receive inftruction, and manifeft their reformation k. Q. 174. What is required of them that receive the facrament of the Lord's fupper in the time of the administration of it? A. It is required of them that receive the facrament of the Lord's fupper, That, during the time of the adminiftration of it, with all holy reverence and attention they wait upon God in that ordinance /, diligently obferve the facramental elements and actions m,heed fully difcern the Lord's body ",and *affectionately meditate on his death and fufferings o, and thereby stir up themselves to a vigorous exercise of their graces p; ander their feet, and turn again and rent you. And with 1 Cor. chap. v. to the end. And with Jude ver. 23. and others fave with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating e. ven the garment fpotted by the flesh. And with 1 Tim. v. 22. Lay hands fuddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other mens fins: keep thyfelf pure. k 2 Cor ii. 7. So that contrary. wife, ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, left perhaps fuch a one should be fwallowed up with over much forrow. 174. / Lev. x. 3. Then Mofes faid unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord fpake, faying, I will be fanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. Heb. xii. 28. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. Pfal. v. 7. But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy, and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. Cor. xi. 17. Now in this that I declare unto you, I praise you not, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse. v. 26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do fhew the in Lord's death till he come. V. 27. Wherefore, whofoever fhall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, fhall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. m Exod. xxiv. 8. And Mofes took the blood and fprinkled it on the people, and faid, Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you, concerning all these words. Compared with Mat, xxvi. 28. For this is my blood of the new Teftament which is fhed for many for the remiffion of fins. I Cor. xi. 29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not difcerning the Lord's body. • Luke xxii. 19. And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, faying, This do in remembrance of me. 1. Cor. xi. 26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do fhew the Lord's death till he come. 1 Cor. x. 3. and did all eat the fame fpiritual meat: v. 4. and did all drink the fame fpiritual drink: (for they drank of that fpiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was Christ.) v. 5. But with many of them God was not well pleafed: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. v. 11. Now all thefe things happened unto them for in judging themselves q, and forrowing for fin r; in earnest hungerings and thirstings after Chrift, feeding on him by faith t, receiving of his fulness v,trufting in his merits w, rejoicing in his love, giving thanks for his grace y; in renewing of their covenant with God z, and love to all the faints a. Q. 175. What is the duty of Chriftians, after they have reved the facrament of the Lord's fupper? A. The duty of Christians, after they have received the facrament of the Lord's fupper, is feriously to confider how they have behaved themselves therein, and with what fuccefs b enfamples and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. v. 14. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. q 1 Cor. xi. 31. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. Zech. xii. 10. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerufalem, the fpirit of grace and of fupplications, and they fhall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they fhall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only fon, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitternefs for his first born. Rev. xxii. 17. And the Spirit and the bride fay, Come. And let him that heareth fay, Come. And Jet him that is athirft, come: and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. John vi. 35. And Jefus faid unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me, fhall never hun ger; and he that believeth on me, fhall never thirst. v John i. 16. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for if which is through the faith of Chrift, the righteoufnefs which is of God by faith. x Pfal. lxiii. 4. Thus will I blefs thee, while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. v. 5. My foul fhall be fatisfied as with marrow and fatnefs and my mouth fhall praise thee with joyful lips. 2 Chron. xxx. 21. And the children of Ifrael that were prefent at Jerufalem, kept the feaft of unleavened bread feven days with great gladness: and the Le vites, and the priests praised the Lord day by day, finging with loud inftruments to the Lord. y Pfal. xxii. 26. The meek shall eat and be fatisfied: they fhall praife the Lord that feek him; your heart fhall live for ever. Jer. 1. 5. They fhall afk the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, faying, Come and let us join our felves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten. Pfal. 1. 5. Gather my faints toge ther unto me: thofe that have made a covenant with me by facrifice. a Acts ii. 42. And they continued ftedfaftly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. 175. 6 Pfal. xxviii. 7. The Lord is my ftrength and my fhield, my heart trufted in him, and I am help ed if they find quickening and comfort, to blefs God for it c, beg the continuance of it d, watch against relapfes e, fulfil their vows f, and encourage themselves to a frequent attendance on that ordinance g: but, if they find no present benefit, more exactly to review their preparation to, and carriage at the facrament ; in both which if they can approve themselves to God and ed: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth, and with my fong will I praife him. Pfal. lxxxv. 8. I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people and to his faints: but let them not turn again to folly. 1 Cor. xi. 17. Now in this that I declare unto you, I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse. 30. For this caufe many are weak and fickly among you, and many fleep. v. 31. For if we should judge ourselves, we fhould not be judged. 62 Chron. xxx. 21, 22, 23, 25, 26. v. 21. And the children of If rael that were present at Jerufalem, kept the fealt of unleavened bread feven days with great gladness: and the Levites, and the priests praised the Lord day by day, finging with loud inftruments unto the Lord, &c. Acts ii. 42. and they continued stedfaftly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. v. 46. And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to houfe, did eat their meat with gladness and fing!enefs of heart, v. 47. Praifing God and having fa vour with all the people. d Pfal. xxxvi. 10. O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. Cant ii. 4. It was but a little that I paffed from them, but I found him whom my foul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. 1 Chron, xxix. 18. O Lord God of Abraham, Ifaac, and of Ifrael our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee. e 1 Cor. x. 3. And did all eat the fame fpiritual meat; v. 4. and did all drink the fame fpiritual drink; (for they drank of that fpiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Chrift.) v. 5. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. v. 12. Wherefore let him that thinketh he ftandeth, take heed left he fall. Pfal. 1. 14. Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the most High. g 1 Cor. xi. 25. After the fame manner also he took the cup, when he had fupped, faying, This cup is the new Teftament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me: v. 26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do fhew the Lord's death till he come. Acts ii. 42. and they continued ftedfaftly in the apoítles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. v. 46. And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from houfe to houfe, did cat their meat with gladnets and fingleness of heart. bg Cant. v. 1. I am come into Ꮓ my and their own confciences, they are to wait for the fruit of it in due time i: but, if they fee they have failed in either, they are to be humbled k, and to attend upon it afterward with more care and diligence. Q. 176. Wherein do the facraments of baptifm and the Lord's Supper agree? my garden, my fifter, my fpoufe; I have gathered my myrrh with my fpice, I have eaten my honey-comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. v. 2. I fleep, but my heart waketh it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, faying, Open to me, my fifter, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. v. 3. I have put off my coat, how fhall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how fhall I defile them? v. 4. My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. v. 5. I rofe up to o pen to my beloved, and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with fweet-fmelling myrrh upon the handles of the lock. v. 16. I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himfelf, and was gone: my foul failed when he fpake: I fought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. ¡ Pfal. cxxiii. 1. Unto thee lift up mine eyes, O thou that dwelleft in the heavens. † v. 2. Behold, as the eyes of fervants look unto the hand of their mafters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress: fo our eyes wait upon th- Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us. Pfal. Exii. 5. Why art thou caft down, O my foul? and why art thou difquieted in me? hope thou in God, for I A. The fhall yet praife him for the help of thou caft down, O my foul? and k2 Chron. xxx. 18. For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manaffeh, flachar and Zebulun, had not cleanfed themselves, yet did they eat the paffover, otherwife than it was writ ten: but Hezekiah prayed for them, faying, The good Lord pardon every one v. 19. That prepareth his heart to feek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleanf ed according to the purification of the fanctuary. Ifa. i. 16. Wash ye, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; ceafe to do evil, v. 18. Come now, and let us reafon together, faith the Lord: though your hus be as fcarlet, they shall be white as fnow; though they be red like crimon, they fhall be as wool. 2 Cor. vii. 11. For behold, this falf A. The facraments of baptifm and the Lord's fupper agree, in that the author of both is God m; the fpiritual part of both is Chrift and his benefits n; both are feals of the fame covenant o, are to be difpenfed by minifters of the gofpel and by none other p, and to be continued in the church of Chrift felf-fame thing that ye forrowed after a godly fort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourfelves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement defire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! in all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. 1 Chron. xv. 12. And David faid unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: fanctify yourselves both ye and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Ifrael, unto the place that I have prepared for it. v. 13. For because you did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for that we fought him not after the due order. v. 14. So the priests and Levites fanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Ifrael. 176. m Mat. xxviii. 19. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft. Cor. xi. 23. For I have received of the Lord, that which I alfo delivered unto you; That the Lord Jefus, the fame night in which he was betrayed, took bread. n Rom. vi. 3. Know ye not, that fo many of us as were baptized into Jefus Chrift, were baptized into his death? v. 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptifm into death: that like as Chrift was raised up from the dead by the glory of his Father, even fo we also fhould walk in new nefs of life. 1 Cor. x. 16. The cup until of bleffing which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Chrift? • Rom iv. 11. And he received the fign of circumcifion, a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the Father of all them that believe, tho' they be not circumcifed; that righteousness might be imputed unto them alo. Compared with Col. ii. 12. Buried with him in baptifm, wherein also ye are rifen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. Mat. xxvi. 27. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, faying, Drink ye all of it: v. 28. For this is my blood of the new Teftament which is fhed for many for the remiffion of fins. P John i. 33. And I knew him not: but he that fent me to baptize with water, the fame faid unto me, Upon whom thou shalt fee the Spirit defcending and remaining on him, the fame is he who baptizeth with the Holy Ghoft. Mat xxviii. 19. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft. 1 Cor. xi. 23. For I have received of the Lord, that which alfo I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jefus, the fame night in which he was betrayed, took bread 1 Cor. iv. 1. Let a man fo account of us, as of the minifters of Z 2 Chrift, |