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Let the Affectionate as well as the Historical Remembrance of the Lord Jesus Christ, be That which may Exercise your Graces at his Table. our Dying Lord had this Respect put upon Him in John 12 3. Mary took a pound of Ointment of Spikenard, very costly, and anointed the Feet of Jesus; and the House was filled with the Odour of the Ointment. Even so, Tis our Dying Jesus that our Spikenard is here to be employed upon; and it is by a Remembrance of Him, that the ⟨p. 152⟩Spikenard is to become truly Odoriferous. This is the short and the sum of our business here, Do this in Remembrance of the Lord.

Let the Affectionate as well as the Historical Remembrance of the Lord Jesus Christ, be That which may Exercise your Graces at his Table. our Dying Lord had this Respect put upon Him in John 12 3. Mary took a pound of Ointment of Spiknard, very costly, and anointed the Feet of Jesus; and the House was filled with the Odour of the Ointment. Even so, Tis our Dying Jesus that our Spiknard is here to be employed upon; and it is by a Remembrance of Him, that the ⟨p. 152⟩Spiknard is to become truly Odoriferous. This is the short and the sum of our buisiness here, Do this in Remembrance of the Lord.

First, There is an Historical Remembrance of the Lord Jesus to be had at his Holy Table. The Elements and the Actions in the Sacrament all serve to represent the History of the Lord Jesus Christ unto us, and we should therefore so sit in the Meeting house, as that we may see those Elements and Actions during the whole Administration. Having before-hand read the History of the Lord Jesus in the Scripture; we are now to read it over again in the Supper and accompany him from His Birth to his Grave with our Meditations. Remember now the Incarnation and the following Humiliation of the Lord Jesus Christ, in all the parts of it; and Remember especially the Agonies of his Bloody Passion, When his Soul was made an Offering for Sin. Remember the Shame cast on the Lord Jesus, when He was Accused and Reproached as the greatest Criminal; Hurried from Court to Court with the Clamours of a whole Nation against him; and at last Hanged between a couple of Enormous Malefactors. Remember the Pain felt by the Lord Jesus, when the heavy Fists and lead n Thongs of the Soldiers tore His flesh from His Bones; and after the cruel jerk of the Cross into the Ground with Him Nailed unto it, the Horrid