A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

All these Abominations arose from the loss of an Experience of that spiritual Communion with Christ, and the participation of him by Faith, which there is in this Ordinance by divine Institution. This cast the thoughts of men on Invention of these Images, to suit the general Notion of Truth unto the Superstition of their carnal minds. Nor is it ordinarily possible to retrieve them from these infatuations, unless God be pleased to communicate unto them that Spiritual Light, whereby they may discern the Glory of this Heavenly Mystery, and have an Experience of the Exhibition of Christ unto the Souls of Believers therein, without these; from innumerable prejudices, and inflamed affections toward their Idols, they will not only abide in their darkness against all means of Conviction, but endeavour the temporal and eternal destruction of all that are otherwise minded.

This Image, like that of Nebuchadnezzar; was once set up in this Nation, with a Law, that whoever would not bow down to it and worship it, should be cast into the fiery Furnace. God grant it to be so no more, But if it should, there is no preservation against the Influence of Force and Fires, but a real experience of an efficacious Communication of Christ unto our Souls in this holy Ordinance, administered according to his appointment.

This Image, like that of Nebuchadnezzar; was once set up in this Nation, with a Law, that whoever would not bow down to it and worship it, should be cast into the fiery Furnace. God grant it to be so no more, But if it should, there is no preservation against the Influence of Force and Fires, but a real experience of an efficacious Communication of Christ unto our Souls in this holy Ordinance, administred according to his appointment.

This therefore is that we ought with all diligence to endeavour; and this not only as the only way and means of our edification in this Ordinance, by an exercise in Grace, the strengthening of our Faith, and present Consolation, but as the effectual means of our preservation in the profession of the Truth, and our deliverance from the Snares of our Adversaries. For whereas it is undeniable, that this peculiar Institution distinct from all other, doth intend and design a distinct communication and exhibition of Christ; if it be pressed on us, that these must be done by Transubstantiation and Oral Manducation thereon, and can be no otherwise; nothing but an Experience of the power and efficacy of the Mystical Communion with Christ in this Ordinance, before described, will preserve us from being ensnared by their Pretences. There is not therefore on all accounts of Grace and Truth any one thing of more concernment unto Believers, than the due exercise of Spiritual Light and Faith, unto a satisfactory experience of a peculiar participation of Christ in this Holy Institution.