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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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(2.) That the Sacrament may be effectual to us, as there must be a Due Preparing for it, so a right partaking of it: Which right Participation of the Sacrament is in Three Things:
1. When we draw nigh to God's Table in an humble Sense of our Unworthiness. We do not deserve one Crumb of the Bread of Life; we are poor Indigent Creatures who have lost our Glory, and are like a Vessel that is Shipwrecked: We smite on our Breast as the Publican, God be merciful to us Sinners. This is a right Partaking of the Ordinance. 'Tis part of our Worthiness to see our Unworthiness.
1. When we draw nigh to God's Table in an humble Sense of our Vnworthiness. We do not deserve one Crumb of the Bread of Life; we are poor Indigent Creatures who have lost our Glory, and are like a Vessel that is Shipwrack'd: We smite on our Breast as the Publican, God be merciful to us Sinners. This is a right Partaking of the Ordinance. 'Tis part of our Worthiness to see our Unworthiness.
2. We rightly partake of the Sacrament, when at the Lord's Table we are filled with Anhelations of Soul, and inflamed Desires after Christ, and nothing can quench our Thirst but his Blood. Matth. 5.6. [Greek or Hebrew], Blessed are they that thirst. They are blessed not only when they are filled, but while they are thirsting.
2. We rightly partake of the Sacrament, when at the Lord's Table we are fill'd with Anhelations of Soul, and inflamed Desires after Christ, and nothing can quench our Thirst but his Blood.