A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

This at meat is not in the Original, where we find only [Greek or Hebrew], he that sitteth, we may aswell and better supply at table, from vers: 21. add vers: 30. That ye may (here I supply from vers: 27. and Matth. 8. 11. Sit down and) eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve Tribes of Israel. Here is an honour of Communion, and an honour of Jurisdiction: The honour of Communion, is to eat and drink at his Table in his Kingdom, and this honour (signified by their sitting, eating and drinking at his table in his last Supper) he puts upon them as believing communicants, so that it belongs to all such. There is another honour joined with a special judicial prerogative, to sit on Thrones, and judge the twelve Tribes of Israel, and herein there is somewhat meant peculiarly of the Apostles, which is notwithstanding mentioned else were in a different phrase, as a Prerogative of all the Saints, 1 Cor: 6. 2. Thirdly, it cannot be denied, but that the first communicants who received from Christ, might with more ease and conveniency be placed at the table, then can be now in many Churches, which have been accustomed to another way. But we must not bring down ⟨p. 221⟩our rule to our conveniences, rather bring up our conveniences to our rule. It is no hard matter to alter pews and such like things in Churches, where the present posture is inconsistent with following the pattern: and a less alteration will serve then is apprehended. Fourthly, the flux and reflux (so to speak) of several successive tables, where there is a great number to communicate, and the repeating, or pronouncing, and applying to those several tables of receivers, the words, Take ye, eat ye, which Christ pronounced but once in one act of distribution, these things (I say) cannot be justly charged as deviations from the example of Christ, when the same providence which limited him to a fewer number, calls us to distribute to a great number: Neither can they who so charge us, ever make good what they allege, unless they prove that although Christ had been distributing this Sacrament to all the 500.

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