A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

Quest. 6 Is not this too great a sign of your slighting Communion with him? That you do not set so high a price and valuation of fellowship with him? Or do you complain that you have it not, and yet will not come where you may have it?

Quest 7. Is not this too great a sign that you set little by the comforts of the Spirit, and the warming joys of the Holy Ghost? Is it not here that God hath shed abroad his love into the hearts of true believers, and sent them away with their hearts full of joy, and their mouths of praises? Or do you complain you have no comfort, and that you are a stranger to spiritual joy, and will not come where you may not only have a taste, but drink full draughts of the Well of Consolation.

Quest 8 Is it not this to grieve the Spirit of God, and to make him more angry and displeased with you, and to withdraw himself further from your Soul? Can God take it kindly at your hands, when he hath killed the fatted Calf, and made ready his Marriage Supper, and sent his Servants forth to call you ⟨p. 26⟩and invite you, and you turn your back upon it? Do you not provoke him to leave your hearts to great deadness, and let you go sorrowing to your Grave, and never let you taste of the sweetness of these comforts till you get to Heaven? Or how can you complain that God departeth from you, when you will not come near unto him; that he withdraweth from your Soul, when you withdraw from your duty?

Quest 8 Is it not this to grieve the Spirit of God, and to make him more angry and displeased with you, and to withdraw himself further from your Soul? Can God take it kindly at your hands, when he hath killed the fatted Calf, and made ready his Marriage Supper, and sent his Servants forth to call you ⟨p. 26⟩