Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

1 To be guilty of the body and blood of Christ, is in some measure to have •ur hands in his bloody death and passion, and so by consequence to be partners with Judas in betraying him, with the Scribes and Pharisees in accusing him, with Pilate in condemning him, and with the cruel soldiers in crucifying him. Whose heart doth not rise with indignation against these, when he reads or considers their cruel handling of our blessed Saviour, in whipping ⟨p. 107⟩and scourging him, in mocking and deriding him, in piercing and crucifying him? And therefore take heed lest thou in like manner be guilty by thine unworthy receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, through thine unprepared coming thereunto. We read how the blood of innocent Abel, did lye so heavy upon Cain, ¹that he cried out, My punishment is greater than I can bear. How heavy then will the blood of Jesus Christ, who was not only an innocent man, but more than a man, lye upon them that are guilty thereof? You know it lay so heavy upon Judas, that he hanged himself.² And you cannot be ignorant how heavy it hath lien upon the whole Nation of the Jews for these many hundred years,³ according to that cursed wish of theirs, His blood be on us, and on our children. As therefore thou wouldest not be found guilty of this horrid and dreadful sin, put in practice the Apostles counsel,⁴ namely, To examine thy self before thou presumest to partake of that Ordinance.

1 To bee guilty of the body and blood of Christ, is in some measure to have •ur hands in his bloody death and passion, and so by consequence to be partners with Iudas in betraying him, with the Scribes and Pharisees in accusing him, with Pilate in condemning him, and with the cruel souldiers in crucifying him. Whose heart doth not rise with indignation against these, when he reads or considers their cruell handling of our blessed Saviour, in whipping ⟨p. 107⟩