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

I shall not treat in the general about all the positive institutions of Christ, but limit my self to this of the Lords Supper, and to show you, that seeing God will so justly judge men for their unworthy approaches to it, it is good for us to judge our selves for such sins first, and this ⟨p. 119⟩may prevent Gods judging of us; only to understand the Doctrine, you must know that that speaketh of sins of two sorts, moral sins, and positive sins; to understand which distinction, you must know, that this division is according to the two kinds of Commands which God imposeth upon his Church; there are moral commands, which command or forbid that which is either intrinsically good, or evil; so that because they are goo• God commandeth them they are not commanded and therefore good: suc• is to love God, to fear hi• ⟨p. 120⟩and such are the duties of the second Table: for we regard not those Schoolmen, who say nothing is intrinsically good or evil, but merely so from the outward Command of God, or his prohibition. Again, there are positive commands, and these have their goodness only, because God commands them, in themselves they have no intrinsical goodness, only Gods institution makes them good; thus the sanctification of the Lords Day is a duty by positive institution: so the observation of the Sacraments, it is a duty by Gods mere will and institution, ⟨p. 121⟩so that the not being baptized, the not receiving of the Lords Supper had not been any sins, if God had not required them: only these positive Commands are again distinguished into positive temporary, such things as God hath required of h•s Church for a time only, as to be Circumcised, to observe the Judaical Rites and Sacrifices: it was great sin to keep them up when the time of their obligation was expired. 2. There is positive perpetual, and that is when God hath appointed such Ordinances to be observed till the coming ⟨p. 122⟩of Christ, as the Lords day, Baptism, and the Lords Supper, we are to show forth his death till he come, 1 Cor 11. This is called by some Divines Moral Positive, and the other Moral commands, are called Moral Natural. Now as there are two kinds of Laws, so there are such kinds of sins which are the transgression of those Laws; when a man is unjust, unclean, intemperate, then he breaks the natural Law of God;