A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

Which I prove by this one argument: Jesus Christ who instituted it, he hath commanded you to remember him in it; and therefore if you do it not, you break his command, and what is that but to sin against him? for what else is sin, but either to do what your God and Saviour forbids, or not to do what he commands? this is so plain that it were but to waste time to use more words for the clearing thereof. What I have therefore more to say is to show you those many things that accompany this sin, that tend to aggravate it, that, when you understand not only that the neglect of this duty is a sin, but a very great one, you may be deterred from continuing any longer in it.

Which I prove by this one argument: Jesus Christ who instituted it, he hath commanded you to remember him in it; and therefore if you do it not, you break his command, and what is that but to sin against him? for what else is sin, but either to do what your God and Saviour forbids, or not to do what he commands? this is so plain that it were but to waste time to use more words for the clearing thereof. What I have therefore more to say is to shew you those many things that accompany this sin, that tend to aggravate it, that, when you understand not only that the neglect of this duty is a sin, but a very great one, you may be deterred from continuing any longer in it.

1. I beseech you consider whose command it is you break: it is the command of the Lord Jesus; to remember him in this Supper is a debt you owe to him your Saviour, Lord, and head; it is a command that bears the superscription of the most supreme Authority in Heaven or Earth, and if by the sentence of Christ it was but just to pay the tribute-money to Caesar, because it bore his superscription, it is much more just for you to pay the tribute of obedience to this command, that bears the superscription of an Authority greater than all the Caesars that ever were. What's the name of Caesar in compare to the name and title of the Son of God? which is a title that speaks him greater than all Angels or Arch-Angels in Heaven; for to which of his Angels said he at any time, thou art my Son, ¹