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If the sealed message of Gods Reconciliation with us, and a sealed pardon of all our sins, and a sealed grant of Everlasting life, be not more pleasant and desirable to your thoughts, then all that earth and flesh can yield you, it is because your are alive to sin, and dead to God, and want that spiritual sense and appetite, by which you might be competent judges. If God, if Christ, if grace, if the foretasts of glory can afford no pleasure to the soul, then Heaven it self would not be pleasant. But if these are sweet, the Sacrament is sweet that doth convey them.

If the sealed message of Gods Reconciliation with us, and a sealed pardon of all our sins, and a sealed grant of Everlasting life, be not more pleasant and desirable to your thoughts, then all that earth and flesh can yield you, it is because your are alive to sin, and dead to God, and want that spiritual sence and appetite, by which you might be competent judges. If God, if Christ, if grace, if the foretasts of glory can afford no pleasure to the soul, then Heaven it self would not be pleasant. But if these are sweet, the Sacrament is sweet that doth convey them.

Well, poor stubborn carnal sinners! you have been invited to this feast as well as others! we are sent to call you, and even compel you to come in (though upon the terms and in the way of Christ!) but you have no great list; but somewhat else doth please you better! And will it prove better indeed to you at the end? Well, take your own choice! If an Alehouse be better then the Table of the Lord; if your merry companions do please you better then the Communion of the Saints, or if you cannot submit to the order and discipline of the family of Christ, that you may partake of his provision, you may follow your own corrupt desires, and see whither they will lead you! But here it is that I shall choose my pleasures till I reach the everlasting pleasures. And though in this low communion of imperfect Saints, we see but in a glass, and have but some small imperfect Sasts of the glorious things which Hope expecteth; yet this is more then all that earth and flesh can yield: and it is most perfect Pleasure that by these is revealed, sealed, and Represented. Sacraments can assure us of perfect joys, though they give us but little joy in hand.