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…

Thus holy men have kept their sessions at home, and made their hearts the fore-man of the Jury, and examine themselves as we examined others, the fear of the Lord stood at the door of their souls, to examine every thought before it went in, and at the door of their lips, to examine every word before it went out, whereby they escaped a thousand sins which we commit, as though we had no other work. So thou shouldst sit in judgment of thy self, and call thy thoughts, and speeches, and actions, to give in evidence against thee, whether thou be a Christian or an Infidel, a son, or a bastard, a servant, or a rebel, a Protestant, or an Hypocrite: if thou find not faith, nor fear, nor love, nor zeal, when thou examinest thy self, let no man make thee believe that thou art holy, that thou art sanctified, that thou art a Christian, that thou art a believer, that thou art a Gospeller, because thou art worse than thou seemest thy self: for every man is partial to himself when he is most humbled.

Thus holy men have kept their sessions at home, and made their hearts the fore-man of the Jury, and examine themselves as we examined others, the fear of the Lord stood at the door of their souls, to examine every thought before it went in, and at the door of their lips, to examine every word before it went out, whereby they escaped a thousand sins which we commit, as though we had no other work. So thou shouldst sit in judgment of thy self, and call thy thoughts, and speeches, and actions, to give in evidence against thee, whether thou be a Christian or an Infidel, a son, or a bastard, a servant, or a rebell, a Protestant, or an Hypocrite: if thou find not faith, nor fear, nor love, nor zeal, when thou examinest thy self, let no man make thee believe that thou art holy, that thou art sanctified, that thou art a Christian, that thou art a believer, that thou art a Gospeller, because thou art worse than thou seemest thy self: for every man is partial to himself when he is most humbled.

Therefore if my heart tell me that I do love God, whom shall I believe before my self? As Solomon saith, No man can ¹search the heart of the King: so Paul saith. No man knoweth the spirit of any man, but the spirit which is in man: that is, no man feeleth the heart of man so well as himself. And yet himself, although he have lived with it ever since he was born, doth not