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

Nor is it a duty less honourable than pleasant: it is a pleasant thing to feast, but it is honourable to feast with a King, most honourable with the King of Kings and Lord of the whole earth. How did Haman glory that he was invited to the banquet with the King? he reckoned not of it as his task but his privilege, not as his work but his reward. And shall a feast with an earthly mortal King be more valued than a feast with the heavenly and immortal God? this Supper is the Lord's Supper, it is the great God hath made the provision, and it is his eternal Son that hath made the invitation. Oh take heed of excuses, for though you make them, God will not take them; make therefore your selves ready, put on your wedding-garments and come away; let not a Table so well furnished want its guests, least Christ lose the honour and you the comfort of the entertainment. But if you will still draw back, know this, that you do not only sin, but that your sin is great because against a command that is so easy, sweet, and honourable as I have shown you this is.

Nor is it a duty less honourable than pleasant: it is a pleasant thing to feast, but it is honorable to feast with a King, most honorable with the King of Kings and Lord of the whole earth. How did Haman glory that he was invited to the banquet with the King? he reckoned not of it as his task but his priviledg, not as his work but his reward. And shall a feast with an earthly mortal King be more valued than a feast with the heavenly and immortal God? this Supper is the Lord's Supper, it is the great God hath made the provision, and it is his eternal Son that hath made the invitation. Oh take heed of excuses, for though you make them, God will not take them; make therefore your selves ready, put on your wedding-garments and come away; let not a Table so well furnished want its guests, least Christ lose the honour and you the comfort of the entertainment. But if you will still draw back, know this, that you do not only sin, but that your sin is great because against a command that is so easie, sweet, and honourable as I have shewn you this is.

5. There is one circumstance more in the command which should quicken you to the observance, and that is the time when this command was given. It was the very night in which he was betrayed, the very last night he lived on the earth, the night before that day in which he offered up himself a sacrifice to justice for