A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper.…

First, That self-judging, preventeth Gods judging.

Secondly, God doth judge even his own people for their sins.

Thirdly, The sins which God judgeth them for, are not only moral, gross sins, but their ordinance-sins, their Sacrament-sins, committed against positive institutions. For the first; He that judgeth himself, ⟨p. 25⟩taketh the way to prevent Gods judging of him. What our Saviour says of judging of others, Mat. 7.1. Judge not lest ye be judged, is clean contrary here: Judge your selves, and that severely, impartially, else God will judge you: You see there must be judging, if you do not judge your selves here, God will judge hereafter; if here be not a judgement of discussion, in hell there will be a judgement of condemnation. This self-judging it is the marrow, and soul of all Christianity; for want of this it is that there are so many hypocrites and Apostates in ⟨p. 26⟩Religion; for want of this, that there are so many Pharisaical, and self-righteous men; If this duty were more practised, there would be more truth and sincerity in the ways of godliness: so that in this very thing the profane and the godly man part; the Pharisee and the true believer are divided; the hypocrite and the true Saint differ: they may both pray, they may both abound in gifts and enlargements, they may both be frequent in the Ordinances, but the one judgeth himself, and the other doth not, or cannot, or dare not, he is afraid to ⟨p. 27⟩search into himself; so that this is a duty required of us in our whole life, but especially upon some extraordinary occasions, as here in this Sacramental Administration. Had Jehu judged himself, had Judas judged himself, they had not been such scandals in Religion.