(and Sacrificing was a duty not of Moral, but of Instituted Worship) left he fall upon us with Pestilence or with the Sword. Hath […] God fallen upon us of late years, with a Pestilentious Disease, and with the Sword? And is not this ⟨p. 145⟩one thing that hath provoked him so to do; in that there are such multitudes or men and women, who content themselves to live without any commemoration of the Sacrifice of the New Testament, according to divine Institution? Believe it verily, for it is a Truth, that godly men and women may by omissions of this nature, provoke the Lord, to bring great afflictions upon themselves and Families. When Jacob neglected to build an Altar unto God, did not the Lord follow him, with distressing sorrows in his Family, Gen. 35. 1. When Moses neglected to circumcise his Child, the Lord […] him and sought to kill him, Exod. 4. 24. And yet wilt thou notwithstanding all that hath been spoken to thee from the Word of God about this matter, content thy self to live from year to year, not only without Baptism for thy children but without the Lords Supper for the good of thine own Soul? beware thou, lest some killing Judgement from the Lord, do ere long come upon thee or thine, for this sin. Or, (which would be sad indeed) how if God should be provoked to take away his Ordinances, not only from you, but from others also for your sake, because you have disregarded and despised such mercies? Know also, that by not observing the Lords Supper, you become guilty of breaking the second Commandment, by which men are required, not only to reject, all humane Inventions, in the Worship of God; ⟨p. 146⟩but also to observe all Divine Institutions. And the Lord, is a jealous God in visiting for the breaches of that Commandment. It is dangerous for any to be found guilty thereof, but most of all for a place or people so circumstanced as we are. It was in a more peculiar manner, with respect unto the second Commandment, that our Fathers came into this Wilderness. If therefore the Children that have been born and brought up in the Churches in New England, shall live in the neglect of Divine Institutions, their sin is highly aggravated, and the jealousy of God will smoke against them. One thing more, let me add here; As for such as care not, whither they enjoy this Ordinance of the Lords Supper, or no;
(and Sacrificing was a duty not of Moral, but of Instituted Worship) left he fall upon us with Pestilence or with the Sword. Hath 〈…〉 God fallen upon us of late years, with a Pestilentious Disease, and with the Sword? And is not this ⟨p. 145⟩one thing that hath provoked him so to do; in that there are such multitudes or men and women, who content themselves to live without any commemoration of the Sacrifice of the NewTestamen, according to divine Institution? Believe it verily, for it is a Truth, that godly men and women may by omissions of this nature, provoke the Lord, to bring great afflictions upon themselves and Families. When Jacob neglected to build an Altar unto God, did not the Lord follow him, with distressing sorrows in his Family, Gen. 35. 1. When Moses neglected to circumcise his Child, the Lord 〈…〉 him and sought to kill him, Exod. 4. 24. And yet wilt thou notwithstanding all that hath been spoken to thee from the Word of God about this matter, content thy self to live from year to year, not only without Baptisme for thy children but without the Lords Supper for the good of thine own Soul? beware thou, lest some killing Judgement from the Lord, do ere long come upon thee or thine, for this sin. Or, (which would be sad indeed) how if God should be provoked to take away his Ordinances, not only from you, but from others also for your sake, because you have disregarded and despised such mercies? Know also, that by not observing the Lords Supper, you become guilty of breaking the second Commandment, by which men are required, not only to reject, all humane Inventions, in the Worship of God; ⟨p. 146⟩but also to observe all Divine Institutions. And the Lord, is a jealous God in visiting for the breaches of that Commandment. It is dangerous for any to be found guilty thereof, but most of all for a place or people so circumstanced as we are. It was in a more peculiar manner, with respect unto the second Commandment, that our Fathers came into this Wilderness. If therefore the Children that have been born and brought up in the Churches in New England, shall live in the neglect of Divine Institutions, their sin is highly aggravated, and the jealousie of God will smoke against them. One thing more, let me add here; As for such as care not, whither they enjoy this Ordinance of the Lords Supper, or no;
