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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…
A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrick Gillespie ...A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ...
Edinburgh: printed by Gideon Lithgow for George Swintoun, 1649Edinburgh: printed by Gedeon Lithgovv for George Svvintoun, 1649
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.
Thirdly, I argue from the name Table, which the Apostle makes use of in this Ordinance. 1 Cor. 10. 21. ye cannot be partakers of the Lords Table, and of the Table of devils. The table of ⟨p. 225⟩Devils was that which they did sit at, and eat at, in the Idols temple, 1 Cor. 8 10. The Lords Table was that which they did sit at, and eat at in the Church, and in those times (to note that1 by the way) they did eat their love feasts before the Lords Supper in imitation of Christ, who had the Sacrament after Supper, which doth to me put it the more out of doubt, that those primitive Christians received the Lords Supper at the Table. The name table is also used (not without respect to the Lords Supper) Prov. 9. 2. Wisdom hath killed her beasts (or according to the Hebrew, her killing• She hath mingled her wine, she hath also furnished her Table, where there is another distinct Emphasis upon the furnishing of her Table, beside the preparing of meat and drink. Again Cant: 1. 12. while the King sitteth at his Table, my Spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. It appear• by this smell that she was also at Table with the King: for the words intimate that, when the Church is nearest to Christ, even sitting at Table with him, then her graces send forth the most pleasant smell, and then doth Christ sup with the Church upon her graces, as well as she with him upon his mercies and comforts, so that here is a mutual entertainment and communion In that Evangelical vision of Ezekiel concerning the second house, which is the Church of Christ, there is also mention of a Table and of coming to it, Ezek. 44. 16. & they shall come near to my Table. It hath been alleged by some, that the name table is but figurative when the Scripture useth it in reference to the Sacrament, & that to partake of the Lords table is no more but to partake of the body and blood of the Lord. So