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3. After Communicating, there is a readiness to slip and fall into these faults: 1. Irreverent and Carnal removing from the Table. 2. Forgetting what we were doing, and falling immediately to loose words or thoughts. 3. Not reflecting on our by past carriage, to see what we were doing, and what frame we were in, and what we obtained. 4. Not repenting for what was wrong in every piece of our way and carriage. 5. Not following on to obtain what we yet miss, and not still waiting for the blessing, even after we are come away. 6. Not being thankful if we have obtained any thing. 7. Fretting and fainting if we have not gotten what we would have. 8. Or being indifferent and careless whether we get or want. 9. Carnally loose after Communions, •s if we had no more to do, 10. Vain, or puffed up, if we think we have attained any thing. 11. Little or no keeping of Promise made to God, but continuing as before. 12. Digressing on the commendation or censure of what was heard, or seen, rather then making use of it for our profit. 13. Making that Ordinance an occasion of contention, for some faults we conceive to have been about it, whereas it should be ground of Union and Love. 14. Not entertaining tenderness, and a frame that may keep us ready to communicate again. 15. Not meditating on what we have been doing. 16. Nor longing again for the like occasion. 17. Not helping others that did not come, or had not the occasion of coming to it. 18. Conceitedness because we were admitted. 19. Despising others who might not be admitted. 20. Mocking, or secretly snuffing at any who goeth, or has gone about it with more tenderness then we, or who endeavoureth to keep their Promises better then we: This sin of Emulation and spiritual envy, at any who outruns us in tenderness and proficiency (touched in these two last) is, as very natural to us, so, most dangerous; it participates of cursed Cain; this sin is the worst of all Malignity, and is always accompanied with a woeful and devilish satisfaction with, and complacency in, the short-comings of others, that so we may be the more noticed. 21. Secret disdain at tender Christians beside us, as Hypocritical. 22. Turning aside to live like others who have been debarred, as if there ought to be no difference put betwixt those who have this Badge, and those who want it, or setting up as if all were done, when we have Communicated. 23.

3. After Communicating, there is a readiness to slip and fall into these faults: 1. Irreverent and Carnal removing from the Table. 2. Forgetting what we were doing, and falling immediatly to loose words or thoughts. 3. Not reflecting on our by past carriage, to see what we were doing, and what frame we were in, and what we obtained. 4. Not repenting for what was wrong in every piece of our way and carriage. 5. Not following on to obtain what we yet miss, and not still waiting for the blessing, even after we are come away. 6. Not being thankful if we have obtained any thing. 7. Fretting and fainting if we have not gotten what we would have. 8. Or being indifferent and careless whether we get or want. 9. Carnallyloose after Communions, s if we had no more to do, 10. Vain, or puffed up, if we think we have attained any thing. 11. Little or no keeping of Promise made to God, but continuing as before. 12. Digressing on the commendation or censure of what was heard, or seen, rather then making use of it for our profit. 13. Making that Ordinance an occasion of contention, for some faults we conceive to have been about it, whereas it should be ground of Union and Love. 14. Not entertaining tenderness, and a frame that may keep us ready to communicate again. 15. Not meditating on what we have been doing. 16. Nor longing again for the like occasion. 17. Not helping others that did not come, or had not the occasion of coming to it. 18. Conceitedness because we were admitted. 19. Despising others who might not be admitted. 20. Mocking, or secretly snuffing at any who goeth, or has gone about it with more tenderness then we, or who endeavoureth to keep their Promises better then we: This sin of Emulation and spiritual envy, at any who outruns us in tenderness and proficiency (touched in these two last) is, as very natural to us, so, most dangerous; it participates of cursed Cain; this sin is the worst of all Malignity, and is alwayes accompanyed with a woefull and devillish satisfaction with, and complacency in, the short-comings of others, that so we may be the more noticed. 21. Secret disdain at tender Christians beside us, as Hypocritical. 22. Turning aside to live like others who have been debarred, as if there ought to be no difference put betwixt those who have this Badge, and those who want it, or setting up as if all were done, when we have Communicated. 23.