Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness

4. Let us remember to be exceeding thankful unto God in Jesus Christ.

The Lord appointed an hymn of praise to be sung when he did institute this Ordinance, instructing us that we should bless God for this Ordinance, and for the glorious things which are held forth thereby. For in the Lords Supper, we have the most lively representation, and demonstration of the love of Christ that can be. We may therein see and feel what Christ hath done for us, and how he hath loved us. As the Apostle speaketh 1 Joh. […]. 1. That Which me have ⟨p. 157⟩heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the word of life. So is it in the Sacrament, the Lord puts eternal life into our hands there, and lets us look upon Jesus Christ, who is in that Ordinance of the Gospel evidently set forth and crucified before our eyes; there we see him upon the Cross, bleeding and dying for our sins, and to save our Souls. And the Lord God Almighty, deals with us, as with Children, inasmuch as he setteth us at his Table, and seeds us with Royal and Heavenly Dainties. Shall the Lord of Hosts, bring us into the holy Mountain of his Church, and there make a Feast for us, of fat things full of Marrow and of Wines on the lees well refined; and shall not our Souls be thankful to him, and bless his Name for ever? In this Ordinance, Believers have intimacy of communion with God, and with Jesus Christ. Truly, our fellowship therein, is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. One may wonder, that such as we are, may be familiar with the King of Glory. When Peter saw that Christ was God as well as Man, he fell down at Jesus knees, saying, Lord, depart from me, I am a sinful man, Luk 5 8, So might the Lord say, to the best of us all, thou art a sinful man. therefore get thee away from me, but he saith, (as Joseph sometimes spake to his Brethren) come near to me I pray you. Come and be familiar with me. There ⟨p. 158⟩are two Ordinances especially, wherein we may have familiar communion with the Lord Jesus: one is that of Secret Prayer and the other is that of the Lords Supper. And shall we not ten be exceeding thankful? Moreover, the communion which we have with Christ in his Supper, is a pledge of everlasting Communion with him in Heaven. Whereas he […] satisfy our souls with the fatness of his house here, that's a […] that he will make us drink of the River of his pleasure, in another and a better world.