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…

This remembrance of Christs Death at the Sacrament, must not be a bare Historical remembrance thereof, contenting thy self with a remembrance of the History of Christs death, as it is set forth by the Evangelists, but it must be an operative, and practical remembrance, working up thine heart,

1 To an unfeigned love of God, who out of his free grace, and rich mercy, did send his dearly beloved Son out of his own bosom into the world, to take our Nature upon him, and therein to dye a bitter cursed death for mans redemption. Who can sufficiently admire the riches of Gods love to man therein? How may we with David cry out, and say, Lord, what is ma• that thou art mindful of him? especially that thou shouldest be so mindful of him, as to give the Son of thy love to suffer a cursed death upon the Cross, to make us, who were children of Wrath, and bondslaves of Satan, Sons of God, and Heirs of eternal life and salvation. And how should this incomprehensible love of God, fire and inflame our cold and frozen hearts with a fervent love unto him again?

1 To an unfeigned love of God, who out of his free grace, and rich mercy, did send his dearly beloved Son out of his own bosome into the world, to take our Nature upon him, and therein to dye a bitter cursed death for mans redemption. Who can sufficiently admire the riches of Gods love to man therein? How may we with David cry out, and say, Lord, what is ma• that thou art mindful of him? especially that thou shouldest be so mindful of him, as to give the Son of thy love to suffer a cursed death upon the Cross, to make us, who were children of Wrath, and bondslaves of Sathan, Sons of God, and Heirs of eternal life and salvation. And how should this incomprehensible love of God, fire and inflame our cold and frozen hearts with a fervent love unto him again?