, and all the Sacramentall
<PB N="14" REF="9">actions in the admini&s;tration of this Sacrament
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Corinth.</HI> 14.40.</NOTE>, he mu&s;t u&s;e &s;uch reverent behaviour and ge|&s;tures as may be free from &s;uper&s;tition, yet fit to &s;tirre up and expre&s;&s;e inward faith and thank|fulne&s;&s;e
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Heb.</HI> 13.16.</NOTE>, and as he hath received &s;uch inward pledges from God of his love, &s;o hee is, ac|cording to his power in te&s;timony of his thank|fulne&s;&s;e to offer the Sacrifice of almes cheer|fully for the releefe of the poore members of Chri&s;t,</P>
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Corinthians</HI> 11.10.</NOTE>
<P><HI>Q. What &s;hould be the meditation and di&s;po&s;ition of our hearts in the time of receiving?</HI></P>
<P>A. When you &s;ee the bread and wine con&s;e|crated and &s;et apart for this holy u&s;e, then wee mu&s;t call to minde and con&s;ider the eternall love of God the Father in &s;anctifying and &s;et|ting apart his &s;onne Je&s;us Chri&s;t in his &s;ecret coun&s;ell, to bee the Redeemer and &s;urety of his people
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn</HI> 10.36.</NOTE>, and the tender mercy of Chri&s;t in un|dertaking this hard &s;ervice for us
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Hebr.</HI> 7.26. <HI>Hebr.</HI> 10.9.</NOTE>, when wee &s;ee the bread broken, and the wine powred out, wee are to mourne over him whom wee have pierced by our &s;innes
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Zach.</HI> 12.12.</NOTE>, and remember the infinite ju&s;tice and wrath of God again&s;t &s;inne that could never be &s;atisfied but by this meanes
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>Romans</HI> 3.25.</NOTE>, when wee &s;ee the bread and wine delivered unto us by the Mini&s;ter, wee are to
<PB N="15" REF="9">meditate upon the gift and application of Chri&s;t crucified to our owne &s;oules in particular, and to every beleeving receiver
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Gallat.</HI> 2.20.</NOTE>, when wee take the bread and wine at the Mini&s;ters hand, wee are to &s;tirre up our &s;oules by Faith to lay hold upon, and to apply to our &s;elves all the merits of Chri&s;ts death
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.24.</NOTE>, and &s;o joyfully to feed there|upon, that wee may feele our &s;oules &s;atisfied thereby
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 11.26.</NOTE>, and &s;trengthened again&s;t all temptati|ons
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ioh.</HI> 6.35. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10.16, 17.</NOTE>, when wee behold the re&s;t of the Con|gregation communicating with us, wee are to &s;tirre up our hearts to loving and kinde affecti|ons towards them and all the people of God.</P>
<P><HI>Q What is that holy carriage that is required after receiving the Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P>A. After the receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, a Chri&s;tian mu&s;t try him&s;elfe whither <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ee hath beene made to drinke into one &s;pirit with Chri&s;t and his members or not
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Corinth.</HI> 12.13.</NOTE>, and what growth hee hath gotten by the Sacrament in a&s;&s;urance of Gods favour, in &s;trength again&s;t corruptions, in power to walke with God in, o|bedience unto him, and in all other graces of the Spirit, and fruits of Chri&s;ts death, and if hee cannot finde the&s;e fruites in him&s;elfe, hee mu&s;t
<PB N="16" REF="10">humble him&s;elfe for his owne &s;innes and failings as the cau&s;e thereof
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Corin.</HI> 11.31.</NOTE>, and though hee findes not that comfort and benefit, yet if hee be true|ly humbled for the want of it, hee may be com|forted in this as a fruit of a worthy receiving
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 30.18, 19,</NOTE>; if hee &s;hall finde upon examination the former benefits truely wrought in his heart, hee is to give God the glory, and to de&s;ire the continu|ance and increa&s;e of the &s;ame grace with all ho|ly indeavours to that end
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Chron.</HI> 29.13, 14,&mdash;18.</NOTE>, and as hee hath re|ceived Je&s;us Chri&s;t, &s;o hee is to walke in him
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Col.</HI> 2.6, 7.</NOTE>, and to keepe the covenant that hee hath made with the Lord at the Sacrament, and to increa&s;e in love and fellow&s;hip with Gods children
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10.16, 17.</NOTE>, and out of the &s;ence of the comfort and benefit of this Sacrament to re&s;ort the oftner, and with more earne&s;t de&s;ire unto it
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 30.21, 23.</NOTE>.</P>
<P><HI>Q What are the notes whereby we may di&s;cerne the Regenerate from the Reprobate?</HI></P>
<P>A. There are the&s;e three notes: Fir&s;t if the childe of God be inticed and drawne away from God, hee grieveth for it and giveth not ready con|&s;ent unto the temptation.</P>
<P N="2">2. If through frailty hee be over-carried to give con&s;ent, yet it is not full content, but doth
<PB N="17" REF="10">it again&s;t his will and purpo&s;e, for his purpo&s;e is not to &s;in.</P>
<P N="3">3. If he put his lu&s;ts in execution, hee lyeth not in them, hee will not walke after them, but recovereth him&s;elfe, becau&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ee is incorpo|rated into Chri&s;t, hee hath the roote of grace which &s;hall not utterly dye in him, the &s;eede a|bideth in him which at la&s;t &s;hall &s;prout up to Repentance and amendment of life, <HI>Gallatians</HI> 3. <HI>v.</HI> 10. <HI>As many as are under the workes of the Law are under the cur&s;e:</HI> Therfore we hence conclude contrary to the Doctrine of our Adver|&s;aries, that if all men be condemned by the Law, then is no man able to keep and performe the du|ties of the Law which it requireth.</P>
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<HEAD>Divers Markes and notes of an Hypocrite, which we may ob&s;erve out of the fir&s;t book of <HI>Samuell,</HI> and the <HI>15.</HI> Chap.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, He is very forward in boa&s;ting of his o|bedience, and to have a very high e&s;teeme of him&s;elfe by rea&s;on therof, though it be nothing &s;o; as we may &s;ee in the 13. ver&s;e, &s;aith <HI>Saul</HI> there to <HI>Samuell,</HI> after he was come from the &s;laughter of the <HI>Amalekites,</HI> the very fir&s;t word he utters to him, <HI>I have performed the commande|ment
<PB N="18" REF="11">of the Lord,</HI> though it was nothing &s;o, as <HI>Samuell</HI> &s;hewes there unto him; for &s;aith he to him, <HI>What then meaneth this bleating of Sheep and this lowing of Oxen in my Ears:</HI> For Gods com|mandment to him was, to &s;lay all, man and wo|man, young and old, infant and &s;uckling, Oxe and Sheep, Camell and A&s;&s;e, but the&s;e he had &s;a|ved alive.</P>
<P>Secondly, He makes Religion a cloake for to cover and hide his &s;in, or at lea&s;t to le&s;&s;en it when it is di&s;covered; So <HI>Saul</HI> here when <HI>Samuell</HI> had begun to tell him of his &s;in, why? as if hee &s;hould &s;ay you have no cau&s;e to blame us for this, for <HI>the people tooke of the be&s;t of the Sheepe and the Oxen to Sacrifice unto the Lord thy God, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, He is ob&s;tinate and obdurate in his &s;in, and will not endure to be convinced of it though it be never &s;o plaine, and &s;o we &s;ee here that when <HI>Samuell</HI> had &s;howen <HI>Saul</HI> his &s;in in &s;a|ving the Sheepe and Oxen alive, the which God had commanded him for to de&s;troy&punc; yet for all that he ju&s;tifies him&s;elfe and &s;aith <HI>I have obeyed the voyce of the Lord, and have gone the way the Lord &s;ent me.</HI></P>
<P>Fourthly, The Hypocrite when he is told of his &s;in he will extenuate and le&s;&s;en it, and &s;hift it off upon others; &s;o <HI>Saul</HI> here, ver&s;. 21. <HI>The people tooke of the &s;poyle, &s;heepe and oxen, the chief
<PB N="19" REF="11">of the things which &s;hould have bin de&s;troyed, to Sa|crifice unto the Lord thy God in G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lgall,</HI> as if hee &s;hould have &s;aid, thou ha&s;t no rea&s;on to lay all the fault upon me, it was the people that &s;aved the&s;e alive.</P>
<P>Fifthly, Hypocrites when they are convinced of their &s;ins, and they humble them&s;elves for them, and doe confe&s;&s;e and acknowledge them, it is of con&s;traint, not becau&s;e they are grieved for that they have offended God thereby, but becau&s;e they &s;ee &s;ome evill or judgement is like to befall them for the &s;ame, as in the 23. and 24 ver&s;es, <HI>Saul</HI> would never be brought to &s;ay, I have &s;in|ned, till &s;uch time as <HI>Samuell</HI> told him what would come of it, &s;aying, <HI>Becau&s;e thou ha&s;t rejected the word of the Lord, therefore he hath rejected thee from being King,</HI> then he &s;aith, <HI>I have &s;inned, for I have tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed the Commandment of the Lord and thy words,</HI> all the time before nothing could be gotten from him, but this, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Sixthly and la&s;tly, Hypocrites when they &s;ee that their &s;in and hypocri&s;ie is di&s;cov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">red, they doe not &s;o much de&s;ire to get into Gods favour, and to make their peace with God, as to keepe it from the eyes of the world, that it may not turne to be a reproach and a &s;candall upon them, but that &s;till the world may thinke well of them and may have them in high account, and this was
<PB N="20" REF="12">that, which as may appeare in the 30. ver&s;e, did mo&s;t trouble <HI>Saul.</HI> For <HI>Saul</HI> he had made a faire &s;hew and had profe&s;t a great deale of love and obedience to God, but now he was caught tardy, and his hypocri&s;ie di&s;covered, fearing this &s;hould turne to his &s;hame in regard of his former great profe&s;&s;ion, after a &s;leight confe&s;&s;ion that he makes of his &s;inne in generall, &s;aying, <HI>I have &s;inned,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>honour me yet now I pray thee before the Elders of my people and before I&s;rael,</HI> whereby it appeares that this was the chiefe and maine thing that he &s;tood upon, his credit and repu|tation in the world.</P>
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