Gospel-Worship

Secondly, As we must come understandingly, without which we cannot sanctify Gods name, so we must come with hearts suitable to the work that we are about, that is, because the great thing that is here, is the breaking of Christs body, and the pouring forth his blood. A suitable disposition to this is brokenness of heart, sense of our sin, of that dreadful breach that sin hath made between God and the soul; our sin should be upon our hearts so as to break them; But this brokenness must be evangelical; it must be through the applying of the blood of Christ unto my soul; I must come to be sensible of my sin; but especially be sensible of it by what I see in the holy Sacrament, that must make me sensible of my sin: There are a great many things to make me sensible of my sin: The consideration of the great God that thou hast sinned against, and the Curse of the Law that's due to thee, the wrath of God that is incensed against thee for thy sin, and those eternal flames that are prepared for sinners, those everlasting burnings.

Secondly, As wee must come understandingly, without which wee cannot sanctifie Gods name, so we must come with hearts sutable to the work that wee are about, that is, because the great thing that is here, is the breaking of Christs body, and the pouring forth his bloud. A sutable disposition to this is brokennesse of heart, sence of our sinne, of that dreadfull breach that sin hath made between God and the soul; our sin should be upon our hearts so as to break them; But this brokennesse must be evangelicall; it must be through the applying of the blood of Christ unto my soule; I must come to be sensible of my sin; but especially be sensible of it by what I see in the holy Sacrament, that must make me sensible of my sinne: There are a great many things to make me sensible of my sin: The consideration of the great God that thou hast sinned against, and the Curse of the Law thats due to thee, the wrath of God that is incensed against thee for thy sin, and those eternall flames that are prepared for sinners, those everlasting burnings.

But now those are not the things that will break the heart in an evangelical way, in a gracious way; the main thing by which the soul must come to break its heart, must be the beholding of the evil of sin in the red glass of the blood of Jesus Christ, the beholding him broken; and truly there is nothing in the world, that hath that power to break the heart for sin, as the beholding of that which is to be beheld in the holy Sacrament; and that heart is a hard heart that can see what is there to be seen, and not break in the apprehension of sin; when I here see what my sin cost, what a price was made for my soul, when I see the hatred of God against sin, and the justice of God in not