Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

In the Law a man might not come to the passover but he must be circumcised: those you know were but legal types, and resembled somewhat else. You must not come to the Lords Supper, but there must be this circumcision made without hands, there must be such a fitness in you as you may be accepted: therefore you must examine your selves when you come hither.

In the Law a man might not come to the passeover but he must be circumcised: those you know were but legal types, and resembled somewhat else. You must not come to the Lords Supper, but there must be this circumcision made without hands, there must be such a fitness in you as you may be accepted: therefore you must examine your selves when you come hither.

Again another time wherein the Lord makes this privy search is at our entrance into the wedding chamber, at the day of death, When the Bridegroom goes in, then the Lord searcheth whether we have oil in our Lam•s or no: whether those that offer to enter in have any effects, any tincture of his Sons blood upon them. The effect of ¹his Sons blood you shall see Heb. 9. 14. It is to purge the conscience from dead works. If there be no strikes (as it were) of his blood, if there be no dye of it, he gives the destroying Angel power to devour them: because there is not that grace that is the effect of the blood of Christ: they have no oil in their Lamps, therefore they are shut out.

Again another time wherein the Lord makes this privy search is at our entrance into the wedding chamber, at the day of death, When the Bridegroom goes in, then the Lord searcheth whether we have oyl in our Lam•s or no: whether those that offer to enter in have any effects, any tincture of his Sons blood upon them. The effect of ¹