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…

II. Another act of Faith to be exercised at the Lords Supper, is to receive Jesus Christ. For the Believer having seen Christ with the eye of Faith under the outward elements, and forementioned rites, then he receiveth him into his heart with much joy and gladness. As therefore thou stretchest forth the hand of thy body to receive the bread and wine, stretch forth the hand of Faith to apprehend and receive Jesus Christ, and to rest upon him for life and for salvation. For Faith is that instrument whereby we receive Christ and all his benefits, as they are offered to us in the Gospel, and sealed up to us in the Sacrament. Faith is to the soul, as the hand is to the body, that which is offered to a man for his good, the hand readily receiveth, and what the hand so receiveth is a mans own. Thus God offering his Son unto us, Faith persuades the heart of Gods good will to man, and of his true intent to have man made partaker of his Son, and thereupon apprehends him, and receives him for his own, and Christ is truly his.

II. Another act of Faith to bee exercised at the Lords Supper, is to receive Iesus Christ. For the Beleever having seen Christ with the eye of Faith under the outward elements, and forementioned rites, then hee receiveth him into his heart with much joy and gladness. As therefore thou stretchest forth the hand of thy body to receive the bread and wine, stretch forth the hand of Faith to apprehend and receive Jesus Christ, and to rest upon him for life and for salvation. For Faith is that instrument whereby wee receive Christ and all his benefits, as they are offered to us in the Gospel, and sealed up to us in the Sacrament. Faith is to the soul, as the hand is to the body, that which is offered to a man for his good, the hand readily receiveth, and what the hand so receiveth is a mans own. Thus God offering his Son unto us, Faith perswades the heart of Gods good will to man, and of his true intent to have man made partaker of his Son, and thereupon apprehends him, and receives him for his own, and Christ is truly his.

III. Another act of Faith to be exercised at the Lords Supper, is to apply and appropriate Christ to thy self, which is implied under the Rites of eating the bread, a•d drinking the wine whereby is meant, a feeding upon Christ by Faith, which is an applying of him. When therefore thou art eating the bread, and drinking the wine, fee upon Christ by a particular application of him, and all his benefits, to thine own souls comfort. By Faith assure thy self that Christ was born for thee, that he might be thy Saviour, to save the from thy sins. That he performed perfect obedience unto the Law, that his Righteousness might be imputed uto thee. Thus he died a bitter cursed death to free thee from eternal death and condemnation, which thy sins had deserved. Thus thou oughtest to apply Christ with all his benefits unto thine own souls comfort. And thus to act Faith, is to eat and drink indeed, to communicate indeed. The truth is, this act of Faith, in applying Christ, is the most suitable to the Ordinance of the Lords Supper. And the more thou canst put forth the act of application therein, the greater comfort shalt thou