as your meeting tends to the increaſe of your ſin, rather than CO the increaſe of your Grace, and the promoting the work or Was they fo in your ſelves , andthe Souls of others. one, wore? 13 For firſt of all when ye come together * in ti ApIEs No church, IT hear that there be || diviſions amonglt jo! af Sou, / CT: 2
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this time there was no Temples builded for Chriſtians, cauſe t mer in private houſes, as the iniquity of thoſe rimes we d wh. e wo yerother think the place is here meant where the Church ws - : a is ro meet, and ſay, Thar the Chriſtians had a certain ſtated p14 by oe rend though in a private houſe, where they uſed romeert. BU 67 ho as u very probable, that they ſhould in the midſt ofsHeathens bh Fu ſuffe quiet and ſecure to meet either conſtantly, or ordinarily 10 a0 , Tab] certain and ſtated place, ſo denominated. Whar Schiſms, 7, 2 What,
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$. YOU, F on” amongſt you ». | 17. Tris not ſimply and abſolutely neceſfiry, thatthere ſhould be ſuch dividoas amongſt you ( they are cauſed from the free a&s of mens $8. corrupt wi!ls) bur yet theſe things do nor fall our by chance, bur * 2. chrough rhe Providence of God, who hath ſoimmutably ordered and decreed, to ſuffer Satan ro ſhew his malice, and men to diſcover the n 2-juſts and corruprions of their own hearts. 2 Though Heyeſie be a term, that by Ecclcliaſtical uſage is reſtrained to ſignified perverſe Jcut- Opinions in matter of Doctrine, as to which men are ſtubborn and renacious;z yer itis manif<ſt, that che word is not natively ſo to be reſtrained, neither can ir reaſonably he here ſo interpreted, bur tig- nifies the ſame thing with $Schiſms and Drviſions before mentioned : For though (as will appear fiom Chap. 15. there were corrupt O- pinions amongſt them in matrers of Doctrine, yet it is unreaſona- bleco underſtand the Apoſtle here, as ſpeaking with reference to chem, theſe words being brought asa reaſon why he was inclined co believe that there were ſuch Schiſms or Diviſions amongſt them, becauſe there muſt be Hereſies. » God hath his wiſe end in ſuffe- ring breaches and diviſions, that ſuch as are true and ſincere Chri- ſtians, oppoſing themſelves to ſuch violations of Charity, might appear to you to betrue and ſincere, and to have the Love of God dwelling, working, and prevalling in them.
29 When ye come together therefor2 into one je place 0, this is || not to eat che Lords ſupper p.
#. « The Gre:k words do not neceffarily ſignifie into one place, they may as well be tranſlated for che ſame thing, and poſſibly that were the better tranſlation of them in this place, diviſions appear- ing the worl: amongſt perſons that meet as oneand the fame Body, and foc one and the ſame grave aGion, and that ſuch an aCttion, as declared chem one Body, and laid upon them the higheſt obliga- tion to brotherly love tmaginable, p Some words muſt be here ſupplied ro compleat the ſenle. 7hzs is not zoeat, that is, as you Jo it, is indeed not to do it ; to eat the Lord's Supper in an unlawful manner, 1s not to eatit. It 1s called the Lord's Supper, either be. cauſe he ordained and inſtituted it, or becauſe it was inſtituted for the remembrance of his Death, wv. 26. Luke 22.19. Some think that the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is here meant,and fo one would - think, by comparing what 15 here with wer. 23, 24. Others ſay,
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flembly mer for the publick Worth _ _ ng gy would continue them ) oules: and he doth not only blame the & of theſe Feaſts bur the Feaſts themſelves as kept 2 the _ R—_ the Church met; or as having in them any prerence to any thing of Religion: meer they might friendly to ear and to drink buttheir pri vate houſes were the fitteſt placesſfor that. « Or do you defviſo the place (as ſome think) where the Church of God meeteth w_ the people mer in thar place, by carrying your ſelves ſo diſorderly in fuch a grave Afſembly ; or the poorer part of the Church _ tho' poorer, are a part of the Church, redeemed by che Blood of Chriſt : the next words would incline us to think thar the ſenſe ; for it followeth, and ſhame them that lavc not, that have not ER tes to contribure to ſuch Feaſts, and fo are forced to go away withour any due refreſhmear. 23 For * I have received of the Lord that which « alſo I delivered unto you , That the Lord Jeſus the {ame night in which he was betrayed, took bread ».
w About theſe Love-f-aſts preceding the Lords Supper, I {ave received nothing from the Lord, you have taken the praQtic= up from the Jews or Heathens: Ido not know that it is unlawful tor youcivilly to feaſt, andeat and drink in your private houſes : bur cocome to makeſuch Feaſts immediately before you religioully ear and drink at the Lords Table, I have recieved no order from the Lord, for any ſuch PraCtice.I have told you what I receiv'd from the Lord, which isno more than, That the Lord, &c, x See this in the Evangeliſts, Marth. 26.26. Mark 14. 22. Luke 19. where all theſe words are opened. Some think that Paul received this from the Lord by immediate Revelation (as it is thought Moſes re. ceived the Hiſtory we have in Gen:{i; and part of Exodus, which re. lates to a time before he was born, or arrived at mans eſtate.) O. thers think that he received it from :S. Luke's Writings (for the words are quoted according to his Goſyel.) Others think he re. ceived it from ſome other of the Apoſtles : certain it is, that he did receive itfrom the Lord, how, is uncertain.
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