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Inference 2.

¹If Christ have sanctified or consecrated himself for us, learn hence what an horrid evil it is to use Christ, or his Blood, as a common, and unsanctified thing. Yet so some do as the Apostle speaks, Heb. 10.29. The Apostate is said to tread upon the Son of God, as if he were no better than the dirt under his Feet, and to count his Blood an unholy (or common) thing. But woe to them that so do, they shall be counted worthy of something worse then dying without mercy. As the Apostle there speaks.

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And as this is the Sin of the Apostate, so is it also the Sin of all those that without Faith approach, and so profane the Table of the Lord, unbelievingly and unworthily handling those awful things. Such eat and drink judgement to themselves, not discerning the Lords Body, 1 Cor. 11.29. Whereas the body of Christ was a thing of the deepest sanctification that ever God created. Sanctified (as the Text tells us) to a far more excellent and glorious purpose, than ever any Creature in Heaven or Earth was sanctified. It was therefore the great sin of those Corinthians, not to discern it; and not to behave themselves towards it, when they saw and handled the signs of it, as so holy a thing.