Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in…Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in…

Let a man examine himself before he eat. Here is first an examination: ¹Secondly, an examination of our selves: Thirdly, an examination before we come to the Sacrament. Touching the first, here Paul saith, Examine your self, but in 2 Chron. 13. ⟨p. 32⟩he doubleth his charge, Prove your selves; and again at next word, Examine your selves: as if he should say, this work must be done whom it is done, because it is never throughly done; and therefore we must double our Examination, as Paul doubleth his Counsel. If a man suspect his Enemy, he will try him with a Question: if that will not search him, he will put forth another: if that be spied, he will move another, like one which putteth divers Keys into a Lock until it open: So he which examineth, ²must try and try, prove and prove, search and search: for the Angel of Darkness is like an Angel of Light, and we have no way to discover him, but that of John, Try the Spirits. God examineth with trials, the devil examineth with temptations, the world examineth with persecutions; we which are thus examined, had need to examine too. If any man skill not what Examining meaneth, the very word Examine is so pregnant, that it prompteth us how we should examine; for it signifieth to put our selves unto the Touchstone, as if we would try Gold from Coper. Therefore one saith, that Examination is the Eye of the Soul, whereby she seeth her self, & her safety, and her danger, and her way which she walketh, ³and her pace which she holdeth, and the end to which she tendeth; she looks into her glass and spieth every spot in her face, how all her graces are stained; then she takes the water of life, and washeth her blots away. After she looks again, and beholdeth all her gifts, her faith, fear, love, patience, meekness, and marketh how every one doth flourish or whither. If they fade and decay, that she feeleth a consumption; then she takes preservatives and restoratives of prayer, and council, and repentance, before the sickness grow. Thus every day she letteth down a bucket into her heart, to see what water it bringeth up, least she should corrupt within, and perish suddenly.