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

Ans. Is this the reasoning of one regenerate? surely thou dost not understand what regeneration meaneth; is it not the same with being born of God? and is not he that is born of God, a Child of God? and what is it to be obedient to the Father, but to do as he commandeth? and hath he not commanded you by his Son to remember your Saviour in this supper? when you have considered this, then tell me what you think of this kind of reasoning: I am a child of God therefore I will presume to disobey him; he bids me remember Jesus in this supper, and I will not, methinks thou blushest at the very mentioning of it, and what if he should not cast thee quite off for this neglect, yet thou hast no reason to think but that either outwardly or inwardly or both, he will scourge thee for this sin before thou diest: and do thou examine whether the languor of thy graces and poverty of thy consolations be not the lashes of your Heavenly Father for this sin.

Ans. Is this the reasoning of one regenerate? surely thou dost not understand vvhat regeneration meaneth; is it not the same vvith being born of God? and is not he that is born of God, a Child of God? and what is it to be obedient to the Father, but to do as he commandeth? and hath he not commanded you by his Son to remember your Saviour in this supper? vvhen you have considered this, then tell me what you think of this kind of reasoning: I am a child of God therefore I will presume to disobey him; he bids me remember Jesus in this supper, and I will not, methinks thou blushest at the very mentioning of it, and what if he should not cast thee quite off for this neglect, yet thou hast no reason to think but that either outwardly or inwardly or both, he will scourge thee for this sin before thou diest: and do thou examine whether the languor of thy graces and poverty of thy consolations be not the lashes of your Heavenly Father for this sin.

3. Object. But I remember a crucified Saviour in the Word read and preached, I see him there lifted up and dying for me, and I (bless God) to my great comfort. How needless a thing then is it to remember him in this supper so?