Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness

Thus have we showed both what the Lords Supper is, and who are fit to partake thereof, Except men and women be qualified as hath been expressed, though they should presume to approach the Table of the Lord, they do not ⟨p. 139⟩keep his Ordinance; but they shall bear sin for it, and die if they profane it. L•v. 22. 9.

Thus have we shewed both what the Lords Supper is, and who are fit to partake thereof, Except men and women be qualified as hath been expressed, though they should presum• to approach the Table of the Lord, they do not ⟨p. 139⟩keep his Ordinance; but they shall bear sin for it, and die if they profane it. L•v. 22. 9.

We come now to enquire into the Reasons of this Doctrine: Why should Believers do this?

Ans. Reas. 1. Because this Ordinance being Christs Institution; the observation of it, tends to the honour of his Name. It is his Institution, and is therefore called the Lords Supper. A Supper from the time when it was Instituted, viz. in the right, and the Lords Supper, from the Author and Institutor […] it, which was the Lord Christ. As the first day of the week is called the Lords Day, Rev. 1. 10. because it is the Day which the Lord Christ hath sanctified, and commanded that it should be observed in commemoration of his Resurrection, so is this Ordinance the Lords Supper, because the Lord hath appointed the observation of it, as a solemn memorial of his Death. Nor indeed could any one besides the Lord himself be the Author of such an Ordinance. Men have no power to appoint Sacraments. It belongs to him to appoint the outward sign who can give the inward grace that is signified thereby and that the Lord alone can do, Now being a Divine Institution, the observation of it doth, (as all Divine Institutions do) tend to the honour of the Name of him who hath said Do this. Hereby the Lords Name and memory is upheld amongst his People in the World; and therefore the next words are, in