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

A third thing that is to be observed for the institution, of this; that all the while the Communicants are taking, eating, and drinking the Bread and Wine, they should all of them that while have their thoughts exercised about the death of Jesus Christ; for that's the institution; Do this in remembrance of me; there should be no action intermingled, in the time of the receiving of the Sacrament; nothing but minding the work that you are about, that is, to remember the death of Jesus Christ; and to discern the Body of the Lord, not only when you your selves take the Bread and Wine; but when you see the Bread and Wine, broken or poured forth, and you see others taking the Bread and Wine, all that while, you should be thinking of the death of Christ, and discerning the Lords Body; and consider what these outward clements do signify, and that they do seal the great benefit of the Covenant of Grace; therefore it is not according to the Institution to be singing of Psalms in the mean time while the Sacrament is receiving; ⟨p. 266⟩and so to have your thoughts about other things: singing of psalms in its due time is a good thing; but for you to do it at that time when as the death of Christ is presented before you, and Christ calls you to look upon his body, and to think upon what he hath done and suffered; this is no seasonable, time of singing; and if you read the institution, you shall find, that Christ, after all was done (the text saith) they sang an Hymn; so that according to the institution, it is after the action is done of eating and drinking, then for the Church to join together and sing a psalm in the praise of God; and then they must mind all, the same thing together, for that's the thing to be done in the Sacrament, that look what one doth, all must mind together; for when one part sings, and the other are waiting for the Bread and Wine, this is not suitable to the holy Table-Action, and that Communion that God requires of us; though the things in themselves are both good that are doing, yet when we are about this holy Ordinance, being it is an Ordinance for Communion, all are to be doing the same thing at the same time; and so when all have done eating and drinking, then for all to join together to the praise of God.

A third thing that is to be observed for the institution, of this; that all the while the Communicants are taking, eating, and drinking the Bread and Wine, they should all of them that while have their thoughts exercised about the death of Jesus Christ; for that's the institution; Do this in remembrance of me; there should be no action intermingled, in the time of the receiving of the Sacrament; nothing but minding the work that you are about, that is, to remember the death of Jesus Christ; and to discern the Body of the Lord, not only when you your selves take the Bread and Wine; but when you see the Bread and Wine, broken or powred forth, and you see others taking the Bread and Wine, all that while, you should be thinking of the death of Christ, and discerning the Lords Body; and consider what these outward clements do signifie, and that they do seal the great benefit of the Covenant of Grace; therfore it is not according to the Institution to be singing of Psalms in the mean time while the Sacrament is receiving;