The Fountain of Life Opened

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.

And as this is the Sin of the Apostate, so is it also the Sin of all those that without Faith approach, and so prophane the Table of the Lord, unbeleivingly and unworthily handling those awfull 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.

And as it was their great Sin, so God declared his just indignation against it, in those sore strokes inflicted for it. As they discerned not the Lords body, so neither did the Lord discern their bodies from others, in the judgements that were inflicted. And as one well observes God drew the Model and Plot-form of their punishment, from the structure and proportion of their sin. And truly, if the moral and spiritual Seeds and originals of many of our outward afflictions and sicknesses were but duly sifted out, possibly we might find a great part of them, in the Bowels of this sin.