A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

Quest. 6. Do you faithfully endeavour to exercise Faith, Repentance, Love and all Sacramental Graces in the use of the ordinances? You come not to a mere receiving but to a Work Have your souls been adorned with the wedding garment? and do you come hither for a meeting with the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you see him by faith, and take all that is here Represented to you, as if you had seen the things themselves! Do you remember that your Lord is coming, and do you lift up your heads in the expectation of your Redemption, and do this in remembrance of him till he come? An idle loitering in Gods work is not the way to find the sweetness of it.

Quest. 6. Do you faithfully endeavour to exercise Faith, Repentance, Love and all Sacramental Graces in the use of the ordinances? You come not to a meer receiving but to a Work Have your souls been adorned with the wedding garment? and do you come hither for a meeting with the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you see him by faith, and take all that is here Represented to you, as if you had seen the things themselves! Do you remember that your Lord is coming, and do you lift up your heads in the expectation of your Redemption, and do this in remembrance of him till he come? An idle loytering in Gods work is not the way to find the sweetness of it.

Clemens Alexandrinus Strom. l. 1. init. gives it as a Reason why every one took his own part of the Bread of the Sacrament in those times, because man being a free agent must be the chooser or refuser of his own happiness: The Papists on the contrary do but gape, and the Priest doth pop the bread into their mouths (having first persuaded them that it is not bread.) Do you not expect to receive the spiritual benefits, just as the Papists do receive the Bread? as if you had nothing to do but gape? As if your presence here were as much as is to be expected from you for your edification! How can you taste the sweetness that is offered, when you do not exercise your spiritual senses.

Clemens Alexandrinus Strom. l. 1. init. gives it as a Reason why every one took his own part of the Bread of the Sacrament in those times, because man being a free agent must be the chooser or refuser of his own happiness: The Papists on the contrary do but gape, and the Priest doth pop the bread into their mouths (having first perswaded them that it is not bread.) Do you not expect to receive the spiritual benefits, just as the Papists do receive the Bread? as if you had nothing to do but gape? As if your presence here were as much as is to be expected from you for your edification! How can you tast the sweetness that is offered, when you do not exercise your spiritual senses.