Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and…

To keep the Institution of the Sacrament; for this is such a Worship of God, as depends merely upon institution; that is, upon a positive Law, upon the will of God. There are some duties of Worship which are natural, that we may know by the light of nature they are due to God; but the Sacrament is a duty of worship that is only by institution; and if God had not revealed it, we had not been bound to it; therefore in these duties of institution, God stands very punctual upon them; we must be very exact, neither to err on the right hand, nor the left; to make any alteration in the points of Institution; Now therefore for the Institution of this Sacrament we find it in divers of the Evangelists, in Matth. 26. 26. there you shall find that Christ and his Disciples they eat the Sacrament together; and this was the way of it; They were together sitting at the same Table; so it is called the Table of the Lord sometimes in Scripture; therefore that's the first thing that is according to the institution, that those that do communicate must come to the Table as near as they can; as many as can sit about it, and all to come as near as they can, and the reason is, Because that otherwise you will not be able to attain the end why God should have you come to receive; the end is to remember the death of Christ; now except pou be able to see the Sight, to see what is done, to have your eye as well as your ear exercised, you do not fully accomplish the end that is appointed; for this is a Sacrament, that doth present to our ⟨p. 262⟩eyes the death of Christ, and the great mysteries of salvation, and therefore it is according to the institution, that every Communicant must be where he may behold what is done, he must be where he may see the breaking of the Bread, and the pouring forth of the Wine; Certainly it hath been a disorderly way therefore for people to sit up and down in their Pews every where in the Congregation, and for the Minister to go up and down after them; so that they could see nothing nor scarce hear any thing: It is much for the attaining the end of the institution, for all Communicants to look upon the breaking of the Bread, and the pouring forth of the Wine in the Sacrament, and therefore all should come together; and there, as many as can sit at his Table, or those that cannot, near to it;

To keep the Institution of the Sacrament; for this is such a Worship of God, as depends meerly upon institution; that is, upon a positive Law, upon the wil of God. There are some duties of Worship which are natural, that we may know by the light of nature they are due to God; but the Sacrament is a duty of worship that is only by institution; and if God had not revealed it, we had not been bound to it; therefore in these duties of institution, God stands very punctual upon them; we must be very exact, neither to err on the right hand, nor the left; to make any alteration in the points of Institution; Now therefore for the Institution of this Sacrament we find it in divers of the Evangelists, in