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…

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.

The preparative before we receive, is to Examine. As Jobn 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 sanctifie themselves before they did come to his Sacrifice, how should we sanctifie 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.

1. 1Luk. 1. 76. The second examination. Job 1. 5.
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