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Secondly. In our going about this Ordinance, there are many faults that usually concur: As 1, Our giving too little respect, or too much to it, as is said before of the Sacraments in general. 2. Our not exercising Faith in the present time, according to the Covenant and Christs Institution. 3. Want of Love to constrain us, and want of that Hunger and Thirst that should be after Christ. 4. Want of that discerning of the Lords Body, which should be, so as, 1. To put a difference betwixt Bread and Wine in the Sacrament, and common Bread and Wine in respect of the end. 2. To put a difference betwixt this Ordinance, and Christ himself who is signified and exhibited by it. 3. To lay in some respect a further weight on this then on the Word only, though it be some way of that same nature. 4. To put a difference betwixt this Sacrament and other Sacraments; and so discerning it, it is to conceive of it rightly. 1▪ In respect of its use and end according to its Institution. 2. In respect of our manner of use-making of it, not only by our senses or bodily Organs, but by Faith and the faculties of the Soul, looking upon, and receiving Christs Body in that Ordinance, and feeding on it there as in the Word, and more clearly and sensibly: for the Sacraments do not give us any new thing which the Word did not offer and give before, but they give the same thing more clearly and sensibly. 3. In respect of the blessing▪ not only waiting for a common blessing for sustaining the Body by that Bread and Wine, but for a spiritual blessing to be conferred by the spirit to the behoof of the soul. 4. Its so to discern it as to improve it for obtaining real communion betwixt Christ and us, by a spiritual feeding, as it were upon his own Body; so that when there is any shortcoming in these, in so far the Lords Body is not discerned. 5. We sin in going about this Ordinance, by want of Reverence, when we come without Holy thoughts, and a Divine frame, and without Love ravishing the heart, which […] most suitable at such a time▪ much more do we sin when we come with carnal, loose, or idle thoughts, or any unreverent gesture, or with light-like apparel, or carriage in coming or sitting. 6. By want of Love to others, and sympathy with such as are Strangers to Communion with Christ. 7. By not distinct closing with Christ, or renewing our Covenant with him, or engaging of our selves to him. 8.

Secondly. In our going about this Ordinance, there are many faults that usually concur: As 1, Our giving too little respect, or too much to it, as is said before of the Sacraments in general. 2. Our not exercising Faith in the present time, according to the Covenant and Christs Institution. 3. Want of Love to constrain us, and want of that Hunger and Thirst that should be after Christ. 4. Want of that discerning of the Lords Body, which should be, so as, 1. To put a difference betwixt Bread and Wine in the Sacrament, and common Bread and Wine in respect of the end. 2. To put a difference betwixt this Ordinance, and Christ himsel who is signified and exhibited by it. 3. To lay in some respect a further weight on this then on the Word only, though it be some way of that same nature. 4. To put a difference betwixt this Sacrament and other Sacraments; and so discerning it, it is to conceive of it rightly. 1 In respect of its use and end according to its Institutiou. 2. In respect of our manner of use-making of it, not only by our senses or bodly Organs, but by Faith and the faculties of the Soul, looking upon, and receiving Christs Body in that Ordinance, and feeding on it there as in the Word, and more clearly and sensibly: for the Sacraments do not give us any new thing which the Word did not offer and give before, but they give the same thing more clearly and sensibly. 3. In respect of the blessing not only waiting for a common blessing for sustaining the Body by that Bread and Wine, but for a spiritual blessing to be conferred by the spirit to the behoof of the soul. 4. Its so to discern it as to improve it for obtaining real communion betwixt Christ and us, by a spiritual feeding, as it were upon his own Body; so that when there is any shortcoming in these, in so far the Lords Body is not discerned. 5. We sin in going about this Ordinance, by want of Reverence, when we come without Holy thoughts, and a Divine frame, and without Love ravishing the heart, which most suitable at such a time much more do we sin when we come with carnal, loose, or idle thoughts, or any unreverent gesture, or with light-like apparel, or carriage in coming or sitting. 6. By want of Love to others, and sympathy with such as are Strangers to Communion with Christ. 7. By not distinct closing with Christ, or renewing our Covenant with him, or ingaging of our selves to him. 8.