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…

2. Except thou hast faith before thou approachest to that ordinance, the Sacrament cometh but like a seal to a blank, and serveth only to seal up thine unbelief to condemnation; So that faith is necessarily required of every worthy communicant, before he cometh to the Lords Supper: for that ordinance is not instituted for the working of faith, but for the strengthening thereof. A man may come to the ministry of the word though he be faithless, because it is an ordinance instituted by God for the begetting of faith,¹ according to that of the Apostle, Faith cometh by hearing; But none are to come to the Sacrament, but such as have faith wrought in them. Because that is not an ordinance instituted by God for the begetting of faith, but rather for the strengthening thereof. It was not instituted for such as are out of Christ, to bring them in, but for such a• are in Christ, to bring them up in him. As a man must be born before he can eat; so he must be begotten again by the Spirit of God, before he can feed upon the Body and Blood of Christ for his spiritual nourishment. I do not say, that all who come to the Sacrament must have the same ⟨p. 112⟩measure of Faith, but it is necessary that they all have the fame truth of Faith.

2. Except thou hast faith before thou approachest to that ordinance, the Sacrament cometh but like a seal to a blank, and serveth onely to seal up thine unbelief to condemnation; So that faith is necessarily required of every worthy communicant, before he cometh to the Lords Supper: for that ordinance is not instituted for the working of faith, but for the strengthning thereof. A man may come to the ministery of the word though he be faithless, because it is an ordinance instituted by God for the begetting of faith,¹ according to that of the Apostle, Faith cometh by hearing; But none are to come to the Sacrament, but such as have faith wrought in them. Because that is not an ordinance instituted by God for the begetting of faith, but rather for the strengthning thereof. It was not instituted for such as are out of Christ, to bring them in, but for such a• are in Christ, to bring them up in him. As a man must be born before he can eat; so he must be begotten again by the Spirit of God, before he can feed upon the Body and Blood of Christ for his spiritual nourishment. I do not say, that all who come to the Sacrament must have the same