The Lords Table Not for All Comers, Title page
THE LORDS TABLE.
Whether it is to be ſpread like A Table in an Inne for all comers?
That it ought not ſo be done is here maintained.
Give not that which is holy unto the dogges, Matth: 7. 6.
And he ſet the Porters at the Gates of the houſe of the Lord, that none which was uncleane in any thing ſhould enter-in, 2 Chron. 23. 19.
Suppoſe him to be the greateſt perſon in the world, and would receive the bleſſed Cup from my hand, ſigning to all, and ſealing to every beleiver the Blood of That God-Man, I would rather give him my heart blood, than I would give that Cup unto him, whileſt he declares himſelfe to be no Diſciple. Chryſoſt: in Math: 26. Hom: 83. w.
They, that give The bread and wine to unworthy ones, are as guiltie of Sacriledge every whit, as he would be, who could give the Sacred Body of Chriſt to be torne in peices and eaten by dogges, or trampled-on by Swine. Calv: 4. book of Inſtitutions. Chap: 12. 5.
He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himſelfe, not diſcerning the Lords Body. 1 Cor. 11. 29.
LONDON; Printed by M. S. for Henry Cripps in Popeshead-Alley. 1656.
THE SECOND TREATISE, Relating to The Lords Supper, And ſecond Query thereupon.
Whether all are to be admitted to the Lords Table, upon account onelyonly of their Infant Baptiſm, though aliens from the Common-wealth of Iſrael, and ſtrangers from the Covenant of promiſe, having no hope, well ſet and ſetling, and without God in the world? Eph. 2. 12.
The Negative here alſo is under our maintenance.
Here are foure things premiſed firſt. Then is ſet downe what the contrary minded have to ſay for the holding forth the Affirmative.
In the next place we Argue the Negative.