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The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered. : As also the Christian directed how he may perform it in [brace] religious duties, natural actions, his particular vocation, his family directions, and his own recreations. / By George Swinnock ...
London: printed for T.P., 1662
Treatise › Chapter 19: How a Christian may exercise himself to godliness at the Table.
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Reader, act Mary's part, and thou shalt meet with Mary's portion. When Mary went to the Sepulchre, John 20.13. she looketh into it, seeth the linen, but not the Lord, and presently falleth a weeping: O, saith she, they have taken away my Lord! They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. Jesus Christ could now no longer absent himself; he heard the voice of her weeping, and gave her a gracious meeting: Mary, saith Christ; Rabboni, saith Mary. Now her heart cleaves to him, and her hands clasp about him; and she hears that golden Message, Go to my brethren, and tell them, I go to my Father, and your Father: So when thou comest to the Table, and seest the linen, and not the Lord Jesus, be not satisfied; O dart up thy complaints to Heaven, Lord, I came not to see the linen, I came not for the bread and wine, I came to see Jesus Christ: O Lord! what ⟨p. 306⟩shall I do? they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where to find him: Ah Lord, wh•• is the Word to me without Christ, but as a conduit without water? and what is the element to me without Christ, but as a cup without wine? O, what wilt thou give me, if I go from thy Table Christless! Thou mightest be confident that Jesus Christ would hear such sighs, and would hasten away to bless and kiss thee.
Reader, act Maries part, and thou shalt meet with Maries portion. When Mary went to the Sepulchre, John 20.13. she looketh into it, seeth the linnen, but not the Lord, and presently falleth a weeping: O, saith she, they have taken away my Lord! They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. Jesus Christ could now no longer absent himself; he heard the voice of her weeping, and gave her a gracious meeting: Mary, saith Christ; Rabboni, saith Mary. Now her heart cleaves to him, and her hands clasp about him; and she hears that golden Message, Go to my brethren, and tell them, I go to my Father, and your Father: So when thou comest to the Table, and seest the linnen, and not the Lord Jesus, be not satisfied; O dart up thy complaints to Heaven, Lord, I came not to see the linnen, I came not for the bread and wine, I came to see Jesus Christ: O Lord! what ⟨p. 306⟩