Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness

There is a signal excellency, in this Ordinance, as the time when it was Instituted by Christ, doth evince; it was in the night when he was betrayed; at the time when he had all the powers of darkness to encounter with. Therefore surely there is some peculiar excellency in this Ordinance and great benefit will redound to the Souls of those ⟨p. 149⟩that partake of it aright. Sometimes Believers do sensibly experience good thereby at the very time of Receiving; even inward […], and soul ravishing joys of the Holy Ghost. The Lord maketh them joyful in his true of Prayer. Isai 567. That their Souls go away filled with great joy, as the Lords people went […] the Passover in Hezekiahs time, 2 Chron. 30 •6 or, that which is better then comfort follows upon a due partaking at the Lords Table, […] more Grade and Holiness. In this Ordinance of the Gospel (in a more especial manner) Believers, beholding as in a Glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same Image, from glory to glory, 2 Cor. 3. 18. even from one degree of glorious grace unto another. For the Holy Spirit to come as a Sanctifier, is more desirable then for him to come as a Comforter. but he many times cometh as both, to the souls of his Servants, when they sanctify his Name by approaching to his Table with due preparation of heart. Or, if the benefit of the Ordinance be not, (as sometimes it is not) perceived at the time of the Administration, yet afterwards, it will appear.

There is a signal excellency, in this Ordinance, as the time when it was Instituted by Christ, doth evince; it was in the night when he was betrayed; at the time when he had all the powers of darkness to encounter with. Therefore surely there is some peculiar excellency in this Ordinance and great benefit will redound to the Souls of those ⟨p. 149⟩that partake of it aright. Sometimes Believers do fersibly experience good thereby at the very time of Receiving; even inward 〈…〉, and soul ravishing joyes of the Holy Ghost. The Lord maketh them joyful in his true of Prayer. Isai 567. That their Souls go away filled with great joy, as the Lords people went the Passover in Hezekiahs time,