Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general. And…

Now that that hath been the Institution of Christ, and hath a spiritual significancy in it, is not indifferent; for not only the ea•ing the bread and drinking the wine is significative, but the gesture whereby we have fellowship with Jesus Christ here, to signify that fellowship we shall have with him in the Kingdom of Heaven; so that the people of God were deprived of a great deal of comfort, and of one special benefit of this holy Sacrament, whereas they might not receive it sitting; when Christ saith that your sitting with me here is a signification of your sitting with me when I come into the Kingdom of heaven; some say they must kneel because they may receive it with more reverence; certainly were it a thing as some say indifferent, it were another matter; but for to say it is not reverence to sit, in that they accuse Christ himself for want of reverence, as if he would appoint a way, or would have his Disciples use any such way as were not reverent; saith Christ I intend by your very gesture to have this signified unto you, that though you be poor wretched worms, yet even such is my love unto you, as you shall sit with me when I come to my Kingdom, and judge the twelve Tribes of Israel; and every time you come to my Table, and there sit at it or about it, then you should be put in mind that there is a time, that though you be poor unworthy creatures, worthy to be among the dogs, yet the mercy of God is such unto us, as he hath appointed us to have a familiar fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ when we come in his Kingdom to sit with him, and even to judge the twelve Tribes of Israel, yea to judge the whole world; for so saith the Scripture, shall not the Saints judge the world? now this hinders spiritual meditation and comfort, that the Saints have; therefore we are to look to the institution and follow it; that's the first thing in sitting with Christ at his Table.

Now that that hath been the Institution of Christ, and hath a spiritual significancie in it, is not indifferent; for not only the ea•ing the bread and drinking the wine is significative, but the gesture whereby we have fellowship with Jesus Christ here, to signifie that fellowship we shall have with him in the Kingdome of Heaven; so that the people of God were depriv'd of a great deal of comfort, and of one special benefit of this holy Sacrament, whereas they might not receive it sitting; when Christ saith that your sitting with me here is a signification of your sitting with me when I come into the Kingdome of heaven; some say they must kneel because they may receive it with more reverence; certainly were it a thing as some say indifferent, it were another matter; but for to say it is not reverence to sit, in that they accuse Christ himself for want of reverence, as if he would appoint a way, or would have his Disciples use any such way as were not reverent; saith Christ I intend by your very gesture to have this signified unto you, that though you be poor wretched wormes, yet even such is my love unto you, as you shall sit with me when I come to my Kingdom, and judge the twelve Tribes of Israel; and every time you come to my Table, and there sit at it or about it, then you should be put in mind that there is a time, that though you be poor unworthy creatures, worthy to be among the dogs, yet the mercy of God is such unto us, as he hath appointed us to have a familiar fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ when we come in his Kingdom to sit with him, and even to judge the twelve Tribes of Israel, yea to judge the whol world; for so saith the Scripture, shall not the Saints judge the world? now this hinders spiritual meditation and comfort, that the Saints have; therefore we are to look to the institution and follow it; that's the first thing in sitting with Christ at his Table.