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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.

The preparative before we receive, is to Examine. As John was the fore-runner of Christ, so Examination is the fore runner ¹of the Sacrament, like the Harbinger which rideth before to prepare the Room. For if Job commanded his Sons to sanctify themselves before they did come to his Sacrifice, how should we sanctify our selves before we come to Christ's Sacrament, wherein we are commanded to do as the Lord himself did which instituted it? It is said that the Chamber wherein ²Christ did institute this Sacrament, was trimmed; the Chamber wherein the Apostles received this Sacrament, was trimmed: If Judas's chamber, his inner chamber had been trimmed so too, he had received this Sacrament with as much comfort as the other Disciples did: but because his heart was not trimmed: therefore he was the first which was condemned for the unworthy receiving of the Sacrament.