The unsearchable riches of Christ, and of grace and glory in and through [sic]…The unsearchable riches of Christ, and of grace and glory in and thorow [sic]…

God gets not what he calls for, Christs death is not rightly minded, his Glory and our edification are not promoved, Nor 2. Is the end of the Sacrament attained: neither. 3. Is our comfort furthered: For its not the Ordinance barely, or Ordinary Bread and Wine set apart for a Holy use, But Jesus Christ discerned and received in the Ordinance, that comforts; otherwise, the ordinance in and by it's self will not promove our comfort and growth.

The Third Doctrine is, that it is, though a very common and rife, yet a very great sin not to discern the Lords body as he is holden out in this Sacrament discernible; The greatness of which may be easily gathered from what we have discoursed concerning the great privilege of the discernibleness of the Lords body therein; from the horridness of the guilt that it involves in, even the guilt of the body and Blood of the Lord, the greatest and most horrid of all Blood guiltiness; and from the dreadful Judgements and Plagues that follow on it, temporal or bodily, and Spiritual Plagues, yea even eternal Damnation, if Repentance through Grace prevent not: But we must, because of the shortness of time, leave all that might be spoken in the more particular Prosecution of this Doctrine; and shall only give you Two or Three Caveats (wherewith I shall close) to guard against mistakes in reference to what hath been spoken; I know it will readily be said, If this be discerning of the Lords body, and if none other do discern it, but such as go about these things, it will be hard for any to discern it. For answer to this I would have you to consider, 1. That there is a more explicit, distinct and perfect discerning; and a more implicit, confused and indistinct discerning of the Lords Body: if we speak of perfection in discerning; who come up to ⟨p. 39⟩that? but if we speak of an honest sincere way of aiming to discern, though it be somewhat indistinct and confused, that may be won at; yea I would not think them in a good condition that rest satisfied with themselves, as being distinct enough in all these things whereof we have spoken; yet where there is (as I just now said) honest aiming at these things, though in a confused and indistinct way; where faith and love are in some measure acting with a sort of fear & joy mixed together; when there is a fear to profane the ordinance, and yet the soul loves it so well that it cannot endure to want it, nor Christ in it, There is a discerning of the Lords Body that warrants to draw near. 2. Consider, that there is a general confusion and a particular confusion (to speak so) in going about this Ordinance: The general confusion is this, when persons are so very ignorant and confused, that they know not at all what they are doing: