A20536:626
Ten sermons tending chiefly to the fitting of men for the worthy receiving of…Ten sermons tending chiefely to the fitting of men for the worthy receiuing of…
Ten sermons tending chiefly to the fitting of men for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper Wherein amongst many other holy instructions: the doctrines of sound repentance and humiliation, and of Gods special favours unto penitent sinners, and worthy communicants are largely and effectually handled. The six first, by I. Dod. The four last, by R. Cleaver. Whereunto is annexed, a plain and learned metaphrase on the epistle to the Colossians, written by a godly and judicious preacher. There is also set before the sermons, a short dialogue of preparation: containing the chief points that concern the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper, taken for the most part, out of the sermons following: and collected into a method for the benefit and ease of those that desire direction in this matter.Ten sermons tending chiefely to the fitting of men for the worthy receiuing of the Lords Supper VVherein amongst many other holy instructions: the doctrines of sound repentance and humiliation, and of Gods speciall fauours vnto penitent sinners, and worthy communicants are largely and effectually handled. The six first, by I. Dod. The foure last, by R. Cleauer. Whereunto is annexed, a plaine and learned metaphrase on the epistle to the Collossians, written by a godly and iudicious preacher. There is also set before the sermons, a short dialogue of preparation: containing the chiefe points that concerne the worthy receiuing of the Lords Supper, taken for the most part, out of the sermons following: and collected into a method for the benefit and ease of those that desire direction in this matter.
London: printed by William Hall for Roger Jackson, 1610London: printed by William Hall for Roger Iackson, 1610
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, 1to purge away that which may annoy our stomach and kill our appetite: and what that is, Peter telleth us when he saith; §1Wherefore laying aside all maliciousness, and all guile, 2and dissimulation, and envy and evil speaking, as new borne babes desire the sincere milk of the word, &c. As if he had said, so long as you give place unto, Note. and delight in any evil; so long as you carry a bitter and envious mind against your brethren, or an hypocritical and dissembling heart towards God, and suffer your evil affections to break forth into evil speeches; so long you can never delight in, nor be very desirous of the pure word of God, and therefore can not possibly grow in the knowledge and practise of the same. And therefore when we find in our selves dullness and deadness, and unwillingness unto good duties; let us conclude for a certainty that we stand in need of Physic for the purging of our souls: for sin worketh on our hearts, as ill humours do in our stomachs; it maketh us to loath all spiritual food, and all means of refreshing. And this take for an undoubted truth, which though our mouths will not confess, yet our hearts must needs acknowledge: when we have no desire to ⟨p. 143⟩hear the word preached, or to receive the Sacrament when it is to be administered, there is some sin or other not thoroughly repented of, which so cloyeth the soul, that it cannot delight in those holy exercises: and as our hearts are more purged by godly sorrow, 3so will our hunger and thirst after righteousness, and the means thereof, be still increased in us. This then is the first rule that we must observe for the getting of spiritual appetite, viz. to put away the practise of all cross evils, and the allowance of all infirmities, great or small.
First, 1to purge away that which may annoy our stomacke and kill our appetite: and what that is, Peter telleth vs when hee saith; §1