Words whereby we may be saved. By Thomas Vincent, sometime minister of Maudlins milk-street,…

Means 10. Improvement of Sacrament-days. Come frequently to the Table of the Lord, if you have opportunity, to celebrate the Memorial of Christs Death, and come preparedly; examine your selves; pray for the Wedding-garment; read the history of Christs Passion; consider such arguments as may be a means to draw forth your graces into exercise; ⟨p. 84⟩and when you are there, labour to mourn for sin, which hath pierced the Lord; to hunger after his righteousness; to receive him by Faith; to apply the Promises of the Covenant of Grace, whereof the Sacrament is a Seal; endeavour after a burning love to him whose love hath been so great as to dye for you; and let your hearts be filled with joy, and your mouths with Praises, and deliver up your selves in Covenant unto the Lord in this Ordinance; After you come from the Lords Table, reflect upon your carriage towards the Lord; if you have been straitened, endeavour to find out the cause, mourn, and by after-pains and application of Christ, endeavour to get some benefit, and prepare better against the next time; if you have been enlarged, be humble, be thankful, be watchful, live up to Obligations; draw virtue from Christs death for the crucifying more and more of your flesh, with its affections and lusts; and fetch influences of grace and spiritual nourishment, that you may increase with the increases of God.

Means 10. Improvement of Sacrament-dayes. Come frequently to the Table of the Lord, if you have opportunity, to celebrate the Memorial of Christs Death, and come preparedly; examine your selves; pray for the Wedding-garment; read the history of Christs Passion; consider such arguments as may be a means to draw forth your graces into exercise; ⟨p. 84⟩and when you are there, labour to mourn for sin, which hath pierced the Lord; to hunger after his righteousness; to receive him by Faith; to apply the Promises of the Covenant of Grace, whereof the Sacrament is a Seal; endeavour after a burning love to him whose love hath been so great as to dye for you; and let your hearts be filled with joy, and your mouths with Praises, and deliver up your selves in Covenant unto the Lord in this Ordinance; After you come from the Lords Table, reflect upon your carriage towards the Lord; if you have been straitened, endeavour to find out the cause, mourn, and by after-pains and application of Christ, endeavour to get some benefit, and prepare better against the next time; if you have been enlarged, be humble, be thankfull, be watchfull, live up to Obligations; draw vertue from Christs death for the crucifying more and more of your flesh, with its affections and lusts; and fetch influences of grace and spiritual nourishment, that you may encrease with the encreases of God.