Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since

So then these things being thus proposed let the conscience without connivance examine it self by such interrogatories as these. Do I find my self live by the Faith of the Son of GOD who gave himself for me? Do I delight in his Word more then my appointed food, never adulterating it with the Leaven or ⟨p. 237⟩Dregs of heretical fancies or dead works? Doth the word of Truth transform me to the Image of it self, Crucifying all those corruptions which harboured in me? Do I find my self to grow in all graces universally, and uniformly towards God and man, not thinking to recompense some defects which my nature drives me unto, with supererogation (as I conceive) and over performance of such duties as are not so visibly repugnant to my personal corruptions? Do the beams of the Sun of righteousness shining on my soul enlighten me with his truth, and with his power sway me unto all good? Am I heartily affected with all the conditions of Gods Church, to mourn, or to rejoice with it even at such times, when mine own particular estate would frame me unto affections of a contrary temper? Have I free use of all my spiritual senses, to see the light of God, to hear his Word, to taste his mercies, to feel with much tenderness all the wounds and pressures of sin? Do I love all divine truth, not so much because proportionable unto my desires, but because conformable unto God? Am I resolved in all estates to rely on Gods mercy, and providence, though He should kill me to trust in him? Do I wholly renounce all ⟨p. 238⟩trust in mine own worthiness, or in any concurrences of mine own naturally towards God? Do I not build either my hopes or fears upon the faces of men, nor make either them or my self the rule or end of my desires? finally, do I endeavour a universal obedience unto Gods Law in all the whole latitude, and extent of it, not indulging to my self liberty in any known sin? Is not my obedience mercenary, and hypocritical, but spiritual, and sincere? Do I not swallow gnats, nor stumble at straws, not dispense with my self for the least of sins, for irregular thoughts, for occasions of offence, for appearances of evil, for the motions of concupiscence for idle words, and vain conversation, and whatsoever is in the lowest degree forbidden?

So then these things being thus proposed let the conscience without connivence examine it selfe by such interrogatories as these. Doe I finde my selfe live by the Faith of the Sonne of GOD who gave himselfe for me? Doe I delight in his Word more then my appoynted food, never adulterating it with the Leaven or