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…

There is a Hearing, and a preparative before Hearing. There ¹is a Praying, and a preparative before Praying. There is a Receiving, and a preparative before Receiving: which if it be wanting, the Receiver receiveth uncomfortably, the Prayer prayeth idly, the Hearer heareth unfruitfully, like those which do eat before hunger, and drink before thirst.

1. 1Luk 8. 18. Eccl. 4. 17.

This preparative before Hearing, and Praying, and Receiving, ⟨p. 36⟩doth signify that there is a kind of Physic in these three: for Preparatives are ministered always before Physic, and as the Preparative which goeth before, maketh way to the Physic, or else it would do no good, but hurt: so unless Examination go before the Sacrament, we seal up the threatenings which are written against us, in stead of the promises which are made unto us: for the Sacrament is a seal, and therefore sealeth good or evil, as every other Seal doth.

This preparative before Hearing, and Praying, and Receiving, ⟨p. 36⟩doth signifie that there is a kind of Physick in these three: for Preparatives are ministred always before Physick, and as the Preparative which goeth before, maketh way to the Physick, or else it would do no good, but hurt: so unless Examination go before the Sacrament, we seal up the threatnings which are written against us, in stead of the promises which are made unto us: for the Sacrament is a seal, and therefore sealeth good or evil, as every other Seal doth.