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Thirdly: Observe That the sin of unworthy Communicating is a Wrath provoking and a Judgement-drawing-on-sin: He that Eats and Drinks unworthily, Eats and Drinks Damnation to himself: There is hardly any sin that the Lord will more readily, speedily, and Sadly Plague and punish, then this: Its true the Lord ha•h annexed ha• Certification to the third Command, That He will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his Name in vain: but i• there any Ordinance wherein the Threatening is more expressed, and in reference to which the Judgement hat• been more severely & some way indifferently inflicted? As is clear whether we read before o• after the words of the Text: And there is good reason for it. For first, If the duty be more Solemn, if the presence in it be more gracious, and the bounty that fl wes in it be more abundant, then sure the sin of abusing, or of unbecoming going about it, must be the greater. Secondly if we look to the sin not only in respect of its greatness in several other respects, but in ⟨p. 12⟩respect of the Nature of it, Its a more direct disrespect put upon and despite done in some respect even unto Christ. Its to be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord: It as if the Spear had been in such a mans hand that pierced Christs side, and as if he had driven by his own hand the Nails through His Hands and Feet: The reason is because Christ in this Ordinance brings himself and his death so very near, that the sin•er is put to it in a special m•nner either to receive him, or to refuse and reject him; and when he refuses and rejects him, he thereby Practically says, that he makes but very little or no account of him at all, and that if he had been living in those days when He was crucified, he would also have joined with the Multitude and cried, away with him; Thus such an one Crucifieth the son of God a fresh and puts him to an open shame, O heinous and horrid guilt!

Thir•ly: Observe That the sin of unworthy Communicating is a Wrath provoking and a Judgement-drawing-on-sin: He that Eates and Drinks unworthily, Eates and Drinks Damnation to himself: There is hardly any sin that the Lord will more readily, speedily, and Sadly Plague and punish, then this: Its true the Lord hah annexed ha Certification to the third Command, That He will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his Name in vain: but i there any Ordinance wherein the Threatning is more expressed, and in reference to which the Judgement hat been more seveely & some way indifferently inflicted? As is clear whether we read before o after the words of the Text: And there is good reason for it. For first, If the duty be more Solemn, if the presence in it be more gracious, and the bounty that fl wes in it be more abundant, then sure the sin of abusing, or of unbecoming going about it, must be the greater. Secondly if we look to the sin not only in respect of its greatness in everal other respects, but in