A65285:2864
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Resp. No, that were to make the Lord's Table an Ordinary. Christ forbids to cast Pearls before Swine.1 The Sacramental Bread is Children's Bread, and it is not to be cast to the Profane. As at the giving of the Law God set Bounds about the Mount that none might touch it: So God's Table should be guarded, that the Profane should not come near. In the Primitive Times, after Sermon done, and they were going to Celebrate the Lord's Supper, an Officer stood up and cried, [Greek or Hebrew], Holy things for Holy Men: And then several of the Congregation were to depart. I would have my Hand cut off, (saith Chrysostom) rather than I would give Christ's Body and Blood to the Profane. The wicked do not eat Christ's Flesh, but tear it; they do not drink his Blood, but spill it. These Holy Mysteries in the Sacraments are tremenda mysteria, Mysteries that the Soul is to tremble at. Sinners defile the Holy things of God, they poison the Sacramental Cup. We read that the wicked are to be set at Christ's Feet, Psal. 110. not at his Table.
Resp. No, that were to make the Lord's Table an Ordinary. Christ forbids to cast Pearls before Swine.1 The Sacramental Bread is Children's Bread, and it is not to be cast to the Profane. As at the giving of the Law God set Bounds about the Mount that none might touch it: So God's Table should be guarded, that the Profane should not come near. In the Primitive Times, after Sermon done, and they were going to Celebrate the Lord's Supper, an Officer stood up and cried, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Holy things for Holy Men: And then several of the Congregation were to depart. I would have my Hand cut off, (saith Chrysostom) rather than I would give Christ's Body and Blood to the Profane. The wicked do not eat Christ's Flesh, but tear it; they do not drink his Blood, but spill it. These Holy Mysteries in the Sacraments are tremenda mysteria, Mysteries that the Soul is to tremble at. Sinners defile the Holy things of God, they poyson the Sacramental Cup. We read that the wicked are to be set at Christ's Feet, Psal. 110. not at his Table.