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

2. Consider your neglect of this Ordinance is a sin against the command, not only of the greatest, but of the best Prince in Heaven and Earth, he is not only Maximus but Optimus also, this is a further aggravation of your sin. Who ever thought but that Absalom's taking up arms against David was treason? but he that shall consider that the rebellion was against David the man after God's own heart: against David the holiest of men, and the justest of Princes, and besides all this, against David his Father: cannot but judge it an act of the highest treason imaginable. My brethren, in your disobeying this command, you sin against Jesus the just, and Jesus the gracious, against him that is by place your head; in love your Father; in openness of heart your Friend; against him that emptied himself that he might fill you, that became poor that he might enrich you, that became an exile from his Throne and Father's Kingdom, that he might bring you home to your Father's house, that became a curse that you might be blessed, that hung on a tree for you, that you might sit on Thrones with him, who called you and washed you from your sins in his blood; and after all this, when he shall leave such a command as this, to remember him in this Supper, for all this his love: how inexcusable must your neglect be? let your Conscience be judge, with whom I leave it.

3. If you consider what relation you that are believers stand in to this Jesus that left this command with you; ye are the Elect of the Father who committed you to his Son to Redeem, and effectually call you, that he might save you from sin, wrath, the grave, Hell, and to bring you to everlasting glory. Why are you called believers but from that faith whereby you acknowledge this Jesus as your Lord and your God, whereby you trust in him, and in what he hath done and suffered for you, for the making your peace, procuring your pardon, and opening a new and living way into your Father's Kingdom and glory: it is by this faith that you love him, cleave to him, and are therefore called his friends, his children, his brethren, his subjects, servants, followers, witnesses; and shall such as you be found disobedient to him? shall you carelessly forget to remember him in a supper appointed by himself for the remembrance of the greatest act of his love, that is, his dying for you? I tell you Christ will take it worse of you than of any others: how heinously did David take a contempt from his friend,