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For the Third, there is a right acting in reference to both the former to be looked to, 1. There is something that our Judgement and memory would be taken up with, which is as the key to what follows: we are to remember the Lords Death, the end of it: the love he had in dying: and his instituting of this ordinance when he died for this end, that we might remember his death and love therein, till he come again; and have our minds meditating on these. Secondly, There would be the exercise of our Graces, as of repentance, from reflecting on our selves; of love from looking to Christ, and of continued spiritual mourning resulting from bo•h; & especially there would be the exercise of Faith as being the main thing that on our part makes up the union, and whereby our Communion is entertained: and there is a threefold act of Faith called for in worthy Communicating, 1. An act receiving, 2. An act giving. 3. A ratifying act, that knits both the acts together. 1. I say an act of Faith receiving Christs word and ordinance, and himself therein. 2. An act of faith ⟨p. 19⟩giving, resigning or committing our selves to him: the covenant being in this respect mutual. And Thirdly, a ratifying act coupling or knitting these together, viz. Christ giving himself to us and our giving our selves to him, his engagement to us and ours to him: To clear these a little further, First the receiving act of faith looks to the institution and covenant to which the Sacrament is appended, and to Christ in the words of institution and in the Covenant, making offer of himself; Which is to be considered as in the word and covenant, to which the Sacrament is appended, and accordingly it welcometh him, as it doth in the word; for as there is a receiving act of Faith as to the Word, So there is a receiving act of Faith as to the Sacrament; That is, when the Soul is put to dispute whether about the offer if it be made to it, or about the Promise that supposes the condition, if it may lay hold upon it; The Believing souls taking of the Sacrament, is the permitting and allowing of it self to be confirmed by virtue of Christs appointing that ordinance for its confirmation, that the offer is made to it, and that the Promise belongs to it in particular:

For the Third, there is a right acting in reference to both the former to be looked to, 1. There is something that our Judgement and memory would be taken up with, which is as the key to what follows: we are to remember the Lords Death, the end of it: the love he had in dying: and his instituting of this ordinance when he died for this end, that we might remember his death and love therein, till he come again; and have our minds meditating on these. Secondly, There would be the exercise of our Graces, as of repentance, from reflecting on our selves; of love from looking to Christ, and of continued spiritual mourning resulting from boh; & especially there would be the exercise of Faith as being the main thing that on our part makes up the union, and whereby our Communion is entertained: and there is a threefold act of Faith called for in worthy Communicating, 1. An act receiving, 2. An act giving. 3. A ratifieing act, that knits both the acts together. 1. I say an act of Faith receiving Christs word and ordinance, and himself therein. 2. An act of faith