A treatise concerning the Lords Supper

That whensoever you are to partake of the Lords Supper, you are to be painful & serious in making preparation for it.

THat whensoever you are to partake of the Lords Supper, you are to be painful & serious in making preparation for it.

This preparation must be for these reasons, which you may lay to your heart, and find them to be quickening motives to stir you up thereto.

This preparation must be for these reasons, which you may lay to your heart, and find them to be quickning motives to stir you up thereto.

First, From the preparation they were wont to make […] the Passover under the Law, 2 Chron. 30.3. They could not keep it at that time, because the Priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently: They did for a while defer it till they had made more preparation for it: And after their diligence to prepare, they prayed for the pardon of their imperfect preparation, 2 Chron 30.18, 19▪ The good Lord pardon every one that prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his Fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuary: If any man were unclean, he was to stay another Month, and then eat it, Numb. 9.10, 11.

First, From the preparation they were wont to make 〈…〉 the Passeover under the Law,