The Lord Christ, saith expressly do this, but there are many in the World, who call themselves Christians, and know what Christ hath given in charge to his Disciples, concerning this thing; and yet they never did it in all their lives. Certainly, such do not approve themselves the friends of Christ, so much as they ought to do, Job. 15. 14. Ye are my Friends, if you do what ever I command you. Here is a great Commandment of Christ, but thou dost it not. How then dost thou approve thy self his Friend? God blessed the Rechabites, when they kept the Commandment of Jonadab their Father, in their abstaining from Wine, Jer. 35. 6. But if thou wilt disobey the Commandment of the Lord Jesus, by refusing to make use of Bread and Wine for a Religious and, notwithstanding his most solemn charge, requiring thee to do this: how canst thou expect that God will bless thee. Little do men think how they provoke the Lord by a willing and continued neglect of so great and sacred an Institution. Is not this particularly to say that there are Commandments of Christ, and one great duty of Christian Religion, which is not worth the observing? and if thou art one that hast been Baptised into the Name of the Lord ⟨p. 144⟩Jesus, thou art bound to observe all things, whatsoever he hath commanded, Mat. 28. 19, 20. And therefore by neglecting to prepare thy self for, and so to come unto this Ordinance, thou livest in the continual breach of thy vow made to God in Baptism; and will not the Lord find a time to make thee know thy breach of Covenant? Remember what you have heard concerning that awful Obligation, which Baptism brings the Souls of men and women under. Doth it not strike terror into thy Conscience, in that thou hast lived so many years unmindful of the Vows of God, which thy soul hath entered into? Men by sins of Omission, may provoke the Lord exceedingly. So it will appear at the last day, when the Son of God will judge and Sentence them to death, not only because they have committed evil, but because they have neglected to do good. Yea, Omissions, not only of Moral Duties, such as Prayer, hearing the Word, Meditation, &c. but of Instituted Worship, are many times the reason why the Lord doth manifest his great displeasure against those who are in Covenant with him. Think on that Scripture, Exod. 5. 3. Let us Sacrifice to the Lord our God:
The Lord Christ, saith expresly do this, but there are many in the World, who call themselves Christians, and know what Christ hath given in charge to his Disciples, concerning this thing; and yet they never did it in all their lives. Certainly, such do not approve themselves the friends of Christ, so much as they ought to do, Job. 15. 14. Ye are my Friends, if you do what ever I command you. Here is a great Commandment of Christ, but thou dost it not. How then dost thou approve thy self his Friend? God blessed the Rechabites, when they kept the Commandment of Jonadab their Father, in their abstaining from Wine, Jer. 35. 6. But if thou wilt disobey the Commandment of the Lord Jesus, by refusing to make use of Bread and Wine for a Religious and, notwithstanding his most solemn charge, requiring thee to do this: how canst thou expect that God will bless thee. Little do men think how they provoke the Lord by a willing and continued neglect of so great and sacred an Institution. Is not this particularly to say that there are Commandments of Christ, and one great duty of Christian Religion, which is not worth the observing? and if thou art one that hast been Baptised into the Name of the Lord ⟨p. 144⟩Jesus, thou art bound to observe all things, whatsoever he hath commanded, Mat. 28. 19, 20. And therefore by neglecting to prepare thy self for, and so to come unto this Ordinance, thou livest in the continual breach of thy vow made to God in Baptisme; and will not the Lord find a time to make thee know thy breach of Covenant? Remember what you have heard concerning that awful Obligation, which Baptisme brings the Souls of men and women under. Doth it not strike terror into thy Conscience, in that thou hast lived so many years unmindful of the Vows of God, which thy soul hath entred into? Men by sins of Omission, may provoke the Lord exceedingly. So it will appear at the last day, when the Son of God will judge and Sentence them to death, not only because they have committed evil, but because they have neglected to do good. Yea, Omissions, not only of Moral Duties, such as Prayer, hearing the Word, Meditation, &c. but of Instituted Worship, are many times the reason why the Lord doth manifest his great displeasure against those who are in Covenant with him. Think on that Scripture, Exod. 5. 3. Let us Sacrifice to the Lord our God:
