A sober discourse of right to church-communion

'And very pathetically pag. 73. after he hath showed that Christ hath joined Water with a kind of equal necessity with himself, Mar. 16.16. John 3.5. subjoins 'Shall not he who despiseth Water (appointed to such an unseparable Holy end) despise the ⟨p. 42⟩Ordainer of Water? ¹shall we take his name in vain, by slighting that by which he makes himself and the power of his Word and Spirit manifest to beget the Soul to him, and be holden guiltless? ²When Christ hath put both in one, shall we dare to say the one is strong, the other is base? shall we slight it, slack our haste to it, our Holy preparing of our selves to it, our abiding at it, our offering up Prayers for blessing it, our making it the joint Object of our Humiliation, Faith, Reverence, and Thanks? Far be it from us, so to abhor that Popish Hyperbolical esteem of it, and the merit of the work wrought of it; that we run into another Riot to disesteem it? Doubtless he that cares not for Christ in the Word, Christ in the Promise, Christ in the Minister, Christ in the Water, Christ in the Bread and Wine, Christ Sacramental; cares ⟨p. 43⟩as little for Christ God, Christ Flesh, Christ Emanuel. By these he comes near. And ³He that despiseth you, despiseth me, and him that sent me. Beware we of such contempt, even in the secretest of our thoughts and Affections: and let Christ in the Water be Honoured as Christ, for that sweet Union and Fruit which he brings to poor Souls thereby. If Jordan be precious when God will use it, for the Angels Healing by it, much more this.⁴

'And very pathetically pag. 73. after he hath shewed that Christ hath joyned Water with a kind of equal necessity with himself,