The guard of the tree of life, or, A sacramental discourse showing a Christians…The guard of the tree of life, or, A sacramental discourse shewing a Christians…

To this conscionableness in the performance of Ordinances, ⟨p. 26⟩would I exhort you upon this ground, because you draw near to God, have to do with him. And as in all, so in particular in this Ordinance of the Lords Supper.

To this conscionablenesse in the performance of Ordinances, ⟨p. 26⟩would I exhort you upon this ground, because you draw neere to God, have to doe with him. And as in all, so in particular in this Ordinance of the Lords Supper.

1. Because otherwise ye get no good: 1. no good of Grace, no improvement of Holiness: 2. Nor no good of comfort. Comfort comes not in from the bare doing of the duty, but from the manner of doing, it is not the issue of conscience to do, but of conscionableness in the doing of them. All the Sermons you have heard, all the Prayers you have prayed, all the Sacraments you have received, though done out of conscience, as you say, will not minister one dram of true comfort to you upon your deathbeds, if your spirits have not been wrought up to a conscionableness in the doing of them.

1. Because otherwise ye get no good: 1. no good of Grace, no improvement of Holinesse: 2. Nor no good of cōfort. Comfort comes not in from the bare doing of the duty, but from the manner of doing, it is not the issue of conscience to doe, but of conscionablenesse in the doing of them. All the Sermons you have heard, all the Prayers you have prayd, all the Sacraments you have received, though done out of conscience, as you say, will not minister one dram of true comfort to you upon your deathbeds, if your spirits have not been wrought up to a conscionablenesse in the doing of them.