A34165:588
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.
London : s.n., 1663
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If there be any on the other side, that are not in charity, and yet will come to the Lords Table, remember this, you get no good by the Ordinance, you do but defile the Ordinance. The Apostle calls it, the leaven of malice; it doth sower all your Holy Duties, Sermons, Prayers, and Sacraments; it is a little gall embitters a great deal of honey: So where there is a little of this Gall of malice and hatred, it embittereth and spoileth all the honey of your Graces and Duties. The Apostle bids us in prayer to lift up pure hands without wrath, 1 Tim. 1.2. I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up pure hands without wrath and doubting. What the Apostle speaketh of the duty of Prayer, I may say of the Lords Supper; when you come to see the Body and Blood of the Lord, Lift up pure hands without malice bitterness and wrath. That is a sad speech of Augustine, He that is full of rancour and malice, he is a man-slayer: Nay: the Apostle saith it in the first Epistle of John 3.15. Whosoever hateth his Brother is a murderer, and ye know no murderer hath Eternal life abiding in ⟨image 73⟩him; Do not think this Ordinance will profit you, if you do not come in love to the Saints; suppose a man drinketh down poison, and afterwards taketh down a Cordial, surely this Cordial will do him but little good; so thou that drinkest down the poison of wrath and malice into thy soul, and comest afterward to drink down the Cordial of Christs blood in the Sacrament, why certainly this Cordial will do thee but little good.
If there be any on the other side, that are not in charity, and yet will come to the Lords Table, remember this, you get no good by the Ordinance, you do but defile the Ordinance. The Apostle calls it, the leaven of malice; it doth sower all your Holy Duties, Sermons, Prayers, and Sacraments; it is a little gall imbitters a great deal of honey: So where there is a little of this Gall of malice and hatred, it imbittereth and spoileth all the honey of your Graces and Duties. The Apostle bids us in prayer to lift up pure hands without wrath, 1 Tim. 1.2. I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up pure hands without wrath and doubting. What the Apostle speaketh of the duty of Prayer, I may say of the Lords Supper; when you come to see the Body and Blood of the Lord, Lift up pure hands without malice bitterness and wrath. That is a sad speech of Augustine, He that is full of rancor and malice, he is a man-slayer: Nay: the Apostle saith it in the first Epistle of