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But this is not all▪ Tis the Token and Present […] a ••ing Friend which you now give a most abominable ⟨p. 67⟩Disrespect unto. When was it, that our Lord said, This Do in Remembrance of Me? The sacred writers do assure us, It was in the Night wherein He wa• •etray'd. Oh make a pause upon this Article! The […] ▪ Friend that we had in the world went into a fa• Country; where He Died, and His Death was not only Cruel in it self, but also Designed, and Offered, and Useful for US: 'twas for us that He laid down His Life; but just at His Death He took out of His bosom a Picture of Himself, and sent it unto us, with this Massage, My Friends, often Look upon this, and as often Remember your Dying surety. But behold the Tr••t••ents which our Dying Jesus meets withal! Men throw by the Memorial of a Dying Saviour; and yet hope for an Happy and a saving Interest in His Death! What an Unfriendly part is this! and how Incongruous! Our Lord hath said in John 15. 14. Ye are my Friends, is ye do whatsoever I Command you. It is the plain Command of our Lord-Redeemer, Break Bread among my Disciples, in the Remembrance of Me. But you act like none of His Friends when you decline this Devotion to Him. No, when the people do Throng so fast out of Doors before a Sacrament, our Lord Jesus Looks and Mourns, and says, Behold How my Enemies are crowding together there! And what ha's He deserved at your Hands that you should thus Herd yourselves among His Enemies? Methinks I overhear the Almighty Saviour saying, What Iniquity have they found in Me, that my Commandment and my Communion is so little Esteemed with them?

But this is not all▪ Tis the Token and Present 〈…〉 a ••ing Friend which you now give a most abominable ⟨p. 67⟩