Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

2. Use of Exhortation.

Is the Flesh and Blood of Christ Meat and Drink indeed, then let me exhort ¹you Brethren.

1. 12. Use.

First: To come to this Table with sharp and hungry appetites. Have you ever tasted that the Lord is gracious, and do you not hunger and thirst to taste it again. Surely where the Carcass is, thither will the Eagles be gathered, Math. 24. 28. There is a two fold appetite, a dainty, and an hungry appetite; beware of a nice and dainty appetite, that can relish nothing in the most solid and spiritual duties, except the dish be garnished with flowers of Rhetoric, or the matter served in with art and elegance: This hath been the great sin of the Professors of this Generation. O Christians, no more of that I pray you. Were you really an hungered and athirst ⟨p. 188⟩for Christ, you would come to his Ordinances, as famishing men to a feast.

First: To come to this Table with sharp and hungry appetites. Have you ever tasted that the Lord is gracious, and do you not hunger and thirst to taste it again. Surely where the Carcass is, thither will the Eagles be gather'd,