Discourses on the Lord's Supper
Stephen Charnock
Public DomainPuritans
Chapters 89
- 30. For the reformation of those abuses, the apostle reduceth them to ≈ 3 min
- 1. The community of goods, or a voluntary levelling, was not a ≈ 3 min
- 2. How soon will corruptions creep into the best church! This mighty ≈ 3 min
- 3. Human ceremonies are not to be urged, especially when they by ≈ 3 min
- 1. Shews the end of the institution of this ordinance. In the repetition ≈ 3 min
- 2. He shews the duty of communicants, in the text, 'Ye shew the ≈ 3 min
- 1. The action, eating, drinking. ≈ 3 min
- 2. The object, bread, this bread, this cup. ≈ 3 min
- 3. The end of the action, expressed by a command, shewing the ≈ 4 min
- 1. God was always careful of appointing and preserving memorials of ≈ 3 min
- 2. These memorials are necessary, ≈ 6 min
- 1. The painfulness of his death. It is the picture of him as he hung ≈ 3 min
- 2. The intention of this death for us. It is in this ordinance ≈ 3 min
- 3. The sufficiency of this death for us. It would never else be ≈ 3 min
- 4. The acceptableness of this death to God. All that Christ did, he did ≈ 3 min
- 5. The present efficacy of this death. It is now of efficacy, and will be ≈ 3 min
- 1. Reverentially. ≈ 3 min
- 2. Holily. We must undertake such religious services with suitable ≈ 6 min
- 3. Believingly. We should in this act look upon it by faith, as the ≈ 6 min
- 4. Humbly. ≈ 3 min
- 5. Thankfully. Such mercies as the death of Christ require high and ≈ 6 min
- 2. How should the death of Christ run much in our thoughts, and our ≈ 3 min
- 1. How often is not determined. There is no fixed time for the ≈ 3 min
- 2. Nor can there be a constant time fixed for every particular person; ≈ 3 min
- 11. Yet we find the passover omitted all the time they were in the ≈ 3 min
- 3. It was anciently often participated of. Some* think every day, from ≈ 3 min
- 4. Yet to be frequent in it is agreeable to the nature of the ordinance, ≈ 3 min
- 1. Because of the author. It is a feast of God's providing, to which he ≈ 3 min
- 2. The time when Christ instituted it shews it not worthy of our ≈ 3 min
- 3. The ends of it declare the unworthiness of neglecting it. ≈ 13 min
- 4. The benefits of this ordinance require frequency. As everything ≈ 56 min
- 1. His coming in the flesh; 2, his coming to judgment. Both ≈ 16 min
- 1. All the ordinances of Christ are to continue in his church, then ≈ 7 min
- 2. Sacraments were thought by God needful for men in all their ≈ 7 min
- 3. All laws once settled are of force till they be repealed by that ≈ 3 min
- 4. The covenant is perpetual, and therefore the seals are perpetual.* ≈ 3 min
- 5. The state wherein we are requires the continuance of it, and of ≈ 6 min
- 2. It is in no man's power to add to, or detract from, Christ's ≈ 3 min
- 3. See Christ's love and bounty. Christ would not leave his people ≈ 3 min
- 4. This ordinance must not be contemned. The passover was to be ≈ 3 min
- 5. It is a standing ordinance till he come, no longer. The happiness of ≈ 6 min
- 1. A trial of grace, whether it be inherent or no. It is a shewing the ≈ 3 min
- 2. A trial of the state wherein those graces are. Since the supper is ≈ 3 min
- 1. All persons incapable of performing this antecedent duty. Either in ≈ 3 min
- 2. All persons who cannot find upon examination anything of a ≈ 3 min
- 1. That a Christian may come to the knowledge of his state in grace; ≈ 3 min
- 2. No necessity of auricular confession; to tell all the secrets of the ≈ 16 min
- 1. The antecedent duty, examination. ≈ 3 min
- 2. The subsequent duty, participation. ≈ 3 min
- 1. The antecedent duty, which is laid down, ≈ 4 min
- 1. Only regenerate men are fit to come to the Lord's Supper. No man ≈ 26 min
- 2. Ignorant persons are not in a capacity for the supper. The subjects ≈ 15 min
- 3. Proposition. Men guilty of a course of sin, though secret and ≈ 44 min
- 1. This self-examination or preparation is necessary. God required it ≈ 13 min
- 2. As it is necessary, so it is universal. 'Let a man examine himself.' ≈ 3 min
- 1. Let a man examine himself, as to his sentiments concerning the ≈ 3 min
- 2. Let a man examine himself what soil he hath contracted since the ≈ 3 min
- 3. We should enquire whether we have habitual grace or no; whether ≈ 3 min
- 1. Negatively. ≈ 3 min
- 2. Positively. ≈ 3 min
- 1. Negatively. ≈ 35 min
- 1. It is necessary to that which is required to the supper. It is ≈ 16 min
- 1. Spiritual affections to God are required in all duties, much more in ≈ 3 min
- 2. The object proposed in this ordinance requires the strongest ≈ 3 min
- 3. The graces to be exercised in this ordinance depend much upon ≈ 3 min
- 4. The nature of the ordinance requires it. It is an heavenly banquet, ≈ 3 min
- 5. No benefit can be by a sacrament without this grace. Communion ≈ 3 min
- 1. Let us not judge ourselves by a general love. As there is a general ≈ 3 min
- 2. Nor let us judge ourselves to be lovers of God because of our ≈ 3 min
- 3. Nor let us judge ourselves by any passionate fits of love, which ≈ 16 min
- 1. This is necessary in all duties. Would we pray? Our hands must be ≈ 3 min
- 2. But more necessary in this ordinance. ≈ 9 min
- 1. This is necessary in all duties. In hearing the word, the desire must ≈ 3 min
- 2. But in this ordinary more necessary. ≈ 8 min
- 2. The danger, ver. 29, eating and drinking damnation to himself. ≈ 2 min
- 3. The cause of all, not discerning the Lord's body. ≈ 15 min
- 1. Something negatively. ≈ 15 min
- 1. It is an implicit approbation of the Jews' act in crucifying Christ. If ≈ 3 min
- 2. It exceeds the sin of the Jews in some circumstances, as well as ≈ 3 min
- 3. In regard of the relation the ordinance hath to Christ. There is an ≈ 3 min
- 4. It is a great sin, as it is against the greatest testimony of his love. ≈ 3 min
- 1. The manner of duties must be regarded as well as the matter. The ≈ 3 min
- 2. The holiness of an ordinance will not excuse a miscarriage in it. ≈ 3 min
- 3. The sins of those that draw nearest to God are the blackest. Never ≈ 3 min
- 4. The ground of our mischief is always in ourselves. It is not from ≈ 3 min
- 5. We see here the base nature of sin. It changeth the brightest ≈ 3 min
- 6. If an unworthy receiver be guilty of the body and blood of Christ, a ≈ 3 min
- 7. Should not all of us, that have at any time of our lives been ≈ 3 min
- 8. How, then, should we take heed, whenever we approach to the ≈ 6 min
| Author | Stephen Charnock |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | 1600s |
| Categories | Puritans · Christian Classics |
| Length | 89 chapters · ≈ 9 h 25 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |
| Status | Public Domain |
Public Domain.
