1 Corinthians 11

The apple of his eye is touched, and is not he sensible? Saint Paul was scourged by cruel hands (1 Corinthians 11:35). Three times I was beaten with rods; as if you should see a scullion whip the king's son.

Answ. The females were included, and were virtually circumcised in the males. What is done to the head, is done to the body; the man therefore being the head of the woman (1 Corinthians 11:3), what was done to the male sex, was interpretatively done to the female. Having answere…

God lets us fall into sufferings to prevent falling into snares; say then, Lord do as it seems good in your sight, your will be done. (2.) God by affliction would prevent damnation (1 Corinthians 11:32). We are corrected in the world, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Qu. 11. How are mutual love and communion among believers testified and confirmed in their observation? Answ. In that they are appointed by the Lord Christ for that end, and in their own nature as attended to in their assemblies, are in an especial manner suited to that purpose…

Qu. 12. What is principally to be attended to by us in the manner of the celebration of the worship of God, and observation of the institutions and ordinances of the Gospel? Answ. That we observe and do all whatever the Lord Christ has commanded us to observe, in the way that he…

And (2.) some temporary appointments relating to gifts in the Church, bestowed only for a season in the first plantation of the Gospel, are ceased. But (3.) no institution or command of Christ, given to the whole Church, relating to the evangelical administration of the New Cove…

(1) Genesis 2:16, 17; Genesis 4:3, 4; Genesis 17:9, 10, 11; Exodus 12:24; Exodus 20; Matthew 28:19, 20; Matthew 26:26, 27; Ephesians 4:11, 12; Revelation 1:13; Revelation 21:3. (2) Genesis 17:10; Exodus 12:23, 24; Romans 6:3, 4, 5; Matthew 26:27; 1 Corinthians 11:25, 26, 27. (3)…

Quest. 17. Which are the principal institutions of the Gospel to be observed in the worship of God? Answ. (1.) The calling, gathering and setling of Churches with their Officers, as the seat and subject of all other solemn instituted worship. (2.) Prayer with thanksgiving. (3.)…

Answ. In the Church, or assembly of the congregation, to all the members of it, rightly prepared, and duly assembled, or to such of them as are so assembled. 1 Corinthians 11:20, 21, 22, 28, 29, 33; Acts 2:46. Quest. 40. How often is that ordinance to be administered?

Qu. 5. Is there any farther alteration to be expected in, or of those institutions and ordinances of worship, which are revealed and appointed in the Gospel? Answ. No! The last complete revelation of the will of God being made by the Son, who is Lord of all, his commands and ins…

Qu. 6. May not such an estate of faith and perfection in obedience be attained in this life, as wherein believers may be freed from all obligation to the observation of Gospel institutions? Answ. No! For the ordinances and institutions of the Gospel being inseparably annexed to…

Remember how you have received, and heard, and hold fast and repent. Secondly, The outward manner of observance which is to be kept entire, according to the primitive institution of Christ (1 Corinthians 11:23). I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered to you, no…

Qu. 9. How do we in our observation, profess our subjection to the Lord Jesus Christ and his Gospel? Answ. In that being all of them 1. Appointed by him as the head law-giver, King of his Church. And 2. Made by him the ensigns and tokens of his Kingdom, and subjects, in their du…

Who is the author of the Lord's Supper? The Lord Jesus in the same night in which he was betrayed when he was about to lay down his life, which was the greatest act of love that ever was (1 Corinthians 11:23, 24). What is the outward sign in the Lord's Supper?

Non fuit sic ab initio, from the beginning it was not so (Matthew 19:7, 8). Yes, and we must so follow Paul (as he followed Christ, 1 Corinthians 11:1) in reforming the abuses crept into the Church of Corinth, reducing all things to the first institution: with a what I received…

Thus in the preaching of the Word, Jesus Christ is evidently set forth crucified among us (Galatians 3:1), not darkly represented in types and shadows. And in the Sacrament of the Supper we do plainly show forth his death until he comes (1 Corinthians 11:26). And the like may be…

For it being the blood of beasts that were slain, in this use of it each party as it were engaged their lives to the observation and performance of what was respectively undertaken by them. (3) Typically, in that it represented the blood of Christ, and fore-signified the necessi…

All the warnings he has left on record in the Scripture, given to his churches in the various conditions wherein they were, as for instance, those in the second and third of the Revelations, are given likewise to all the churches now, that are in the same state or condition wher…

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Again, if the want of such abilities be too often seen in the children of the covenant when grown up, as is here acknowledged; then what the Synod here says seems to be true, and stand good, that such grown persons, though children of the covenant, or Church-members, are not the…

There is but one place that sounds as if it were quickly after, namely, Acts 2:41, 42, which is here alleged by our brethren: but to that; 1. There is no word about the Lord's Supper in Peter's Sermon, the heads whereof are in that chapter set down, though there is somewhat of t…

And of receiving the sacrifice from the hands of the minister: as in that sentence of the Synod attributed to Saint Patrick; He who deserves not to receive the sacrifice in his life, how can it help him after his death? And in that gloss of Sedulius upon 1 Corinthians 11:33, Tar…

This is to provoke God: To a sinner there is death in the Cup, he eats and drinks his own damnation, 1 Corinthians 11.29. Thus the Lord's Supper works for hurt to impenitent sinners.

And considering that men have care to behave themselves well when they are before men: what a shame is it for a man to behave himself unseemly either in open or in secret, he then being before the glorious angels. Paul says that the woman ought to have power on her head, because…

1. There are express testimonies of the will of Christ, and his promise for its accomplishment, that the church and all its ordinances of worship should be continued always to the end of the world. So as to the church itself (Matthew 16:13; Revelation 21:3), the ministry (Matthe…

A soul inspired by the Almighty, and beautified with grace, does exceed others more than the light of the sun does exceed the light of a taper. 7 Branch. If the righteous are more excellent than others, then how severe will God be against those that wrong them; the wicked are th…

Sometimes God punishes, but with what aim? That he may not for ever punish: 'tis we that make punishment to be a pledge of eternal damnation; in its own aim 'tis a prevention; and so it proves to the elect; we are judged of the Lord, that we may not be condemned of the world (1…

That is: the Roman religion now established by the Council of Trent is, in the principal points thereof, against the very grounds of the catechism that have been agreed upon ever since the days of the Apostles by all churches. These grounds are four: the first is the Apostles' C…

In the first estate, all afflictions are curses or legal punishments, be they little or great: but to them that are in the second estate and believe in Christ, though the same afflictions remain, yet do they change their condition, and are the actions of a Father serving to be t…

We hold that the Church of God has power to prescribe ordinances, rules, or traditions touching time and place of God's worship, and touching order and comeliness to be used in the same. In this regard, Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:2 commends the Church of Corinth for keeping his tr…

Upon this account it is indeed a greater sin to kill a good man that has the image of God renewed in him, than to kill a wicked man. Nevertheless, that [illegible] is a capital crime; for all men have something of God's image remaining in them, not only in that every man has an…

Many sit down at the table of the Lord, who have no right to the children's bread; they feed without faith, or fear, or examination of their fitness. But such should tremble at the damnation threatened, and remember the caution given (1 Corinthians 11:28-29): But let a man exami…

It is gross hypocrisy for us to pretend to more holiness, reverence, and devotion in the act of receiving than Christ himself, or than the Apostles did, when Christ himself was there bodily present with them. We must follow the example of Christ and his Apostles, except where th…

Churches I confess are holy things, but the word Church is very improperly, and catachrestically used concerning the material church of wood and stones, by a metonymy; but the Scripture knows no other church but the church of saints. That place (1 Corinthians 11:22) is much abus…

Thus Christ reforms the abuses of marriage, by bringing them to the first institution of that ordinance; From the beginning it was not so (Matthew 19:8). And thus Paul reforms the abuses of the Lord's Supper, by telling them what was the first institution thereof (1 Corinthians…

Now these two, the multitude of Christians, and the want of Temples, shall abundantly give light to my first proposition. But it may be objected to the contrary, that all the Disciples at Jerusalem did meet together into one place (Acts 2:44), and the same is said of the Church…

The cause of them is from hence, that you neglect the Sacrament, that you receive it unworthily. For this cause many are weake and sicke among you, and many sleepe (1 Corinthians 11:30). Consider the danger of neglecting the Sacrament, he that came not to the Passeover, must be…

Instead of arguing plainly, as he promised to do, in justification of this practice of the Church of Rome, he tells us of the wine they give their people after they have received the body; which he knows to be in their own esteem, a little common drink to wash their mouths, that…

And for the Sacraments, to consider God's institution, their ministry, his mercy in Christ, their faith, their repentance and their wants: and so seeking the assurance of grace, of reconciliation and comfort, to come to the table of the Lord. [1 Corinthians 11:28. But let every…

Forbidden in the second part, to worship images, to set them up, to gild them, or any manner of way to serve them (Matthew 4:10; Revelation 19:20). Also here is forbidden all additions of Sacraments, as the Papists made matrimony, and so gave it a sign of the wedding ring, all a…

The brawny and fat heart, which being never a whit moved, never or to small purpose repeats, examines, applies, or practises (Ezekiel 33:31; Zephaniah 2:1; 2 Samuel 12; Mark 6:20). In the Sacraments, the preparation is an examination of our faith in Christ (1 Corinthians 11:28;…

For though these who truly believe, ought not to doubt of their belief, yet these who have lamps of faith, and no oil, ought to question, whether there be oil in their lamps, or no, and true faith with their profession, else the foolish Virgins were not far out, who never questi…

Answ. 1. We are to make believers know if they believe not, and walk not worthy of Christ, in all holy duties; their faith is a fancy, and a dead faith, and the wrath of God abides on them, and they are not believers. 2. Though they be believers, wrath must be preached to them,…

It is true of the love of election and reconciliation, in the work of justification; but most false of the love of divine manifestation, in the work of sanctification; as is clear (John 14:21, 23). Nor are men by this taught to seek righteousness in themselves; because they are…

Then by this, all and every one of them were converted. (1 Corinthians 11:3) The head [illegible], of every man is Christ — of every man without exception? No, these of whom Christ is head, these are his body, the Church, that have life from him, and are knit to him by the Spiri…

So he preached him, and so they received him, and so they began in the Spirit (verse 3). And thus also do the seals of the promises (the sacraments) present Christ to a believer's eye: as they hold forth Christ (as was in the former direction observed), so Christ as crucified, t…

3. Take we heed how we carry ourselves, because of this honorable presence. In congregations there should be no indecency, because of the angels (1 Corinthians 11:10). In all our ways let us take heed that we do not step out of God's way.

Satan makes fair offers of what he cannot perform: He promises many things, but does only promise them: he offers the kingdoms of the world to Christ, but cannot make good his word; he shows them to Christ, but cannot give them. And this is the devil's custom, to be liberal in p…

2. They delight in the holy conversation of the godly; as they are offended with all impurity, filthiness, and ungodliness. If good men be offended at the sins of the wicked, as Lot's righteous soul was vexed from day to day with their ungodly deeds (2 Peter 2:8), much more are…

First, they serve for trial of men, that it may appear what is hidden in their hearts (Deuteronomy 8:2). Secondly, they serve for the correction of things amiss in us (1 Corinthians 11:23). Thirdly, they serve as documents, and warnings to others, specially in public persons: th…