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…

Having showed both the Duties Antecedent, and Concomitant, Come we now to the Duties Subsequent, such as must follow after the action of receiving: For it is not enough that you duly prepare your selves to that Ordinance, and reverently carry your selves at it, but you must likewise walk in some measure suitably thereunto. To that end observe these Directions.

Having shewed both the Duties Antecedent, and Concomitant, Come wee now to the Duties Subsequent, such as must follow after the action of receiving: For it is not enough that you duly prepare your selves to that Ordinance, and reverently carry your selves at it, but you must likewise walk in some measure suitably thereunto. To that end observe these Directions.

1 So soon as you get home, withdraw your self into some secret place, and there upon your knees from your heart bless God, as for h•s manifold favours, mercies, and blessings, so especially and above all for the fountain of all blessings, the Lord Jesus Christ, for his Covenant of Grace made unto you in him, for adding the Sacraments as Seals to the Covenant of Grace for the strengthening of your Faith, and for making you that day partakers of his blessed Sacrament, and for that comfort and refreshment which you find therein. I hope you are not such beasts as to forget to return thanks to God for the food wherewith your bodies are refreshed. And will you bless God for your corporal food,¹ and not for your spiritual food, whereby your souls are nourished unto everlasting life? Will you bless God for a crumb, and not for a Christ? in whom are all good things contained in a most eminent manner.

1 So soon as you get home, withdraw your self into some secret place, and there upon your knees from your heart bless God, as for h•s manifold favours, mercies, and blessings, so especially and above all for the fountain of all blessings, the Lord Jesus Christ, for his Covenant of Grace made unto you in him, for adding the Sacraments as Seals to the Covenant of Grace for the strengthening of your Faith, and for making you that day partakers of his blessed Sacrament, and for that comfort and refreshment which you finde therein. I hope you are not such beasts as to forget to return thanks to God for the food wherewith your bodies are refreshed. And will you bless God for your corporal food,