A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

TO get assurance of the Love of God and Eternal Life, should be thy Great Work and Business in this World, else how canst thou dye with Comfort, while thou art doubting, whether thy departing Soul shall be damned or saved? Live with God or Devils eternally? If when thou must bid farewell to all things in this World for ever, and enter into an unchangeable, ⟨image ?⟩everlasting state of joy or torments in another World, thou knowest not which must be thy Portion: What the• can all thy Friends do for thee? What Comfort can thy Riches, Honours, bring into thy Heart at such a time as this when thou hast not secured thy Eternal Happiness.

For this end God hath given to fallen Man his Word, whereby he might understand his Misery, and how he came into it; the Remedy, and how he might get out of it; by making known the conditions and terms, upon which he is freely willing to receive Sinners into his love and favour, and confer upon them Gospel Privileges here, and Eternal Glorious Life hereafter, and hath set to his Seal, for a firm conveyance of these great Eternal blessings, upon such reasonable, free, and holy terms, as are propounded in the Gospel.

For this end God hath given to fallen Man his Word, whereby he might understand his Misery, and how he came into it; the Remedy, and how he might get out of it; by making known the conditions and terms, upon which he is freely willing to receive Sinners into his love and favour, and confer upon them Gospel Priviledges here, and Eternal Glorious Life hereafter, and hath set to his Seal, for a firm conveyance of these great Eternal •lessings, upon such reasonable, free, and holy terms, as are propounded in the Gospel.