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Let me (which is a Second and more particular Use of the Doctrine,) advise you, as to examine your selves seriously, in reference to all your other ways, so to take a Special look of your bygone Communicating; O! that many of you who are so whole at the Heart, that there is no provoking nor wakening of you, and who are so senseless that ye scare at nothing, could be prevailed with to charge your selves with this horrid sin of being guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord, That thereby ye may be awakened; It will certainly ⟨p. 13⟩one day awake you: therefore in your Self examination, take special notice if ye have not Communicated unworthily: make Special addresses •o God for removing of this dreadful Guilt: and have a special eye for the time to come that ye fall not in it: I say again, take a special review of your bygone carriage in this Ordinance, and say to your selves, whether are we Guilty of this sin? and whether are we in Hazard to •all into it of new? And to stir you up to this, Consider 1. What temporal strokes from God have come or may come for it: who knows but our outward captivity, the Blood that hath been shed, the many new and unheard of or but very little heard of diseases that are among us, have in a great Part been for this Sin? Secondly know: that beside temporal Strokes on the outward man, ye may fall under Spiritual Plagues: the Lord may blast the Ordinances for the time to come, that they shall do you no good: and He may last any part and gift that ye have: He may make your Ears dull of hea•ing and your Eyes blind, and your Hearts fat; And if ye quench any convictions that ye may possibly be under for the time, it may be that ye shall never be privileged with such convictions again, nor be brought •o near Heaven hereafter: but more delusion and seduction by Error, more Profanity, Security, Hypocrisy, and Presumption may break in among you; And though these be not thought much of now by some a• least, but looked a• as very light things, yet the day will come when they will be found to be in•uppo tably Heavy: And men will be put rather to wish, that this house, wherein we now a•e, had fallen on them and bruised them, or that the Sword had fallen in upon them and slain them, then to lie under such a weight. Thirdly, know that it may bring on eternal Judgement; And O! but this will draw