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even the abuse of the Lords Table, in partaking of His Table, and of the Table of devils: I shall Name but a few Sins here that ye would notice and try your selves in as to this: First Ye have often Communicate, have ye also often Examined your selves? can many of you Pitch on such an hour or half hour, that ye set a part to try your Souls condition! Secondly I would ask what Repentance hath there been, Right examination makes discovery of Guilt: and discovery of Guilt brings out Repentance, which hath some pricking and Soul panging with it; Thirdly. What effect hath followed? What engagements have been kept? How have many of us reformed our walk? Is not our carriage as it was? Passion and Pride, as quick and lively as they had wont to be, Deadness, Security, and worldly mindedness as they were before? Are we not as little Self denied? As unready to Fo give, As Ignorant and having as little knowledge of Gospel mysteries as we were, and had many a Year Since? But very few can say on good grounds that they have made any Progress in Mortification and Holiness; and except it be some conviction, Some flash of affection, Or some faint Resolution to amend things amiss, What use hath been made of, or what benefit hath been reaped by many and that not of the worst sort, by the Communion? and therefore in the next place let me say that it were not unbecoming or unsuitable to the Communion, to make this night a night of Humiliation before God and of prayer to him to be delivered from Blood Guiltiness; There is not a more legible Evidence of our untenderness, then our being little pricked at the heart for this sin; a word of reflection from our Neighbour, or the apprehension of some great Mans displeasure and Feud, hath lien nearer our ⟨p. 15⟩hearts, then the wronging of the Son of God at this rate, hath done, for which it were good now to cast an eye To look to him, and to mourn as on mourneth for his only Son, and to go to Zion weeping as we go, asking the way thitherward. These are no uncouth nor strange things, but such as are Ordinarily pressed upon us; We are afraid that many have loathed and left the simple way of Godliness; to get and look after some Shining and Glistering thing to the Eye, and that way will never profit them; to take a serious look of your Souls condition, and to be in good earnest in the exercise of Repentance, as the life o• your Preparation;

even the abuse of the Lords Table, in partaking of His Table, and of the Table of devils: I shall Name but a few Sins here that ye would notice and try your selves in as to this: First Ye have often Communicat, have ye also often Examined your selves? can many of you Pitch on such an hour or half hour, that ye set a part to try your Souls condition! Secondly I would ask what Repenance hath there been, Right examination makes discovery of Guilt: and discovery of Guilt brings out Repentance, which hath some pricking and Soul panging with it; Thirdly. What effect hath followed? What engagements have been keeped? How have many of us reformed our walk? Is not our carriage as it was? Passion and Pride, as quick and lively as they had wont to be, Deadness, Security, and worldly mindedness as they were before? Are we not as little Self denyed? As unready to Fo give, As Ignorant and having as little knowledge of Gospel mysteries as we were, and had many a Year Since? But very few can say on good grounds that they have made any Progresse in Mortifiation and Holiness; and except it be some conviction, Some flash of affection, Or some faint Resolution to amend things amisse, What use hath been made of, or what benefit hath been reaped by many and that not of the worst sort, by the Communion? and therefore in the next place let me say that it were not unbecoming or unsuitable to the Communion, to make this night a night of Humiliation before God and of prayer to him to be delivered from Blood Guiltiness; There is not a more legible Evidence of our untenderness, then our being little pricked at the heart for this sin; a word of reflexion from our Neighbour, or the apprehension of some great Mans displeasure and Feud, hath lyen nearer our