Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness

To speak a little more fully and particularly here, in order to profitable partaking at the Lords Table, it is requisite that they who come and sit down there should be qualified.

1. With Faith. The Rule which the Apostle giveth, is, Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup, 1 Cor. 11. 28. therefore if he be destitute of that which ⟨p. 135⟩is the matter of self-examination, or the thing which he is to examine about, he should not presume to eat of that bread, or to drink of that c•p. Now the principal thing which a man should examine himself about, is, whether he hath Faith or us. There must be an hungering after Christ; The soul must stand affected towards Christ, as an hungry man doth towards •ood. Hungrings after Christ, are the work of Faith, in the believing soul. Without this the Ordinance will be unprofitable. It is said, Joh. 6 63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. So outward eating profiteth nothing, except there be a spiritual eating by Faith. Except when the body feeds upon the outward Elements, the soul doth at the same time feed upon Christ by Faith, participating at the Lords Supper will not be for the better, but for the worse.

1. With Faith. The Rule which the Apostle giveth, is, Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup, 1 Cor. 11. 28. therefore if he be destitute of that which ⟨p. 135⟩is the matter of self-examination, or the thing which he is to examine about, he should not presume to eat of that bread, or to drink of that cp. Now the principal thing which a man should examine himself about, is, whether he hath Faith or us. There must be an hungring after Christ; The soul must stand affected towards Christ, as an hungry man doth towards ood. Hungrings after Christ, are the work of Faith, in the believing soul. Without this the Ordinance will be unprofitable. It is said,