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The Christian religion expressed I, briefly in the ancient creeds, the Ten commandments, and…
The Christian religion expressed I, briefly in the ancient creeds, the Ten commandments, and the Lords prayer, and, II, more largely in a profession taken out of the Holy Scriptures, containing 1, the articles of the Christian belief, 2, our consent to the gospel covenant, 3, the sum of Christian duty, according to the primitive simplicity, purity, and practice, fitted to the right instruction of the ignorant, the promoting of holiness, and the charitable concord of all true believers ... / by Richard Baxter.
London : s.n., 1660
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45. Before the receiving of this holy Sacrament we ought to examine our selves, that we may come preparedly with repentance for all known sin, and faith in Christ, and an humble feeling of our own necessities, and a thankful sense of the love of God expressed in our redemption by Christ, and a hungering and thirsting after him and his righteousness, and with an unfeigned love unto our brethren, and a high estimation of the union and communion of the Saints, and with a resolution to walk in holy obedience to God, in patient hope of the coming of Christ, and of the everlasting Kingdom, where we shall be perfectly in him united: which holy affections are also to ⟨p. 53⟩be exercised in the time of our Communion in this Sacrament, and afterwards upon the review of what we have here received and done.
45. Before the receiving of this holy Sacrament we ought to examine our selves, that we may come preparedly with repentance for all known sin, and faith in Christ, and an humble feeling of our own necessities, and a thankful sense of the love of God expressed in our redemption by Christ, and a hungring and thirsting after him and his righteousness, and with an unfeigned love unto our brethren, and a high estimation of the union and communion of the Saints, and with a resolution to walk in holy obedience to God, in patient hope of the coming of Christ, and of the everlasting Kingdom, where we shall be perfectly in him united: which holy affections are also to ⟨p. 53⟩be exercised in the time of our Communion in this Sacrament, and afterwards upon the review of what we have here received and done.
46. The Word and Prayer must be joined with the Sacrament. The nature and use of it must be opened, and the people excited to the exercise of the duties before mentioned. Sin must be confessed and lamented, and mercy implored, and thankfully acknowledged, and the goodness of God, especially manifested in the work of our Redemption, must with the greatest admiration, alacrity and joy that we can attain to, be magnified and praised, till this unspeakable love of God in Christ hath drawn out our hearts in fervent love to him again. And it will be most suitable to this Eucharistical Ordinance, that the Church do sing some Psalm or Hymn of praise to God, for the mercies of our Redemption.