The holy Eucharist, or, The mystery of the Lords Supper briefly explained

Use. 2. It informs us of several ¹things. 1. It shows us the necessity of coming to the Lords Supper. Hath Jesus Christ been at all this cost to make a Feast? then sure there must be Guests^*. It is not left to our choice ⟨p. 26⟩whether we will come or no, but it is a Duty purely indispensable: 1 Cor. 11. 28. ^*Let him eat of that Bread: Which Words are not only permissive, but authoritative: As if a King should say, Let it be Enacted. The Neglect of the Sacrament runs men into a Gospel-Premunire. It was infinite goodness in Christ, to broach that blessed Vessel of his body, and let his sacred Blood stream out; and for us wilfully to omit such an Ordinance, wherein the Trophy of mercy is so richly displayed, and our salvation so nearly concerned, well may Christ take this as an undervaluing of him, and interpret it no better than a bidding him keep his feast to himself. He that observed not the Passover, that soul was to be cut off, Numb. 9. 13. How angry was Christ with those that stayed away from the Supper! They thought to put it off with a Complement; but Christ knew how to construe their excuse for a refusal: ⟨p. 27⟩Luk. 14. 24. None of those men which were bidden, shall taste of my Supper. The Rejecting Gospel-mercy is a sin of so deep a die, that God can do no less than punish it for a Contempt. Some need a Flaming Sword to keep them off from the Lord's Table; and others need Christ's Whip of small Cords to drive them to it.

Use. 2. It informs us of several ¹things. 1. It shews us the necessity of coming to the Lords Supper. Hath Jesus Christ been at all this cost to make a Feast? then sure there must be Guests